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'''Winona LaDuke''' (born August 18, 1959) is an American environmentalist, writer, and industrial ] grower, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development.<ref name="DN-Dec7-18">{{cite AV media |people=Amy Goodman, Winona LaDuke |date=December 7, 2018 |title=Interview with Winona LaDuke |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/7/winona_laduke_calls_for_indigenous_led |access-date=March 3, 2021 |time=15:20 |publisher=]}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>


'''Winona LaDuke''' (born 1959) is an American Indian ], ], ], and ] of ] descent. In ] and ], she ran for ] as the nominee of the ], on a ticket headed by ]. In ] and ], she ran for ] as the nominee of the ], on a ticket headed by ]. Until 2023 she was the executive director and a co-founder (along with the ]) of ], a Native environmental advocacy organization that played an active role in the ].<ref name=NoDAPL>{{cite news |url=https://www.laprogressive.com/protesting-dakota-access-pipeline/|title=What Would Sitting Bull Do?|date=August 25, 2016|access-date=November 17, 2016|first=Winona|last=LaDuke|newspaper=La Progressive |archive-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204134135/https://www.laprogressive.com/protesting-dakota-access-pipeline/|url-status=live}}</ref>


In ], she received an ] for vice president. In doing so, she became the first ] member to receive an electoral vote.
She is currently the executive director of both ] and ], which she founded at ] in 1989. She started living at the reservation for the first time in 1982, after graduating from college, and worked as a principal of a high school. LaDuke became an activist in Anishinaabe issues, helping found the Indigenous Women's Network in 1985 and becoming involved in continuing struggles to regain reservation land lost since allotments to individual households in the nineteenth century. The WELRP holds land in a conservation trust for the benefit of the tribe.


==Early life and education== ==Early life and education==
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Winona (meaning "first daughter" in Ojibwe) LaDuke was born in ], ], to Vincent and Betty (Bernstein) LaDuke. Her father, an ] (]) from ] in ], enrolled his daughter as a member of the tribe at an early age. As a young man, he had been an activist on treaty rights and tribal issues, particularly the loss of lands. The reservation was one-tenth of its original size, and the losses contributed to unemployment and other problems of its people. After his marriage, he worked as an ] in Hollywood, with supporting roles in ]s, a ] and, by the 1980s, as a spiritual guru under the name Sun Bear.<ref name="Ritter">, ''Minneapolis News'', 11 Oct 2000</ref> Her mother was of Russian ] descent, and became an artist. They separated when Winona was five, and her mother took a position as an art instructor at ] in ], then a small logging town.<ref name="Ritter"/> LaDuke grew up mostly in Ashland.<ref></ref>
Winona (meaning "first daughter" in ]) LaDuke was born in 1959 in Los Angeles, California, to ] and Vincent LaDuke (later known as ]).<ref name="Ritter">{{cite web |url=https://archive.today/20131227025140/http://www.citypages.com/2000-10-11/news/the-party-crasher/3/ |title=Peter Ritter, "The Party Crasher" |work=Minneapolis News |date=October 11, 2000}}</ref> Her father was from the ] ] in ], and her mother of ] European ancestry from ]. LaDuke spent some of her childhood in Los Angeles, but was primarily raised in ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3237/7789|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827152733/http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3237/7789|url-status=dead|title=Willamette Week &#124; "Winona Laduke" &#124; July 19th, 2006<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=August 27, 2006}}</ref> Due to her father's heritage, she was enrolled at birth with the White Earth Nation, but did not live at ], or any other reservation, until 1982. She started work at White Earth after graduating from college when she got a job there as principal of the high school.<ref name="Ritter"/>


After her parents married, Vincent LaDuke worked as an actor in Hollywood in supporting roles in ]s, while Betty LaDuke completed her academic studies. The couple separated when Winona was five, and her mother took a position as an art instructor at Southern Oregon College, now ] at ], then a small logging and college town near the California border.<ref name="Ritter"/> In the 1980s, Vincent reinvented himself as a ] spiritual leader by the name Sun Bear.<ref name="Ritter"/>
Both parents were activists; influenced by her father, LaDuke became interested in tribal issues early. She attended public school and was on the debate team in high school, placing third in a state competition as a senior. She went on to college at ], where she became part of a group of Indian activists. She graduated in 1982 with a degree in rural economic development.<ref name="Ritter"/>


LaDuke never lived at White Earth until after graduating from college. She went there without knowing the ] language or many people, and was not quickly accepted. She worked as principal of the high school on the ] in Minnesota. At the same time, she was doing research for her master's thesis on the reservation's subsistence economy and quickly became involved in local issues. She completed an M.A. in Community Economic Development at ].<ref name="Ritter"/> While growing up in Ashland, LaDuke attended public school and was on the debate team in high school. She attended ], where she joined a group of Indigenous activists, and graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics (rural economic development).<ref name="Ritter"/> When she moved to White Earth, she did not know the ], or many people, and was not quickly accepted. While working as the principal of the local Minnesota reservation high school she completed research for her master's thesis on the reservation's subsistence economy and became involved in local issues. She completed an M.A. in ] through ]'s distance-learning program.<ref name="Ritter"/>


==Career== ==Career and activism==
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While working as a principal on the reservation, LaDuke became an activist. In 1985 she helped found the . She worked with ] to publicize the alleged high level of ] among Native American women.
While attending Harvard, LaDuke heard a presentation by ] that she said "shook something loose" in her and changed her life. She worked for Durham, investigating the effects of uranium mining in ] reservations.<ref name="contemporaryauthors">{{cite book |title=Contemporary Authors |date=2002 |publisher=Gale Group: Thomson Learning |pages=256–258 |edition=Volume 100 |url=http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/laduke/winona_laduke_contemporary_authors.pdf}}</ref> After graduating, she moved to her father's community at White Earth, where she found work as the high school principal. In 1985 she helped found the ]. She worked with ] to publicize American ] of Native American women.


