Check out Dispatches, a new blog
by founding Native Resistance Network member Demelza,
featuring personal reflections and hard hitting essays.
Especially compelling is this essay on Decolonization.
Lenny Foster at Casa de las Américas
SAVE THE DATE
Lenny Foster: Native American Issues and Leonard Peltier
Friday, May 24, 2013
6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Casa de las Américas, 182 E. 111th St. (btwn. Lex. Ave. and 3rd Ave.)
Reception from 6:30 to 7 p.m.
Light Refreshments Will Be Served
Lenny will speak on Native American Spirituality, the Prison System, Environmental Issues Affecting Native Lands and Native American Prisoner of War Leonard Peltier
Lenny Foster of the Diné Nation is the Director of the Navajo Nation Corrections Project and the Spiritual Advisor for more than 2,000 Indian inmates in ninety-six state and federal prisons in the Western U.S. He has co-authored legislation in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado allowing Native American spiritual and religious practice in prison and resulting in significant reductions in prison returns.
He is a board member of the International Indian Treaty Council, a sun dancer and member of the Native American Church. He has been with the American Indian Movement since 1969 and has participated in actions including Alcatraz, Black Mesa, the Trail of Broken Treaties, Wounded Knee 1973, the Menominee Monastery Occupation, Shiprock Fairchild Occupation, the Longest Walk and the Big Mountain land struggle. He was a 1993 recipient of the City of Phoenix Dr. Martin Luther King Human Rights Award.
Lenny will speak on the illegal imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, land and resources taken from Native peoples by the U.S. government, stripmining, uranium mining and the pollution of the land, air and water, Native American freedom of religion and the demand to honor Native treaty rights.
Sponsors: NYC LPDOC Chapter, NYC Jericho Movement,
ProLibertad (list in formation)
For more info:
nyclpdoc@gmail.com • 646-429-2059
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Rev. Nick Miles and Dr. Airy Dixon at Judson
THE TWO ROW WAMPUM
RENEWAL CAMPAIGN
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A TALK BY REV. NICK MILES (POWHATAN) AND
DR. HERIBERTO “AIRY” DIXON (TUTELO-MUSKOKE)
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Sunday, May 19, 2013 – 11:00 a.m.
Followed by a Discussion with Nick Miles and Airy Dixon
at 12:30 p.m. (after the service)
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“Mitakuye Oyasin” is a phrase that all people should embrace and adopt as the foundation of one’s life.
It is basis of life for the Sioux and embodies
the values of the Christian faith.
How we go about building authentic relationships with
Native American/First Nation People requires that
we educate and live by the 3 R’s:
Remembrance, Reconciliation and Recommitment.
Rev. Nick Miles traces his family back to the uncle of Pocahontas, Opechancanough. He is a member of the Pamunkey Tribe, Powhatan Nation, in Virginia, his father and brother previous chiefs of the tribe. Rev. Miles is recently retired, having served for 39 years as the pastor of United Reformed Church in Bloomington, New York. He continues serving the larger church as an occasional preacher and consultant. Nick is also the Lead Singer and Drum Keeper of the Cloudbreaker Society, Association of Native Americans of the Mid-Hudson Valley.
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Dr. Heriberto “Airy” Dixon (Tutelo-Muskoke) is an elder of the Saponi Nation of Ohio. Retired Associate Professor of Human Resources Management at the Milano School of Management, New School University. Retired Lecturer in Business and Native American History, SUNY New Paltz. Author, presenter, researcher and Seminole reenactor. Currently researching Eastern Siouen migration north to Iroquoia, and south to the Seminole. Dr. Dixon is also a student of Native American theology.
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A Talk with Freida Jacques and Jack Manno
Join us for a Talk
The Two Row History – The Paddle – The Future
by Onondaga Clan Mother, Freida J. Jacques and
Jack Manno, from SUNY Environmental Forestry
Friday, May 17, 2013
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
The Nyack Center
58 DePew Avenue (corner of So. Broadway)
Nyack, NY
Talk followed by live music and conversation
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Frieda Jacques to speak at NYSDEC Event
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Wendy Rosenbach
Monday, May 6, 2013
(845) 256 -3018
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DEC SERIES AT TIVOLI LIBRARY CONTINUES ON May 16
Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Hudson River Research Reserve (Research Reserve) and the Village of Tivoli continue their monthly series entitled “Tivoli Bays Talks” on Thursday, May 16, 2013, from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Jack Manno, a professor of Environmental Studies at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Frieda Jacques, a Clanmother of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs, will enlighten us about the history and future of the Two Row Wampum.
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The Two Row Wampum is a 400-year-old treaty with the Dutch, the founders of New Netherlands, which became New York State. The concepts explained in this agreement are the basis of diplomatic relations between the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois Confederacy) and the United States to this day.
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The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign is a statewide effort to promote understanding and respect for Native Nations. This campaign will also highlight our common obligation to protect our environment. Our campaign will do this by holding educational events throughout the year, which will include an epic canoe trip in August on the Hudson River.
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“Tivoli Bays Talks” take place seasonally in the Tivoli Free Library. The library is located in the Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, New York 12583. Programs cover a wide range of topics connecting the Tivoli Bays to the Village of Tivoli and the Hudson River. The library is wheelchair accessible. Talks begin promptly. Admission is free. For directions or further information, call 845-889-4745 x109.
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Tivoli Bays can be accessed from public areas on both Route 9G and Kidd Lane.
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For more information about the NYSDEC Hudson River Research Reserve:
http://nerrs.noaa.gov/Reserve.aspx?ResID=HUD
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4915.html
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For more information about the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign:
http://honorthetworow.org/
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Knowing the Land is Resistance
Knowing the Land is Resistance: Towards an Anarchist Ecology essays
On the Canadian side of Turtle Island is a group of folks known as Knowing the Land is Resistance. They’re doing some interesting work, and I just wanted to link and highlight some of that work. You can look at their entire website here.
One of their recent projects is on developing ideas towards an Anarchist Ecology. During the month of April they will be posting essays in relation to this, and the first essay, an introduction, can be found here.
Happy reading!
Tonya Gonnella Frichner at Judson
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How to be an Indigenous Ally
Native Resistance Network members and colleagues will be presenting a workshop this coming Saturday at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair. It’s titled “Custer Died For Your Sins: How to be an Indigenous Ally”.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street – Room 203
New York, NY 10002
Native Resistance Network will also have a table at the Book Fair. If you’ll be attending, please stop by and say hello.
