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Two Row Events across New York State this week!
Tuesday, April 22, 4-7 pm
Guswenta: Renewing the Two Row Wampum
, a short film by Gwendolen Cates, won the award for best short film at the Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Fest in New York City.
The film will be followed by refreshments and a panel discussion featuring:
- Christine Abrams, Tonawanda Seneca, organized Tonawanda participation in the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign
- Rick Levins from Batavia, and of Six Nations Tuscarora descent, paddled from Albany to New York City
- Neil Patterson, Jr., Tuscarora, works for the Haudenosaunee Environmental TAsk Force and paddled from Onondaga to New York City
- Jack Spula, writer, social justice activist and non-native ally from Rochester, paddled from Albany to New York City
This 33-minute film features stunning footage of the 28 day paddling journey from the Onondaga Nation to the United Nations in New York City during the summer of 2013, along with powerful words from Haudenosaunee leaders including Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, Onondaga Clanmother Freida Jacques, Mohawk spiritual leader Tom Porter, and Tadodaho Sid Hill. The film inspires people, indigenous and non-native, to consider our collective responsibility 400 years after the Two Row Wampum Treaty was created.
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Listening to the voices of the Earth and of Native peoples to heal our relationship with the land and with each other
Saturday, April 26, 9 am – 6 pm
LOCATION: Brooklyn Friends School 375 Pearl St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, and Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse 110 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Friday evening no cost. Saturday Suggested Donation: $25. No one will be turned away. Lunch and refreshments included.
Friday evening, April 25 at Brooklyn Friends School 375 Pearl St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
6:00 pm Opening Thanksgiving Address, dinner
7:00 pm Keynote presentation on Haudenosaunee values: gifts to our contemporary world by Freida Jacques, Onondaga Nation Clanmother and educator. This will be followed by Haudenosaunee Social Dancing in which all are invited to join. No Charge
Saturday, April 26 Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse 110 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (workshop and presentation sessions in afternoon at Brooklyn Friends School)
9:00 Gathering, light refreshments
9:30 Thanksgiving Address: Mohawk Elder Tom Porter
Keynote: – Tom Porter: From Where We Stand to Seven Generations (30 min, plus 15 min q and a)
11:00 Workshops
1:00 Lunch (with informal discussions over lunch on topics of interest to participants)
2:30 Presentation Session I
3:45 Presentation Session II
5:00 Closing Plenary— Unity: The Path Forward for Indigenous Peoples and their Allies – Hawk Storm (Schaghticoke), Daygot Leeyos Edwards (Oneida), Chief Carlos Whitewolf (Taíno), Donna Coane (Scaghticoke) and Chief Ed Wolfwalker (Schaghticoke).
Register Now! Download the flier to share.
Full schedule and registration information at: http://www.honorthetworow.org/
For more information, or to offer to assist in some way, contact Aya Yamamoto or Tom Rothschild.
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Film Screening
Guswenta:
Renewing the Two Row Wampum
Monday, April 28, 7:30 pm
The Madison Theater
1036 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY
Phone: 518-438-2094, Web: www.themadisontheater.com
Cost: $10/adults, $8/senior citizens, $5/children
- Hickory Edwards, Onondaga Nation Turtle clan and Two Row lead paddler
- Gwendolen Cates, award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and author
- Don Rittner, of the OnRust which joined with the Two Row in 2013
- Denise Watso, Abenaki community organizer and Two Row paddler
This 33-minute film features stunning footage of the 28 day paddling journey from the Onondaga Nation to the United Nations in New York City during the summer of 2013, along with powerful words from Haudenosaunee leaders including Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, Onondaga Clanmother Freida Jacques, Mohawk spiritual leader Tom Porter, and Tadodaho Sid Hill. The film inspires people, indigenous and non-native, to consider our collective responsibility 400 years after the Two Row Wampum Treaty was created.
The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign is a partnership between the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON), developing a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and their allies in New York and throughout the world. Our 2013 statewide advocacy and educational campaign seeks to achieve justice by polishing the chain of friendship established in the first treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Dutch immigrants. Environmental cleanup and preservation are the core components of our campaign.
Source: http://honorthetworow.org/two-row-events-across-new-york-state-this-week/
