Claiming Land and Life: Native People's Rights by Guest Speaker Winona LaDuke at Nassau Community College

Location: The College Center Building at Nassau Community College

Month committee will host Native American activist Winona LaDuke for a discussion about Native People's rights and environmental issues. LaDuke has used her writings to bring national attention to Native American and environmental issues. She is currently the program director of Honor the Earth, an organization that funds activism for Native People. Before that, she was the founding director of White Earth Land Recovery Project, which is one of the largest reservation non-profits in the country. She was also principal of the high school on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota.

LaDuke is a graduate of Harvard University and a former vice-presidential candidate, who ran for the Green party with Ralph Nader, in 1996 and 2000.  She is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe or Chippewa) Native American and was raised in Oregon. She was nominated, in 1994, by "Time" magazine as one of America's 50 most promising leaders under age 40. In addition, she was inducted into the Women's National Hall of Fame in 2007.