2006 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
March 7-11, Chicago Illinois
4226: Environmental Justice From a Native Perspective
Friday, 3/10/06, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Sponsorship(s):
Cultural Geography Specialty Group
Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group
Organizer:
Jay T. Johnson - University of Canterbury
Chair:
Jay T. Johnson - University of Canterbury
Plenary Speaker: Winona LaDuke - White Earth Land Recovery Project
Title: Environmental Justice From a Native Perspective
Description:
Winona LaDuke is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) and is the mother of three children. She is the Program Director of Honor the Earth and the Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project. Leading Honor the Earth, LaDuke provides vision and leadership for the organization's Regranting Program and its Strategic Initiatives. In addition, she has worked for two decades on the land issues of the White Earth Reservation, including litigation over land rights in the 1980's. In 1989, LaDuke received the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which, in part, she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, she was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age, and was also awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the Ann Bancroft Award, the 1997 Ms. Woman of the Year Award, the Global Green Award, and numerous other honors. LaDuke and the White Earth Land Recovery Project recently received the prestigious international Slow Food Award for their work with protecting wild rice and local biodiversity. In both 1996 and 2000, LaDuke ran for Vice-President on the Green Party ticket with Ralph Nader. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. Her books include Last Standing Woman (fiction), All Our Relations (non-fiction), In the Sugarbush (children's non-fiction), and The Winona LaDuke Reader. Her forthcoming book, Recovering the Sacred, will be released by South End Press in 2005.
