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  Winona LaDuke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winona LaDuke (1959 -) is a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer.
LaDuke was born in Los Angeles, California to Vincent and Betty LaDuke.
Winona was raised on the west coast of the United States, but after graduating from Harvard in 1982 with a degree in native economic development, she accepted a job as principal of the high school of the White Earth Ojibwe reservation in Minnesota.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winona_LaDuke   (523 words)

  
 Winona LaDuke Convocation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
LaDuke's lecture centers on the importance of protecting the earth and how her Native American background helped her to understand the necessity of a healthy environment.
LaDuke is the founder and campaign director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a reservation-based land acquisition, environmental advocacy, and cultural organization.
LaDuke has written extensively on national environmental issues, and is the author of All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life and the novel Last Standing Woman, in which she chronicles a Native American reservation and its people's struggle to restore their culture.
www.denison.edu /publicaffairs/pressreleases/laduke.html   (287 words)

  
 Winona LaDuke to Speak at UMC November 5, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Winona LaDuke, internationally renowned advocate for environmental, children’s and women’s rights and founder of the Indigenous Women’s Network, will speak at UMC Wednesday, November 5, at 8 p.m.
Prior to speaking, LaDuke will be the guest at a dinner with students and faculty where she will discuss her college experiences and how she found her “voice for the public good.” Following her 8 p.m.
LaDuke’s appearance at UMC is sponsored by the UMC Concerts and Lectures Committee.
www.crk.umn.edu /newsevents/notices03-04/WinonaLaDuke.htm   (258 words)

  
 City Pages - The Party Crasher
In 1982, when LaDuke moved to White Earth to take a job as principal of a reservation high school and to research her master's thesis on the reservation's subsistence economy, she was a virtual stranger in her father's homeland.
LaDuke operates her household with an open-door policy, which means that it's usually something like a motel inside, with kids and dogs and campaign workers wandering in and out throughout the day.
LaDuke is a devotee of coffee--another of her cottage industries, Muskrat Coffee, imports beans harvested by peasants in Mexico--and, perhaps as a result, she is nearly incapable of sitting still.
www.citypages.com /databank/21/1036/article9043.asp   (2646 words)

  
 Politics1: Presidency 2000 - Ralph Nader (Green Party - Connecticut)
LaDuke -- who was previously the Green Party Vice Presidential Nominee in 1996 -- is a leading Native American activist.
LaDuke -- a longtime Native American environmental activist and the Green VP nominee -- offers an in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural destruction.
LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas, spirituality and people is born from her years of experience.
www.politics1.com /greens.htm   (2248 words)

  
 VG: Artist Biography: LaDuke, Winona
LaDuke became involved in Native American environmental issues after meeting Jimmy Durham, a well-known Cherokee activist, while she was attending Harvard University.
LaDuke enlightens the reader about issues of racism and social injustice suffered as a result of contact with white people and the colonialism which followed.
However, LaDuke continues the story into the future, a future which is hopeful and promising as the next generation is born and continues to practice a traditional way of life.
voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/laduke_winona.html   (816 words)

  
 Winona LaDuke on the Connection between Dams, Mines, and Transmssion lines
WINONA LA DUKE was the Green Party Candidate for Vice President in 1996 and 2000, running with presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
LaDuke and the Indigo Girls then visited Crandon to support a court hearing on the Town of Nashville case to rescind a so-called "Local Agreementfor the Crandon mine and attended a feast on Mole Lake Reservation.
Winona LaDuke (center) with Emily Saliers (wearing a sticker supporting the Town of Nashville) and Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, at the Honor The Earth concert in Keshena, Menominee Nation, October 19, 2000.
www.alphacdc.com /treaty/winona2.html   (1766 words)

