Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke ( born August 18, 1959 in Los Angeles, California) is an Indian activist, environmentalist, economist, politician and writer in the United States. The activist joins the Indian movement with the commitment to environmental protection and has been nominated by the Green Party in 1996 and 2000 as the first Indigenous for the U.S. vice presidency alongside presidential candidate Ralph Nader. In the 2008 presidential election, she supported Democrat Barack Obama.
Winona LaDuke bears the Indian name Bi - ne -si - kwe. The name in German means " thunder bird woman" and makes a reference to the mythological Thunderbird.
Biography
Winona LaDuke is the daughter of the artist and art professor Betty LaDuke, from a Russian-Jewish family and the Indian activists, Hollywood stuntman and later New Age medicine man Vincent LaDuke. As a bi- ne -si - kwe she is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinabe tribe of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Today Winona LaDuke lives with her three children in Ponsford (Minnesota) and is already a grandmother.
LaDuke became involved following the example of her father at an early stage for cultural and political rights of the American Indians. She was invited in 1976 at the age of 17 years to the UN in Geneva and spoke in front of a committee. In 1982, she received her degree in " Indigenous Economic Development " at Harvard, then Rector of the High School in White Earth Indian Reservation was made and at the Antioch University a master's degree. In White Earth, she founded the " White Earth land Recovery Project ", whose goal is to reclaim the territories that had been 1867 contractually guaranteed the Anishinabe, but since then by non-Indians - were affected and reduced - mainly from the wood industry. More than 90 percent of the original 3390 km ² large reservation owned by non-Indians. The organization hopes by 2020 at least 120 km ² to acquire land back, among other things, with the funds from the prize money of various honors for Winona LaDuke. The main source of income is the sale of food, especially rice and water crafts from the reservation. Their motto is: "If a nation has no control over their land, it had no control over their destiny ."
TIME magazine counted LaDuke 1994 on the 50 most promising leaders under 40. In 1996, she received the Thomas Merton Award for peace and social justice. In 1997 she was named Woman of the Year by Ms. Magazine and won the 1998 Reebok Human Rights Award. She is also founder of the Indigenous Women's Network as well, along with the Indigo Girls, co-founder of Honor the Earth in 1993 and later sponsored and organized by the Seventh Generation Fund, the Indigenous Women's Network and the Indigenous Environmental Network.
LaDuke was also the price Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship awarded in September 2007, she was inducted into the National Women 's Hall of Fame.
November 9, 2008 their house burned down in Ponsford mitsammt their extensive library and a collection of Native American artifacts. People did not come to harm.
Media by and about LaDuke
Winona LaDuke has published several books, including: "Last Standing Woman" 1997 ( novel saga about the people of the Anishinabe in seven generations from 1826 to 2018 ), " Winona LaDuke Reader" ( nonfiction ), " All Our Relations: Native Struggles for land and Life " 1999 ( non-fiction book about the struggle of indigenous peoples to the environment), " In the Sugar Bush " ( children's book ) and Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming 2005 ( non-fiction book about traditional beliefs and practices )
She appeared in the documentary Anthem by Shainee fork and Kristin Hahn, who was honored in 1997 at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival with the FIPRESCI Prize. The film was first released in the United States on 25 July 1997. LaDuke also appeared in the television documentary The Main Stream, which was first released on 17 December 2002. Bertram Verhaag and Claus Biegert produced in 2003 for Memorial Film as well as arte and the Bavarian Radio 's portrait " The Thunder Bird Woman ". The film shows her at the White Earth Reservation and in Arizona and New Mexico, where the Navajo and Hopi fight against the mining of uranium and coal.