Winona LaDuke is one of the most brilliant and articulate representatives of indigenous perspectives. At the age of seventeen she spoke at the UN on behalf of Native Americans. She is a founding member of Women of All Red Nations and director of the Land Recovery Project on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. An inspiring speaker, she was the 1996 and 2000 vice-presidential candidate of the Green Party on the Nader/LaDuke ticket, the first Native American to run for national office. She is the author of Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (South End Press, 2005) and All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (South End Press, 2000).

LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg and the mother of three children. As Program Director of the Honor the Earth Fund, she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, Winona is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and serves, as co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network.

In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders, under-forty years of age. She was awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. Also in 1997, her novel, Last Standing Woman, was published. In 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth. She published All Our Relations, a non-fiction book on Native environmental struggles in 1999. The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings was published in 2002.