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Born July 31, 1957
Keshena, Wisconsin
Died March 4, 1999
Colombia/Venezuela border (near La Victoria, Venezuela)
Native American activist
Ingrid Washinawatok was killed at the age of forty-one in Colombia by rebel soldiers. She had been in the South American nation assisting the U’wa Indians, who were attempting to prevent oil drilling on their land. Washinawatok’s final humanitarian mission was representative of her life’s work—struggling to keep alive native traditions and culture and to protect indigenous people’s rights around the world. Washinawatok was executive director of the Fund of the Four Directions, cochair of the Women’s Indigenous Network, and chair of the United Nations’ Committee on the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Childhood on the reservation and in Chicago
Washinawatok was born on Menominee Indian Reservation in northeastern Wisconsin and grew up...
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