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The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots... on the Banks of Wounded Knee Creek

On the banks of Wounded Knee Creek, a dream died in 1890 in a brutal massacre. Today, 110 years later, on that same creek, a dream was born. That’s the work that Alex White Plume, traditional leader and former tribal president of the Oglala Lakota, and his family began: the hemp economy. For this they faced […]

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Winona LaDuke: Return to Rice Lake

Anishinaabe celebration welcomes runners honoring — and protecting — the sacred manoomin

It’s Rice Lake Village on the White Earth Reservation – at the site of the mother lode of wild rice, Lower Rice Lake. Lew Murray stands in front of the gathering — about 200 or so people.

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Native hemp farming, opportunity to lead New Green Revolution

Academics join Winona LaDuke and other Indigenous innovators to forge carbon-friendly economy

This fall, when we bring in the sheaves, they will be of hemp. Then we’ll have a harvest hoedown to follow up.

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'Honor the Earth' vs. Enbridge Line 3 Oil Pipeline 

Hundreds rally to oppose project in northern Minnesota that threatens climate, native wild rice and pristine sacred waters

“This would be like ripping out the heart of the Anishinaabe people,” said Sarah LittleRedfeather, Anishinaabe graphic designer, referring to Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement tar sands oil pipeline. “To us, that water is life. It’s a being and a spirit.”

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