Winona LaDuke resigns as Honor The Earth leader after a sexual harassment case. Winona LaDuke, executive director of the Native American-led environmental group Honor the Earth, has resigned her national leadership position. The news comes less than a week after the group lost a sexual harassment case to a former employee. In an announcement on Facebook, LaDuke wrote she failed former employee Margaret (Molly) Campbell by not responding to her reports of sexual harassment by a coworker. “I did not rapidly and adequately act on the complex personnel and sexual harassment issues our organization faced internally,” she wrote about Honor The Earth, known for opposing the Line 3 pipeline.
A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls in the U.S. and Canada has asked a judge in Nevada to toss out a sweeping indictment against him, saying two Las Vegas area women identified as victims wanted to have sex with him. One of the women was younger than 16 — the age of consent in Nevada — when she says Nathan Chasing Horse began sexually abusing her. Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny said Wednesday that she would issue her decision by the end of the week. She didn’t offer any indication as to how she might rule during her questioning of state prosecutors and Chasing Horse’s public defender.
Those are your headlines at this hour. I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.