Native Rights and Environmental Justice Activist Winona LaDuke to Speak

Jan 24, 2007

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: Maxey Auditorium, Whitman College

Cost: Free

Writer, activist, speaker and organizer Winona LaDuke will present a talk on native rights and environmental issues.

LaDuke, whose father was enrolled in the Anishinaabe Ojibwe band of the Chippewa tribe, has spent the last 20 years involved in the struggle to reclaim contested land granted the Ojibwe in an 1867 treaty. 

Raised in the Western United States, LaDuke earned her B.A. from Harvard in native economic development and an M.A. from Antioch College. She began her career as principal of a high school on the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota.

Her subsequent struggles for native rights and environmental justice have landed her in the limelight as a vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket, in Time magazine as one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under 40 (1994), and as Ms. Magazine’s 1997 Woman of the Year.

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