Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg and is the mother of three children. She is the Program Director of Honor the Earth and the Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1989, LaDuke received the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which, in part, she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, she was nominated by Time magazine as one of the country's 50 most promising leaders under age 40, and was also awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the Ann Bancroft Award, the 1997 Ms Woman of the Year Award (with the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers), the Global Green Award, and numerous other honors. LaDuke and the White Earth Land Recovery Project recently received the prestigious International Slow Food Award for their work protecting wild rice and local biodiversity. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. Her books include Last Standing Woman (fiction), All Our Relations (non-fiction), In the Sugarbush (children's non-fiction), and The Winona LaDuke Reader. Her most recent book is (South End Press). In both 1996 and 2000, LaDuke ran for Vice-President on the Green Party ticket with Ralph Nader.
