What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time. -Winona LaDuke Patience
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships. -Winona LaDuke Food
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time. -Winona LaDuke Strength
I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to. -Winona LaDuke Cool
In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. -Winona LaDuke Power
In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. -Winona LaDuke Government
