Winona LaDuke, White Earth Tribal member, author and director of White Earth Land Recovery Project, was nominated to be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
The induction ceremony will take place in Seneca Falls, N.Y., on Oct. 6-7.
Among other luminaries to be inducted in 2007 are Julia Child (the late, world renowned chef), and Swanee Hunt (director of Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School). They will be joining the 217 women already in the Hall of Fame such as Oprah Winfrey, Sacagawea, Ann Bancroft, Abigail Adams, Hilary Clinton and Rosa Parks.
LaDuke will become one the few Native American women to be inducted into the hall of fame. She follows after Susette La Flesche (Omaha), Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee), Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute) and Annie Dodge Wauneka (Navajo), to name a few.
"I feel honored that the work we do on the White Earth Reservation has received such national attention. And I feel greatly privileged to join in the halls of such esteemed women," LaDuke said on the news of her induction.
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The National Women's Hall of Fame is located in Seneca Falls, which is considered the birthplace of the women's rights movement. It was where the first women's rights convention was held in 1848, and central to the suffragette movement.
LaDuke will be attending the ceremony with her mother and daughter. Also accompanying her will be a group of women from the Iroquois Confederacy.
