The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This… — 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… — 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,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,… — 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
Water is life. We are the people who live by the water. Pray by these waters. Travel by the waters. Eat and… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ...… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag. — 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
