Ingrid washinawatok biography

  • Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa was a member of the Menominee Nation of upper Wisconsin.
  • Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa (July 31, 1957 – c.
  • Ingrid Washinawatok, which translates to “Flying Eagle Woman,” was a celebrated human rights advocate for Indigenous peoples who was killed in South America.

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    About Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa

    Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa was born in 1957 into the Menominee Nation in Wisconsin. Ingrid’s Indian name translated to “Flying Eagle Woman.” The raptor was a traditional symbol of war, and Ingrid was a lifelong warrior ~ for peace.

    She spent her teens fighting to have her tribe’s federal status restored before taking what she learned on Wisconsin’s Menominee Reservation around the world. Ingrid helped build networks of indigenous peoples to protect Native cultures and communities from social erasure, economic crises and environmental destruction.

    — Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa

    She worked with multiple organizations, nationally, and internationally to foster indigenous culture, advocate for women’s rights, and promote native-American issues. She is known for her influence as the Chair of the NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and worked with

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    Ingrid Washinawatok

    Native American activist (1957–1999)

    Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa (also known as O'Peqtaw-Metamoh and Flying Eagle Woman) (July 31, 1957 – c. February 25, 1999) was a member of the Menominee Nation of upper Wisconsin. She was murdered bygd FARC guerrillas in Colombia. At the time of her death she was forty-one years old, the wife of Ali El-Issa, a Palestinian, and the mother of her 14-year-old son, Maehkiwkasic (meaning "Red Sky").

    Early life

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    She was born in Keshena, Wisconsin.[1] Her parents were James and Gwendolyn Washinawatok, who created a grassroots organization to restore Menominee Nation land and stop its sale. Her family later moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she and her sister, Regina, attended St. Sylvester School. Ingrid graduated in 1971. During their years in Chicago, the family used White as its gods name. Every summer, the sisters stayed on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Both sisters went on to Alvernia High School

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    Object Details

    Artist
    Ricardo Levins Morales, born 1955
    Sitter
    Ingrid Washinawatok, 31 Jul 1957 - 25 Feb 1999
    Exhibition Label
    Born Keshena, Wisconsin
    Ingrid Washinawatok, an activist for Indigenous peoples’ rights, culture, and sovereignty, was a member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. As a young woman, Washinawatok advocated to restore the Menominee Tribe to federal recognition after its 1961 status termination. She went on to serve the United Nations as committee chair for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples and worked to revitalize Indigenous languages as executive director for the Fund for the Four Directions.
    In 1999, while in Colombia to establish a school for the U’wa tribe, Washinawatok and three others were kidnapped and murdered, ostensibly by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a rebel group. The Menominee Nation honored her with a full warrior’s funeral, which marked one of the largest twentieth-century gatherings of
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