On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild rice beds. We've lost a lot of it, but there's still natural wealth that could support our communities. — 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
