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LaDonna Vita Tabbytite Harris (born 1931) is a Comanche Native American social activist and politician from Oklahoma.〔Fluharty, Sterling. (Harris, LaDonna Vita Tabbytite (1931-)." ) ''Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.'' (retrieved 16 Sept 2010)〕 She is the founder and president of Americans for Indian Opportunity.〔(LaDonna Harris (Comanche). ) ''Native American Rhymes''. (retrieved 5 Nov 2009)〕 Harris was a Vice presidential candidate for the Citizens Party in the United States presidential election, 1980 alongside Barry Commoner. ==Background== LaDonna Harris, President of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), is a statesman and national leader. She has been a consistent and ardent advocate on behalf of Tribal America. In addition, she continues her activism in the areas of civil rights, environmental protection, the women’s movement and world peace. Harris was raised by her maternal grandparents in Indian country on a farm near the small town of Walters, Oklahoma during the Great Depression. Harris began her public service as the wife of U.S. Senator Fred Harris. She was the first Senator’s wife to testify before a Congressional committee. She was instrumental in the return of the Taos Blue Lake to the people of Taos Pueblo and to the Menominee Tribe in regaining their federal recognition. In the 1960s, she founded Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity to find ways to reverse the socio-economic conditions that impact Indian communities. From the 1970s to the present, she has presided over AIO, which advances, from an Indigenous worldview, the cultural, political and economic rights of Indigenous peoples in the U.S. and around the world. Harris also helped to found some of today’s leading national Indian organizations including the National Indian Housing Council, Council of Energy Resource Tribes, National Tribal Environmental Council, and National Indian Business Association. Harris has been appointed to many Presidential Commissions, including being recognized by Vice President Gore, in 1994, as a leader in the area of telecommunications in his remarks at the White House Tribal Summit. As a national leader, Harris has influenced the agendas of the civil rights, feminist, environmental and world peace movements. She was a founding member of Common Cause and the National Urban Coalition and is a spokesperson against poverty and social injustice. As an advocate for women’s rights, she was a founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus. In 1980, as the Vice Presidential nominee on the Citizens Party ticket with Barry Commoner, Harris added environmental issues to the national debate and future presidential campaigns. She was an original member of Global Tomorrow Coalition and the U.S. Representative to the OAS Inter-American Indigenous Institute, and VNESCO. Harris has raised three children: Kathryn Tijerina, Executive Director of the Railyard Park Trust in Santa Fe; Byron is a technician in television production in Los Angeles; and Laura works with her mother as the Executive Director at AIO. Harris' grandson, Sam Fred Goodhope, calls her by the Comanche word for grandmother, Kaqu. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LaDonna Harris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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