March 11, 2003
Contact: Stacey Singer, tour publicist (404-297-0109/fax 404-297-0709/e-mail: staceysinger@mindspring.com)
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Native American environmental activist Winona
LaDuke and the Indigo Girls team up next month on a four-state tour to
take a message of alternative energy and cultural preservation to
college campuses.
The “Honor the Earth Tour” is a speaking and performance event
aimed at educating college students and the general public on current
issues related to Native American environmental activism and the
development of wind power on Native lands, in particular. It will also
include visits to Native American reservations implementing wind power
and other alternative energy projects in their communities.
The tour will stop at Central Washington University Monday, April
14 for a 7:30 p.m. performance in Nicholson Pavilion. Tickets are $5
for CWU students and $10 for general admission and are available at the
Samuelson Union Building (SUB) ticket counter, Jerrol’s, Off the Record
in Yakima and Avalon Music in Wenatchee.
Each campus presentation will feature talks by LaDuke, and Amy Ray
and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls, followed by a 45-minute acoustic
performance by the Grammy-award winning duo. The innovative
“living-room style” tour combines discussion and music to generate
political dialogue and action concerning the country’s energy future.
LaDuke met Ray and Saliers backstage at an Earth Day benefit near
Boston in 1991. Out of that meeting, the national Native American
foundation, Honor the Earth, was created. Indigo Girls have headlined
four previous Honor the Earth concert tours to raise money for Native
American groups working on front-line environmental issues in
communities across the country.
All net tour proceeds will support Honor the Earth’s “Energy
Justice Initiative” in providing capital and technical support to
alternative energy – and especially, wind power – in Native American
communities.
“Our communities could power this country with wind,” explains
LaDuke.
The Ellensburg event is co-sponsored by Campus Life and the CWU
diversity education center. For updated tour dates, ticket information
and more general information, visit: www.spitfiretour.org,
www.honorearth.org, or www.indigogirls.com.
For persons of disability to arrange for reasonable accommodation,
call (509) 963-1685 or (for hearing impaired) TDD 509-963-2143.
