Winona LaDuke, the renowned indigenous rights leader and two-time Green Party U.S. Vice Presidential candidate highlights the struggles of indigenous peoples to protect their food sovereignty, restore their food systems and protect their cultures and foods from genetic modification. This speech was presented at the 2007 Bioneers National Conference in San Rafael, CA. Since 1990,

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Winona is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. As Program Director of Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with Indigenous communities. In her own community, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, where she works to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, LaDuke has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. She is the author of five books, including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations and a novel, Last Standing Woman.

Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabekwe) is an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. LaDuke is founder and Co-Director of Honor the Earth, a national advocacy group encouraging public support and funding for native environmental groups. This is a talk given at the conference, "Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating Indigenous Knowhow for Global Flourishing", which took place at the University of Notre Dame in 2016.

In April 2020, as the world sheltered in place and in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we began streaming all four "Standing on Sacred Ground" films online for free and hosted interactive conversations via Zoom Webinars. This is a recording of the conversation that followed the screening of the second episode in the four-part series, "Profit and Loss." Sacred Land Film Project Director, Christopher "Toby" McLeod spoke from his home in Berkeley with Anishinaabe author and activist Winona LaDuke from her home in Minnesota, in the midst of maple syrup collecting season. Winona offered hope and inspirational ideas on how to build a new world as well as updates on her efforts to block construction of new tar sands oil pipelines throughout North America. For more information about what Winona LaDuke is up to: HonorEarth.org Original airdate April 30, 2020

As climate change is beginning to alter the planet before our eyes, two internationally recognized activists come together at the Rubin to discuss the economics associated with climate change, the role of First Nations in the climate movement, and the connections between violence against women and violence against the land.

Naomi Klein, the award-winning journalist, author, and Rutgers Gloria Steinem Chair of Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies, joins in conversation with rural development economist and Indigenous land rights activist Winona LaDuke. Drawing from their experience on the frontlines of the struggle for a more just and sustainable world, they delve into a host of related questions:

What is the best model of economic development? What can we learn from First Nations about how to measure wealth, poverty, and equity? What should the role of government be in confronting the causes of climate change? What are the implications of the global frameworks proposed for decarbonization and forest protection?