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Environmental and Indigenous Activist
About Winona LaDuke
In 1989, Winona LaDuke co-founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, not as a symbolic gesture, but as a land-back strategy rooted in Anishinaabe law and ecological knowledge. She helped reclaim over 20,000 acres of tribal land previously lost to tax forfeiture and corporate acquisition, restoring wild rice beds, maple sugar bush, and traditional seed banks along the way. Her work refuses the false choice between economic development and environmental protection: she launched the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Campaign targeting fossil fuel financing, and co-founded Honor the Earth to fund frontline Native climate resistance, from Standing Rock to Line 3 opposition. LaDuke speaks with the precision of someone who has mapped pipeline routes by canoe and calculated carbon sequestration in restored prairie grasses. Her activism is grounded in treaty rights, seasonal cycles, and the quiet authority of elders who remember how to read soil health in the color of a root.
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- “How did the White Earth Land Recovery Project physically restore wild rice ecosystems?”
- “What role did Anishinaabe treaty rights play in your opposition to Line 3?”
- “Can you explain how Indigenous seed sovereignty challenges industrial agriculture?”
- “What made the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Campaign target specific banks?”