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Monthly Archives: May 2013
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
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.
