Minobimaatisiiwin - the good life | Winona LaDuke | TEDxSitka

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Winona LaDuke draws on her experience as a leading Native-American activist in her talk about indigenous economic thinking for the 7th generation.
Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservations, and is the mother of three children. She is also the Executive Director of Honor the Earth, where she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. Author of now six books, including The Militarization of Indian Country (2011), Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming (2005), the non-fiction book All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999, South End Press), and a novel - Last Standing Woman (1997, Voyager Press). She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and serves, as co-chair of the Indigenous Women’s Network, a North American and Pacific indigenous women’s organization. In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time magazine as one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age, and in 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth.
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[@LISALOVEWINS]

A TRUE PROPHETIC WARRIOR, THANK YOU WINONA LADUKE

[@leyniaLip]

Winona tells the truth, with brilliance.

[@priscillawagner8520]

She is so bright and is shining her light on the right path! 🌼❤️🙌

[@thommyers3080]

What a very deeply insightful, intelligent and powerful indigenous Woman. It brings tears of gratitude to hear such a voice of and from Mother Earth. I have been going to Ojibwa Sweat Lodges and recognize we all need to listen to Women like her and Indigenous men too to get ready for what is coming and its coming sooner than i thought. Miigwich

[@ravennelson827]

In an insane world we must be the balance and speakout ,know reality from the illusion. plan your path, know your center, be the calm in the chaos...Whispering Raven

[@laurabartoletti6412]

💙 Winona !! I hope more people realize WE really do have an affect on the Earth & the Earth really needs people to NOT destroy & kill the environment. 🦅👣🍀🐾🪶

[@emil.jansson]

Go Winona Go Go!!!

[@jennyparry8398]

Shes absolutely beautiful & brilliant thinking! ❤✌Cattaragus Territory Seneca Nation

[@ureawanker]

Perfectly stated... We must overcome.

[@nakotaridge8749]

I Honour you girl😍🤗😊💖

[@cynthialangley7338]

Winona for president!

[@Littlebird50]

In 2000 I voted for her.

[@karendiliddo8825]

I'd vote for her.

[@maddygates9566]

Wonderful news & fantastic talk. Thank u so very much for explaining what I all r doing. Bravo young lady.♾️

[@Creativehealing444]

Wow! Thank you ❤️

[@_cianna_8628]

miigwech, Winona! whenever i need some hope for the future and a reason to keep fighting for our earth, i come back to this speech

[@emil.jansson]

Very moving!

[@vylergizhigaat2902]

Sending love

[@ngataahi]

Rawake te whakaaro o Winona LaDuke.

[@ellanina801]

Checked out the site, filled out some forms. Save the wetlands,for sure! I’ve been preaching that lately, so I’m glad we are speaking the same stuff. Much love!

[@heatherhuotari8695]

Love her

[@meb2126]

❤🕊🌳🌍

[@debrapaulino918]

💯❤️

[@johanneskiessling4085]

One question: Winona was quite excited about a Tesla - as I was when I first heard of it. But then I considered the huge carbon footprint of the production of the batteries not to mention the extraction of raw materials needed - mostly in the neocolonial manner from e.g. Congo and other countries. So it appears far from perfect in my eyes. Still mostly on the "scorched path".

[@wendyalisonnora5956]

The extraction of the minerals does not have to be done in the neocolonial manner, but that would require establishing principles of economic justice.

[@maddygates9566]

I agree Johannes 💯

[@cathymorrison4953]

🥰🧡🇨🇦

[@susanavilez9302]

It's not just T2 Diabetes we have to worry about, there is congenital / genetic Sucrose- Isomaltose Deficiency (CSID) that impacts Natives, but most haven't been diagnosed, GMOs are terrible for the body.

[@utekrause8334]

Awesome

[@PeggyJame]

No more fossil fuels

[@MizzKeamz]

I like her a lot. She’s very attractive

[@debrapaulino918]

Ban disposable plastics.

[@benjaminblevins1882]

Copper, Lithium, Silver- the metals and minerals come from Sacred lands. Solar is not the answer

[@emil.jansson]

We have had a blast with fossil fuel🤫