Nassau Community College Presents Winona LaDuke - Claiming Land and Life: Native People¹s Rights

The Nassau Community College Women’s History Month Committee is proud to present activist and former vice-presidential candidate Winona LaDuke, who will discuss Claiming Land and Life: Native People’s Rights, in the College Center Building.

Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe or “Chippewa”) Native American. She was raised in Oregon. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in rural economic development, LaDuke became principal of the high school on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota. She later received an MA in Community Economic Development from Antioch University.

LaDuke has worked for two decades on the land issues of the White Earth Reservation, including litigation over land rights in the 1980s. In addition, she is the program director of Honor the Earth (an organization that funds indigenous environmental activism) and founding director of White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation-based nonprofits in the country.

LaDuke has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. In 1996 and 2000, she ran for vice-president on the Green Party ticket with Ralph Nader. In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by “Time” magazine as one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. LaDuke has also been the recipient of many other honors.