![]() ![]() Making these connections, we can fight despair and discover our power. She says, “In my keynote address to the Common Ground Country Fair I will talk about how the food choices we make each day connect us to humanity’s biggest challenges, from needless hunger to diet-related disease to the climate crisis and the undermining of democracy. The recipient of 20 honorary degrees, she has been a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of California, Berkeley, and in 1987 received the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “Alternative Nobel.” In this book Lappé integrates her life’s work of connecting food to freedom, including timely material from her 2017 book co-authored with Adam Eichen, “Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want.” Lappé is co-founder of Oakland-based Food First and the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna Lappé. Lappé’s latest work is the 50th anniversary edition of “Diet for a Small Planet,” released in 2021. Her first book, “Diet for a Small Planet” published in 1971, has now sold three million copies. “Connecting our Food Choices to Humanity’s Biggest Challenges”įrances Moore Lappé is the author or coauthor of 20 books, many focusing on themes of “living democracy” - suggesting a government accountable to citizens and a way of living aligned with the deep human need for connection, meaning and power. ![]() ![]() She looks forward to exchanging in dialogue and is honored to join the Common Ground Country Fair speakers. This topic also brings to light how self-determination for the tribes is connected to every facet of life for Wabanaki governance, health, stewardship of Mother Earth, traditional wellbeing and spiritual resilience. She will discuss the recent legislative session that found tribal issues making progress in some areas and facing barriers in others. With this rich and deep relationship the Wabanaki have here with these lands there also is an undercurrent of injustice and trauma from the colonization era to the present day.ĭana will address some of the reasons tribal sovereignty in Maine has such a complicated history and future. Their creation stories and cultural knowledge tell us that this land has sustained us since time immemorial. There are five tribal communities in the land now called Maine and their ancestors have been stewards of this homeland for over 10,000 years. The others are the Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, Mikmaq and Maliseet. Her policy achievements include helping to pass laws in Maine that eliminated racist Indian mascots, changed Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, and extended Violence Against Women Act federal provisions to tribes in Maine.ĭana’s home, the Penobscot Nation, is one of five tribes that make up the Wabanaki Confederacy. Addressing and bringing action to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirits and relatives is also one of her passions. She is the proud mother of three daughters Carmella, age 15, Layla, age 13, and Iris who was born this year on May 31. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Maine and she received an honorary law doctorate from Colby College. She serves as the president of the board of directors for the Wabanaki Alliance, the co-chair of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous and Maine Tribal Populations, and is a member of the Maine Climate Council where she also co-chairs a subcommittee on equity. Her background is in political science, activism, Penobscot culture, teaching and policy. She represents the tribe in local, state and federal government as an advocate and diplomat. ![]() Maulian Dana serves as the first appointed Tribal Ambassador for the Penobscot Nation. “Tribal Sovereignty in Wabanaki Homeland: History, Policy, Connectedness, and the Next Generations”
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