Jaike Spotted Wolf is Assiniboine and Hidatsa Lakota, enrolled in and supported by the Mandan, Hidatsa, Sahnish tribes of North Dakota. Jaike’s family resides on the Fort Peck reservation in Poplar and Forsyth, Montana.

Jaike is an organizer, writer, speaker, and frontline Water Protector – establishing their activism in southern Idaho, and later, for most of her organizing life,  Coast Salish territory in Occupied Duwamish lands of the PNW.

In the summer of 2021, Jaike moved to northern Minnesota and resided mostly at Camp Migizi during the Line 3 campaign to shut down Enbridge. There, Jaike built a fundraising team, bringing in funds to cover food, winter supplies, and building materials to fortify the infrastructure of Migizi. Jaike operated as a project manager in that space, working with white accomplices and Native comrades to build facilities that would keep the camp sustainably running as a decolonization space and cultural center long after the Line 3 battle ended. Jaike helped institute recovery meetings for individuals struggling with their sobriety as they fought the police and community violence that occurred on Line 3.

Jaike is currently living in Waawiyatanong (Detroit, MI),  raising her two nephews, and working in

environmental justice with Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision.

Jaike is a co-founder of Thechihila Collective; a collective comprised of mutual aid accomplices working to break the dependency on capitalist systems and instead build community infrastructure and wellness. Thechihila Collective was founded in December of 2021 by Water Protectors who were all active during the Line 3 movement in Minnesota during the summer of 2021. The organization is focused on dispersing mutual aid to Native and Black Americans (and anyone who might need help not fitting those categories) who are often missed by social services and resource centers that were not able to catch them.