Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but… — 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… — 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
The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation.… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I don't oppose pipelines - I like infrastructure - but I heard that the Keystone XL pipeline was going to carry tar… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I find that I have more allies on the left than on the right, and that is because the left is, by… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other… — 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 thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people. — 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 filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The United States, you know, people - one of the reasons that it is said that native people received citizenship in 1924… — 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
Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly… — 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
Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods.… — 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
The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable… — 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
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
Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first… — 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
