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Winona LaDuke: Environmental Justice from a Native Perspective
No full textWinona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the lands and life ways of Native communities. She is the Co-Director of Honor the Earth, a national advocacy group encouraging public support and funding for native environmental groups.
With Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on issues of climate change, renewable energy, sustainable development, food systems and environmental justice. In her own community in northern Minnesota, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation based non-profit organization in the country, and a leader on the issues of culturally-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy and food systems.
In 1994, Time magazine named her one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age, and in 1997 LaDuke was named Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year. Other honors include the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Thomas Merton Award, the Ann Bancroft Award and the Global Green Award, and the prestigious International Slow Food Award for working to protect wild rice and local biodiversity. In 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
In addition to numerous articles, LaDuke is the author of a number of non-fiction titles including All Our Relations, The Winona LaDuke Reader, Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming, Food is Medicine: Recovering Traditional Foods to Heal the People and her latest, The Militarization of Indian Country. She has also penned a work of fiction, Last Standing Woman, and a children’s book, In the Sugarbush.
Outspoken, engaging, and unflaggingly dedicated to matters of ecological sustainability, Winona LaDuke is a powerful speaker who inspires her audiences to action and engagement
John L. Martin: Hall of Fame Inductee
No full textJohn L. Martin: Hall of Fame Inductee
Author of the greatest era in Winona State University swimming history, John L. Martin served as the Warrior swimmers’ head coach from 1963-70 and again during 1973-74. During his nine years as head coach, Martin’s swimming teams won three conference championships and six times finished among the top ten teams in the NAIA national championships. His teams never suffered a losing season in dual-meet competition and two of his swimmers earned first team All-American honors.Coach Martin in 1977 was inducted into the NAIA Swimming Hall of Fame for his work as president of the NAIA Swimming Coaches’ Association, as chairman of the NAIA swimming rules and sites committee, and for his long tenure as a referee of NAIA national competition in swimming and diving.
He also served as a member of the United States Olympic Committee, AAU Swimming Committee, Board of Directors of the International Swimming Hall of Fame and assistant U.S. team coach during the 1973 World University Games held in Moscow.In addition to coaching swimming, Martin for 29 of his 30 years at Winona State University served as a football coach, 28 years as an assistant. He was the head football coach during the 1986 season. During his distinguished tenure at the University, he served as Chairman of the Health, Physical and Recreation Department.Martin earned both his undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He began his career at Winona State in 1963, retiring in 1994.https://openriver.winona.edu/halloffameinductees/1038/thumbnail.jp
Winona LaDuke: A Swope Endowed Lecture on Ethics, Religion, Faith, and Welfare - 2014 Race & Pedagogy National Conference
No full textThis presentation was recorded at the 2014 Race & Pedagogy National Conference held at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington in the fall of 2014.
PLENARY SPEAKER:
Winona LaDuke, Author, Orator, Activist
Ms. Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg and an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. She has devoted her life to protecting the culture, lands, and life ways of Native American communities and in 1994 was named in Time magazine one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age. She is founder and Co-Director of Honor the Earth, which is a national advocacy group devoted to supporting and funding native environmental groups and addressing the national and international community on issues of sustainable development, climate change, renewable energy, food systems and environmental justice. She is also founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a large reservation based non-profit organization that works to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering
Arahan Pengembangan Pariwisata Budaya Terpadu di Kecamatan Arjasa Kabupaten Jember
No full textKabupaten Jember memiliki potensi pariwisata yang khas, yaitu adanya keberagaman wisata budaya di Kecamatan Arjasa. Namun dalam pengembangan wisata budaya tersebut terdapat beberapa permasalahan. Kecamatan Arjasa memiliki banyak daya tarik wisata yang tersebar di beberapa desa, namun belum ada keterkaitan antar ODTW dalam hal pengembangan jalur wisata, belum terintegrasinya pengelolaan antar ODTW, dan penyediaan fasilitas serta sarana dan prasarana transportasi yang beberapa belum memadai. Terdapat ketimpangan jumlah kunjungan wisatawan khususnya pada ODTW yang lokasinya berdekatan. Dengan kondisi tersebut, maka diharapkan adanya konsep pengembangan wisata budaya terpadu ini dapat memecahkan permasalahan pengembangan wisata budaya di Kecamatan Arjasa.
Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah pendekatan rasionalistik dengan jenis penelitian kualitatif. Analisis deskriptif kualitatif dilakukan dalam menemukan kondisi empiris berdasarkan pengamatan di lapangan yang menghasilkan karakteristik, potensi, dan masalah keterpaduan wisata budaya di Kecamatan Arjasa. Analisis dilanjutkan dengan Content Analysis untuk menentukan variabel-variabel yang menjadi kriteria pengembangan pariwisata terpadu. Selanjutnya dari kriteria-kriteria tersebut dilakukan analisis penilaian kondisi pengembangan wisata budaya di Kecamatan Arjasa berdasarkan penilaian stakeholders dengan teknik skoring yaitu memberikan skor dengan rentang 1-4 pada setiap kriteria. Setelah didapatkan hasil evaluasi tingkat keterpaduan wisata, maka dilanjutkan analisis untuk merumuskan konsep pengembangan pariwisata budaya terpadu di Kecamatan Arjasa dengan metode analisis deskriptif kualitatif.
Karakteristik, potensi, dan masalah wisata budaya di Kecamatan Arjasa meliputi aspek daya tarik wisata, aksesibilitas, fasilitas, kelembagaan, dan promosi. Dari hasil analisis isi yang dilakukan, didapatkan lima (5) kriteria pengembangan wisata terpadu, yaitu Jaringan Internal, Jaringan Eksternal, Ketersediaan Sarana Transportasi, Ketersediaan Prasarana Transportasi, dan Keterlibatan Masyarakat. Selanjutnya berdasarkan analisis penilaian tingkat keterpaduan pengembangan wisata di Kecamatan Arjasa berdasarkan stakeholders didapatkan nilai tingkat keterpaduan wisata meliputi tiga (3) kriteria dengan nilai tinggi, yaitu Jaringan Internal, Jaringan Eksternal, dan Keterlibatan Masyarakat, satu (1) kriteria dengan nilai rendah yaitu Prasarana Transportasi, dan satu (1) kriteria dengan nilai sangat rendah yaitu Sarana Transportasi. Hasil dari analisis karakteristik, potensi, dan masalah wisata hingga penilaian tingkat keterpaduan menjadi input dalam merumuskan arahan pengembangan, sehingga dihasilkan arahan meliputi pengembangan wisata budaya pada integrasi aspek aksesibilitas, fisik, sumber daya manusia, promosi, dan koordinasi antar stakeholders.
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Regency has a distinctive tourism potential, namely the diversity of cultural tourism in Arjasa District. However, in the development of cultural tourism there are several problems. Arjasa District has many tourist attractions scattered in several villages, but there is no linkage between ODTW in terms of developing tourist routes, management between ODTW, and the provision of facilities and transportation facilities and infrastructure that are inadequate. There is an imbalance in the number of tourist visits, especially in ODTWs that are located close together. With these conditions, it is expected that the concept of integrated cultural tourism development can solve the problems of cultural tourism development in Arjasa District.
The approach used is a rationalistic approach with a qualitative research type. Qualitative descriptive analysis was conducted in finding empirical conditions based on field observations that resulted in the characteristics, potential, and problems of cultural tourism integration in Arjasa District. The analysis was continued with Content Analysis to determine the variables that became the criteria for integrated tourism development. Furthermore, from these criteria, an analysis of the assessment of the condition of cultural tourism development in Arjasa District based on the assessment of stakeholders with scoring techniques, giving a score with a range of 1-4 on each criterion. After obtaining the results of the evaluation of the level of tourism integration, then the analysis continued to formulate the concept of integrated cultural tourism development in Arjasa District with qualitative descriptive analysis method.