Next she became involved in the struggle to recover lands for the Anishinaabe. An 1867 treaty had originally included a territory of more than 860,000 acres for the White Earth Indian Reservation. Under the ], an attempt to have the Anishinaabe assimilate by adopting a European-American model of subsistence farming, communal tribal land had been allotted to individual households, some of whom later sold to non-Natives; that and other causes had resulted in much of the land being lost from tribal control. By the mid-20th century, the tribe held only one-tenth of that territory.<ref name="Ritter"/> Next she became involved in the struggle to recover lands for the ]. An 1867 treaty with the United States provided a territory of more than 860,000 acres for the ]. Under the ], an attempt to have the Anishinaabe assimilate by adopting a European-American model of subsistence farming, communal tribal land was allotted to individual households. The US classified any excess land as surplus, allowing it to be sold to non-natives. In addition, many Anishinaabe sold their land individually over the years; these factors caused the tribe to lose control of most of its land. By the mid-20th century, the tribe held only one-tenth of the land in its reservation.<ref name="Ritter"/>


===White Earth Land Recovery Project===
In 1989 LaDuke founded the ] (WELRP) in Minnesota with the proceeds of a human rights award from ]. The goal its to buy back land within the reservation that had been bought by non-Natives and to create enterprises that provide work to Anishinaabe. By 2000, the foundation had bought 1200 acres, which it held in a conservation trust for eventual cession to the tribe.<ref name="Ritter"/>
In 1989, LaDuke founded the ] (WELRP) in Minnesota with the proceeds of a human rights award from ]. Its goal is to buy back land in the reservation that non-Natives bought and to create enterprises that provide work to Anishinaabe. By 2000, the foundation had bought 1,200 acres, which it held in a conservation trust for eventual cession to the tribe.<ref name="Ritter"/> WELRP also works to reforest the land and revive cultivation of ], long a traditional Ojibwe food. It markets that and other traditional products, including ], jam, buffalo sausage, and other products. It has started an ] language program, a herd of ], and a wind-energy project.<ref name="Ritter"/> It produces and sells traditional foods and crafts through its label, Native Harvest.<ref name=NPR-Rice>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4165045&from=mobile |title=Ricing Time: Harvesting on the Lakes of White Earth |work=] |date=November 12, 2004}}{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706144654/https://www.npr.org/2004/11/12/4165045/ricing-time-harvesting-on-the-lakes-of-white-earth?from=mobile |date=July 6, 2022}}</ref> ] class of 2014 chose LaDuke as its commencement speaker. She delivered her address at the school on June 13, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article26071081.html |title=The Evergreen State College graduates nearly 1,300 students |first=Lisa |last=Pemberton |website=theolympian |language=en |access-date=April 19, 2019 |archive-date=July 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706144733/https://account.theolympian.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=26071081&intcid=ab_archive |url-status=live}}</ref>


===Honor the Earth, 1993-2023 ===
The non-profit is also working on reforestation of reservation lands. It markets traditional products, including wild rice harvested by the tribe. It has started an Ojibwe language program, a herd of buffalo, and a wind-energy project.<ref name="Ritter"/>
LaDuke was also the executive director of ], an organization she co-founded with the non-Native folk-rock duo the ] in 1993. Honor the Earth is a national advocacy group encouraging public support and funding for Native environmental groups. It works nationally and internationally on issues of ], ], ], food systems and ]. Members of Honor the Earth were active in the ].<ref name=NoDAPL/> As of 2016, the organization's mission was:


LaDuke is also Executive Director of ], an organization she co-founded with ] in 1993. It was later sponsored by the ], and the ]. The Native-led organization's mission is <blockquote>"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."</blockquote> <blockquote>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.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.honorearth.org/about |title=About Us |work=Honor The Earth |access-date=2017-04-15 |archive-date=April 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416125314/http://www.honorearth.org/about |url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>


