{"id":491,"date":"2017-01-04T05:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2017-01-07T21:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T05:25:56","slug":"two-spirit-leader-named-2016-history-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Two-Spirit Leader Named as a 2016 History-Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>COLORLINES<\/a><\/span> names a <\/span>#Two-Spirit<\/a> leader, Candi Brings Plenty,\u00a0<\/span>Oglala Lakota Sioux<\/span><\/i> and a direct descendent of <\/span>Crazy Horse<\/a>‘<\/span>s Band, as one of the <\/span>\u201c<\/span>16 Women of Color Who Made History in 2016<\/span><\/a>.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Brings Plenty was included on\u00a0this list as\u00a0\u201canother inspiring leader at Standing Rock…, who helped create and sustain the <\/span>Two Spirit Camp<\/a>,<\/span>\u201d as noted by\u00a0COLORLINES<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It is an honor to be recognized amongst other national leaders, who never backed down and stood strong in the face of the many obstacles it took to impact their nations,” told Ms. Brings Plenty. “I am leading the Two-Spirit Nation at the O\u0107eti \u015aakowin, the prayerful resistant camp against the Dakota Access Pipeline, not only to protect our sacred waters, but to also reclaim our roles as Two Spirit Warriors.<\/p>\n

When asked what Ms. Brings Plenty hopes to accomplish, Ms. Brings Plenty told the TwoSpiritJournal, “I hope to empower the leadership of our frontline warriors and lead by example for other Two-Spirit people to begin the process of healing their spirits and to decolonize their communities. My intention is to take our place as Two-Spirit Warriors in this historical gathering of nations and bring back the balance for our Oyat\u00e9 so that the future generation of Two-Spirit will have a path to follow and continue to evolve as leaders.”<\/p>\n

Also included in the list of <\/span>16 Women of Color Who Made History in 2016 <\/span><\/a>is the enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux and the former tribal historian, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLaDonna Brave Bull Allard…owns the land that Sacred Stone Camp rests on, one of the water protectors\u2019 largest encampments. Allard\u2019s family has been in North Dakota since the 1800s, and<\/span> she\u2019s been a driving force<\/span><\/a> in the Standing Rock campaign. \u2018I come from a long line of bigmouthed women,\u2019 she says. \u2018My grandma, my mom\u2014they always stood up,\u2019\u201d as reported by <\/span>Jezebel<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Below is\u00a0COLORLINES<\/a>‘ full list of all the\u00a0<\/span>16 Women of Color Who Made History in 2016<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Fatimah Asghar<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. LaDonna Brave Bull Allard<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Candi Brings Plenti<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Catherine Cortez Masto<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Suzanne Barakat<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Marisa Franco<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Laurie Hernandez<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Renee Bracey Sherman<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Minnesota Lynx WNBA Team<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Desire\u00e9 Marshall<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Angel Nafis<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Constance Wu<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Pramila Jayapal<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. 16. Ava DuVernay<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Published by Race Forward<\/a>,\u00a0COLORLINES<\/a>\u00a0is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning investigative reporting and news analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    COLORLINES names a #Two-Spirit leader, Candi Brings Plenty, Oglala Lakota Sioux and a direct descendent of Crazy Horse‘s Band, as one of the “16 Women of Color Who Made History in 2016.” Ms. Brings Plenty was included on this list as “another inspiring leader at Standing Rock…, who helped create and sustain the Two Spirit Camp,” as noted …Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,13],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-event","category-usa","tag-two-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}