Winona LaDuke will be presenting the Anne Pederson Women’s Resource
Center 2008 Koryne Horbal Lecture at Augsburg College on Thursday,
November 20th at 11:00 AM in the Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center.
Augsburg College’s address is 2211 Riverside Ave, Mpls. Attached is a
poster. This event is free and open to everyone! Please join us for
this event.
A campus map can be found at: http://www.augsburg.edu/about/map.html.
The Foss Center where Winona will be presenting is #4 on the map. Free
parking is in Lot L (by the football field).
WINONA LADUKE’S BIO
ENVIRONMENTALIST – POLITICAL ACTIVIST – WRITER
Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues
of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. She lives
and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a
two time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green
Party. .
As Program Director of the Honor the Earth, she works nationally and
internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and
environmental justice with Indigenous communities. And in her own
community, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project,
one of the largest reservation based non profit organizations in the
country, and a leader in the issues of culturally based sustainable
development strategies, renewable energy and food systems. In this work,
she also continues national and international work to protect Indigenous
plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering.
In 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame,
recognizing her leadership and community commitment. In 1994, LaDuke
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, Ms.Woman of the Year ( with the Indigo
Girls in l997) , and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which in part
she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. The White Earth Land
Recovery Project has won many awards- including the prestigious 2003
International Slow Food Award for Biodiversity, recognizing the
organization’s work to protect wild rice from patenting and genetic
engineering.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written
extensively on Native American and environmental issues. She is a
former board member of Greenpeace USAÂ and is presently an advisory
board member for the Trust for Public Lands Native Lands Program as well
as a boardmember of the Christensen Fund. The Author of five books,
including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations and a novel- Last
Standing Woman, she is widely recognized for her work on environmental
and human rights issues. .
More information about Winona and what she is involved in. . . .
http://nativeharvest.com/
http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=79
http://www.honorearth.org/aboutus/composition/staff/winona.html
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/laduke_winona.html
Videos of a couple of Winona’s lectures . . .
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5457902744333882976
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6122716298868119754&hl=en
Jennifer Simon
American Indian Student Services
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Campus Box #307
Minneapolis, MN 55454
(612) 330-1144
Fax (612) 330-1695
simonj@augsburg.edu