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The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.'
- Winona LaDuke
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The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people either relate to you as an Indian or as a woman. They relate to you as a category. A lot of people don't realize that I am not that different from everyone else.
- Winona LaDuke
#I Am
#Nation
#People
#Person
#Woman
When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people.
- Winona LaDuke
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#Fighting
#Grow
#Myself
#People
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree.
- Winona LaDuke
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#Feel Good
#Good
#Myself
#Tree
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
- Winona LaDuke
#Long
#Patience
#Strength
#Struggle
#Time
On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild rice beds. We've lost a lot of it, but there's still natural wealth that could support our communities.
- Winona LaDuke
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#Wealth
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#World
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.
- Winona LaDuke
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#Out
#Sacred
#Time
#Worth
I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to.
- Winona LaDuke
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#Cool
#Guidance
#Me
#School
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.
- Winona LaDuke
#Community
#Earth
#Hardships
#Impact
If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands.
- Winona LaDuke
#Agriculture
#Air
#Glaciers
#Moving
#Our
I'm interested in what kind of food we're going to eat as the climate changes. I'm interested in what kind of economy we're going to have in another 1,000 years.
- Winona LaDuke
#Changes
#Climate
#Economy
#Food
#Going
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.
- Winona LaDuke
#Earth
#Mother
#Oil
#See
#Water
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.
- Winona LaDuke
#Feet
#Together
#Water
#Wings
#Work
Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.
- Winona LaDuke
#Food
#Relationship
#Us
#Way
#World
Spirituality is the foundation of all my political work.
- Winona LaDuke
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#Political
#Work
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
- Winona LaDuke
#Culture
#Food
#History
#Relatives
#Wings
In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.
- Winona LaDuke
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#Government
#Integrity
#Power
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