Editing Winona LaDuke (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:Winona laduke.jpg|thumb|Winona LaDuke in earlier years]]
Winona (meaning "first daughter" in [[Dakota language]]) LaDuke was born in 1959 in Los Angeles, California, to [[Betty LaDuke|Betty Bernstein]] and Vincent LaDuke (later known as [[Sun Bear (author)|Sun Bear]]).<ref name="Ritter">{{cite web |url=https://archive.today/20131227025140/http://www.citypages.com/2000-10-11/news/the-party-crasher/3/ |title=Peter Ritter, "The Party Crasher" |work=Minneapolis News |date=October 11, 2000}}</ref> Her father was from the [[Ojibwe]] [[White Earth Reservation]] in [[Minnesota]], and her mother of Jewish European ancestry from [[The Bronx|The Bronx, New York]]. LaDuke spent some of her childhood in Los Angeles, but was primarily raised in [[Ashland, Oregon]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3237/7789|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827152733/http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3237/7789|url-status=dead|title=Willamette Week &#124; "Winona Laduke" &#124; July 19th, 2006<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=August 27, 2006}}</ref> Due to her father's heritage, she was enrolled at birth with the White Earth Nation, but did not live at [[White Earth Indian Reservation|White Earth]], or any other reservation, until 1982. She started work at White Earth after graduating from college when she got a job there as principal of the high school.<ref name="Ritter"/>

After her parents married, Vincent LaDuke worked as an actor in Hollywood in supporting roles in [[Western movie]]s, while Betty LaDuke completed her academic studies. The couple separated when Winona was five, and her mother took a position as an art instructor at Southern Oregon College, now [[Southern Oregon University]] at [[Ashland, Oregon|Ashland]], then a small logging and college town near the California border.<ref name="Ritter"/> In the 1980s, Vincent reinvented himself as a [[New Age]] spiritual leader by the name Sun Bear.<ref name="Ritter"/>

While growing up in Ashland, LaDuke attended public school and was on the debate team in high school. She attended [[Harvard University]], where she joined a group of Indigenous activists, and graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics (rural economic development).<ref name="Ritter"/> When she moved to White Earth, she did not know the [[Ojibwe language]], or many people, and was not quickly accepted. While working as the principal of the local Minnesota reservation high school, she completed research for her master's thesis on the reservation's subsistence economy and became involved in local issues. She completed an M.A. in [[community economic development]] through [[Antioch University]]'s distance-learning program.<ref name="Ritter"/>