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Writer, activist and political leader Winona LaDuke will speak at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, at the Whiteside Theatre, 361 S.W. Madison Ave., Corvallis.

Her talk, "Native Rights and the Rights of Nature: An Agenda for the New President," will address the interrelated issues of energy, food sovereignty and native rights. It will offer ideas about what the new president and Congress can do to support the rights of Native Americans, address climate justice and move the U.S. toward a sustainable, post-carbon economy.

LaDuke's visit is sponsored by Oregon State University’s Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word; the OSU Office of Sustainability; the OSU Office of Diversity and Cultural Engagement and the OSU Native American Longhouse/Eena Haws. The talk is free and open to the public.

An enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg, she lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate. As executive director of Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with indigenous communities.

She founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation-based nonprofit organizations in the country.

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