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While I was introduced as an activist, I consider myself more a concerned parent. To be a mother in this day and age, you have to be concerned with a wide array of issues.
Speech (1999)
Rarely is there money in the federal bureaucracy for the cultural and environmental needs of the Natives. I find it ironic however, that federal monies always miraculously appear to study and develop coal strip miners, uranium mines and nuclear waste dumps on Reservations.
No sane person supports this pipeline. Only people who want to take oil money from Canadian multinationals support this pipeline.
Interview with Democracy Now (2021)
The largest party in America: the more than 50% of the American electorate who don't vote
Reflections on the Republic of Dubya (2001)
Social movements and lawyers are who stop pipelines. Social movements and lawyers.
Interview with Democracy Now (2018)
Within a decade of the completion of the La Grande Complex, signs of environmental disasters have become obvious. Massive flooding had once again leached methyl Mercury from the soil, changing an inorganic Mercury compound in the water into organic mercury.
LaDuke (2015)
What we need is a New Deal that builds infrastructure for people, not for oil companies. As I said, $7 billion that is for an oil company pipeline, that could be spent much better.
Interview with Democracy Now (2018)
There is this saying in Indian country that I think is true, which is that, a long time ago, when the white people came, the Indians had the land and the white people had the Bibles. And now the Indians have the Bibles and the white people have the land.
Speech at UW Madison (2001)
George W Bush is definitely the worse of two evils, to use the vernacular of the Green Party. Few of us thought it possible for him to be in office today, and we are still stunned.
Reflections on the Republic of Dubya (2001)
I will argue that native societies' knowledge surpasses the scientific and social knowledge of the dominant society in its ability to provide information and a management style for environmental planning. Frankly, these native societies have existed as the only example of sustainable living in North America for more than 300 years.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Futures (1994)
The Catholic Church was one of the architects of colonialism as we have come to know it today, because it provided the philosophical and religious underpinnings through which colonialism could continue and be justified in the eyes of God.
Speech at UW Madison (2001)
Consumption causes the commodification of the sacred, the natural world, cultures, children, and women. And unless we speak and take meaningful action to address the high levels of consumption, we will never have any security for our individual human rights as women.
Speech at NGO Forum (1995)
I didn’t really like this economy too much. Didn’t work out too well for my people, you know.
Interview with Democracy Now (2018)
The preamble to the U.S. Constitution declares its intent to be to "secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves, and our posterity." In reality, U.S. laws have been transformed by corporate interests to cater to elite interests in society.