Professor lends experience
By Jen Ellison
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Visiting professor Winona LaDuke. a mem
tier qf the Mississippi band of the Anishinaabe.
didn't know what it was like to live with her trito
until she was 23.
Desiring some connection to her trito. toDuke
decided to move to the reservation to help foi e
pressing environmental and economic issues after
receiving her undergraduate education from Mar
vard University.
After It) years of living on the White Earth
Reservation in Minnesota. LaDuke has tocome
an internationally recognized supporter of indige
nous people's rights Her main fight, she said, is
to retrieve land stolen by white colonizers for the
tribes that live there
Growing up in Ashland. LaDuke said she nev
er felt encouraged to succeed or follow her
dreams. Her teachers didn’t subscribe to her |Hiht
icul beliefs that favored Native Americans and
their rights
"I think the people there were racist in their
attitudes," she said "1 had to get out of Oregon
III a way. I fell that Oregon didn't believe in me "
During her f irst year at Harvard. GiDukit heard
Native American speaker Jimmy Durham speak
on indigenous issues Durham worked for an
international arm of the American Indian Move
ment at the United Nations
"He said that there wasn't an Indian problem."
she said " There was a problem with the way the
United States and other countries treated and
related to native people."
Inspired bv this new argument. LaDuke inter
viewed him for the campus newspaper and
helped him research environmental issues sin h
as strip mining on reservations. She testified in
the first United Nations Non-Governmental Orga
nization conference on indigenous people in
1977.
After the conferem e. Native A merit ails from
across tlie country asked her to work on their
reservations, teaching them the effects of dam
aging environmental policies.
Empowered bv her experiences on the reser
vations. LaDuke continued her education to
receive a master’s degree at Antioch University
in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She studied commu
nity economic development before mov ing to the
reservation, the home of her father's people.
Since living there. LaDuke has tocome the pro
ject director for the White Earth Laud Recovery
Project, where slit; coordinates the development
of overall land acquisitions, negotiations and con
solidation programs for the White Earth Hand of
Chippewa Indians.
Since 1989, LaDuke has also served as presi
dent of the Indigenous Women’s Network, a con
tinental network of grass-roots indigenous women
organizers and community workers.
As the recipient of the Carlton Raymond and
Wilbert a Ripley Savage Professorship of Inter
national Relations and Peace, LaDuke will be
teaching at the University and giving talks
P*oto By Nitf*
Professor Winona LaDuka hopes to encourage
students to team about Indigenous cultures
throughout the term.
While .it the University. UiDuke will teai h two
courses in interniitional studies ''Indigenous
Human Rights'' and "Indigenous economics "
"Indigenous Human Rights'' will explore the
rights of indigenous people and the environ
mental anil economic < rises fas ing industrial
society. "Indigenous Economics." a graduate
course, will analyze development and underdo
velopment issues in native i ommunities.
Though the class has only met once this term,
students said they are already learning about
issues facing indigenous people.
"lxMs of the stuff that is hapjieiiing is still going
on." said senior Rob Cruz from the Tamo tribe
of Puerto Rico. "It opens people's eyes "
Other students said they apprei iale laiDuke s
experience.
"It's a nice change to learn from someone
that's had actual experience and struggle, said
Andy Harris, a political science major. "I'm
looking forward to learning more."
La Duke said she hopes that the knowledge
she shares with the University community will
grow into a better understanding of indigenous
peoples and their cultures.
"Most of what I learned came from listening
to people and observing them." she said "I
strongly encourage others to do the same."
Specialized creative
writing program buds
By Kaly Soto
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Ever fancy yourself a writer'
If \ou hove or even if you haven't, the Waller Kidd Tutorial Pro
gram tnaylw for you
The Kidd tutorial program is a writing workshop open to all under
graduates
Classes are modeled after similar programs at Harvard and The
Watts Writers Workshops t lass spar e is limited to three or four stu
dents The Creative Writing faculty and graduate students in i realise
writing tear It the t lasses
The Kidd Tutorial, which is named for University alumnus Walter
Kidd. Ilegan last year w ith four students and one sta tion This year
the program has been expanded to five sections l lie set.lions con
centrate on fii lion and poetry. hut the i urriculum v aries from six tion
It) section
Sue Dn kittan, u graduate student in creative writing, teai lies one
of the Kidd six turns Her i lass meets four hours a week, and during
the class students read and i ritupie eiu h Others work
Students .ire also required to studs an author of their < turn e and
lead the > lass in discussion about that author
Du kmnn said sin- finds a sense of i omimmity in her workshops
Itei ause they are so small. Du kliiaii said the esperiem e helped her
students to build trust
She got involved in the Kidd program hei anse she was interested
in tear lung, and thought the Kidd program w as an "ideal w as to read
and write
Although the program is open to all undergraduates, most of Du k
man's students are juniors and seniors This is Ihx ause students need
to have had the time to take lilt) and 2«Ml lev el i realive writing i ours
es. Du kman said
lli/al>eth (jirmit hael a (unior history major, agrees vvtill Du kman
'Because tin* classes are smaller, you get a lot of attention
( .iriim hael said It's a lug ego boost to have all these people sav
mg you i .in do it
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Kae I ee who r onv iin ed her that she should her mill' involved
Though the program meets lor Mur hours a week, Durum hael said
It doesn't feel like work
II you are interested in the Kidd Tutorial program, the applii a
tion process is in progress
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