Green | July 03, 2008 | 11 comments

Winona LaDuke - "A Call to Consciousness on Climate Change."

source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vinej8hd9Fo

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Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabekwe [Ojibwe], enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg)
Winona LaDuke is a rural development economist who has spent many years working on energy policy and energy self-sufficiency issues in Native America. The author of five books, she is the executive director of Honor the Earth, a national Native American foundation, and founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.

LaDuke is a graduate of Harvard University, with graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master's degree in rural development from Antioch University. Twice a U.S. vice presidential candidate, serving as Ralph Nader's running mate and representing the Green Party in 1996 and 2000, LaDuke lives and works on the White Earth Reservation.

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Watch entire video at
http://www.nmai.si.edu/iss/2008/me_webcast.html?siref=YouTube&video=LaDuke

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From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
where we know Winona LaDuke has warned for decades
of the climate change we are experiencing worldwide.
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  • onechance
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    • http://youtube.com/watch?v=p2NNgoche5U&feature=related
      Here’s a video of part of Winona LaDuke’s talk in Shiprock, New Mexico on the opposition to the Desert Rock Power Plant last spring in 2007.
      The genius of great leaders like Oren, Russ and Winona and many others, is their ability to articulate Native teachings and communicate them to people of other cultures with brilliant and powerful oratory skills. Each of these leaders has for decades done much more than talk. They have really walked their talk and given back to their communities and the world in concrete ways that have made a difference in the lives of many individuals and families. This is the kind of leadership that Oren Lyons talks about in the video in the link above. I've been blessed in my life to know many of these great leaders personally and I've always been moved by their humility, their humor and their humanity.
      Everyone can make a difference to stop the ways their actions contribute to the earth's destruction, and take steps to act in right relation to the earth and all our relations.

    • 3 years ago
  • TouchArt
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    • You're very welcome stopnoise.

      It's great to have people like you and others on current that want to hear what our indigenous people have to say. The knowledge elders like Oren Lyons and Russell Means and activists like Winona LaDuke have is rooted in ancient teachings about how to live on this continent sustainably that is not only possible, but has been done successfully for thousands of years by our people before the arrival of the Europeans.

      Here's a video of Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons speaking at the same conference at the Smithsonian's NMAI - June 12-13, 2008.

    • 3 years ago
  • stopnoise
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    • Check out the Native foods, handmade traditional objects and other products made at White Earth and other reservations in America and marketed through Native Harvest online and sold retail at the wireless cafe Winona started on the White Earth Reservation in northeastern Minnesota amid bald and golden eagles swooping down to pristine lakes edged with wild rice paddies to fish, and where black bear and deer live in thick forests surounding the lakes.

    • 3 years ago
  • TouchArt
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    • Would have been better if Nader/LaDuke had won. They would have fought and gotten the people in the streets to take the win. And with Winona LaDuke as U.S. Vice-President green sustainable energy, environmental protection, green economic development and healthier women, children, families and earth would be a reality already.

      Read about the green economic development, including wind and solar energy, indigenous foods and products, and revitalizing and marketing native arts and crafts in White Earth Minnesota on her Anishinaaneg Akeeng homeland since graduating from Harvard. This is the kind of public service and commitment we need in our leaders.

    • 3 years ago
  • PlatoTacius
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    • Yes, we can continue on the path of scorched earth or we can choose the green path... I believe that the progressive people of this planet are coming together in an effort to influence the passive rest to look beyond the lies and misinformation, propagated by the elitists, that have caused so much eroneous human behavior since the last golden age on this planet.

      It is we who are the standard bearers, so let's keep our wits about us and do what it takes to encourage the change that's needed to succeed toward a brighter future, on the journey down the green path...

    • 3 years ago
  • jpfdeuce
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    • Hope you'll take the time to listen to our sister Winona's wise words.

      It is time for change that brings us back into right relationship with the earth and all our relations.

    • 3 years ago
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