White Earth Land Recovery Project logo

White Earth Land Recovery Project logo

The White Earth Land Recovery Project logo, 2020s.

White Earth Land Recovery Project

Activist Winona LaDuke founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP) in 1989 in response to environmental destruction and a land-tenure crisis in the White Earth Reservation of Ojibwe. Since then, WELRP has taken steps to recover stolen land, to aid and educate Ojibwe communities, to maintain traditional culture, and to restore sustainable ways of life.

Traverse des Sioux

Traverse des Sioux

The Mni Sota Wakpa (Minnesota River) at Traverse des Sioux, September 3, 2007. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user McGhiever. GNU Free Documentation License 1.2

Traverse des Sioux

Prairie land at Traverse des Sioux, the site of the signing of the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, ca. 2010s. Photograph by John Cross courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society.

Workers cutting timber

Workers cutting timber

Workers cutting timber into logs, ca. 1900.

Lumberjacks

Lumberjacks

Lumberjacks rolling a log. Oil-on-board painting by an anonymous artist, ca. 1900.

Drain tile ditching machine

Drain tile ditching machine

Drain-tile ditching machine. Photograph by Joseph Zalusky, ca. 1916.

Taconite stockpile

Taconite stockpile

Taconite stockpile, Silver Bay. Photograph by Walter H. Wettschreck, ca. 1965.

Mississippi River dam at Little Falls

Mississippi River dam at Little Falls

Mississippi River and dam, Little Falls, ca. 1890.

Lake Itasca

Lake Itasca

Lake Itasca, early 1980s. Photograph by Stephen R. Davis.

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