The Humanities Research Institute is pleased to announce: The 2018 Barbara Powell Memorial Lecture: Winona LaDuke, “Building A Multi-Cultural Democracy: Religion, Culture and Identity in America” Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. in the University Theatre, Riddell Centre (RC 170) “It was like reading about Atlantis, about the legend of an ancient place. That is my earliest memory of the Island, Moningwunakauning Minis – home of the golden-breasted woodpecker – now called Madeline. It is the Anishinaabe homeland, and it is a Mecca for the Ojibwe, a sacred place. This is the place where the Creator and the prophets instructed our people to move to, and to remain. Now, in the 21st century, Madeline Island is a place where the complexity of restoring a multicultural society in a sacred land is being revealed. The question is, ‘How do we do so with grace?’” Winona LaDuke, from The Winona LaDuke Chronicles: Stories from the Front Lines in the Battle for Environmental Justice (2017). Video: Winona LaDuke presents the 2018 Barbara Powell Memorial Lecture Winona LaDuke is a spokesperson for the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe/Chipewa) people, the executive director of Honor the Earth, and a world-renowned advocate for the sustainable use of energy and land resources and indigenous treaty rights. She is the author of numerous widely-read publications, ranging from fiction (e.g. Last Woman Standing – 1997) to non-fiction books (e.g. Recovering the Sacred – 2016), to edited handbooks for Native American tribes (e.g. Sustainable Tribal Economies – 2009). Ms. LaDuke’s writing celebrates the history, religion and identities of First Nations’ peoples, especially the experience and wisdom of women. She has received many accolades and awards, from the Thomas Merton Award to the Reebok Human Rights Award, Ms. Magazine’s Woman of the Year, and the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance. She holds an honorary doctorate from Augsburg College, and in 2007 she was inducted into the United States National Women’s Hall of Fame. She has appeared in a number of feature-length documentary films and countless radio and television interviews and holds the distinction of being the first Native American woman to have received an electoral vote for Vice President of the United States (in 2016). The Barbara Powell Memorial Lecture is the annual signature lecture of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Regina. This year’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) and is a Keynote lecture for ESAC at Congress 2018. The lecture is also supported by the University of Regina’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, by its Identity, Living Heritage, Community (ILHC) Research Cluster and by its Conference Fund. This lecture is an open event at Congress 2018 and is free of charge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend. Free public parking is available in lots 1, 7 and 8.