On March 30, 2023, the ], District Court ordered Honor the Earth and LaDuke to pay a former employee $750,000 in damages in a sexual harassment and abuse complaint, based on actions from 2015. LaDuke resigned from the organization on April 5, 2023, acknowledging her failure to protect victims of sexual harassment.<ref>Bowe, Nathan. , ]: ''Detroit Lakes Tribune'', April 3, 2023.</ref>
===Political career===
In 1996 and 2000, in addition to her many other activities, LaDuke ran as the vice-presidential candidate with ] on the ] ticket. She was not endorsed by the tribal council, which seldom endorses any national party candidate. Due to the many years of abuses or neglect by the federal government, most tribal members do not vote in national elections and pay little attention to its politics.<ref name="Ritter"/> LaDuke endorsed the Democratic Party ticket for the president and vice-president in 2004,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2004/10/20/winona-laduke-endorsement-of-john-kerry-for-president-94117 |title=Winona LaDuke endorsement of John Kerry for president|date= October 20, 2004|accessdate=October 22, 2012}}</ref> 2008,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/05/laduke-and-lessons-she-learned-nader|title=LaDuke and the lessons she learned with Nader|publisher=Minnesota Post|date=May 22, 2008|accessdate=October 22, 2012}}</ref> and 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puvzO5vjesw|title=Winona LaDuke on Presidential Politics (7:41)|accessdate=October 22, 2012}}</ref>


==Books, films, and media== ===Political career, 1996-2016===
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LaDuke has written three books:
In 1996 and 2000, LaDuke ran as the vice-presidential candidate with ] on the ] ticket. She was not endorsed by any tribal council or other tribal government.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} LaDuke endorsed the Democratic Party ticket for president and vice-president in 2004,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2004/10/20/winona-laduke-endorsement-of-john-kerry-for-president-94117 |title=Winona LaDuke endorsement of John Kerry for president |date=October 20, 2004 |access-date=October 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224112402/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2004/10/20/winona-laduke-endorsement-of-john-kerry-for-president-94117 |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 2008,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/05/laduke-and-lessons-she-learned-nader |title=LaDuke and the lessons she learned with Nader |publisher=Minnesota Post|date=May 22, 2008 |access-date=October 22, 2012 |archive-date=October 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016022706/http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/05/laduke-and-lessons-she-learned-nader |url-status=live}}</ref> and 2012.<ref>Archived at {{cbignore}} and the {{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puvzO5vjesw|title=Winona LaDuke on Presidential Politics (7:41)|website=]|date=September 27, 2012 |access-date=October 22, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* (1997), novel.

In 2016, ], a ] from Washington, cast his presidential vote for Native American activist ] and his vice-presidential vote for LaDuke, making her the first Green Party member and the first Native American woman to receive an ] vote for vice president.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-faith-spotted-eagle-2016-story.html |title=How Faith Spotted Eagle became the first Native American to win an electoral vote for president |newspaper=LA Times |access-date=December 21, 2016 |archive-date=December 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221162741/http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-faith-spotted-eagle-2016-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2016, LaDuke was involved in the ], participating at the ] in North Dakota and speaking to the media on the issue.<ref name="DN-Sep4-16">{{cite AV media |people=Amy Goodman, Winona LaDuke |date=September 4, 2016 |title=Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/4/dakota_access_pipeline_company_attacks_native |access-date=September 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924112214/https://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/4/dakota_access_pipeline_company_attacks_native |archive-date=September 24, 2018 |publisher=]}}</ref>

