Deeper Change Forum - Winona LaDuke
Thu, Apr 07
|Hamden
Recovering the Sacred, Honoring the Seed


Time & Location
Apr 07, 2022, 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM EDT
Hamden, 1253 Whitney Ave, Hamden, CT 06517, USA
About the Event
Winona LaDuke is a Harvard-educated economist, environmental activist, author, hemp
farmer, grandmother, and a two-time former Green Party Vice President candidate with
Ralph Nader. LaDuke specializes in rural development, economic, food, and energy
sovereignty and environmental justice. Living and working on the White Earth
reservation in northern Minnesota, she leads several organizations including Honor the
Earth (co-founded with The Indigo Girls 28 years ago), Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute,
Akiing, and Winona’s Hemp.
These organizations develop and model cultural-based sustainable development
strategies utilizing renewable energy and sustainable food systems. She is also an
international thought leader and lecturer in climate justice, renewable energy, and
environmental justice, plus an advocate for protecting Indigenous plants and heritage
foods from patenting and genetic engineering.
In 2021, she was named to the first Forbes list of “50 Over 50 – Women of Impact,” in
partnership with Mika Brzezinski’s “Know Your Value,” dedicated to shining a light on
women over the age of 50 who have achieved significant success later in life, often
overcoming formidable odds or barriers. In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by Time
Magazine as one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age. She
was awarded The Thomas Merton Award in 1996, The Biha Community Service Award
in n 1997, The Ann Bancroft Award for Women’s Leadership Fellowship, and The
Reebok Human Rights Award (which she used to begin the White Earth Land Recovery
Project). In 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor
the Earth.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she also has written extensively on
Native American and Environmental issues. LaDuke is a former board member of
Greenpeace USA and serves as co-chair of the Indigenous Women’s Network, a North
American and Pacific Indigenous women’s organization.
Her seven books include: The Militarization of Indian Country (2011); Recovering the
Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (2005); The non-fiction book All Our
Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999, South End Press); and a novel,
Last Standing Woman (1997, Voyager Press). Her new book, To Be a Water Protector:
Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers (Fernwood Press/Columbia University), is an expansive,
provocative engagement with issues that have been central to her many years of
activism, including seven years battling Line 3 -- an Enbridge tar sands oil pipeline in
northern Minnesota.