Winona LaDuke

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name = Winona LaDuke


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known_for = 1998 Reebok Human Rights Award winner
1997 Ms. Magazine woman of the year
1996, 2000 United States Vice Presidential Candidate, Green Party
education = Harvard University, Antioch University
employer = Honor the Earth, White Earth Land Recovery Project
occupation = Author, Environmental Activist, Economist, Political Candidate
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Winona LaDuke (born 1959) is a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer. In 1996 and 2000, she ran for election to the office of Vice President of the United States as the nominee of the United States Green Party, on the ticket headed by Ralph Nader. In the 2004 election, however, she endorsed one of Nader's opponents, Democratic candidate John Kerry. [Citation| last = Seelye| first = Katharine Q.| author-link = Katharine Q. Seelye| title = Nader Emerging as the Threat Democrats Feared| newspaper = The New York Times| year = 2004 | date = October 15, 2004| url =http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/politics/campaign/15nader.html?pagewanted=print&position= ] She is currently the Executive Director of both Honor the Earth and White Earth Land Recovery Project. In the 2008 United States presidential election of 2008, LaDuke endorsed Barack Obama [ [http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=173622 The Colbert Report] - June 12]

Biography

LaDuke was born in Los Angeles, California to Vincent and Betty LaDuke. Her father was part Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or "Chippewa") from an Indian reservation of Minnesota. He was an actor with supporting roles in Western movies, an activist, a writer, and at the end of his life, a spiritual guru under the name Sun Bear. [ [http://citypages.com/databank/21/1036/article9043.asp City Pages - The Party Crasher ] ] Her mother was a Jewish artist, employed as an art professor at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. LaDuke is the mother of five. LaDuke was raised in Ashland, Oregon, [ [http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3237/7789 Willamette Week | “Winona Laduke” | July 19th, 2006 ] ] but after graduating from Harvard in 1982 with a degree in rural economic development, she accepted a job as principal of the high school on the Anishinaabe White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota. She then graduated with an M.A. in Community Economic Development from Antioch University. She soon became an activist, involved in the struggle to recover lands promised to the Anishinaabe by an 1867 treaty. She helped the Anishinaabe buy back thousands of acres of ancestral land.Fact|date=July 2008

She worked with Women of All Red Nations to publicize the alarmingly high level of forced sterilization among Native American women.

LaDuke was named Woman of the Year by "Ms. Magazine" in 1997 and won the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1998. She is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project in Minnesota and the Indigenous Women's Network. She is also Executive Director of Honor the Earth, an organization she co-founded with Indigo Girls in 1993. The Native-led organization's 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."

LaDuke is the author of the novel "Last Standing Woman" (1997), the non-fiction book "All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life" (1999), and "Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming" (2005), a book about traditional beliefs and practices.

She appeared in the documentary film "Anthem", directed by Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn. The film was first released in the United States on July 25, 1997. Both directors were awarded by the 1997 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.

LaDuke also appeared in the TV documentary "The Main Stream", first released on December 17, 2002.

In the 2004 primary elections, LaDuke endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. She later endorsed John Kerry for president in the general election.

In Sept 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. [ [http://www.greatwomen.org/news.php?action=view&id=61 National Women's Hall of Fame - News & Events ] ]

In the 2008 United States presidential election of 2008, LaDuke endorsed Barack Obama [ [http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=173622 The Colbert Report] - June 12]

Quotations

Resources

*Montgomery, Alicia. " [http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/07/13/laduke/index.html Nader's No. 2] " (July 13, 2000). "Salon.com".
*Walljasper, Jay. " [http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/01/laduke.html Celebrating Hellraisers: Winona LaDuke] " (January/February 1996). "Mother Jones" magazine.
* Andrews, Max (Ed.), "Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook". London, [http://thersa.org/art Royal Society of Arts] , 2006 ISBN 9780901469571 Interview with Winona LaDuke

ee also

*List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
*Native American Studies

External links

* [http://nativeharvest.com/winona_laduke Winona LaDuke's biography at the White Earth Land Recovery Project official web site]
*imdb name|id=0480632|name=Winona LaDuke
* [http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/laduke_winona.html Winona LaDuke from Voices from the Gap]

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