  
 UCSC Press Release: Native American artist Winona LaDuke visits
LaDuke is an enrolled member of the Mississippi band of Anishinaabeg and became involved in Native American environmental issues while studying at Harvard University.
LaDuke is executive director of Honor the Earth, which supports native communities on the front lines of environmental protection in North America.
LaDuke's visit is being cosponsored by the UCSC Women's Center, women's studies, the Native American Studies Research Cluster, American studies, cultural studies, environmental studies, and literature.
press.ucsc.edu /archive/99-00/10-99/laduke.htm   (261 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Winona LaDuke is a strong activist for a variety of social issues, namely Indian and environmental issues.
LaDuke is an Anishinabe from the particular clan that resides on the White Earth Reservation.
It is also evident that LaDuke was possesses talents of an activist in the political arena, for this reason, in 1996 she was vice-presidential candidate for the Green party.
www.unm.edu /~erbaugh/Wmst200spr03/bios/LaDuke.html   (446 words)

  
 Speak Out - Biography and Booking Information: Winona LaDuke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg and is the mother of three children.
In 1994, she was nominated by Time magazine as one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age, and was also awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the Ann Bancroft Award, the 1997 Ms.
LaDuke and the White Earth Land Recovery Project recently received the prestigious international Slow Food Award for their work with protecting wild rice and local biodiversity.
www.speakersandartists.org /People/WinonaLaDuke.html   (338 words)

  
 Winona LaDuke -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
LaDuke was born in (A city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States) Los Angeles, (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California to Vincent and Betty LaDuke.
She is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project in (A midwestern state) Minnesota, the Indigenous Women's Network, and the Honor the Earth Fund.
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/winona_laduke1.htm   (641 words)

  
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LaDuke's political vision is shaped by the context of her own identity and life.
LaDuke, a registered member of the Mississippi band of the Anishinaabeg, is also a co-founder of the Indigenous Women's Network, a nationwide support and advocacy group for Indian women now based in Minneapolis.
(Winona is in favor of permitting the Makah tribe to continue killing whales — 1 taken so far.) I worked a month to get NM Greens to take a firm stand supporting her but to this day they won't make a simple statement disavowing his attitude as not being their policy.
www.greens.org /colorado/dgp/docs/winonas_stands.doc   (5420 words)

  
 REVIEW - All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona Laduke
This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native Environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation.
LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience, and her analysis is deepened with inspiring testimonies by local Native activists sharing the struggle for survival.
Winona LaDuke lives on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota and is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg.
www.mapcruzin.com /review_all_our_relations.htm   (948 words)

  
 Winona LaDuke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
All because of titleship (the Indian lands are owned informally, which gives the paperholders precedence to enter and confiscate and manipulate).
LaDuke not only applies her analysis on a communal level, but expands her argument as to impact national and international ecology.
The text ties significantly to our coursework on women’s freedom struggles, as seen in LaDuke’s examples of Gail Small (representative for the Northern Cheyenne and environmental lawyer), Virginia Sanchez (anti-uranium harvesting advocate) and Katsi Cook (Akwesasne midwife and environmental advocate).
blogalice.com /node/77/print   (523 words)

  
 UI Lecture Committee to feature Winona LaDuke Nov. 15
LaDuke has been recognized worldwide as an activist and as an advocate for environmental, women and children's rights.
Her lecture, "Environmental Justice from a Native Perspective: An Evening with Winona LaDuke," will culminate her campus appearance, which is expected to include a visit to either a political science or environmental studies class.
LaDuke is the campaign director and founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a reservation-based land purchase, environmental advocacy and cultural organization.
www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2001/november/1108laduke.html   (307 words)

  
 A Vision For Change - Winona LaDuke, Campaign 2000, 8/28/00
This is the complete transcript of the talk (and questions-answers) by Winona LaDuke in the James A. Little Theater of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
At any rate, Winona has been there since the beginning of the Green Party and now she is going to become a major leader of this.
Winona: I will be honest with you in that I think the questions of overpopulation are coupled with questions of consumption.
www.ratical.org /co-globalize/WinonaLaDuke/082800.html   (11576 words)