The characteristics, potential, and problems of cultural tourism in Arjasa District include aspects of tourist attraction, accessibility, facilities, institutions, and promotion. From the results of the content analysis conducted, five (5) integrated tourism development criteria were obtained, namely Internal Network, External Network, Availability of Transportation Facilities, Availability of Transportation Infrastructure, and Community Involvement. Furthermore, based on the analysis of the assessment of the level of integrated tourism development in Arjasa District based on stakeholders, the value of the level of integrated tourism includes three (3) criteria with high scores, namely Internal Networks, External Networks, and Community Involvement, one (1) criterion with low scores, namely Transportation Infrastructure, and one (1) criterion with very low scores, namely Transportation Facilities. The results of the analysis of characteristics, potential, and problems of tourism to the assessment of the level of integration into input in formulating development directions, resulting in directions on the integration of aspects of accessibility, physical, human resources, promotion, and coordination between stakeholders
An experiment in diffusion, water pollution, and bioassay using polyethylene film as a semipermeable membrane
Get PDFArticle written by Cal R. Fremling detailing step-by-step instructions for a basic classroom laboratory experiment. The article includes photographs of students performing steps of the procedure, discussion of data and possible conclusions, and other possible applications using the materials and procedure. Fremling is credited as: Winona State College, Winona, Minnesota. Abstract: A novel experiment in aquatic biology employing polyethylene bags can be utilized by large groups. The author is Professor of Biology at Winona. Article reprinted from The American Biology Teacher, volume 30, number 6, September 1968. 5 pages. Part of the Cal R. Fremling Collection.https://openriver.winona.edu/calfremlingpapers/1020/thumbnail.jp
Earth Day Presentation Features Native American Author, Environmentalist, Winona LaDuke
Get PDFNative American author and environmental activist Winona LaDuke explores how connections to the land can help move societies and economies forward to a better environmental future in a Lawrence University Earth Week presentation. LaDuke’s address, Tuesday, April 23 at 7 p.m. in Youngchild Hall 121, is free and open to the public.
A member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservations in Northern Minnesota, LaDuke has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues, including 2011’s “The Militarization of Indian Country,” “Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming” and “All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life.”
LaDuke is the co-founder of Honor the Earth, a Native American-led organization that seeks to break the geographic and political isolation of Native communities and increase financial resources for organizing and change.
Time Magazine named LaDuke one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under the age of 40 in 1994 and Ms. Magazine honored her as its 1998 “Woman of the Year” for her work with Honor the Earth.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, LaDuke served as Ralph Nader’s vice presidential running mate on the Green Party ticket in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections.
Her appearance is sponsored by the student organization Greenfire and the Office of Multicultural Affairs
Documentation of a mass emergence of Hexagenia mayflies from the Upper Mississippi River
Get PDFArticle written by Calvin R. Fremling regarding a specific mayfly emergence on July 8, 1966 at Winona, Minnesota. Includes locations around the city such as Levee Park (emergence resulted in a shutdown of carnival equipment operating for Steamboat Days) and the John A. Latsch Wagon Bridge. Figure 1 shows a heavy swarm of mayflies covering the bridge and the author\u27s car. Summary: This report documents a mass Hexagenia mayfly emergence from the Upper Mississippi River, so that others may know of the magnitude of the phenomenon if Hexagenia populations are further reduced by pollution along the Upper Mississippi River. Fremling is credited as: Winona State College, Winona, Minnesota. Article reprinted from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, volume 97, number 3, 19 July 1968. 5 pages. Part of the Cal R. Fremling Collection.https://openriver.winona.edu/calfremlingpapers/1021/thumbnail.jp
Calvin Fremling
No full textDr. Cal Fremling was a researcher and professor for thirty-two years at WSU and the author of Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times.https://openriver.winona.edu/wsuphotographs/5099/thumbnail.jp
Kurt Vonnegut: A Lyceum Lecture
No full textOn October 19, 1992, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was a speaker for the Winona State University (WSU) Lyceum Speaker Series. Kurt Vonnegut spoke in Somsen Auditorium (now known as Harriet Johnson Auditorium).
Kurt Vonnegut, the renowned American author, was known for his satire and dark humor. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, and both fiction and non-fiction.https://openriver.winona.edu/lyceumseries/1001/thumbnail.jp
Personalization Patterns in Developing, Stable, and Deteriorating Relationships
Get PDFThis article was published in the Journal of the Northwest Communications Association in 1988. Glueck, L. & Ayres, J. (1988). Personalization patterns in developing, stable, and deteriorating relationships. Journal of Northwest Communication Association, 16, 61-81. Author Lisa Glueck is a professor of Communications Studies at Winona State University
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