{"id":7808,"date":"2014-09-12T16:27:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T21:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2021-06-12T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:14:01","slug":"winona-laduke-at-uws3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/09\/12\/winona-laduke-at-uws3\/","title":{"rendered":"Winona LaDuke at UWS3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winona LaDuke&#8217;s talk (at <a href=\"http:\/\/skies.mtroyal.ca\/\">Under Western Skies 3<\/a>) was, as always, powerful and empowering. Here are some quoteworthy lines from it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve lived my entire life in the fossil fuel era. I&#8217;d like a graceful exit out of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;I want to be able to walk out of my teepee into a Tesla.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;Addicts are a total drag on the family. They deny things, they rationalize, lie to you, make stuff up.&#8221; (Now I&#8217;m paraphrasing.) As a society, that&#8217;s where we are. Extreme extraction &#8212; Tar Sands, mountaintop removal, fracking (or &#8220;death by lethal injection&#8221;) &#8212; are forms of total addiction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;We [people like those in the audience] are all really smart and we shop. But we don&#8217;t know how to do anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s she&#8217;s citing John Trudell (I think?): &#8220;White people don&#8217;t feel oppressed, but they feel powerless. Indians feel oppressed, but don&#8217;t feel powerless.&#8221; LaDuke urges us to own our own power; don&#8217;t give it away.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video Winona shared at the beginning of her talk, which contextualizes her work with her own community in Minnesota in current petro\/pipeline politics:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1v6_1DLth9U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And she highly recommends Fractivist.org, with its <a href=\"http:\/\/fractivist.blogspot.ca\/p\/extreme-hydrocarbon-survey.html\">Extreme Hydrocarbon Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More of her quotes can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lovewaternotoil\">#LoveWaterNotOil<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winona LaDuke&#8217;s talk (at Under Western Skies 3) was, as always, powerful and empowering. Here are some quoteworthy lines from it. &#8220;I&#8217;ve lived my entire life in the fossil fuel era. I&#8217;d like a graceful exit out of it.&#8221; &#8220;I want to be able to walk out of my teepee into a Tesla.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[399,454990,4448,16860,123530,123518,123529],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-climate-justice","tag-decolonization","tag-ecopolitics","tag-indigenous","tag-petropolitics","tag-under-western-skies","tag-winona-laduke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-21W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7782,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/09\/11\/offshore\/","url_meta":{"origin":7808,"position":0},"title":"Offshore","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been enjoying Under Western Skies 3: Environments, Technologies, Communities, which has featured a wonderful array of critical environmental theorists and practitioners -- including among its keynotes Justice Thomas Berger (whose 1978-8 Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry Report\u00a0was a classic of environmental legal innovation), the indigenous activist group Idle No More,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media ecology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media ecology","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/media_ecology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Offshore","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2014\/09\/Offshore-275x153.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7767,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/08\/27\/under-western-skies-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":7808,"position":1},"title":"Under Western Skies 3","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"August 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The preliminary program is up for the third\u00a0Under Western Skies conference, \"Intersections of Environments, Technologies, Communities,\" which will be held in a couple of weeks at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. 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