Winona LaDuke to talk at Hartwick College

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Winona LaDuke to talk at Hartwick College


Winona LaDuke to talk at Hartwick College

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ONEONTA — Former vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke will
speak about efforts to protect the cultural role of the wild rice crop
in the face of genetic manipulation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, in
the Anderson Center for the Arts Theatre on the Hartwick College campus.
This lecture is free and open to the public.


LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi
Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in
northwestern Minnesota. As program director of the Honor the Earth Fund,
she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and
create funding for frontline native environmental groups. She also works
as founding director for the White Earth Land Recovery Project.

A graduate of Harvard and Antioch universities, LaDuke has written
extensively on Native American and environmental issues. She is a former
board member of Greenpeace USA and serves as co-chair of the Indigenous
Women's Network, a North American and Pa

cific indigenous women's organization. LaDuke was the running mate
for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader in 2000.

In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's
50 most promising leaders under 40. She has also been awarded the Thomas
Merton Award, the BIHA Community Service Award, the Ann Bancroft Award
for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights
Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project.

This lecture is presented in conjunction with Hartwick's 2005-2006
Food in Our Lives academic and co-curricular theme. For more
information, call Karl Seeley, assistant professor of economics, at
431-4628 or e-mail [e-mail].