Winona LaDuke supports Obama for president
Monday, June 16, 2008
Filed Under:
Politics
Environmental activist Winona LaDuke has endorsed
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) for president.
LaDuke, a member of the
White
Earth Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota, appeared on
The Colbert
Report last Thursday. She was asked "which candidate would Native Americans would most want to be lied to," by host Stephen Colbert.
"I'm an Obama supporter," responded LaDuke, the executive director of
Honor the
Earth. LaDuke ran for vice-president on the
Green Party ticket in 1996 and 2000.
The segment focused on the 2008 presidential race. Colbert, who said he is 1/13 Chickasaw, referred to
Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) as the "the spider trickster wargod of the Lakotas," due to the candidate's age.
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