{"id":294,"date":"2005-07-07T16:55:47","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=288"},"modified":"2005-07-07T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T16:55:47","slug":"7705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"7\/7\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

More vignettes from the last few days on the trail: While at the headwaters of the Mississippi at Lake Itasca, I was interviewed by Minnesota State University’s Martin Grindeland, who teaches Mass Communications. His class was doing a documentary on the Lake Itasca State Park. I noted that the Native Americans found it somewhat “amusing” that the European explorers were all rushing to “discover” the Mississippi headwaters when, well, the Indians already knew <\/em>where it was… We then traveled west where we talked with Winona LaDuke on the White Earth Indian Reservation. (Ms. LaDuke ran as Ralph Nader’s vice presidential candidate in Campaign 2000.) Among other things, her White Earth Land Recovery Project includes a series of creative ways to purchase land back for the Ojibwe Tribe. She said people either donating their land, or selling it at a “bargain price,'” can be assured the land will be returned (as much as possible) to it’s natural state, because she feels we should be responsible for “seven generations ahead.” At the White Earth Project’s organic garden, Emma LeVine told me they have provided tilling and seeds for free to some 150 elderly on the Reservation who have wanted to put in organic gardens. Ms. LeVine, and several other White Earth Project staff, are also about to begin a “Local Food Challenge (see: www.slowfood.org).” That is, for the next year they will only eat food that comes from a 250 mile radius. (She believes in local production for local consumption, and is opposed to long distance shipping of food because of fossil fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, mega-farm operations that can undercut local farmers…) Note:<\/strong> Earlier in the week, we parked at the Rock Creek (MN) Road Cafe for the evening (Have I mentioned it’s a low budget campaign?). The next morning, from a distance, a woman noticed the “GOT JOE?” signage on the back of our vehicle, just a bit above a bumper sticker that says: “Joe Schriner for U.S. President 2008.” Not seeing the bumper sticker from that distance, and just seeing the: “GOT JOE?”, she asked: “Who is Joe?” I said me. She then asked: “What, do they forget you a lot?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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