Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist devoted to the sustainable development of renewable energy and food systems. She lives in the White Ball Reserve in the northern Minnesota province and is a candidate for two vice presidents Ralph Nader offers to Greens.

As a Director of Earth Honorary Program, she works with Indigenous communities on climate change, renewable energy and environmental justice issues both at home and abroad. In her own community, she is one of the largest retained nonprofit organizations in the country, the Whiteland Restoration Project, she is a leader in culturally sustainable strategies, renewable energy and food system issues. . In this work, she also continued domestic and foreign work to protect indigenous peoples and traditional foods from patents and genetic engineering.

In 2007, LaDuke was elected the National Women's Hall of Fame for her leadership and community responsibility. In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by Time magazine as one of the 50 most promising 50 leaders under the age of 50. She was awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, Women of the Year in collaboration with Indigo Girls in 1997 and received the Reebok Human Rights Award. The Whiteland Recovery Project has won numerous awards, including the prestigious 2003 International Biodiversity Slow Food Award, which recognized the organization's efforts to protect wild rice from patents and genetic engineering.

He graduated from Harvard University and Antioch University and has written numerous articles on Native Americans and environmental issues. She is former officer of Greenpeace, now a member of the Advisory Committee of the Commonwealth Trust Fund and is an officer of the Christensen Foundation. She is widely recognized in her research on environmental issues and human rights issues as the author of five books including "Recovery of all sacred human relations" and the novel "The Last Woman".

Winona LaDuke lives in White Earth Sanctuary in Minnesota. So I created a Whiteland restoration project to regain the original land of Anishinaabeg people. LaDuke, who received the International Reebok Human Rights Award, is co-chaired by "Aboriginal Women's Network". Where are you coming? This is an important issue faced by modern industrial society today. We can not restore our relationship with the Earth until we find our place in the world. This is our challenge today: Where is it?

Winona LaDuke was brought up in Los Angeles, California. She is a registered member of Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg at White Earth Reserve in northern Minnesota. Her father is an actor from the West and an activist in India. Her mother is a professor of Jewish art. She believes her parents told her the extremeist spirit. After meeting with Cherokee activist Jimmy Durham as a student at Harvard University, Laduk joined the Native American environmental problem. At the age of 18, she spoke to the United Nations about Indian matters and began making political names for himself.

Winona LaDuke was a writer, lecturer, economist and activist, after graduating from Harvard University, devoted his life to defending the local culture. She is best known for radicalism and political participation (LaDuke was a vice presidential candidate for Ralph Nader in 1996 and 2000), but she is also a successful writer. Her work includes a novel "The Last Woman" and two non-fiction books, "All Our Relationships: Regional Struggle of Land and Life", an excellent introduction to restore tribal land movements, sacredness Recovery is included. Power and assertion, it focuses on traditional beliefs and practices