Winona LaDuke — from Harvard to the Reservation with Visions of Sustainability
An Ojibwe activist shows us how to survive and thrive
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. ~ Winona LaDuke
If I had to pick a woman with not only the vision but the hands-on, how-to smarts to save the planet from destruction and teach us all how to live sustainably, it would be Winona LaDuke.
As you can see by her affirmation above, we have a sacred obligation, if not a life-sustaining urgency, to do right by our Mama GAIA. As much as many deny it, our very lives depend on it.
While some of us bide our time, Winona, an Ojibwe environmental activist, is all about living and creating solutions to the encroaching fossil fuel apocalypse.
They said no; she said yes!
Winona’s father was an actor in Western films before reinventing himself as the new age spiritual leader, Sun Bear. Her guidance counselor told her that ivy league schools were beyond her reach.
So she applied to three of them and, in 1982, got her B.A. in Rural Economic Development from Harvard. She went on to get an M.A. in Community Economic Development through Antioch University’s distance-learning program.
