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Resume: Winona LaDuke

Sunday, 10 June 2007Winona LaDuke

31446 East Round Lake Rd.

Ponsford, Minnesota 56575

218-***-****

Email: ************@*********.***

Education

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (BA 1982), Native Economic Development.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, (1983), Department of Urban Studies,

Community Fellows Program.

Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH (MA 1989), Rural Development.

Honorary Degrees

Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, (2001), Honorary Doctorate of Arts.

University of Minnesota, Duluth, (2002), Honorary Doctorate of Law.

Work

Executive Director of Honor the Earth, a national Native directed organization that

provides funding and advocacy for frontline Native environmental work. (1998-present)

2) Program Director of Environmental Program, Seventh Generation Fund, a national Native

Foundation supporting grassroots Native initiatives in environmental justice and community

restoration. (1994 to

l996)

Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project, White Earth, MN (1989-

present). Coordinating development of an overall land acquisition, negotiations and

consolidation program for the White Earth Band of Anishinaabeg of the White Earth

Reservation.

Development Director, Anishinaabe Akeeng, White Earth, MN (1983 to 1988). Responsible

for financial planning, fundraising, and development in a community-based land rights

organization, as well as close work on the litigation and negotiations strategy for three

major federal lawsuits.

Development Consultant, Ikwe Community Education Project, Osage, MN (1985 to 1989).

Developed a community based wild rice and handcrafts marketing collective, serving 20

below-income Native craftswomen, and 50 wild rice harvesters. Responsible for fundraising,

program development, and national outreach.

Executive Director, Circle of Life School, White Earth, MN (1982). Responsible for

administration and management of a tribally controlled K-12 school.

Assistant to the Director, Harvard Foundation, Cambridge, MA (1981). Assisted in

development of programs for improved race relation on campus.

Write/Outreach Coordinator, New Mexican Indian Environmental Education Project,

Albuquerque, NM (1980). Worked with a team of Dine people to develop and disseminate

materials on the environmental, social, and other issues involved in natural resource

development.

Legal Research/Writer, National Indian Youth Council, Albuquerque, NM (1978-1979).

Legal research and community outreach on environmental issues associated with coal and

uranium mining in the Navajo Nation.

Publications

Recovering the Sacred, South End Press 2005

Winona LaDuke Reader Voyager Press, 2002

All Our Relations. South End Press 1999

In the Sugarbush, (children s). Rigby Communications 1997

Research

Legal research in preparation for litigation in cases including the Consolidation Coal

Strip Mine at Burnham, New Mexico, the Churchrock Uranium Mine at Gallup, New Mexico, the

Mount Taylor Uranium Mine and other coal and uranium mines in the Four Corners are of the

United States. Research on environmental, hydrological, social, and economic impact in

support of attorneys at the National Indian Youth Council, and subsequently at the New

Mexico Indian Environmental Education Project.

Preparation of interventions into environmental impact assessments including Makoti

Refinery (Three Affiliated Tribes).

Legal research for the Manypenny Vs. US Fineday Vs. US and Littlewolf US cases involving

title claims in the White Earth Indian Reservation. Subsequent work on the

constitutionality of the White Earth Land Settlement Act with the Center for

Constitutional Rights in New York, and litigation in the Littlewolf Vs. US case.

Housing development initiatives: Implication of Third World Experiences for Indigenous

Peoples in North America, research monograph prepared for the Seventh Generation Fund, a

North American philanthropic and technical assistance foundation, 1990.

Expert Testimony

Non-governmental Organization Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples of

the Western Hemisphere, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1997. Expert

Testimony in Economic Commission in the Exploitation of Natural Resources of Indigenous

Peoples of North America and the Impact of this Exploitation, Rapporteur of Commission.

Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, February 1979.

Preparation of Expert Testimony on the Human Rights Violations caused to Indigenous

Populations by Exploitation of Natural Resources within their Territories. Testimony

presented by the International Indian Treaty Council, Non-Governmental Organization at the

United Nations.

Non-Governmental Organization Conference on the Indigenous Peoples and their Land, United

Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1981. Expert Testimony in Economic Commission on

the Impact of Energy Development on Indigenous Population of the Southwestern United

States, with particular emphasis on Uranium and the Coal Exploitation. Rapporteur of the

Commission.

International Council of Indigenous Women, Third International Conference, Karasjok,

Norway, Samiland, August, 1990. Expert Testimony on the Impact of Hydro Electric and other

Energy Development on the Status and Human Rights of Indigenous Women. Member of the

International Coordinating Committee and interim Directorate.

UN Conference on status of Women, Beijing, China, September 1995, Opening Plenary speech

at Northern Europe Conference.

Lectures (selected)

Duke University, Harvard University, Smith College, Dartmouth College, London Polytechnic

Institute, University of Colorado, University of Iowa, University of Scotland (Edinburgh),

Saskatchewan Native Women s Association, OXFAM Hunger Banquet, Stanford University, UN

Conference on Status of Women, Beijing, China (September 1995), Minnesota NGO Conference.

Professorships

Wilberta and Raymond Savage Visiting Professor of International Affairs, University of

Oregon, Eugene, 1993 (spring). Two classes: Indigenous Human Rights and Indigenous

Economics.

Schumacher College, December 1996, Native Environmentalist and Development, England

(Seminar).

University of Minnesota, 1997, 1998. (Native People and Environment)

Bemidji State.

Fellowships and Awards

Bush Fellowship 1999

Global Green Millennium Award 1998

Ann Bancroft Award for Women Leadership 1997

BIHA Women of Color Community Service Award 1997

Thomas Merton Award 1996

Bannerman Fellowship 1991

Rural Development Leadership Network 1986-1989

Reebok Human Rights Award 1988

Newberry Library-Frances Allen Fellowship 1986

Field Foundation Fellow 1985-1986

National Endowment for the Humanities 1983

Harvard University, Institute of Politics 1978

Other Interests

Muskrat Coffee Company- owner and head of tasting.

Trustee: The Christensen Fund, Palo Alto, CA. ( 2006- present)

Advisory Board Member: Trust for Public Lands, Indian Lands Program, Portland, OR.

Past- Publisher: Indigenous Woman Magazine, a bi-annual journal focused on the issues of

Native Women

Vice-Presidential Candidate : Green Party with Ralph Nader, 1996 and 2000 Presidential

Election.

Board member: Greenpeace, USA, an International Environmental Organization, 1991-1997.

Co-chairperson, Indigenous Women s Network, 1989, a continental network of grassroots

Indigenous Women organizers and community workers.

Representative: International Indian Treaty Council, 1977-1980, representing the IITC at

two NGO conferences at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on issues of resource

development in Indigenous communities.

Personal Information

Born: August 18, 1959, Los Angeles, CA

Mother of three children.

Enrolled member, Mississippi Band, White Earth Reservation, MN

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 October 2011 )

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