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Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Winona LaDuke, renowned Native American activist and environmental advocate, will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday Nov. 5, 2001 in Memorial Gymnasium at Knox College. The lecture is free and open to the public. Download photo of speaker - 300 dpi
In 1996 and again in 2000, LaDuke ran for vice president of the United States on the Green Party ticket headed by presidential candidate Ralph Nader. LaDuke is the founder and campaign director of the non-profit White Earth Land Recovery Project, which raises money to purchase land to expand the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. LaDuke is also the founder and co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network, which brings together women from different Native American cultures.
Since 1992, LaDuke and the musical group Indigo Girls have conducted the "Honor the Earth" tour, raising more than $600,000 for Native American projects and environmental activism. For their work with Honor the Earth, LaDuke and the Indigo Girls were co-winners of the 1997 Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year Award. She was given the Reebok Human Rights award in 1988, and was named to Time magazine's "50 for the Future" list of the country's most promising young leaders in 1994.
LaDuke is the author of the book "All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life," the novel "Last Standing Woman," and numerous magazine articles on national environmental issues.
LaDuke earned a bachelor's degree in Native Economic Development from Harvard University, a master's degree in urban studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master's degree in rural development at Antioch University.
The lecture is sponsored by the First-Year Preceptorial Program, the Environmental Studies Program, the Cultural Events Committee, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation "Pluralism and Unity" Grant.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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