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Greg Grey Cloud

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Native American
Era:2010s
State:South Dakota
Time Imprisoned:
1 Day
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Greg Grey Cloud

Biography

Greg Grey Cloud is a Crow Creek Sioux singer, educator, and activist from South Dakota, and co-founder of Wica Agli, a Native men's organization against domestic and sexual violence. On November 18, 2014, he was arrested by Capitol Police after singing a Lakota honor song from the U.S. Senate gallery as senators rejected the Keystone XL pipeline; all charges were later dismissed. In 2016 he led the horseback "Spirit Riders" during the Standing Rock / Dakota Access Pipeline resistance.

Cases

Charges: Disrupting Senate proceedings (Lakota honor song from the Senate gallery
Arrested: Nov 18, 2014
Incarcerated: Nov 18, 2014
Released: Nov 18, 2014
Sentence: Detained for five hours after singing from the Senate gallery on November 18, 2014; released the same day. This is a brief detention, not a full-day prison sentence.
Convicted: No
Charges: Criminal trespass
Arrested: Sep 28, 2016
Incarcerated: Sep 28, 2016
Released: Sep 29, 2016