Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
At 18, Winona Laduke became the youngest person to speak to the United Nations about American Indian concerns. Graduated from Harvard in economics. She realized that the problems afflicting native nations were not endemic to the people but the result of centuries of governmental exploitation, abuse and poor policies. After graduation, LaDuke moved to the White Earth reservation. She started working as the high school’s principal while completing a long-distance MA in Community Economic Development.
When, in 1989, a treaty lawsuit to recover lands promised in 1867 was dismissed, LaDuke founded White Earth Land Recovery Project, which focuses on the recovery, preservation and restoration of both land and traditional practices, with the aim to strengthen spiritual and cultural heritage of the Anishinaabeg people.
In the late 1990s, LaDuke started farming on White Earth and other tribal land. In the last twenty years, part of her work has focused on campaigning against the introduction of genetically modified rice on native land, as well on the construction of several pipelines. She was an important coordinator at Standing Rock, where in 2017, the Sioux Tribe and supporters fought to protect the tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline.
In early November 2017, she is raising funds to buy land on which she aims to create a hemp and heritage food farm in order to create local wealth and train young people in farming indigenous food.
She has started Winona's Hemp & Heritage Farm winonashemp.com
To create an Indigenous women-led regenerative economy that is kind to the Earth.
We grow with love. Winona’s Hemp wants to change how we relate to the natural world, our Mother Earth. We are going to do this through restorative
agriculture, based on Anishinaabe knowledge and an integrated farming program with as little fossil fuels as possible. We are going to grow organic hemp fiber, food and construction products.
For most of my life I have been farming. That’s to say that I have grown
heritage corn, beans, squash, potatoes, tobacco and some other cool stuff. We love our plants, and they do well. My father once told me that he did not want to hear my philosophy if I could not grow corn. He was a wise man. So I grow corn.
Since 2018, we have been growing industrial hemp under permits with the state of Minnesota. Those permits insure that our hemp is below .3 percent THC, and is inspected annually by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. We work, omaa akiing, here in the land to which the Anishinaabeg belong, the lands of the l855 treaty territories and the lands of our ancestors.
We are about the next economy; we call it the Eighth Fire, or oshki
bimaatisiiwin. We are Native owned, organic hemp fiber and product producers located in northern Minnesota.
We are interested in creating textiles for the people and the planet. Those
textiles will be primarily hemp. We want to grow hemp because, the plant heals, and the textiles made from hemp are gentle to the Earth.
We are moving forward towards a green future.
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View Original Show on YouTube:
Why we should get on a biodiverse, greener path | Winona LaDuke | Flow Talks
youtu.be/H17HeOENElc
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I Walk In Beauty - Walkin’ Jim Stoltz - Song With Beautiful Nature Photos
Recorded live - Forever Wild Concert. Mastered in HD - High Definition - with the original digital images. Final song of Jim's Forever Wild Concert.
Walkin' Jim Stoltz, wilderness songster and long-distance hiker.
youtu.be/gHwEbmAbMKg
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Tags: Environment, Planet, Economy, Sustainability, Healing, People, Indigenous, Textile, United States, Native American, Agriculture, Farming, Activism, Recovery, Preservation, Restoration,
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YouTube
youtu.be/l5g3kfzsfWE
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Also, this show is available for local public TV stations to broadcast.
Phone your local public TV station (LPTV) to request they broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format, HD or SD, from www.PEGMedia.org . This film is available for broadcast from any LPTV station in the country - and world. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact us for instructions.
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Website & LinksWinona LaDuke Websites:
winonaladuke.com
winonashemp.com
Facebook: facebook.com/668299769
Twitter: twitter.com/WinonaLaduke
Flow Kana - About
flowkana.com/about
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At 18, Winona Laduke became the youngest person to speak to the United Nations about American Indian concerns. Graduated from Harvard in economics. She realized that the problems afflicting native nations were not endemic to the people but the result of centuries of governmental exploitation, abuse and poor policies. After graduation, LaDuke moved to the White Earth reservation. She started working as the high school’s principal while completing a long-distance MA in Community Economic Development.
When, in 1989, a treaty lawsuit to recover lands promised in 1867 was dismissed, LaDuke founded White Earth Land Recovery Project, which focuses on the recovery, preservation and restoration of both land and traditional practices, with the aim to strengthen spiritual and cultural heritage of the Anishinaabeg people.
In the late 1990s, LaDuke started farming on White Earth and other tribal land. In the last twenty years, part of her work has focused on campaigning against the introduction of genetically modified rice on native land, as well on the construction of several pipelines. She was an important coordinator at Standing Rock, where in 2017, the Sioux Tribe and supporters fought to protect the tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline.
In early November 2017, she is raising funds to buy land on which she aims to create a hemp and heritage food farm in order to create local wealth and train young people in farming indigenous food.
She has started Winona's Hemp & Heritage Farm winonashemp.com
To create an Indigenous women-led regenerative economy that is kind to the Earth.
We grow with love. Winona’s Hemp wants to change how we relate to the natural world, our Mother Earth. We are going to do this through restorative
agriculture, based on Anishinaabe knowledge and an integrated farming program with as little fossil fuels as possible. We are going to grow organic hemp fiber, food and construction products.
For most of my life I have been farming. That’s to say that I have grown
heritage corn, beans, squash, potatoes, tobacco and some other cool stuff. We love our plants, and they do well. My father once told me that he did not want to hear my philosophy if I could not grow corn. He was a wise man. So I grow corn.
Since 2018, we have been growing industrial hemp under permits with the state of Minnesota. Those permits insure that our hemp is below .3 percent THC, and is inspected annually by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. We work, omaa akiing, here in the land to which the Anishinaabeg belong, the lands of the l855 treaty territories and the lands of our ancestors.
We are about the next economy; we call it the Eighth Fire, or oshki
bimaatisiiwin. We are Native owned, organic hemp fiber and product producers located in northern Minnesota.
We are interested in creating textiles for the people and the planet. Those
textiles will be primarily hemp. We want to grow hemp because, the plant heals, and the textiles made from hemp are gentle to the Earth.
We are moving forward towards a green future.
--
View Original Show on YouTube:
Why we should get on a biodiverse, greener path | Winona LaDuke | Flow Talks
youtu.be/H17HeOENElc
--
I Walk In Beauty - Walkin’ Jim Stoltz - Song With Beautiful Nature Photos
Recorded live - Forever Wild Concert. Mastered in HD - High Definition - with the original digital images. Final song of Jim's Forever Wild Concert.
Walkin' Jim Stoltz, wilderness songster and long-distance hiker.
youtu.be/gHwEbmAbMKg
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Tags: Environment, Planet, Economy, Sustainability, Healing, People, Indigenous, Textile, United States, Native American, Agriculture, Farming, Activism, Recovery, Preservation, Restoration,
--
YouTube
youtu.be/l5g3kfzsfWE
--
Also, this show is available for local public TV stations to broadcast.
Phone your local public TV station (LPTV) to request they broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format, HD or SD, from www.PEGMedia.org . This film is available for broadcast from any LPTV station in the country - and world. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact us for instructions.
--
Website & LinksWinona LaDuke Websites:
winonaladuke.com
winonashemp.com
Facebook: facebook.com/668299769
Twitter: twitter.com/WinonaLaduke
Flow Kana - About
flowkana.com/about
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