The Liberal Arts Forum hosts the internationally prominent activist at Elon to talk about religion, culture, and identity in current day America.
Winona LaDuke, “Creating a Multi-Cultural Democracy“
McKinnon Hall, Moseley Center, 7:30 p.m.
Admission is free, no ticket required.
Winona LaDuke is an internationally prominent activist who is widely recognized for her work on environmental and human rights issues. As program director for Honor the Earth, she works on behalf of indigenous communities on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, food systems and environmental justice.
For more than 40 years, she has maintained an insistent presence and upheld the importance of Native people and their cultures. Her visit to Elon will provide students an important introduction to the realities of Native political and cultural sovereignty as real, legitimate forces in our democracy.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and is presently an advisory board member for the Trust for Public Lands Native Lands Program as well as a boardmember of the Christiansen Fund. She is the author of five books including “Recovering the Sacred,” “All Our Relations,” and a novel, “Last Standing Woman.”