Syracuse.com by James McClendon jmcclendon@syracuse.com Onondaga Nation Clan Mother Wendy Gonyea remembers walking into the Westhill High School gym and coming face to face with an enormous blue image of a Native American on the wall. It was more than 30 years ago and the giant logo is long gone, but the expression of fear Gonyea saw on her 5-year-old daughter’s face has … [Read more...] about Onondaga Nation clan mother on schools’ use of Native American mascots: ‘What are we teaching our kids?’
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“The Good Mind” to premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Film highlights people, issues, and culture of the Onondaga Nation
New York, NY—For the Onondaga Nation, it’s all about relationships. Relationships with ancestors, relationships with governments, relationships with each other, and relationship with the natural world. Each of these is highlighted in The Good Mind, a new film by New York filmmaker Gwendolen Cates that will premiere on February 27, 2016 during the 13th annual Big Sky Documentary … [Read more...] about “The Good Mind” to premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Film highlights people, issues, and culture of the Onondaga Nation
THE GOOD MIND with Oren Lyons
Saturday October 22, 12:00PM at the Palace Theater, 2384 James Street, Syracuse, NY Presented by: Syracuse University Department of Religion and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications THE GOOD MIND (2015) by GWENDOLEN CATES (70 minutes) http://www.filminsyracuse.com The sovereign Onondaga Nation in central New York State is the Central Fire of the Haudenosaunee … [Read more...] about THE GOOD MIND with Oren Lyons
Oren Lyons Presents at U.N. 5/15/14
New York City: The Thirteenth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) Is being held from May 12- 23 2014, UN Headquarters, New York, NY. This is a forum established for world leaders to hear voices from indigenous people throughout the world. On Tuesday, May 13, 2014, Faithkeeper Oren Lyons presented to the UNPFII. He addressed in the … [Read more...] about Oren Lyons Presents at U.N. 5/15/14