The mission of the White Earth Land Recovery Project is to facilitate recovery of the original land base of the White Earth Indian Reservation, while preserving and restoring traditional practices of sound land stewardship, language fluency, community development, and strengthening our spiritual and cultural heritage.
Tessa McLean, Anishinaabe
What happens when you’ve had enough of oil companies illegally passing pipelines through your tribal land? You practice self-determination and your sovereign rights to occupy that land. That is exactly what a group of Red Lake Tribal members are doing.
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ENVIRONMENTALIST – POLITICAL ACTIVIST – EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Winona LaDuke is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservation. She is a graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities and is the mother of three children. As an internationally renowned activist, she is working on issues of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems.
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. She works nationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with Indigenous communities.
In her own community, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation based nonprofit organizations in the country, and a leader in the issues of culturally based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy and food systems. The White Earth Land Recovery Project has won many awards- including the prestigious 2003 International Slow Food Award for Biodiversity, recognizing the organization’s work to protect wild rice from patenting and genetic engineering. In this work, she also continues national and international work to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering.
Winona’s editorials and essays have also been published numerous times in national and international journals and newspapers.
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), and a novel – Last Standing Woman (1997).
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Winona LaDuke and Zachary Paige- 2013
This first week of March, the tenth annual Great Lakes Indigenous farming Conference brought together a hundred and fifty Native American, organic farmers, college representatives, USDA representatives and students from tribal schools to continue work to restore Native foods on the White Earth reservation and beyond. The conference included hands on workshops on goat cheese making, and salve making as well as many presentations on seed saving, restoration of food systems, decolonizing our diets, tribal food policies, and organic agriculture systems.
From The Atlantic
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Writer: Gustave Axelson; Photographers: John Noltner and Blaine Moats
For centuries, the Minnesota Ojibwe have turned to the land to feed their families. Our story and recipes take you inside the traditional Ojibwe wild rice harvest.
