Winona LaDuke

One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they…

— Winona LaDuke

I'm interested in what kind of food we're going to eat as the climate changes. I'm interested in what kind of economy…

— Winona LaDuke

On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild…

— Winona LaDuke

It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the…

— Winona LaDuke

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods.…

— Winona LaDuke

I look at my own reservation, the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota - on my reservation, one quarter of our money…

— Winona LaDuke

We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind,…

— Winona LaDuke

The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to…

— Winona LaDuke

Water is life. We are the people who live by the water. Pray by these waters. Travel by the waters. Eat and…

— Winona LaDuke

To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ...…

— Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their…

— Winona LaDuke

Tribes have the potential to provide almost 15 percent of the country's electricity with wind power, and have 4.5 times the solar…

— Winona LaDuke

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to…

— Winona LaDuke

The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you…

— Winona LaDuke

The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable…

— Winona LaDuke

Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors,…

— Winona LaDuke

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not…

— Winona LaDuke

What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or…

— Winona LaDuke

I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.

— Winona LaDuke

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by…

— Winona LaDuke

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An…

— Winona LaDuke

Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first…

— Winona LaDuke

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with…

— Winona LaDuke

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even…

— Winona LaDuke