Claiming Land and Life

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Immediate: March 10, 2011 Media Contact: Alicia Steger 516.572.9634 E-mail: alicia.steger@ncc.edu ncc.edu/newsreleases

Nassau Community College Presents Winona LaDuke  

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Garden City, NY – The Nassau Community College Women’s History Month Committee is proud to present activist and former vice-presidential candidate Winona LaDuke, who will discuss Claiming Land and Life: Native People’s Rights, on Monday, March 21 at 12:30 p.m. in the College Center Building.

Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe or “Chippewa”) Native American. She was raised in Oregon. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in rural economic development, LaDuke became principal of the high school on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota. She later received an MA in Community Economic Development from Antioch University. LaDuke worked for two decades on the land issues of the White Earth Reservation, including litigation over land rights in the 1980s. In addition, she is the program director of Honor the Earth (an organization that funds indigenous environmental activism) and founding director of White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation-based nonprofits in the country.

LaDuke has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. In 1996 and 2000, she ran for vice-president on the Green Party ticket with Ralph Nader. In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by Time magazine as one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. LaDuke has also been the recipient of many other honors.

For more information about Claiming Land and Life: Native People’s Rights, which is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled, call 516.572.9811.

About Nassau Community CollegeNassau Community College, a division of the State University of New York, is an institution where nearly 24,000 full- and part-time students and almost 15,000 continuing and professional students start and continue their successful journey through higher education. More than 70 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island. As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence.

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