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November 15, 2002
A: FROM MODERATOR DENISE HARBERT
AT UIC
- former board member of Greenpeace USA
- spoke in front of the United Nations regarding environmental
issues at the age of 18
- graduated from Harvard University in 1982
- recipient of the 1989 International Reebok Human Rights
Award
- in 1994, was named by Time Magazine as one of America's
50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age
- founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project in order to
raise funds to purchase White Earth land holdings originally
held by the Anishinabe people and taken illegally by the U.S.
federal government
- ran for Vice President of the U.S. in 1996 and 2000 for
the Green Party (with Ralph Nader)
- author of Last Standing Woman (1997) and All Our
Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999).
- spokesperson for the Chippewa people of Northern Minnesota
- organizer of the Honor the Earth National Tour
- founded the Indigenous Women's Network
- teaches courses on Native Environmentalism at the University
of Minnesota and in other university settings
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