Professor lends experience By Jen Ellison CVcypo D&fy I fn&SkJ 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 *tv -'x- ( t\l V f •X'.hl 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 The program vv as introdiu ed to (or ill it hael liv it's dirtx tor t Inuig 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 ET ALS MM HM.S (ifMlualr Muitcnli ot ( ukw (imIiIhmi will imu** at 2 m at 14 14 Kimdul Si l-»»f IIHIfH Utlu/IUell 1011, l *»II I4»I Ii4tt Student Health ( enter CommilkW will mettl today at 1 Htp III m the M in Unit lUwith I enter mixlu al library Kor mow in forma tlttn. tel! i4li 444? 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