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The Friends of Wissatinnewag proudly present
An Evening with Native American Environmental Activist and Author
Winona LaDuke (Mississippi Band of Anishinaabe)
Monday, Oct. 8th, 2007 at 7 p.m. in Greenfield Community College's Sloan
Theatre. One College Drive, Greenfield, MA
Tickets are $10 in advance, available at World Eye Books in downtown
Greenfield $12 at the door, $8 for GCC students with college ID
Founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, co-chair of
the Indigenous Women's Network, and program director of Honor the Earth,
Winona LaDuke is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including
the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Thomas Merton Award, the Ann Bancroft
Award, the Global Green Award, and the International Slow Food Award for
her work to protect wild rice and local biodiversity. She served as
Ralph Nader's vice-presidential running mate on the Green Party ticket
in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections. She is the author of Last
Standing Woman, All Our Relations, In the Sugarbush, and The Winona
LaDuke Reader. Her most recent book is Recovering the Sacred: the Power
of Naming and Claiming (South End Press).
Winona LaDuke serves on the Advisory Council of The Friends of
Wissatinnewag, Inc.
Proceeds from this event benefit The Friends of Wissatinnewag, Inc., a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of Native
American sacred sites
This event is being co-sponsored by the GCC Social Sciences Department.
Directions
Greenfield Community College Main Campus is located near the
intersection of Interstate 91 and Route 2. Take exit 26 off I-91 in
Greenfield and follow the traffic rotary to Route 2 west. Once on Route
2, take an immediate right at the first traffic light onto Colrain Road.
GCC is located on College Drive six-tenths of a mile on the left.
Follow signs to parking lot F. Use the Sloan Theater entrance at the
left side of main building.
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