Winona LaDuke

1 month ago | resilience.org | Winona LaDuke |Barn Raiser

This story was originally published by Barn Raiser, your independent source for rural and small town news. Greenpeace and the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline square off in court. It’s been eight years since the water protectors were cleared off the banks of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers. It was a bitter ending to a battle to protect the water at Standing Rock, and for most of us water protectors, we have not seen a lot of justice, particularly in North Dakota.

1 month ago | inforum.com | Winona LaDuke

There’s a battle going on over who controls the local economy. It’s been that way for a long time. If there’s a buck to be made, someone from somewhere else will try to come and make that money in your community. Just ask an Ojibwe; we’ve seen it all. These days up north, it’s less bloody, and there are fewer guns and smallpox blankets, or sheriff’s trucks. But for all of us, today it’s mostly about big business coming to town. The Park Rapids Ben Franklin is one of my favorite stores.

1 month ago | barnraisingmedia.com | Gwen Frisbie-Fulton |Winona LaDuke

What she and her children put into those first pots grew, but so did Courtney’s understanding of food, food systems and politics. Fast forward to today, this is how she and a group of neighbors ended up at New Mexico’s State Capitol building in Santa Fe with folders of policy memos under their arms. Courtney taught herself about gardening the way many of us now learn things: the internet.

1 month ago | thecirclenews.org | Winona LaDuke

By Winona LaDukeIn celebration of this America’s President’s Day, I would like to offer a story of a great chief and leader of the Anishinaabe, Shagobay, who met U.S. presidents, negotiated treaties, and kept peace. Shagobay was considered a Manidoo (a spirit ), evidenced perhaps in part by his longevity. Born on the Knife River,  he signed the Treaty of Prairie du Chien in 1825when he would have been around 20 years old.

1 month ago | thecirclenews.org | Winona LaDuke

By Winona LaDukeIt’s eight years since Highway 1804 and the Missouri River were cleared of Water Protectors, yet the story continues. It’s an ongoing story of the future of the water and the land, and lawyers and trials. In the past few months, we’ve seen renewed media on Standing Rock, outright fake newspapers and messaging that seems intended to create a new narrative prior to the jury trial in Mandan of Energy Transfer Partners v. Greenpeace.