Sharon M. Day, is enrolled in the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.  She is one of the founders of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force, formerly known as the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force.  IPTF began as a volunteer organization (1987) with all of the work performed by the Board of Directors.  In September of 1988, IPTF hired its’ first staff.  Ms. Day was hired as the Executive Director, May 1990 and has served in this capacity since then.  IPTF has strived to ground its’ services in the culture of American Indian people. Sharon M. Day is  2nd degree M’dewiwin and follows the spiritual path of the Anishinabe people. She is an artist, musician, and writer.

Ms. Day has received numerous awards, including the Resourceful Woman Award, the Gisela Knopka Award, BIHA’s Women of Color Award, The National Native American AIDS Prevention Resource Center’s Red Ribbon Award, and most recently, the Alston Bannerman Sabbatical Award.  She is an editor of the anthology, Sing! Whisper! Shout! Pray!  Feminist Visions for a Just World; Edgework Books, 2000.

She has led 5 Water Walks.  The southern direction of the Mother Earth Water Walk which began at Gulf Port, Mississippi and ended in Ashland, Wisconsin, the Mississippi River Water Walk, the Seneca Lake Water Walk, the Ohio River Water Walk, and the Pokegama Water Walk.  Each walk is ceremony to save the life giving force of water.