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Winona LaDuke: Return to Rice Lake

Winona LaDuke: Return to Rice Lake

Wild rice, or manoomin in Ojibway, is the way of life for this village, and for most of the White Earth Reservation. It feeds the body and it feeds the soul, with hundreds of thousands of pounds produced for not only our community but for sale. Today the manoomin is feeding the souls, as tribal members and friends come and gather to honor the rice, and to challenge not only Enbridge, but the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, which has just allocated 5 billion gallons of water to Enbridge for Line 3, in the middle of the deepest drought we can remember.

Winona LaDuke on earth-based economics in ‘the time of the seventh fire’

Winona LaDuke on earth-based economics in ‘the time of the seventh fire’

Winona LaDuke on earth-based economics in ‘the time of the seventh fire’

Nonviolence Radio shares a powerful talk by renowned Anishinaabe author and activist Winona LaDuke, plus Michael Nagler's latest Nonviolence Report.

Stephanie Van Hook August 31, 2020

Q&A: Winona LaDuke - The Nation

Q&A: Winona LaDuke

A conversation with the two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate.

 LF: So you decided to ride horseback along the route of the pipeline?

WL: On our reservation, the Enbridge Corporation is applying to nearly double the capacity of its Clipper line to 880,000 barrels per day—that is bigger than Keystone—and they want to build a third pipeline called Sandpiper next to our largest wild rice bed, to carry hydro-fracked oil from the Bakken oil field [in North Dakota] to Superior, Wisconsin. That amount of oil going across northern Minnesota—land of 10,000 lakes—would make this an oil superhighway. I had this dream that we should ride our horses against the current of the oil.

After that, we were invited to ride horse [into Washington]. It was an amazing spiritual experience. Nine teepees on the Mall, saying no to dirty oil and no to climate change, urging President Obama to do the right thing.

Read more:  http://www.thenation.com/article/qa-winona-laduke/

WOMAN ... WINONA LADUKE ABOUT: FOOD + WATER | EARTH

WOMAN ... WINONA LADUKE ABOUT: FOOD + WATER | EARTH

Winona LaDuke, WOMAN, In life, one may not always be sure of their path but for "the signs from above, Honor the Earth repeated, 'trust the process and you'll find what you're looking for.' - We can transition elegantly into a new era, living a good life with the Earth, and water. Let’s be someone that our future generations can depend on, and thank us for.

Photo credit: Keri Pickett | Twitter @KeriPickett

Minobimaatisiiwin - the good life | Winona LaDuke | TEDxSitka

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Winona LaDuke draws on her experience as a leading Native-American activist in her talk about indigenous economic thinking for the 7th generation. 
 

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