Winona LaDuke (1959 - ) is a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer. Within 1996 and 2000, she ran for election to the professional of Vice President of the United States as the campaigner of the United States Green Party, on the ticket headed by Ralph Nader.

LaDuke was innate inside Los Angeles, California to Vincent and Betty LaDuke. Her father was an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe or "Chippewa") from an Indian reservation of Minnesota. He was reportedly an actor with supporting roles in Western movies, an activist and a writer. Her mother was the Jewish artist, employed as an art professor at the Southern Oregon University.

Winona was raised on the west coast of the United States, however when graduating from either Harvard in 1982 with the degree inside native economic development, she accepted a job when principal of the senior high school of the White Globe Ojibwe reservation around Minnesota. She shortly became an militant, required in the struggle to recuperate lands promised to the Ojibwe by the 1867 treaty. She helped a Ojibwe repurchase hundreds to thousands of acres of hereditary land.

LaDuke was known as Woman of the Season by Ms. Magazine in 1997 and won the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1998. She is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project in Minnesota, the Indigenous Women's Network, and the Honor the Earth Fund.

LaDuke is the creator of the novel Previous Standing Woman (1997), and a non-nonfictional prose book A lot my Relations: Indigen Struggles for L& and Life (1999).

She appeared in the Documentary film Anthem, directed by Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn. A film was foremost freed in the United States on July 25, 1997. Two directors were awarded per 1997 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. Winona too appeared in the TV infotainment The Main Stream, first freed in December 17, 2002. A film was directed by Roger Weisberg who is better known for winning the 2002 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject as director of Why Can't We Be a Family Again?.

LaDuke appeared as an actor in the film Skins, first freed in January 14, 2002. A film depicted a problems of unemployment, alcoholism and domestic violence within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation through the eyes of two Lakota Sioux Native American brothers. A independent fictional characters were police detective Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig) and his brother Mogie Yellow Lodge ( Graham Greene) the latter with an apparent tendency toward self-destruction. Winona played secondary character Rose 2 Buffalo. A film was awarded a 2003 Prism Award. Graham Green won a Better Actor Award of the 2002 Tokyo International Film Festival and was nominated for a Right Male Lead award in the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards.

In the 2004 primary, LaDuke endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. She late endorsed John Kerry for president in the general election.

LaDuke is the mother of triplet.

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"There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals." "We don't want a bigger piece of the pie. We want a different pie."

Resources
Montgomery, Alicia. "[http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/07/13/laduke/index.html Nader's No. 2]" (July 13, 2000). Salon.com. Walljasper, Jay. "[http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/01/laduke.html Celebrating Hellraisers: Winona LaDuke]" (January/February 1996). Mother Jones magazine.