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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.

Winona LaDuke

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Winona LaDuke
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 18
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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.
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I find that I have more allies on the left than on the right, and that is because the left is, by and large, filled with people who are challenging the present paradigm and power structure. I’m interested in totally transforming the structure that exists now, because it is not sustainable.
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What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?
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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.
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Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.
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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.
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I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.
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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.
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There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.
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It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations.
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Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.
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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.
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Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.
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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.
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