At the July 2019 ] Convention in Milwaukee, LaDuke gave the keynote address with updates on efforts to stop the ], other pipelines, and other projects near Ojibwe waters and through the ]. She urged everyone to be ]s and stand up for their rights.<ref>Archived at {{cbignore}} and the {{cbignore}}: {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVjvLCAcrk |title=Audubon Convention 2019: Opening Address. Winona LaDuke |date=August 8, 2019 |via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2020 and 2021, she was a leader of ] against the ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-31|title='They're Shoving A Pipe Down Our Throat': Inside Winona LaDuke's Fight Against Line 3 |url=https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/05/31/theyre-shoving-a-pipe-down-our-throat-inside-winona-ladukes-long-fight-against-line-3/ |access-date=2021-06-11 |language=en-US |archive-date=June 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611192242/https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/05/31/theyre-shoving-a-pipe-down-our-throat-inside-winona-ladukes-long-fight-against-line-3/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |first1=Hannah |last1=Murphy |last2=Dunlea |first2=Reed |date=2020-04-23 |title=The Fight Against Minnesota's Line 3 Pipeline: Bill McKibben and Winona LaDuke in Conversation |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/minnesota-line-3-pipeline-winona-laduke-bill-mckibben-conversation-988155/ |access-date=2021-06-11 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-date=June 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611192241/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/minnesota-line-3-pipeline-winona-laduke-bill-mckibben-conversation-988155/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Fish |first1=Robin D. |title=LaDuke, Line 3 opponents stage first of 'weekly' protests at Enbridge office in Park Rapids |url=https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/energy-and-mining/6807500-LaDuke-Line-3-opponents-stage-first-of-weekly-protests-at-Enbridge-office-in-Park-Rapids |access-date=2021-06-11|website=Duluth News Tribune|date=December 19, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=June 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611192251/https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/energy-and-mining/6807500-LaDuke-Line-3-opponents-stage-first-of-weekly-protests-at-Enbridge-office-in-Park-Rapids |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title="Not Having It": Winona LaDuke on Mass Protest by Water Protectors to Halt Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/8/line_3_protests_treaty_people_gathering |access-date=2021-06-11 |website=Democracy Now! |language=en |archive-date=June 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611192438/https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/8/line_3_protests_treaty_people_gathering |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Hemp activism ===
As of 2018, LaDuke operated a 40-acre (16 ha) industrial ] farm on the White Earth Indian Reservation, growing hemp varieties from different regions of the world,<ref>{{Cite web|title=In These Times- The Renaissance of Tribal Hemp|date=April 21, 2018 |url=http://inthesetimes.com/rural-america/entry/21083/industrial-hemp-native-american-tribes-winona-laduke|access-date=October 19, 2018|archive-date=July 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706144724/https://inthesetimes.com/article/industrial-hemp-native-american-tribes-winona-laduke|url-status=live}}</ref> vegetables and tobacco.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-07-14 |title=Winona LaDuke announces her Hemp and Heritage Farm is coming alive - IndianCountryToday.com |url=https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/winona-laduke-announces-her-hemp-and-heritage-farm-is-coming-alive-_iMHVEHjEkObJeMqKOxIZA/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413132044/https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/winona-laduke-announces-her-hemp-and-heritage-farm-is-coming-alive-_iMHVEHjEkObJeMqKOxIZA/ |archive-date=April 13, 2019 |access-date=October 19, 2018 |work=IndianCountryToday.com |language=en-US}}</ref> She has said that she turned to industrial hemp farming after being urged to investigate the practice for several years and advocates its potential to turn the American economy away from fossil fuels.<ref name="startrib">{{Cite web |date=2020-06-22 |title=Intelligent and idealistic, Winona LaDuke turns to hemp farming, solar power to jump-start the 'next economy' |url=https://www.startribune.com/intelligent-and-idealistic-winona-laduke-turns-to-hemp-farming-solar-power-to-jump-start-the-next-economy/571418762/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021135917/https://www.startribune.com/intelligent-and-idealistic-winona-laduke-turns-to-hemp-farming-solar-power-to-jump-start-the-next-economy/571418762/ |archive-date=October 21, 2020 |access-date=October 17, 2020 |website=Star Tribune}}</ref> LaDuke has promoted the growth of both marijuana and industrial hemp on Indigenous tribal lands for financial profit and the localization of the economy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hess Scholar in Residence Winona LaDuke Says We Must Take the "Green Path" to Restore Our Environment and Economy|url=https://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2020/10/14/hess-scholar-in-residence-winona-laduke-says-we-must-take-the-green-path-to-restore-our-environment-and-economy/|access-date=October 17, 2020|website=CUNY Newswire|language=en|archive-date=July 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706144731/https://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2020/10/14/hess-scholar-in-residence-winona-laduke-says-we-must-take-the-green-path-to-restore-our-environment-and-economy/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Winona LaDuke: Consider marijuana and hemp in Indian Country|url=https://www.indianz.com/News/2015/03/05/winona-laduke-consider-marijua.asp|access-date=October 17, 2020|website=Indianz|archive-date=April 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419151913/https://www.indianz.com/News/2015/03/05/winona-laduke-consider-marijua.asp|url-status=live}}</ref> Her position can be considered controversial given experiences of other reservations, such as the ], who were raided by the DEA in relation to hemp farming.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indianz.com/News/2015/03/05/winona-laduke-consider-marijua.asp|title=Winona LaDuke: Consider Marijuana and Hemp for Indian Country|date=March 5, 2015|website=Indianz|access-date=October 19, 2018|archive-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020011705/https://www.indianz.com/News/2015/03/05/winona-laduke-consider-marijua.asp|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1988, LaDuke married ] Randy Kapashesit of ], Ontario, Canada. They separated in 1992.<ref name="contemporaryauthors"/>

On November 9, 2008, LaDuke's house in ], burned down while she was in Boston. No one was injured, but all her personal property burned, including her extensive library and Indigenous art and artifact collection.<ref>{{cite web| title = Winona LaDuke to rebuild home destroyed by fire| publisher = ]| date = November 17, 2008| url = http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5035&Itemid=1| access-date = November 17, 2008| archive-date = August 28, 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180828001834/http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5035&Itemid=1| url-status = live}}</ref>
As of 2020, she had one son<ref name="Ritter"/> and six grandchildren.<ref name="startrib" />

==Selected publications==
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===Books===
* (1997), novel.
*''All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life'' (1999), about the drive to reclaim tribal land for ownership *''All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life'' (1999), about the drive to reclaim tribal land for ownership
*''The Sugar Bush'' (1999)
*''The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings'' (2002)
*''Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming'' (2005), a book about traditional beliefs and practices. *''Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming'' (2005), a book about traditional beliefs and practices.
*''The Militarization of Indian Country'' (2013)
*''All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life'' (2016)
*''To Be A Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers'' (2020)

===As co-author===
*''Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide''
*''Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism''
*''Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community''
*''Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization''
*''Cutting Corporate Welfare''
*''Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions''
*''New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism''
*''Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women''
*''How to Say I Love You in Indian''
*''Earth Meets Spirit: A Photographic Journey Through the Sacred Landscape''
*''Otter Tail Review: Stories, Essays and Poems from Minnesota's Heartland''
*''Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women''

Her editorials and essays have been published in national and international media.


