Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I look at my own reservation, the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota - on my reservation, one quarter of our money… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they… — 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,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not… — 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
