White Hat is the mother of three and a member of the Aske Glupwipi Tiospaye of the Sicangu Lakota. She was born on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation and raised in He Sapa, the Black Hills. She is a member of the 100 Horses Women’s Society and a member of the Indigenous Women’s Advisory Council for the L’eau Est La Vie – no Bayou Bridge pipeline resistance camp that held the line against the tail-end of the Dakota Access Pipeline across the prairies and swamps of south Louisiana. She is the lead plaintiff in White Hat vs Landry, the landmark case challenging the amendments to the state’s critical infrastructure law aimed at quelling pipeline resistance movements in the state, much like other efforts across the country.

Anne is a member of the Another Gulf is Possible collaborative which provided start-up support for her work with Delta Rootz an herbal medicine making collective of radical herbalists, first responders, activists & mutual aid folk, gardeners and plant nerds who desire to make community herbal medicine more user friendly and safe, honor sacred and precious plant medicine.

In late 2019, DR began organizing as a solidarity collective to support frontline movements andThen the COVID-19 pandemic emerged. While in city-wide lockdown, many mutual aid groups began forming and in March 2020 Delta Rootz sprang into action with a seasoned group of medicine makers, trained and experienced herbalists, a clinical herbalist, and a medical student, including a strong front of Indigenous herbalists who helped develop culturally sensitive formulations for our herbal Covid care packages.

Anne was the lead-coordinator for this mutual aid effort that evolved into community medicine making model to provide much-needed Covid care herbal medicine to support Indigenous-led mutual aid efforts across the country through COVID variant surges. These herbal medicines were developed through each variant in consultation with herbalists across the country who shared their own experiences with Covid as well as first-hand reports of community outbreaks, symptoms, community response and Delta Rootz’ participation in national and international forums focused on the global response through the integrative medicine lens.

Anne is joining the 2023 cohort of the Family/Clinical Herbalist Program at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism and looks forward to sharing her journey. At the end of this first of three years of study, she’ll receive a certificate of completion of the Family Herbalist program a comprehensive study of the arts and sciences of herbal medicine, botany, plant chemistry, energetic systems and human physiology. Her goal is to complete all three years and provide consultations through her herb shop.

Anne purchased Miss Anne’s Maypop Herb Shop in January 2022 in her dream-fulfilling effort to brew and provide high quality, affordable herbal medicines for you.