==Filmography==
She appeared in the ] '']'', directed by ] and ]. The film was released in the ] on July 25, 1997. Both directors were awarded by the 1997 ]. LaDuke also appeared in the TV documentary '']'', first released on December 17, 2002.
Television and film appearances:
LaDuke appeared on '']'' on June 12, 2008.<ref>, colbertnation.com.</ref>
* Appearance in the 1997 documentary film ''Anthem'', directed by Shainee Gabel and ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.womenspeecharchive.org/women/profile/index.cfm?ProfileID=423|title=Winona LaDuke|last=Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics|date=2017|website=Iowa State University Archives of Women's Political Communication|access-date=January 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235852/http://www.womenspeecharchive.org/women/profile/index.cfm?ProfileID=423|archive-date=February 1, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118626/ | title=Anthem | website=] }}</ref>
*Appearance in the 1990 Canadian documentary film ''Uranium'', directed by Magnus Isacsson.<ref>{{Citation|last=Canada|first=National Film Board of|title=Uranium|url=https://www.nfb.ca/film/uranium/|language=en|access-date=January 5, 2020|archive-date=January 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114053858/http://www.nfb.ca/film/uranium/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Appearance in the TV documentary ''The Main Stream''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.womenspeecharchive.org/women/profile/index.cfm?ProfileID=423|title=Winona LaDuke – Women's Political Communication Archives|last=globalreach.com|first=Global Reach Internet Productions, LLC – Ames, IA -|website=www.womenspeecharchive.org|access-date=January 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235852/http://www.womenspeecharchive.org/women/profile/index.cfm?ProfileID=423|archive-date=February 1, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Appearance on '']'' on June 12, 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/173622/june-12-2008/winona-laduke |title=LaDuke on ''The Colbert Report'' |work=colbertnation.com}}{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704035101/http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/173622/june-12-2008/winona-laduke |date=July 4, 2010 }}</ref>
* Featured in 2017 full-length documentary ''First Daughter and the Black Snake'', directed by ]. Chronicles LaDuke's opposition against the Canadian-owned ] plans to route a pipeline through land granted to her tribe in an 1855 Treaty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2016/09/15/winona-laduke-enbridge-standing-rock-keri-pickett/ |title=Urgent Cinema: Winona LaDuke and the Enbridge Pipeline |publisher=Walker Art Center |access-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223035611/http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2016/09/15/winona-laduke-enbridge-standing-rock-keri-pickett/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Legacy and honors== ==Legacy and honors==
* 1994, LaDuke was nominated by '']'' as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age.
* 1997 - LaDuke was named Woman of the Year by ''].''
* 1996, she was given the ]
* 1997, she was granted the BIHA Community Service Award
* 1998, she won the ]. * 1998, she won the ].
* 1998, '']'' named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth.
* Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship. * Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship.
* 2007, she was inducted into the ].<ref></ref> * 2007, she was inducted into the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/winona-laduke/ |title=LaDuke, Winona |work=]}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201103842/https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/winona-laduke/ |date=February 1, 2021 }}</ref>
* 2015, she received an honorary doctorate degree from ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.augsburg.edu/commencement/details/saturday/|title=Day Undergraduate Ceremony – Commencement|access-date=January 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630000245/http://www.augsburg.edu/commencement/details/saturday/|archive-date=June 30, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2017, she received the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance, at the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/2017/indigenous-activist-winona-laduke-wins-spendlove-prize|title=Indigenous Activist Winona LaDuke Wins Spendlove Prize – UC Merced|website=www.ucmerced.edu|access-date=January 5, 2018|archive-date=March 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309064031/https://www.ucmerced.edu/news/2017/indigenous-activist-winona-laduke-wins-spendlove-prize|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2020, she was a keynote speaker at Verdical Group's annual ]<ref>{{Cite web |last=hello@verdicalgroup.com |date=2023-09-29 |title=Honoring Past Keynote Speakers and Trailblazer Award Winners |url=https://netzeroconference.com/honoring-past-keynote-speakers-and-trailblazer-award-winners/ |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=Net Zero Conference |language=en-US}}</ref>


==Marriage and family== ==Electoral history==
===1996 election===
LaDuke married Randy Kapashesit, a ] leader, when working in opposition to a major hydroelectric project near ]. They had two children: a daughter, Waseyabin (born 1988) and a son, Ajuawak (born 1991). They divorced after several years.<ref name="Ritter"/>
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! %
! Electoral votes
|-
|style=background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|] {{small|(])}}<br>{{small|]}}
| align=left|]
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| 49.24%
| '''379'''
|-
|style=background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|]<br>{{small|]}}
| align=left|]
| 39,197,469
| 40.71%
| 159
|-
|style=background:{{party color|Reform Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|]<br>{{small|]}}
| align=left|]
| 8,085,294
| 8.40%
| 0
|-
|style=background:{{party color|Green Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|]<br>{{small|Winona LaDuke}}
| align=left|]
| 685,297
| 0.71%
| 0
|-
|style=background:{{party color|Libertarian Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|]<br>{{small|]}}
| align=left|]
| 485,759
| 0.50%
| 0
|-
|bgcolor=#C0C0C0|
| colspan=2 align=left|Others
| 411,993
| 0.43%
| 0
|-
! colspan=3 {{left}} Total
! {{right}} 96,277,634
! {{right}} 100%
! {{right}} 538
|}


