Winona LaDuke
Birthday: Born in 1959-08-18 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Deathday: Alive
Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, and was a two-time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party.
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Standing on Sacred Ground
Character: Self
Indigenous people resist government mega-projects, consumer culture, competing religions, resource extraction and climate change in this four-part documentary series. In the US and around the world, native communities share ecological wisdom and spiritual reverence while battling a utilitarian view of land....
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The Thunderbird Woman
Character: Self
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Broken Rainbow
Character: Self
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona....
Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All
Character: Self
An intimate look into the lives of one of the most iconic folk-rock bands in America - the Indigo Girls. With never-before-seen archival and intimate vérité the film dives into the songwriting and storytelling of the music that transformed a generation....
First Daughter and the Black Snake
Character: Herself
The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona LaDuke, the “black snake” is oil trains and pipelines. When she learns that Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a new pipeline through her tribe’s 1855 Treaty land, she and her community spring into action to save the sacred wild rice lakes and preserve their traditional indigenous way of life. Launching an annual spiritual horse ride along the proposed pipeline route, speaking at community me...
Anthem
Character: Self
When twenty-six-year-olds Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn quit their Hollywood jobs, packed up a borrowed car and hit the road, it was with the deeply felt conviction that somewhere, shrouded in the din of talk shows and tabloid headlines, they'd discover the real America, alive and well in all of its regions and demographics....
Seed: The Untold Story
Character: Self
A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world....