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Heritage Month- Library Back by Winona LaDuke

Heritage Month- Library Back by Winona LaDuke

It’s just been the month when Native people are remembered. That’s nice. Now we want more, like we want to protect that Native heritage life-way and tell our stories to all. We also want to create a new history, one which is healing, restorative, and makes a better society and better world.

Native people are not in the past, we are in the present and we are in the future. Here’s a story we are making, it’s in Park Rapids, Minnesota and we can make this story together.

Giiwedinong, the new Treaty and Culture Museum will open this upcoming spring in downtown Park Rapids in the former Carnegie Library. In late October, we purchased the building, and hosted ceremonies at the former library, as our Native community organization, Akiing took possession of the building. Land Back that’s called, or Library Back in this case.

The Seventh Generation Amendment by Winona LaDuke

The Seventh Generation Amendment by Winona LaDuke

Indigenous peoples have a long history of representational democracy, consensus building, and sustainability- that is until the military, church and germ warfare leveled most of our villages and attempted to erase our history. Those teachings and some of those institutions, however remain. The Six Nations Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee have the longest standing representational democracy in the western hemisphere, a thousand or so years of working together.

LaDuke: Stop the Indian wars, and make new history

LaDuke: Stop the Indian wars, and make new history

I think it’s time to end the Indian Wars. It’s also time to understand that forensic facts, are not “critical race theory,” they are what happened. As school begins, let us ensure that history is taught, and that we make good choices today.

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