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Profile of Winona LaDuke


Party: Green
Born: 1959 in East Los Angeles to father Vincent LaDuke, an Anishinaabe actor, activist, and writer, and mother Betty LaDuke, a Jewish artist and professor emeritus at Southern Oregon University.
Family: Separated; three children; lives and works on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota, where she is a member of the Mississsippi Band of the Anishinaabe.
Religion: Traditional Anishinabekwe (Native American)
Military:
Web Site:
VoteNader.com (Campaign 2000 web site)
The Nader Page (Public Interest column & other writings)
Green Party (International Green Party web site)
Association of State Green Parties
Green Party Platform (which Nader supports)

    Education:
  • Bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1982
  • Master's in rural development from Antioch College, Ohio
    Professional Experience:
  • Farmer with the Native Harvest Project on the White Earth Reservation
  • Publishes the journal "Indigenous Women"
  • Organized Indigo Girls concert for "Honor the Earth" project, 1998
  • Authored "All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life" (1999)
  • Authored "Last Standing Woman" (1997)
  • Authored "The New Resource Wars : Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations" (1993)
    Political Experience:
  • Activist for the Chippewa (Anishinaabeg) people of Northern Minnestoa
  • Founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, founded to restore 800,000 acres of land oringinally belonging to the Anishinaabe
  • Founder of the Indigenous Womens' Network
  • Member of the board of directors of GreenPeace USA
  • Arrsted during environmental protest, East L.A.
  • Named "Woman of the Year" by Ms. Magazine in 1997
  • Ran as Green Party Vice Presidential candidate in 1996
  • Voted in a Presidential election for the first time in 1996
  • Named one of the 50 most promising leaders under age 40 by Time Magazine for 1994
  • Addressed the United Nations at age 18 on mining issues on reservations

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    Sources:
  • Portland Oregonian, 7/12/2000
  • Z Magazine, article by David Barsamian, Feb. 1999
  • SeatttleTimes.com, 4/23/1998

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