var windowHref = window.location.href || ''; Winona LaDuke (born August 18, 1959) is an environmentalist, economist and writer who supports Native American rights. To this day, the project secured the return of 1,400 acres of land stolen from native people. She was executive director for twenty-five years. Although LaDuke often found herself embroiled in losing legal battles, she persevered, securing grants and winning a Reebok Human Rights Award. Als Bi-Ne-Se-Kwe ist sie ein eingeschriebenes Mitglied der Mississippi-Band des Anishinabe-Stammes von der White Earth Indian Reservation im nördlichen Minnesota. document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { In her own community, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation based non-profit organizations in the country, and a leader in the issues of culturally based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy and food systems. Because of her father’s ancestry, LaDuke was part of the Ojibwe from an early age. Environmentalist, economist and writer Winona LaDuke was born in Los Angeles in 1959. Bei der Präsidentschaftswahl 2008 unterstützte sie den Demokraten Barack Obama. Winona LaDuke is a rural development economist and author working on issues of Indigenous Economics, Food, and Energy Policy. She is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg of the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. Her father, an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) from White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, enrolled his daughter as a member of the tribe at an early age. For LaDuke, the green path looks like a post-petroleum, land-based economy which has moved on from fossil fuels and plastic, and instead focuses on an harmonious intergenerational and interspecies co-existence. She credits her parents for passing the spirit of activism on to her. There, she founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project to reclaim Anishinaabeg lands that had been promised by an 1867 federal treaty but had been slowly stolen and parceled by the US government at the behest of the logging industry. She currently lives on the White Earth Reservation. The Winona LaDuke Chronicles: Stories From the Front Lines in the Battle for Environmental Justice is lyrical, instructional, and infused with wry humor when the weight of the message becomes unbearable. Ihr Vorname Winona bedeutet in der Sprache der Lakota „Erstgeborene“. August 1959 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) ist eine indianische Aktivistin, Umweltschützerin, Ökonomin, Politikerin und Schriftstellerin in den Vereinigten Staaten. Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. Winona LaDuke. Her mother was a Jewish art professor. September 2020 um 16:29 Uhr bearbeitet. Biographie. In 1994, she was nominated by TIME magazine as one of America’s most promising leaders under forty. She was invited to join a group of Native Americans students who campaigned against racism and discrimination on campus and beyond. In the late 1990s, LaDuke started farming on White Earth and other tribal land. LaDuke says if a people do not have control of their land they do not control their destiny.In 1994, Time magazine named LaDuke one of the nation's 50 most promising leaders under the age of 40. } else { Other Works windowHref += '&'; Gaa-waabaabiganikaag is home to a group of indigenous people – the Ojibwe nation. > -1) { Winona LaDuke, a member of the Anishinaabe, is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems. [3] Der Film zeigt sie im White Earth Reservat, bei befreundeten Lakota auf Pine Ridge und in Arizona und New Mexico, wo die Navajo und Hopi gegen den Abbau von Uran und Kohle kämpfen. She is Anishinabe from the Makwa Dodaem (Bear Clan) of the Mississippi Band of the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. [1], Winona LaDuke trägt den indianischen Namen Bi-Ne-Se-Kwe. Durham, as a member of the International Treaty Council, concerned himself with promises made by the government to indigenous people, and made LaDuke realise that the problems afflicting native nations were not endemic to the people but the result of centuries of governmental exploitation, abuse and poor policies. Von sich selbst sagt sie, dass sie die pragmatische Weltsicht der traditionellen Indianer übernommen habe, die durch eine große Spiritualität gekennzeichnet sei, die dem Fortbestand des Lebens nutzt und nicht getrennt vom Alltag ist.[1]. Winona LaDuke, active in American Indian environmental issues since her teen years, gained nationwide attention as vice presidential running mate to Ralph Nader on the 1996 and 2000 Green Party tickets. She is an actress, known for Skins (2002), Wassaja (2018) and Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions (2002). Überdies war sie das erste indigene Vorstandsmitglied bei Greenpeace. [1], Winona LaDuke ist die Tochter der Künstlerin und Kunstprofessorin Betty LaDuke, aus einer russisch-jüdischen Familie und des Indianer-Aktivisten, Hollywood-Stuntman und späteren New-Age-Medizinmanns und Aktivisten Vincent LaDuke. Dezember 2002 veröffentlicht wurde. Winona LaDuke grew up in Los Angeles, California. LaDuke wurde auch der Preis Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship überreicht und im September 2007 wurde sie in die National Women’s Hall of Fame aufgenommen. She credits her parents for passing the spirit of activism on to her. Ihr Engagement gegen die Atomkraft brachte ihr in den 1980er Jahren den Spitznamen „No Nukes LaDuke“ ein. With these funds, she and White Earth have reclaimed 1,000 acres and hope to acquire 30,000 more in the next 15 years.The challenge is huge. [2] Ihr Vorname Winona bedeutet in der Sprache der Lakota „Erstgeborene“. Winona LaDuke hat mehrere Bücher herausgegeben, darunter: Last Standing Woman 1997 (Roman-Saga über das Volk der Anishinabe in sieben Generationen von 1826 bis 2018), Winona LaDuke Reader (Sachbuch), All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life 1999 (Sachbuch über den Kampf der Indigenen um die Umwelt), In the Sugarbush (Kinderbuch) und Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming 2005 (Sachbuch über traditionelle Glaubensvorstellungen und Praktiken). Der Film wurde zuerst in den Vereinigten Staaten am 25. Biography; Quotes; Activism; Books; Sources; Winona LaDuke. | For the first time, she found a sense of belonging among people who, like her, straddled two worlds: the native one, which had featured throughout her childhood in families and birthdays spent on reservations, and the new world of elite universities that had just started opening their doors more widely to non-white, non-Christian students. In this work, she also continues national and international work to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. Heute lebt Winona LaDuke mit ihren drei Kindern in Ponsford (Minnesota) und ist bereits Großmutter. Sie betont dabei immer wieder, dass ihr Einsatz in der traditionellen Weltanschauung der Anishinabe wurzelt und nicht in der politischen Ideologie der Green Party.[1]. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Interview: Dr. Anne Madden – Microbiologist, Biography: Dr. Gail Dines – Anti-pornography Activist, Author and Lecturer. In the last twenty years, part of her work has focused on campaigning against the introduction of genetically modified rice on native land, as well on the construction of several pipelines. More than 90 percent of White Earth's original 837,000 acres remain in the hands of non-Indians. url("//cdn2.editmysite.com/fonts/SQ_Market/sqmarket-medium.woff") format("woff"); She is founding director of both the White Earth Land Recovery Program and Honor the Earth, a national Native American foundation. | [1], indianische Aktivistin, Umweltschützerin, Ökonomin und Schriftstellerin, Zuletzt bearbeitet am 9. Winona LaDuke grew up in Los Angeles, California. '; She credits her parents for passing the spirit of activism on to her. }); As Program Director of the Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with Indigenous communities. And then, while studying economics at Harvard in the late seventies, LaDuke came into contact with a new generation of activists. She ran as the Green Party's vice presidential candidate in l996 and 2000. //
