Events
Winona LaDuke at St. Olaf
From site: Wellstone House of Organization and Activism
Renowned Native American and environmental activist Winona LaDuke will be speaking at St. Olaf on Monday November 5th at 7:00pm. Winona LaDuke lives on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota and is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg. She is the program director of the Honor the Earth Fund and Founding Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994 she was named by Time as one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age. In the 1996 campaign, she served as Ralph Nader’s running mate in the Green Party, and in 1997, with the Indigo Girls, she was named a Ms. Woman of the year. In 1998, she received the Reebok Human Rights Award and this past year she was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York.
Sponsored by American Native People's Organization. Contact: browns