Winona LaDuke, social and environmental activist and two-time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket, will appear at Washington State University Vancouver on March 2.
LaDuke will discuss “Indigenous Strategies for a Sustainable Future” at 6 p.m. in Room 110 of the Administration building.
Her lecture is free and open to the public, with seats available on a first-come basis. Space is limited to 200 persons and doors open at 5:30 p.m.
LaDuke, 50, has devoted herself to American Indian and environmental concerns, chiefly on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems, besides other women’s and political issues.
Raised in Los Angeles (and in Ashland, Ore.), she is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishanaabekwe of the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota.
After graduating from Harvard University in 1982, she moved to the reservation and founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project in an effort to reclaim tens of thousands of acres promised under a 19th century U.S. treaty.
White Earth also works to preserve and restore sound and traditional land uses, community development, language fluency and spiritual and cultural heritage.
LaDuke also founded and leads Honor the Earth, an American Indian foundation that works nationally and internationally with indigenous groups on the issues of climate change and environmental justice.
She has written five books and in 2007 was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Parking at WSUV, 14204 N.E. Salmon Creek Ave., is available at metered spots or in the Blue daily pay lot for $3.
For more information, contact Bola Majekobaje, Student Diversity, at 360-546-9568 or majekoba@vancouver.wsu.edu.
