My name is Winona LaDuke and I'm from the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, and I'm the Executive Director Honor The Earth. And I'm here to support Bernie Sanders. My reservation in northern Minnesota is facing a set of large oil pipelines from the Enbridge company. Those pipelines come both from the tar sands of northern Alberta and from the fracked oil fields of western North Dakota. We are opposed to those pipelines, and we need politicians that will stand with us and all of the...
Topics: Energy, Environment, Corporations, Bernie 2016, Bernie Sanders, MINNESOTA, WINONA LADUKE, EARTH,...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEbCNEAa-70
The Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures include some of the foremost voices on a new economics. Winona LaDuke, a member of the Mississippi Band of the Anishinaabe from the White Earth Reservation, is a strong and clear voice for the return to traditional land-holding patterns of her people. She explains how, in order to sustain the life of the Anishinaabe, her people have need of different kinds of land; the lakes for harvesting wild rice, the forests for hunting, and the meadows for gathering...
Topics: land use, native americans, tribal land, anishinaabe, White Earth Reservation, Annual E. F....
