January 22, 2009 Issue
Environmental Activist Winona LaDuke at Farthing February 4
Environmental and Native American activist and Ralph Nader’s former running mate Winona LaDuke will address the public at Farthing Auditorium on Wednesday, February 4, at 7:00 p.m.
As part of the Spring 2009 Diversity Lecture Series at Appalachian State University, the Office of Multicultural Student Development presents environmental activist Winona LaDuke at the podium of Farthing Auditorium on Wednesday, February 4, at 7:00 p.m. LaDuke will give a lecture titled Environmental Justice from a Native Perspective.
LaDuke is an internationally renowned Native American and environmental activist who first addressed the United Nations at the age of 18. She is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch universities, LaDuke is the founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project and has helped the Ojibwe of Minnesota buy back thousands of acres of ancestral land. As program director of the Honor the Earth Fund, she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support and create funding for native environmental groups. She also serves as co-chair of the Indigenous Women’s Network and is a former board member of Greenpeace USA.
In 1996 and 2000, LaDuke was Ralph Nader’s vice-presidential running mate on the Green Party ticket. In 1994, Time Magazine named her one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under 40 years old and in 1997, Ms. magazine named her Woman of the Year.
LaDuke is the author of the novel Last Standing Woman and nonfiction works All Our Relations, The Winona LaDuke Reader and Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming. Her essays and editorials have been published in national and international journals and newspapers.
The February 4 lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call 828-262-6252.
Want To Go?
Date: Wednesday, February 4
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Farthing Auditorium, ASU
Cost: Free
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