November 7, 2003

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
Winona LaDuke To Lecture For Native American Awareness Month

The Boise State University Cultural Center, along with the Women of Color Alliance and Intertribal Native Council, welcomes activist Winona LaDuke to campus as part of Native American Awareness Month. LaDuke will deliver a lecture at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 24, in the Jordan Ballroom. Tickets are $10 general and $5 for students at the door. LaDuke, a member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe), lives and works on the White Earth Reservation. As program officer of Honor the Earth, she works to leverage financial, political and other resources to support grassroots organizations throughout the Americas and has worked to coordinate three national concert tours to raise funds for environmental causes. In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by Time Magazine as one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under age 40. She has received the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Thomas Merton Award and the Ann Bancroft Award. She is a former board member of Green Peace USA and serves as a co-chair of the Indigenous Women’s Network. She has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. Her books include Last Standing Women, All Our Relations, In the Sugar Bush, and The Winona LaDuke Reader. -30- Contact Ro Parker Cultural Center Coordinator 208 426-4317 Media Contacts Kathleen Craven communications and marketing 208 426-3275 Angela Jones communications and marketing 208 426-3196