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Winona LaDuke (born August 18, 1959) is an American environmentalist, economist, and writer, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development. In 1996 and 2000, she ran for Vice President as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader.

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We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.

Aquifers, Lakes, Land, Rice, Roots

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible. . . You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.

Believe, Change, Fighting, Possible, Win

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

Ancestor, Ancestors, Descendants, Let, Thank

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

Giving, Keep, Long, Struggle

Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.

Fire, Individuals, People, Proceed, Two

To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world. . . whether its technological system is capitalist or communist. . . and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.

Communist, Firsts, Host, Land, World

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

Commodity, Crashing, Ecosystems, May, Time, World

Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities‚ but the White Earth reservation villages‚ and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake‚ Ponemah‚ Brookston in Minnesota‚ and Manderson‚ Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.

Community, Lakes, Mandaree, Mean, Native, White

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

Children, Man, Men, Money, White, White Man

Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

Australia, Fighting, Indigenous, Percent, Uranium Mining

I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.

Challenges, Depth, Feminist, Original, Patriarchy, Thinking

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

Generation, Generations, Our Actions, Seventh, Today

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

Beneath, Environmental, Generations, Past, Seven

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

Addiction, Energy, Food, Fuel, Jobs, Local

It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.

Daughter, Daughters, Mother, Predator, Security, Women

Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.

Earth, Inspirational, People, Power

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Based, Earth, Form, Life, Support

The only compensation for land is land.

Compensation, Land

Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.

Ancestors, Based, Prayer, Struggle, Whispers, Years

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

Animal, Mother, Oil, See, Taken

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