  
 Illinois Green Party endorsed candidates - Campaign 2000 - Biographies
LaDuke began working on Indian issues at a young age, and spoke in front of the United Nations when she was 18 years old.
After graduation from Harvard, LaDuke accepted the job of reservation principal of the local school and became involved in a lawsuit to recover lands that had been taken by the federal government and the logging industry from the White Earth Reservation.
In the 1980's, LaDuke was a leader of the successful opposition to the James Bay hydroelectric projects and was named "the most prominent Native American environmental activist" by several publications.
www.chicagogreens.org /bios01.html   (605 words)

  
 ACS Women's/Gender Studies - Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke (Ojibwe) is an internationally-renowned Native American Indian activist and advocate for environmental, women's and children's rights.
She is the founder and Campaign Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a reservation-based land acquisition, environmental advocacy and cultural organization.
LaDuke lives with her two children on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.
www.colleges.org /~wms/conference/1999/winona_laduke.html   (266 words)

  
 South End Press | Recovering the Sacred   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
LaDuke’s analysis is deepened by inspiring testimonies of local Native activists sharing the struggle for survival.
Winona LaDuke is one of the most brilliant and articulate representatives of indigenous perspectives.
LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg and the mother of three children.
www.southendpress.org /2004/items/SacredCl   (1120 words)

  
 Winona LaDuke - Reconciling Our Relationship With ALL Our Relatives
Winona Laduke, 1982 graduate of Harvard, currently lives on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota and works on restoring the local land base and culture.
LaDuke also serves as the board co-chair for the Indigenous Women's Network and works in a national capacity as Program Director for Honor the Earth Fund, providing vision and leadership for the organization's Regranting Program and its Strategic Initiatives.
LaDuke describes herself as a "mother-of-three, parent-of-many" and questions how "men of privilege" can be expected to rule judiciously.
www.ratical.org /co-globalize/WinonaLaDuke   (1388 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
From "The Case for Hemp" to "Native Auctions and Buyer Ethics," the pieces in The Winona LaDuke Reader address all manner of political issues concerning Native Americans, women, environmental activists and anyone to the left of Al Gore.
LaDuke, an environmentalist, Native American rights activist and 2000 vice-presidential candidate on Ralph Nader's ticket, gathers her speeches, articles, fiction and poetry for this anthology.
A leading member of the Green Party (she ran on the ticket with Ralph Nader in 2000), LaDuke is a well-known advocate of Native American rights and environmental and women's issues, as well as the author of a novel, Last Standing Woman.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0896585735?v=glance   (699 words)

  
 Winona LaDuke on Crime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
LaDuke may be the only candidate on the presidential ballot with a police record.
She had chained herself to a fence around the phone book factory in east Los Angeles and said she was arrested for trespassing and public nuisance.
LaDuke supports the Green Party Platform, which states:We do not support, as a matter of conscience, the DEATH PENALTY.
www.issues2000.org /2000/Winona_LaDuke_Crime.htm   (282 words)

  
 Salon.com Politics | Nader's No. 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Winona LaDuke says she has better things to do than run for vice president.
She’s not having any of that "spoiler" stuff, the accusation hurled by many Democrats —- and most prominently, the New York Times editorial page -- that all she and Nader can do is ruin Al Gore, a man whom she finds inadequate, though preferable to George W. Bush.
Veep candidate and would-be valiant loser LaDuke spoke to Salon about her critics, her qualifications and her own possible conflict of interest.
www.salon.com /politics/feature/2000/07/13/laduke   (1097 words)

  
 Celebrating Hellraisers: Winona LaDuke
In 1982, after graduating from Harvard with a degree in native economic development, Winona LaDuke packed her bags and moved to White Earth, the ancestral lands of the Anishinabeg (Ojibwe) people, located in a poor rural county of northern Minnesota.
LaDuke took a job as principal of the local reservation high school, but quickly found herself involved with a lawsuit to recover lands promised to the Anishinabeg people by an 1867 federal treaty.
When the case was dismissed four years later, she founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project to continue efforts to regain lost lands.
www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/1996/01/laduke.html   (513 words)

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