User:Caldwell805/Tara Houska
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- Article's content is relevant to the topic
- Lots of areas are underdeveloped (ex: other work and personal life is not very detailed)
- Article written neutrally
- Not every claim has a citation, but most sources are reliable (journals, TED talks, articles)
- Article discusses one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (discusses indigenous people in relation to climate justice)
- I would like to add more specifics about her work and personal life as well as more details about her activism efforts
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[edit]Awards
[edit]Houska was a recipient for the 2023 Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism at Dickinson College. The prize rewarded her work as a tribal attorney, land defender, and founder of the Giniw Collective.
Personal Life
[edit]Houska grew up in Ranier, Minnesota where Rainy Lake connects to Rainy River. Ranier is located across the border of Ontario's legal reserve for the Couchiching First Nation community. Houska attended high school at Falls High, and after graduation, she went to the University of Minnesota to earn a law degree while learning Anishinaabe language. After university, she moved to Washington D.C. where she worked for a private firm representing tribes located around the country.
While working at the private firm, Houska met Winona LaDuke, and later, Houska went on to work for LaDuke's environmental advocacy organization called Honor the Earth. Houska served as a lawyer for Honor the Earth until 2019 where she then worked full-time for the Giniw collective and Stop Line 3 protests.
References
[edit]Jackson, MaryAlice Bitts. "'Every Decision, Every Step, Has Dominoes Behind It'". www.dickinson.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
Marsh, Steve (2020-10-18). "Tara Houska on Racist Mascots, Fighting Pipelines, and Being the Only Native Person in the Room". Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-15.