Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Systemic Issues of a Predatory Society: Winona LaDuke on Creator's Law

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQSLhWLGHuI

 

To Be a Water Protector is already in Macalester Library https://macalester.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no:1135585029#/oclc/1135585029

webinar

Cosponsored by the American Indian Library Association (AILA) and SRRT, June 28, 2020

“Native American Treaty Rights in the Time of Covid-19”
with Tadd Johnson, Winona LaDuke, and Dallin Maybee

Winona LaDuke bio:
Anishinaabe writer and economist from the White Earth reservation in Minnesota, Executive Director of Honor the Earth, a national Native advocacy and environmental organization. LaDuke was raised in Ashland Oregon, the daughter of Betty ( Bernstein) LaDuke and Vincent LaDuke, also known as Sun Bear. She attended Harvard University ( BA l98l Native Economic Development) , Massachussetts Institute of Technology ( l982, Community Felows Program) and Antioch University ( l986 MA Rural Development). Her work on the White Earth reservation at the White Earth Land Recovery Project spans 30 years of legal, policy and community development work, including the creation of one of the first tribal land trusts in the country. Her work is also focused on the restoration of traditional foods for the northern Lakes region. National work is primarily in the protection of the environment and the rights of women. LaDuke has testified at the United Nations, US Congress, state hearings, and is an expert witness on economics and the environment. She is the author of numerous articles and books . Her marraige was to Randy Kapashesit ( l986) who passed away in 2012, she has two children with Randy- Ajuawak Kapashesit and Waseyabin Kapashesit, and Gwekaanimad Gasco was born in 2000. As of now, she has raised six children on the White Earth reservation.
Fernwood Press:
In recent years we have expanded our publishing mandate with more books intended for an audience of general readers who are interested in social change and social justice. Historically, Fernwood Publishing has published primarily for an academic audience. To this end, we publish books intended for undergraduate university and college courses, and monographs intended as supplementary texts in all levels of undergraduate and graduate courses. Our main focus is in the social sciences, with an emphasis on criminology, aboriginal studies, labour studies, women’s studies, gender studies, critical theory, politics, political economy, cultural studies and social work.
Fernwood Publishing Company Limited gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, the Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism under the Manitoba Publishers Marketing Assistance Program and the Province of Manitoba, through the Book Publishing Tax Credit, for our publishing program.

Winona LaDuke's previous Books:

by Andrea Smith; Winona LaDuke
Language: English  
Publisher: [Durham, NC] : Duke University Press, 2015.

As co-author:

  • Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
  • Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism
  • Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community
  • Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization
  • Cutting Corporate Welfare
  • Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions
  • New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism
  • Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women
  • How to Say I Love You in Indian
  • Earth Meets Spirit: A Photographic Journey Through the Sacred Landscape
  • Otter Tail Review: Stories, Essays and Poems from Minnesota's Heartland
  • Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women

Her editorials and essays have been published in national and international media.

Television and film appearances:

  • Appearance in the documentary film Anthem, directed by Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn.[20]
  • Appearance in the 1990 Canadian documentary film Uranium, directed by Magnus Isacsson.[21]
  • Appearance in the TV documentary The Main Stream.[22]
  • Appearance on The Colbert Report on June 12, 2008.[23]
  • Featured in 2017 full-length documentary First Daughter and the Black Snake, directed by Keri Pickett. Chronicles LaDuke's opposition against the Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a pipeline through land granted to her tribe in an 1855 Treaty.[24]

Legacy and honors

Previous publishers of Winona LaDuke books
Voyageur Press
South End Press 
Michigan STATE University Press
Rigby Education
Theytus Books is a leading North American publisher of Indigenous voices. Located in syilx territory on the Penticton Indian Reserve in British Columbia,

For my Graduate Class at University of Minnesota, Liberal Studies,
Instructor Winona LaDuke used her newly published book,
All Our Relations - table of contents:
Table of Contents:
  • Akwesasne: Mohawk mothers' milk and PCBs
  • Seminoles: at the heart of the Everglades
  • Nitassinan: the hunter and the peasant
  • Northern Cheyenne: a fire in the coal fields
  • Nuclear waste: dumping on the Indians
  • White Earth: a lifeway in the forest
  • Buffalo nations, buffalo peoples
  • Hawai'i: the birth of land and its preservation by the hands of the people
  • NativeSUN: determining a future
  • The seventh generation.

302 libraries carry the Winona LaDuke "reader"
A biography about Winona LaDuke is in 73 libraries
her Novel is in 489 libraries.
All Our Relations book is in over 1100 libraries
 
 

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