If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Tribes have the potential to provide almost 15 percent of the country's electricity with wind power, and have 4.5 times the solar… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods.… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.' It made… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
“The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the important question is between the industrial… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I go to… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
