Editing Winona LaDuke (section)

===White Earth Land Recovery Project===
In 1989, LaDuke founded the [[White Earth Land Recovery Project]] (WELRP) in Minnesota with the proceeds of a human rights award from [[Reebok]]. Its goal is to buy back land in the reservation that non-Natives bought and to create enterprises that provide work to Anishinaabe. By 2000, the foundation had bought 1,200 acres, which it held in a conservation trust for eventual cession to the tribe.<ref name="Ritter"/> WELRP also works to reforest the land and revive cultivation of [[wild rice]], long a traditional Ojibwe food. It markets that and other traditional products, including [[hominy]], jam, buffalo sausage, and other products. It has started an [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]] language program, a herd of [[American Bison|buffalo]], and a wind-energy project.<ref name="Ritter"/> It produces and sells traditional foods and crafts through its label, Native Harvest.<ref name=NPR-Rice>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4165045&from=mobile |title=Ricing Time: Harvesting on the Lakes of White Earth |work=[[National Public Radio]] |date=November 12, 2004}}{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706144654/https://www.npr.org/2004/11/12/4165045/ricing-time-harvesting-on-the-lakes-of-white-earth?from=mobile |date=July 6, 2022}}</ref> [[The Evergreen State College]] class of 2014 chose LaDuke as its commencement speaker. She delivered her address at the school on June 13, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article26071081.html |title=The Evergreen State College graduates nearly 1,300 students |first=Lisa |last=Pemberton |website=theolympian |language=en |access-date=April 19, 2019 |archive-date=July 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706144733/https://account.theolympian.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=26071081&intcid=ab_archive |url-status=live}}</ref>