Onondaga Nation

Syracuse Post Standard By Elizabeth Doran Staff writer At the Onondaga Nation School, the week begins and ends with pupils giving thanks in the Onondaga language. All the schoolchildren gather in a circular room beneath a glass dome in the school's cultural center. They sit around a large green turtle representing Mother Earth inlaid into the floor. Each week a … [Read more...] about Onondaga Nation School teaches three Rs alongside Native beliefs

Syracuse Post Standard By Elizabeth Doran Staff writer Tadadaho Sid Hill, spiritual leader of the Onondaga Nation, spoke about the significance of the Onondaga Nation School and about attitudes on the nation toward education. Why is the Onondaga Nation School important? The school brings the community together with events and enables parents to get involved. … [Read more...] about Spiritual leader sees importance of Onondaga Nation School

Syracuse Post Standard By Elizabeth Doran Staff writer The Onondaga Nation School is taking an unusual approach to teaching in an effort to boost its pupils' state test scores. The school last year adopted collaborative, or "team," teaching in math and other core classes. Collaborative teaching traditionally involves a classroom teacher who periodically teams … [Read more...] about Onondaga Nation uses team teaching to improve scores

Syracuse Post Standard By Philip P. Arnold Syracuse University It wasn't until the Onondaga Nation filed its "land rights action" in U.S. Federal Court March 11, 2005, that I became fully aware of my living in a toxic soup. This action has identified over 90 Superfund sites in an area that extends from Canada south to the Pennsylvania line; through Watertown, … [Read more...] about Toxic Soup

Syracuse Post Standard By Delen Goldberg Staff writer Almost 100 people showed up Thursday at the state fairgrounds to discuss Honeywell International's strategy to clean Onondaga Lake, and the vast majority said they supported the company's plans. Only a handful of speakers criticized the cleanup project. The state Department of Environmental Conservation … [Read more...] about Many praise Honeywell’s plan; some say it’s not enough

The goal: bridging traditional ecological knowledge, conventional science. Syracuse Post Standard By Delen Goldberg Staff writer Robin Kimmerer has a goal. She wants to make sure that every environmental scientist who graduates from the State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry has an understanding of issues facing Native Americans. She … [Read more...] about ESF launches Native Peoples Center

Onondaga Nation objects to making Lake smaller Syracuse Post Standard By Delen Goldberg Staff writer This week, giant drills will plunge dozens of feet into the bottom of Onondaga Lake to bore huge holes in the lake floor. Thursday, workers will begin filling the holes with steel pilings, the first step in Honeywell International's plan to build a barrier wall in … [Read more...] about How to detoxify Onondaga Lake