Activist, Speaker, Writer Winona LaDuke to Visit Spokane

On Monday March 17, Spokane will have two opportunitys to listen to this renowned localism speaker and activist:

Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC): 11:30 am in sn-w’ey’-mn (building 24) in room 110

The Magic Lantern (25 W Main Ave): 7:30 pm

Don't miss this unique chance to hear Winona LaDuke speak about sustainability, localism, grassroots power, and the paradigms shifts needed for the next decades. Both events are free!

A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, Winona has written extensively on Native American and Environmental issues. She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and serves, as co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network, a North American and Pacific indigenous women's organization. In 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth. Also in 1997, her first novel, Last Standing Woman, was published by Voyager Press. In 1999, South End Press published All Our Relations, a non-fiction book on Native environmental struggles. Both books are available through the Native Harvest catalog. Winona's editorials and essays have also been published numerous times in national and international journals and newspapers.

Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservations, and is the mother of three children. As Program Director of the Honor the Earth Fund, she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for front line native environmental groups. She also works as Founding Director for White Earth Land Recovery Project.

In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age. She has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project.

You can support Winona LaDuke's work by making a donation to WELRP and by supporting Native Harvest.