===2000 election===
LaDuke now has a companion in Kevin Gasco and had another child with him in 1999. She also cared for a niece and nephew for an extended period. She and Kevin share her grandchildren.<ref name="Ritter"/>
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! %
! Electoral votes
|-
|style=background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|]<br>{{small| ]}}
| align=left|]
| 50,999,897
| 48.4%
| 266
|-
|style=background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|]<br>{{small|]}}
| align=left|]
| 50,456,002
| 47.87%
| '''271'''
|-
|style=background:{{party color|Green Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|]<br>{{small|Winona LaDuke}}
| align=left|]
| 2,882,955
| 2.74%
| 0
|-
|style=background:{{party color|Reform Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|]<br>{{small|]}}
| align=left|]
| 448,895
| 0.43%
| 0
|-
|style=background:{{party color|Libertarian Party (United States)}} |
| align=left|]<br>{{small|]}}
| align=left|]
| 384,431
| 0.36%
| 0
|-
|bgcolor=#C0C0C0|
| colspan=2 align=left|Others
| 232,920
| 0.22%
| {{small|''(abstention)''}} 1
|-
! colspan=3 {{left}} Total
! {{right}} 105,421,423
! {{right}} 100%
! {{right}} 538
|}


===2016 election===
On November 9, 2008, LaDuke's house in ], burned down. LaDuke was in Boston when the fire broke out. Her four family members at home got out in time and no one was injured. LaDuke lost all her personal property at the site, including her extensive library and indigenous art and artifact collection.<ref>{{cite web| title = Winona LaDuke to rebuild home destroyed by fire| publisher = '']''| date = November 17, 2008| url = http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5035&Itemid=1| accessdate = 2008-11-17}}</ref>
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| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}; width:0.37%" | '''3'''
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}; width:0.19%" | '''1'''
| style="background:{{party color|Green Party (United States)}}; width:0.19%" | '''1'''
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}; width:0.19%" | '''1'''
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}; width:0.19%" | '''1'''
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}; width:56.69%" | '''305'''

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| style="color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | '''Warren'''
| style="color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | '''Cantwell'''
| style="color:{{party color|Green Party (United States)}}" | '''LaDuke'''
| style="color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | '''Collins'''
| style="color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | '''Fiorina'''
| style="color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | '''Pence'''

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==See also== ==See also==
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==References== ==References==
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==Further reading== ==Further reading==
* Andrews, Max (Ed.), ''Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook''. London, Royal Society of Arts, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-901469-57-1}}. Interview with Winona LaDuke
*Montgomery, Alicia. "" (July 13, 2000). '']''.
*Walljasper, Jay. "" (January/February 1996). '']'' magazine.
* Andrews, Max (Ed.), ''Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook''. London, , 2006 ISBN 978-0-901469-57-1 Interview with Winona LaDuke
*The Promised Land with Majora Carter. "." (2000).


==External links== ==External links==
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*, Official Website
*, Official Website
*, White Earth Land Recovery Project
*{{C-SPAN|36473}}
*, ''Voices from the Gap'', University of Minnesota
* at nativeharvest.com
*, 1996 Green Party Convention,
*, ''Voices from the Gap'', ]
*{{Oregon Encyclopedia|laduke_winona|Winona LaDuke (1959–)|author=Cedar-Face, Mary Jane}}
*, 1996 Green Party Convention
*"" at '']'' (July 13, 2000)
* with ] of ] (2000)
*{{IMDb name|id=0480632|name=Winona LaDuke}} *{{IMDb name|id=0480632|name=Winona LaDuke}}
* at University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections and University Archives

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Author and activist

Winona LaDuke
LaDuke in 2021
Born (1959-08-18) August 18, 1959 (age 65)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Antioch University (MA)
Political partyGreen
Parent(s)Betty LaDuke, Sun Bear

Winona LaDuke (born August 18, 1959) is an American environmentalist, writer, and industrial hemp grower, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development.

In 1996 and 2000, she ran for vice president of the United States as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader. Until 2023 she was the executive director and a co-founder (along with the Indigo Girls) of Honor the Earth, a Native environmental advocacy organization that played an active role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

In 2016, she received an electoral vote for vice president. In doing so, she became the first Green Party member to receive an electoral vote.

Early life and education

Winona LaDuke in earlier years

Winona (meaning "first daughter" in Dakota language) LaDuke was born in 1959 in Los Angeles, California, to Betty Bernstein and Vincent LaDuke (later known as Sun Bear). Her father was from the Ojibwe White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, and her mother of Jewish European ancestry from The Bronx, New York. LaDuke spent some of her childhood in Los Angeles, but was primarily raised in Ashland, Oregon. Due to her father's heritage, she was enrolled at birth with the White Earth Nation, but did not live at White Earth, or any other reservation, until 1982. She started work at White Earth after graduating from college when she got a job there as principal of the high school.

After her parents married, Vincent LaDuke worked as an actor in Hollywood in supporting roles in Western movies, while Betty LaDuke completed her academic studies. The couple separated when Winona was five, and her mother took a position as an art instructor at Southern Oregon College, now Southern Oregon University at Ashland, then a small logging and college town near the California border. In the 1980s, Vincent reinvented himself as a New Age spiritual leader by the name Sun Bear.

