LaDuke in Boulder, CO, speaking against the Keystone Pipeline at "Do The Math" Rally.
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"In 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, recognizing her leadership and community commitment. In 1994, she was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's 50 most promising leaders under 40. She has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, Ms. Woman of the Year (with the Indigo Girls) in 1997, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which in part she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. The White Earth Land Recovery Project has won many awards, including the prestigious 2003 International Slow Food Award for Biodiversity, recognizing the organization's work to protect wild rice from patenting and genetic engineering."
Source: The American Program Bureau, APBspeakers.com
Source: The American Program Bureau, APBspeakers.com
Creating "Honor the Earth"
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Amy Ray and Emily Saliers (The Inidigo Girls), after meeting Winona LaDuke, co-founded Honor the Earth with her in 1991. Current projects include anti-frakking activism, sacred site protection, youth leadership in native communities, buffalo restoration, nuclear waste policy changes, support of international artists, and a range of projects related to environmental sustainability, to name a few.
The Mission statement of Honor the Earth reads:
"Our mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard."
Source: http://www.honorearth.org
The Mission statement of Honor the Earth reads:
"Our mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard."
Source: http://www.honorearth.org
"The White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota seems far removed from the oil catastrophe unfolding on the Mississippi Delta on the Gulf of Mexico, until one realizes that Gaa-waabaabiganikaag (Ojibwe for "Where there is white clay") is a stone's throw from the headwaters of the Mississippi River. White Earth is also the home of Winona LaDuke, Executive Director of Honor the Earth. Among other things, and with a substantial resume behind her, including two stints as Ralph Nader's running mate on the Green Party ticket, LaDuke works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups. We met LaDuke over a cup of coffee, wild rice soup, and an unbelievably tasty arugula salad she grew and picked herself. We had barely settled in when LaDuke made a profound connection, provided a riveting image, and offered to help. LaDuke said that Honor the Earth made a decision in late June to apply $l0,000 of it's resources to support Indigenous communities' advocacy in the Gulf of Mexico 'in this time of disasters.'"
Source: Huffingtonpost.com, July 8, 2010 |
In the Political Spotlight
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As the Green Party's vice-presidential candidate under Ralph Nader, LaDuke received national attention, acclaim, and criticism in 1996 and 2000, and provided presidential and vice-presidential endorsements for democratic party candidates in 2004, 2008, and 2012.
"When I ran for the office of the Vice President of the United States as Ralph Nader’s running mate in 2000, The New York Times referred to me as something like “an Indian Activist from a reservation in Minnesota, who butchers beaver and deer on her kitchen table…and has stated that the US is in violation of International law.” The New York Times would not refer to me in the same context as my opponents, as, for instance a Harvard educated economist and author.”
Source: LaDuke, foreword in Andrea Smith's "Conquest," xvii
"When I ran for the office of the Vice President of the United States as Ralph Nader’s running mate in 2000, The New York Times referred to me as something like “an Indian Activist from a reservation in Minnesota, who butchers beaver and deer on her kitchen table…and has stated that the US is in violation of International law.” The New York Times would not refer to me in the same context as my opponents, as, for instance a Harvard educated economist and author.”
Source: LaDuke, foreword in Andrea Smith's "Conquest," xvii
The Militarization of "Indian-ness"
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Winona LaDuke has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!, a progressive news organization that operates internationally, and is filmed and published in the United States. Here, Amy Goodman, host of the program, interviews LaDuke about the use use of Geronimo as a code name for Osama Bin Laden, and the US military's native names and terms.
Click the button below to hear LaDuke's perspective on the use of American Indian names in military nomenclature.
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Click the button below to hear LaDuke's perspective on the use of American Indian names in military nomenclature.
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"The origins of this problem lie with the relationship industrial Society has developed with the Earth, and subsequently, the people of the Earth. This same relationship exists visa vis women. We collectively find that we are often in the role of the prey, to a predator society, whether for sexual discrimination, exploitation, sterilization, control over our bodies, or being the subjects of repressive laws and legislation in which We have no voice. It is critical to point out at this time that most matrilineal societies, societies in which governance and decision making are largely controlled by women, have been obliterated from the face of the Earth by colonialism, and subsequently industrialism. The only matrilineal societies which exist in the world today are those of Indigenous nations. We are the remaining matrilineal societies. We also face obliteration."
Source: LaDuke, Canadian Dimension 30, no. 1, 1996
Image Source: UU General Assembly, 2010, www.uua.org
Source: LaDuke, Canadian Dimension 30, no. 1, 1996
Image Source: UU General Assembly, 2010, www.uua.org