WINONA LADUKE: A TRUE STORY OF REVOLUTION, RECOVERY AND REPAIR
"How does a community heal itself from the ravages of the past?"
Source: LaDuke, Recovering the Sacred, II
Winona LaDuke’s life has been defined by her leadership in socio-economic, environmental, and anti-colonial grass-roots projects that protect native communities. These local projects have created an international network of organizations and individuals, working collectively,
leaving a legacy of human and environmental rights in the 21st century.
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Winona LaDuke has been a teacher, writer, economist, speaker, expert witness, radical activist, and passionate collaborator since her young adulthood. Though most well-known for her candidacy as vice-presidential candidate under Ralph Nader for the Green Party in 2000 and 2004, her work has been humble, dogged, and ceaseless at home and internationally. Winona LaDuke's CV, published through Speak Out Now's speakers' listings, is attached here. The enormous range of education, work, and advocacy she has taken on is evident throughout the document. "In 1994, Time magazine named her one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age, and in 1997 LaDuke was named Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year. Other honors include the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Thomas Merton Award, the Ann Bancroft Award, the Global Green Award, and the prestigious International Slow Food Award for working to protect wild rice and local biodiversity. In 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame." Source: excerpt, SpeakOutNow CV |
Source: Winona LaDuke, Ms. Magazine, April 2001