Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them.… — 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, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years,… — 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, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence… — 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 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 own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably… — 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 society and the earth-based society. And I say that because I believe that capitalism and communism are really much more about how the wealth is distributed, if it trickles down or is appropriated at the beginning… — 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 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
