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Sharon Day, Honoring our Waterways

Sharon M. Day, Ojibwe* is the Executive Director and one of the founder’s of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force (IPTF), formerly known as the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force.  She is an artist, musician, and writer. Her writings have been published in journals and anthologies. She has scripted several plays for Ikidowin Youth Theater and at Pangea World Theater. 

An environmental activist, she has led over 20 Water Walks since 2011, to offer prayers for these rivers. These rivers include the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Ohio and the James River in Virginia.

Acknowledgements for her work include the Resourceful Woman Award, the Gisela Konopka Award, BIHA’s Women of Color Award, The National Native American AIDS Prevention Resource Center’s Red Ribbon Award, and the Alston Bannerman Sabbatical Award. The Governor of the State of Minnesota and the mayors of both St. Paul and Minneapolis named November 10, 1998 after her: Sharon M. Day, Day. She is one of the Spirit Aligned Leadership Fellows.

She is an editor of the anthology, Sing! Whisper! Shout! Pray!  Feminist Visions for a Just World: Edgework Books, 2000. She is also one of two contributors to Drink of the Winds, Let the Waters Flow Free, Johnson Institute, 1978.