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Ms. Holly Bird is of San Felipe Pueblo, Apache, Yaqui, Perepucha, and European descent, and has a long history of community activism in both environmental and Indigenous issues.

In this conversation, Bird talks about her experience fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock, where she played a significant role in the legal work to prevent the pipeline. She also discusses her perspective on water as an Indigenous woman, how the work at Standing Rock applies to the effort to protect water in the Great Lakes Basin, the work she's involved in now with Title Track, and other important topics.

As a lawyer in private practice in Traverse City, MI, Bird was appointed as an Acting Chief Judge / Associate Judge for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, serving from 2008-2011. In 2010, she was appointed to serve as an Associate Supreme Court Judge for the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians and continues in that capacity today.

Ms. Bird served as Co-Executive Director for the Water Protectors Legal Collective, the leading legal service at the NoDAPL camp/protest in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She was the Collective’s Civil Ground Coordinator at the NoDAPL camp, and has also served as a Board Member. She also founded and serves as the Executive Director for the MI Water Protectors Legal Task Force, a project of the National Lawyer’s Guild.

Currently, Ms. Bird serves as Co-Executive Director for Title Track, a Michigan nonprofit dedicated to clean water, racial equity, and youth empowerment.