While growing up in Ashland, LaDuke attended public school and was on the debate team in high school. She attended Harvard University, where she joined a group of Indigenous activists, and graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics (rural economic development). When she moved to White Earth, she did not know the Ojibwe language, or many people, and was not quickly accepted. While working as the principal of the local Minnesota reservation high school she completed research for her master's thesis on the reservation's subsistence economy and became involved in local issues. She completed an M.A. in community economic development through Antioch University's distance-learning program.

Career and activism

LaDuke in 2009

While attending Harvard, LaDuke heard a presentation by Jimmie Durham that she said "shook something loose" in her and changed her life. She worked for Durham, investigating the effects of uranium mining in Navajo reservations. After graduating, she moved to her father's community at White Earth, where she found work as the high school principal. In 1985 she helped found the Indigenous Women's Network. She worked with Women of All Red Nations to publicize American forced sterilization of Native American women.

Next she became involved in the struggle to recover lands for the Anishinaabe. An 1867 treaty with the United States provided a territory of more than 860,000 acres for the White Earth Indian Reservation. Under the Nelson Act of 1889, an attempt to have the Anishinaabe assimilate by adopting a European-American model of subsistence farming, communal tribal land was allotted to individual households. The US classified any excess land as surplus, allowing it to be sold to non-natives. In addition, many Anishinaabe sold their land individually over the years; these factors caused the tribe to lose control of most of its land. By the mid-20th century, the tribe held only one-tenth of the land in its reservation.

White Earth Land Recovery Project

In 1989, LaDuke founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP) in Minnesota with the proceeds of a human rights award from Reebok. Its goal is to buy back land in the reservation that non-Natives bought and to create enterprises that provide work to Anishinaabe. By 2000, the foundation had bought 1,200 acres, which it held in a conservation trust for eventual cession to the tribe. WELRP also works to reforest the land and revive cultivation of wild rice, long a traditional Ojibwe food. It markets that and other traditional products, including hominy, jam, buffalo sausage, and other products. It has started an Ojibwe language program, a herd of buffalo, and a wind-energy project. It produces and sells traditional foods and crafts through its label, Native Harvest. The Evergreen State College class of 2014 chose LaDuke as its commencement speaker. She delivered her address at the school on June 13, 2014.

Honor the Earth, 1993-2023

LaDuke was also the executive director of Honor the Earth, an organization she co-founded with the non-Native folk-rock duo the Indigo Girls in 1993. Honor the Earth is a national advocacy group encouraging public support and funding for Native environmental groups. It works nationally and internationally on issues of climate change, renewable energy, sustainable development, food systems and environmental justice. Members of Honor the Earth were active in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. As of 2016, the organization's mission was:

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.

On March 30, 2023, the Becker County, Minnesota, District Court ordered Honor the Earth and LaDuke to pay a former employee $750,000 in damages in a sexual harassment and abuse complaint, based on actions from 2015. LaDuke resigned from the organization on April 5, 2023, acknowledging her failure to protect victims of sexual harassment.

Political career, 1996-2016

Winona La Duke speaking at Intellectual House, University of Washington, 2018

In 1996 and 2000, LaDuke ran as the vice-presidential candidate with Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket. She was not endorsed by any tribal council or other tribal government. LaDuke endorsed the Democratic Party ticket for president and vice-president in 2004, 2008, and 2012.

In 2016, Robert Satiacum, Jr., a faithless elector from Washington, cast his presidential vote for Native American activist Faith Spotted Eagle and his vice-presidential vote for LaDuke, making her the first Green Party member and the first Native American woman to receive an Electoral College vote for vice president.

In 2016, LaDuke was involved in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, participating at the resistance camps in North Dakota and speaking to the media on the issue.

At the July 2019 National Audubon Convention in Milwaukee, LaDuke gave the keynote address with updates on efforts to stop the Sandpiper pipeline, other pipelines, and other projects near Ojibwe waters and through the Leech Lake Reservation. She urged everyone to be water protectors and stand up for their rights.

In 2020 and 2021, she was a leader of the protests against the Line 3 pipeline.

Hemp activism

As of 2018, LaDuke operated a 40-acre (16 ha) industrial hemp farm on the White Earth Indian Reservation, growing hemp varieties from different regions of the world, vegetables and tobacco. She has said that she turned to industrial hemp farming after being urged to investigate the practice for several years and advocates its potential to turn the American economy away from fossil fuels. LaDuke has promoted the growth of both marijuana and industrial hemp on Indigenous tribal lands for financial profit and the localization of the economy. Her position can be considered controversial given experiences of other reservations, such as the Oglala Sioux Tribe, who were raided by the DEA in relation to hemp farming.

Personal life

In 1988, LaDuke married Cree Randy Kapashesit of Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada. They separated in 1992.

On November 9, 2008, LaDuke's house in Ponsford, Minnesota, burned down while she was in Boston. No one was injured, but all her personal property burned, including her extensive library and Indigenous art and artifact collection. As of 2020, she had one son and six grandchildren.

