"The easiest way to stop the carbon buildup is to quit burning fossil fuels, move to efficiency, green building and renewables. ... Instead of the common sense approach, there’s an even more crazy idea now, an awfully expensive set of experimental technologies ..” Photo by We Are Brandon and Fiona Opinion by Winona LaDuke June 01, 2022 10:58 AM We are part of The Trust Project. We humans are making too much carbon. Yup it’s us. The percentage of carbon in the air is at about 400 parts per million; carbon is what causes catastrophic storms, facilitates the movement of crazy insects, and b ..read more

Winona LaDuke receives the 2022 “Mother Earth Award (Lady of Agriculture) Award” for her Expanding Entrepreneurial Hemp Operations on the White Earth Reservation and Elsewhere Here is Mary Jane Oatman, THC Magazine, received the award on our behalf and we are so grateful for the acknowledgement for all of our work ! “ …This award is to honor a woman whose entrepreneurial spirit has ushered a new era of business leaders through her skills and execution in agriculture. She is a visionary who has cultivated relationships through education, inclusivity, and collaboration. Her determination and de ..read more

Jane Fonda Talks Cannabis, Is Hot On Hemp For The U.S. An exclusive interview with the cross-generational icon Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda talks cannabis: “Needless to say, I have smoked pot in my life,” An exclusive interview with the cross-generational icon Jane Fonda by Javier Hasse Senior Contributor Vices: A column about cannabis, hemp, CBD and psychedelics. A New Found Love For PotThe evolution of cannabis science and the increasing variety of intake methods available has opened up a whole new world of possibility for cannabis consumers. People can now select the right varieties and ..read more

Artwork by Sarah LittleRedfeather Design. Products coming soon with this design. New Green Revolution: Pre Party - Farm Day at Winona's Hemp on May 8th. Here is the New Green Revolution. Roman, Alex White Plume, Winona and George. This was a historic day for Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm. Standing in front of the new hempcrete green house at Anishinaabe Agriculture Farm. Photo by Keri Pickett Mid May’s New Green Revolution Pre Party went well. Alex White Plume, known as the “Hemperer” took a road trip with grandson Mato White Plume to rural Osage. Alex White Plume’s work in hemp restorat ..read more

Tribes Revive Traditional Hemp Economies A post-petroleum transition plan. BY WINONA LADUKE More than 20 years ago, Alex White Plume, a leader of the Oglala Lakota, planted his first hemp crop on Wounded Knee Creek, on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. I call White Plume “the Hemperer.” He’s considered to be one of the grandfathers of the cannabis economy for Native people. Like John Trudell, the great Dakota philosopher and musician, White Plume always said, “Hemp is the way.”  But in 2000, Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the reservation ..read more

Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned environmentalist, economist, author, and industrial hemp grower. She is executive director of Honor The Earth and founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project and is known for her work on tribal land claims and sustainable tribal economies. She is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg of the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. In 1996 and 2000, she was the Green Party’s vice presidential candidate. Her books include Last Standing Woman, All Our Relations and In the Sugarbush. LaDuke is a YES! con ..read more

“Jane Fonda is a SHERO” — Winona LadukeJane Fonda Knows She Isn't Chill "I'm pretty intense." By Samantha Simon Sep 10, 2020 @ 9:00 am “A friend of mine, an indigenous leader named Winona LaDuke, is trying to make hemp a major part of the American materials production.” - Jane Fonda “ It was a big deal early on—many of our founding fathers used it. Henry Ford even built a car out of hemp! It ran on hemp oil too.” Photo by Sarah LittleRedfeather Like many of us, Jane Fonda has spent the past few months adapting to a new normal. And although she may be spending more time at home than ever befor ..read more

Watch online: Building Indigenous Food Sovereignty in 14 First Nations in Northern Superior region By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY— Indigenous rural development economist Winona LaDuke spoke about heading to the sugar bush when the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic hit during the Building Indigenous Food Sovereignty virtual meeting on Sept. 16. The Building Indigenous Food Sovereignty in and around Anishinawbewi Gitchi-Gami and Animbiigo Zaagiigam meeting was held via Zoom by the Thunder Bay District Health Unit and the Indigenous Food Circle, which works with 14 First Nations in the T ..read more

“Hemp can do almost everything petroleum can do,” Winona LaDuke said, “including replacing some cotton and plastics.” "It's time to create the next world... it's going to be local, organic, renewable, regenerative and lovely.. The birth will be a bit challenging but now is the time... she's ready... A new world is being born,, and you can hear her breathing..." Winona LaDuke DAVID JOLES The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission met to consider alternative routes on the proposed Sandpiper pipeline across northern Minnesota to carry Bakken oil, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, in St. Paul. Here, anti-p ..read more

2020 Indigenous Hemp Conference gathers industry leaders by Lynn Mizner University of Minnesota and Minnesota Department of Agriculture researchers and tribal leaders from more than a dozen tribes around the country met in early March at Maplelag Resort in Calloway for the third annual Indigenous Hemp Conference. The conference is part of the Indigenous Farming Conference, initiated by The Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute at White Earth. In a keynote address, Winona LaDuke talked about the history of hemp in the U.S., and the potential for it to form the basis of a new, green economy. She s ..read more