For further biographical
information, consult:
"LaDUKE,
Winona." Contemporary Authors. Vol. 100. New Revision. Detroit:
Gale Group, 2002. 256-258.
"LaDuke, Winona." Current
Biography 64.1 (Jan. 2003): 51-56.
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Winona LaDuke, an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi
Band of Anishinaabeg (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa) and mother of three,
lives and works on the White Earth Reservations in Minnesota.
As program director of the Honor the Earth Fund, LaDuke works on a national
level to advocate, raise public support and create funding for frontline native
environmental groups. Honor the Earth seeks to create awareness and support for
native environmental issues and develop resources for the survival of
sustainable native communities.
She also works as founding director for the White Earth Land Recovery Project.
The mission of the project is to facilitate recovery of the original land base
of the White Earth Indian Reservation, while preserving and restoring
traditional practices of sound land stewardship, language fluency, community
development, and strengthening the native communities’ spiritual and cultural
heritage.
In addition, she has worked for two decades on the land issues of the White
Earth Reservation, including litigation over land rights in the 1980s.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch universities, LaDuke has written extensively
on Native American and environmental issues. Her books include “Last Standing
Woman” (fiction), “All Our Relations” (non-fiction), “In the Sugarbush”
(children’s non-fiction), “The Winona LaDuke Reader” and “Recovering the
Sacred.”
LaDuke is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and serves as co-chair of the
Indigenous Women’s Network, a North American and Pacific indigenous women’s
organization. In both 1996 and 2000, LaDuke ran for vice president on the Green
Party ticket with Ralph Nader.
In 1989, LaDuke received the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which, in part, she
began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, she was nominated by Time
magazine as one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age,
and, in 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor
the Earth.
LaDuke was also awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the Ann Bancroft Award
for Women’s Leadership Fellowship, the Global Green Award and numerous other
honors. 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.
Her visit to St. Bonaventure is sponsored in part by a grant from The James
Martine Faculty Development Endowment and the University’s Diversity Action
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