Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for September 2024. Enjoy, and please share widely! October 14, 2024 is Indigenous Peoples Day. Please scroll down to learn about what’s happening locally. Upcoming Events: U.S. EPA and NYS DEC Environmental Justice Listening Session Monday, October 7 at 5pm Brockport Downtown, 161 Chestnut Street,…
Please note that we are taking a month off from sharing a feature article but will resume with a new article in September 2024. Upcoming Events: RG Miller: Tsi Non:we Entewaha’hara’ne / Our Path Forward August 31 – September 22 Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo), 137 East Ave, Rochester, NY…
Neetopk Keetopk Celebrates 10 Yearsof Indigenous Solidarity Work in the Hudson Valley In the spring of 2012, organizers with the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign began preparing for a trial paddling trip in the central Hudson Valley. We put out the word for support in that region and received a…
Kanatsiohareke and the Revitalization of Mohawk Language and Culture In 1993, a small group of traditional Mohawk people returned to the homeland of their ancestors and re-established a Mohawk community called Kanatsiohareke (pronounced Gah Nah Jo Hah Leh: Geh). It’s on the north shore of the Mohawk River between Fonda…
The Tonawanda Seneca Nation has won a major victory in the ongoing fight against the WNY STAMP mega industrial site. On April 24, 2024, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) rescinded the permit that would have allowed construction of an industrial wastewater and sewage pipeline through the Iroquois National Wildlife…
23rd Session of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Wraps Up The 23rd Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNFPII) took place on April 15-26, 2024, in New York, NY – also known as Lenapehoking, the ancestral homelands of the Lenape People. UNPFII is a permanent advisory…
The Struggle for Onondaga Land Rights Continues A Brief History On March 11, 2005 the Onondaga Nation filed an historic Land Rights Action in federal court in Syracuse. Their action was unique in focusing on the rights of the land as well as their call for justice for New York…
The Two Row Wampum Treaty The Two Row Wampum treaty belt, or Guswenta, is the Haudenosaunee record of the first treaty between Europeans (in this case the Dutch) and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, whose traditional lands extend throughout most of so-called New York State. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy (“People of the Long…
Support Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ (Cayuga) Traditional People Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ (Cayuga) traditional people and allies have launched a renewed fundraising effort to support the legal work to regain their sovereignty and rebuild their community in the homeland from which their ancestors were driven off over 200 years ago. In accordance with the Nation’s governing…
This month, we are focusing on the movement to return and rematriate stolen Indigenous homelands – the movement for #LandBack. At the recent conference on The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, Onondaga Nation educator Jake Edwards (Eel clan) addressed the fundamental necessity for…
