Winona LaDuke

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Birthday
Aug 18, 1959 (65 years old)

Winona LaDuke

Known For

Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All
2h 4m
Movie 2024

Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All

An intimate look into the lives of one of the most iconic folk-rock bands in America - the Indigo Girls. With never-before-seen archival and intimate vérité the film dives into the songwriting and storytelling of the music that transformed a generation.

First Daughter and the Black Snake
1h 44m
Movie 2017

First Daughter and the Black Snake

The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona LaDuke, the “black snake” is oil trains and pipelines. When she learns that Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a new pipeline through her tribe’s 1855 Treaty land, she and her community spring into action to save the sacred wild rice lakes and preserve their traditional indigenous way of life. Launching an annual spiritual horse ride along the proposed pipeline route, speaking at community meetings and regulatory hearings. Winona testifies that the pipeline route follows one of historical and present-day trauma. The tribe participates in the pipeline permitting process, asserting their treaty rights to protect their natural resources. LaDuke joins with her tribe and others to demand that the pipelines’ impact on tribal people’s resources be considered in the permitting process.

Seed: The Untold Story
1h 34m
Movie 2016

Seed: The Untold Story

A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.

Standing on Sacred Ground
TV Show 2014

Standing on Sacred Ground

Indigenous people resist government mega-projects, consumer culture, competing religions, resource extraction and climate change in this four-part documentary series. In the US and around the world, native communities share ecological wisdom and spiritual reverence while battling a utilitarian view of land.

Broken Rainbow
1h 10m
Movie 1985

Broken Rainbow

Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

Biography

Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, and was a two-time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party.

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