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Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for April 2025. Enjoy, and please share widely! Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future:The Quest for Justice View the high quality video from the event On March 10 about 150 people gathered at Syracuse Stage to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the historic filing of the Onondaga Land Rights…

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Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for March 2025. Enjoy, and please share widely! This month, in honor of spring and planting season, we are featuring an article by Onondaga Nation Clan Mother Wendy Gonyea on the Onondaga Nation Farm. The article will be included in a (forthcoming) updated version of the “Neighbor to Neighbor” booklet. …

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Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for February 2025. Enjoy, and please share widely! This poem was written for the candlelight vigil preceding the Onondaga Nation’s Land Rights hearing in Federal District Court, October 18, 2007. For Onondaga By Robin Wall Kimmerer Even after everything You know, the history they won’t tell you  The blankets The…

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Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for January 2025. Enjoy, and please share widely! Given the chaos, division and hate being fostered by the new administration in Washington, we thought this historic piece by Onondaga Clanmother Freida Jacques would be helpful. Discipline of the Good Mind©Freida J. Jacques – revised 1/25/2025 Thousands of years ago, at…

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Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for December 2024. Enjoy, and please share widely! Return Land on Onondaga Lake to the Onondaga Nation What a delight to read Steve Featherstone’s feature article about the long overdue return of 1,000 acres in the Tully Valley to the Onondaga Nation. Hearing several of our Onondaga neighbors share what…

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Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for November 2024.Enjoy, and please share widely! Marking the 230th Anniversary of the Treaty of Canandaigua  For centuries the Haudenosaunee sought friendly, diplomatic relations with newcomers to their territory. This continued with Europeans, beginning with the Two Row Wampum Treaty negotiated with the Dutch in…

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Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for October 2024.Enjoy, and please share widely! LandBack Gains Momentum from Coast to Coast As we celebrate the final step in the return of over 1,000 acres to the Onondaga Nation, the largest LandBack action in New York State, we look west to LandBack successes on the other coast. The following…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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