This is the full interview with Winona LaDuke from the episode The Future of Energy is Indigenous (and it won’t involve pipelines!)

Winona LaDuke is the Director of Honor the Earth, a platform she co-founded with the Indigo Girls. LaDuke is a resident of the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota, where she’s the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation based non profit organizations in the country, and a leader in the issues of culturally based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy and food systems. She breaks down what a just transition from a fossil fuel economy looks like with indigenous people leading the way.

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