Winona LaDuke to visit OSU

Monday, November 2, 2009

(STILLWATER, Okla., November 2, 2009) – Winona LaDuke, author, activist, and former Vice-Presidential candidate, will be speaking at Oklahoma State University on Wednesday, November 4 at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.

LaDuke is an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservation. She is Founding Director for White Earth Land Recovery Project which works to facilitate recovery of the community’s original land base, while preserving and restoring traditional practices of sound land stewardship, language fluency, community development, spiritual and cultural heritage.

LaDuke’s lecture, “Moving Toward a Multicultural Democracy,” will focus on the historical and religious aspects of Native forms of governance and how these are included and excluded from the U.S. constitution and freedoms afforded to other populations.  This lecture will kick off a series of events at OSU celebrating the month of November as Native American Heritage Month.

The program is sponsored by the Division of Institutional Diversity, the Oklahoma Humanities Council, OSU-National Organization of Women, Women’s Resource Center Student Alliance, and Native American Student Association.

For more information on Winona LaDuke’s lecture, e-mail Jen Macken at jen.macken@okstate.edu or visit http://www.womensprograms.okstate.edu/.