Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe woman) enrolled member of the Mississippi band of Ashinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Indian Reservation and is the mother of three children. Winona founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project in 1989 and served as its executive director for 25 years. She also cofounded Honor the Earth, where she worked on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline Native environmental groups.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, Winona has written extensively on Native American and Environmental issues. She is the author of six books including The Militarization of Indian Country (2011), Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (2005), The non-fiction book All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999, South End Press), and a novel –Last Standing Woman (1997, Voyager Press).