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Article: Co-founder of Indigenous Women's Network in demand at international conference.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 1, 1995
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HUAIROU, China _ It's not home, it's not the log house on Round Lake on the land of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.
Still, Winona LaDuke feels comfortable here, walking the streets of a sleepy Chinese town that has been transformed into an international village of women, some 20,000 who have gathered for the Non-Governmental Organization Forum on Women, a preliminary meeting to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, which starts Monday in Beijing.
And it is no wonder that LaDuke, an internationally known American Indian activist, feels welcome. She is surrounded by sisters.
LaDuke, 36, is a co-founder of the ...