Selected publications

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Books

  • Last Standing Woman (1997), novel.
  • All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999), about the drive to reclaim tribal land for ownership
  • The Sugar Bush (1999)
  • The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings (2002)
  • Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming (2005), a book about traditional beliefs and practices.
  • The Militarization of Indian Country (2013)
  • All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (2016)
  • To Be A Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers (2020)

As co-author

  • Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
  • Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism
  • Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community
  • Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization
  • Cutting Corporate Welfare
  • Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions
  • New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism
  • Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women
  • How to Say I Love You in Indian
  • Earth Meets Spirit: A Photographic Journey Through the Sacred Landscape
  • Otter Tail Review: Stories, Essays and Poems from Minnesota's Heartland
  • Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women

Her editorials and essays have been published in national and international media.

Filmography

Television and film appearances:

  • Appearance in the 1997 documentary film Anthem, directed by Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn.
  • Appearance in the 1990 Canadian documentary film Uranium, directed by Magnus Isacsson.
  • Appearance in the TV documentary The Main Stream.
  • Appearance on The Colbert Report on June 12, 2008.
  • Featured in 2017 full-length documentary First Daughter and the Black Snake, directed by Keri Pickett. Chronicles LaDuke's opposition against the Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a pipeline through land granted to her tribe in an 1855 Treaty.

Legacy and honors

Electoral history

1996 election

1996 United States presidential election
Presidential candidate
Vice presidential candidate 		Party Popular
votes 		% Electoral votes
Bill Clinton (incumbent)
Al Gore 		Democratic 47,401,185 49.24% 379
Bob Dole
Jack Kemp 		Republican 39,197,469 40.71% 159
Ross Perot
Pat Choate 		Reform 8,085,294 8.40% 0
Ralph Nader
Winona LaDuke 		Green 685,297 0.71% 0
Harry Browne
Jo Jorgensen 		Libertarian 485,759 0.50% 0
Others 411,993 0.43% 0
Total 96,277,634 100% 538

2000 election

2000 United States presidential election
Presidential candidate
Vice presidential candidate 		Party Popular
votes 		% Electoral votes
Al Gore
Joe Lieberman 		Democratic 50,999,897 48.4% 266
George W. Bush
Dick Cheney 		Republican 50,456,002 47.87% 271
Ralph Nader
Winona LaDuke 		Green 2,882,955 2.74% 0
Pat Buchanan
Ezola Foster 		Reform 448,895 0.43% 0
Harry Browne
Art Olivier 		Libertarian 384,431 0.36% 0
Others 232,920 0.22% (abstention) 1
Total 105,421,423 100% 538

2016 election

Electoral vote for vice president

↓
227 3 1 1 1 1 305
Kaine Warren Cantwell LaDuke Collins Fiorina Pence

See also

References

  1. Amy Goodman, Winona LaDuke (December 7, 2018). Interview with Winona LaDuke. Democracy Now!. Event occurs at 15:20. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
  2. ^ LaDuke, Winona (August 25, 2016). "What Would Sitting Bull Do?". La Progressive. Archived from the original on December 4, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
  3. ^ "Peter Ritter, "The Party Crasher"". Minneapolis News. October 11, 2000.
  4. "Willamette Week | "Winona Laduke" | July 19th, 2006". Archived from the original on August 27, 2006.
  5. ^ Contemporary Authors (PDF) (Volume 100 ed.). Gale Group: Thomson Learning. 2002. pp. 256–258.
  6. "Ricing Time: Harvesting on the Lakes of White Earth". National Public Radio. November 12, 2004.Archived July 6, 2022, at the Wayback Machine
  7. Pemberton, Lisa. "The Evergreen State College graduates nearly 1,300 students". theolympian. Archived from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  8. "About Us". Honor The Earth. Archived from the original on April 16, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  9. Bowe, Nathan. Honor the Earth ordered to pay $750,000 in civil suit, Forum Communications Company: Detroit Lakes Tribune, April 3, 2023.
  10. "Winona LaDuke endorsement of John Kerry for president". October 20, 2004. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
  11. "LaDuke and the lessons she learned with Nader". Minnesota Post. May 22, 2008. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
  12. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Winona LaDuke on Presidential Politics (7:41)". YouTube. September 27, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
  13. "How Faith Spotted Eagle became the first Native American to win an electoral vote for president". LA Times. Archived from the original on December 21, 2016. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  14. Amy Goodman, Winona LaDuke (September 4, 2016). Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray. Democracy Now!. Archived from the original on September 24, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  15. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Audubon Convention 2019: Opening Address. Winona LaDuke". August 8, 2019 – via www.youtube.com.
  16. "'They're Shoving A Pipe Down Our Throat': Inside Winona LaDuke's Fight Against Line 3". May 31, 2021. Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  17. Murphy, Hannah; Dunlea, Reed (April 23, 2020). "The Fight Against Minnesota's Line 3 Pipeline: Bill McKibben and Winona LaDuke in Conversation". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  18. Fish, Robin D. (December 19, 2020). "LaDuke, Line 3 opponents stage first of 'weekly' protests at Enbridge office in Park Rapids". Duluth News Tribune. Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
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Further reading

  • Andrews, Max (Ed.), Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook. London, Royal Society of Arts, 2006, ISBN 978-0-901469-57-1. Interview with Winona LaDuke

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