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Special event
 
       
   

 

   
   

Sharing the River of Life: Honoring Native Treaties and Protecting the Earth

   
    Oren Lyons  

Tuesday, March 12
Diker Pavilion

6 - 8 pm - FREE

Presented by the National Museum of the American Indian and Syracuse University. 

The 400 Year Anniversary of the Two Row Wampum Treaty is a campaign intiated by the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation to raise awareness of Native treaties and protection of the earth.
"Sharing the River of Life: Honoring Native Treaties and Protecting the Earth" will introduce visitors to the history of The Two Row Wampum Belt as the Haudenosaunee record of the first agreement between the Haudenosuanee and the Dutch settlers.  

Welcome Remarks
Kevin Gover, director, National Museum of the American Indian
and
Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs and The Haudenosaunee Grand Council

Tanya Gonnella Fricher (Snipe Clan, Onondaga Nation), President of the American Indian Law Alliance 

Andy Mager, Project Coordinator, Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign

Phillip P. Arnold, Interim Director of Native American Studies

with special guest appearance by Peter Seeger, folksinger and environmental activist


R.S.V.P to
(212) 710-5583 or email sulubin@syr.edu.


 



   
         
  Top: Canandaigua, Two Row, and Haudenosuanee Confederacy Wampum Belts. Photo by Lindsay Speer. Left: Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation Fathkeeper.
     
         
 
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