March 2006

Political theorist and author Winona LaDuke (Ojibwe) is the program director of Honor the Earth, a Native environmental advocacy organization, and the founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project. LaDuke has written several books on indigenous political issues and one novel. Recovering the Sacred, published by South End Press, is her most recent book. In 1996 and 2000, she ran as vice-presidential candidate of the Green Party with presidential candidate Ralph Nader. LaDuke received the International Reebok Human Rights Award in 1989. She is a founding board member of the Indigenous Women's Network.

Screened by NMAI

• Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action (2005) on-camera commentator
  
• Thunderbird Woman - Winona LaDuke (2003) subject
  
• Gaa Minigooyang/That Which Is Given to Us (2002) on-camera commentator
  
• Ojibwemowin/Ojibwe Oral Tradition (2002) on-camera commentator
  
• Skins (2001) actor

Selected Bibliography

• Recovering the Sacred. Cambridge: South End Press, 2005
  
• The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings.
• Stillwater: Voyageur Press, 2002.
  
• All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Cambridge: South End Press, 1999.
  
• Last Standing Woman. Stillwater: Voyageur Press, 1997.

Image credits: Winona LaDuke - photograph by Randall Denning