Post Wiindgo Economics and the Green Path with Winona LaDuke

3410 North 18th Street,Tacoma WA 98416

11 April, 2023

Description

In the Ojibwe language, a Wiindgo, is a cannibalistic monster that has attacked the Anishinaabe and other indigenous tribes for generations. Wiindgo is also synonymous with the word colonization. In this lecture, Winona will discuss what it means to forge a new path away from the destructive one that colonizers had created upon their capture and siege of this land.  Join us as we welcome Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. She has devoted her life to protecting the culture, lands, and life ways of Native American communities. She is founder and Co-Director of Honor the Earth, which is a national advocacy group devoted to supporting and funding native environmental groups and addressing the national and international community on issues of sustainable development, climate change, renewable energy, food systems and environmental justice. She is also founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a large reservation based non-profit organization that works to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. In 2016 she led protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline that sought to protect water access and sacred Indigenous lands in North Dakota. Then in 2020 she published her most recent book, To Be A Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers.