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Activist to address environmental politics |
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Shannon Coon |
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Nov 7, 2005 |
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| Winona LaDuke |
Human rights activist Winona LaDuke will come to The University of Toledo Student Union Ingman Room Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. to give a public talk titled “Environmental Politics and Sustainability in the New Millennium.”
“This event is important because Winona LaDuke is the pre-eminent feminist Native-American activist,” said Dr. Nandini Bhattacharya, UT associate professor and chair of women’s and gender studies. “She has done more than anyone I know for the Native-American community and their rights, and for the environment. In terms of minority and environmental rights, she is a model. She is a one-of-a-kind, unique feminist leader of her time whom we need to celebrate and hear carefully.”
After graduating from Harvard with a degree in native economic development in 1982, LaDuke moved to the reservation of White Earth, the poor, rural home of the Anishinabeg (Ojibwe) people in northwestern Minnesota. While working as principal in the local reservation high school, she became involved in recovering the land promised to the Ojibwe in an 1867 federal treaty.
The vice presidential running mate for Ralph Nader in 1996 and 2000 has been the recipient of several honors, including the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Thomas Merton Award, the Ann Bancroft Award, Ms. Woman of the Year Award and the Global Green Award. In 1994, LaDuke was named one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age by Time Magazine.
She is the founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a reservation-based land acquisition, environmental advocacy and cultural organization. The project has received the Slow Food Award for its work with protecting wild rice and local biodiversity.
She is the author of Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (2005), Last Standing Woman (1999) and All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999). She also has co-authored numerous books, including The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings (2002), Sister Nations: Native-American Women Writers on Community (2002) and The Sugar Bush (1999).
LaDuke also will sign books at noon at the People Called Women Bookstore, 3153 W. Central Ave. A workshop discussion for UT women’s and gender studies students and faculty will take place at 2 p.m. in University Hall Room 4180.
For more information, contact the UT women's and gender studies department at 419.530.2233.
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