One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth. — 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 Image
What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
