Winona LaDuke was born on August 18, 1959 to a father that was also native of the Ojibwa people from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota and to a Russian Jewish mother who they both were activists as well. Although her parents separated at an early age, Winona would follow in her father’s footsteps as an activist, as he would instill in her the story of her people and the importance of preserving …show more content…
The very same pipeline that would run through her home of The White Earth reservation. She has argued about the way that the pipeline would not only disrupt the land on which she and her community live but also how it could possibly impact the environment, and destroy what the Anishinabek and Lakota people would try to protect. The pipeline is constructed in a way for tar sands (sand that has oil within it) to be transported from Alberta Canada to Texas for refinery’s. In 2013 she and a group of other tribe’s people