In search of better health and nutrition, Natives go back to land.
Movement to promote indigenous farming sees uptick in Native Americans cultivating crops of their ancestors
Article and photo by Kayla Gahagan for Al Jazeera
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Neetopk Keetopk News
Earth Week: April 22 is celebrated as Earth Day.
Neetopk Keetopk will gather to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday afternoon, April 26, in Rosendale.
We will meet at Creative Co-op, 402 Main Street, at 1:50pm.
We will proceed to the Roundout Creek at 2pm for ceremony including fire, water, song, sharing and blessings.
Bring own chair if needed.
For more info, contact Etaoqua at etaoqua@juno.com
Other events:
May 3, Sunday, 1pm: ANA program – Songs and story telling with Nick Miles and ANA at Reservoir Methodist on RT 28
May 15, Friday, 7pm, ANA – Neetopk Keetopk meeting at Old Dutch, Kingston, NY, continuing Reconciliation discussion.
May 22-24, Friday – Sunday, Memorial Day Weekend – Sweat with Calvin Pompano and Paul Tobin at Point of Infinity. People are welcome to come and support the activities and participate in the ceremonies whether or not you wish to “sweat”. Contact Paul Tobin for more info at coyotesong1@hotmail.com
June 6, Sunday afternoon: Tree planting with Tom Porter, Calvin Pomano, Paul Tobin. Location being finalized. A pipe will be presented to Tom Porter.
June 13, Sat., Juneteenth in Kingston NY with ENJAN [End the New JimCrow Action Network] with Odell Winfield
Summer Solstice Celebration in Wappinger Falls, June 21, Sunday, Father’s Day, 11am -3pm. Hosted by Sarah Elisabeth’s Herb Garden at 59 Marlorville Road off Rt 9D: Fire, Cloud Breaker Drum, sharing, pipe and blessings. Bring chair and picnic lunch.
Respect Existence or Expect Resistance – Klee Benally in Brooklyn
Respect Existence or Expect Resistance
Short films, discussion, and an acoustic performance
for Indigenous resistance and liberation
Featuring Klee Benally (Diné from Flagstaff, AZ)
Monday, July 28, 2014 – 6:30 p.m.
at Interference Archive
131 8th Street – between 2nd & 3rd Avenues
Brooklyn, New York
(2 blocks from F/G/R trains at 4th Ave./9th St.)
Interference Archive Event Page
This presentation will address resource colonization
including uranium and coal mining,
protection of sacred places,
the ally industrial complex, and
tactics towards collective liberation.
www.indigenousaction.org
BIO:
Klee Benally is a Diné (Navajo) musician, traditional dancer, filmmaker, & Indigenous anarchist. He currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. Klee is originally from Black Mesa and has worked most of his life at the front lines in struggles to protect Indigenous sacred lands. From occupying Border Patrol headquarters in Arizona to call an end to border militarization to multiple arrests in direct action to protect the San Francisco Peaks and other threatened sacred places, Klee fights for a livable and healthy world.
Klee helped establish Táala Hooghan Infoshop, works with Indigenous Action Media, and is currently a campaign organizer for Clean Up The Mines!, a national effort to address toxic contamination caused by thousands of abandoned uranium mines throughout the US.
Learn more:
www.kleebenally.com
www.indigenousaction.org
www.protectthepeaks.org
www.taalahooghan.org
www.cleanupthemines.org
Monday July 28, 6:30pm
Interference Archive
131 8th Street #4
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(2 blocks from F/G/R trains at 4th Ave./9th St.)
UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya meets with Leonard Peltier
EPA Ruling on Wind River Reservation
From The Stream at Al Jazeera:
EPA ruling sets up battle over Indian country boundaries in Wyoming
Wind River Reservation photo by Karl Gehring/Denver Post/Getty Images
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead:
“My deep concern is about an administrative agency of the federal government altering a state’s boundary and going against over 100 years of history and law. This should be a concern to all citizens because, if the EPA can unilaterally take land away from a state, where will it stop?”
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History did not begin 100 years ago.
Native peoples of Turtle Island have been asking,
“Where will it stop?” for over five centuries.
In Memory of Carter Camp
From Censored News:
In Memory of Carter Camp
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Photo by Richard Erdoes
from the book
Ojibwa Warrior, Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Escuelita Zapatista and Tar Sands Resistance
FREEDOM IN OUR CALENDARS AND GEOGRAPHIES
ESCUELITA ZAPATISTA AND TAR SANDS RESISTANCE – REFLECTIONS FROM A SUMMER OF BUILDING AUTONOMY AND SOVEREIGNTY
Saturday, 12/21/13, 6p-8p @ Project Reach, 39 Eldridge between Canal & Hester in Chinatown
with La Unión, Native Resistance Network
All welcome, please invite all! $5-$35+ No one turned away for lack of funds
For childcare & interpretation, please email to info[at]nativeresistancenetwork.com
This summer, at the invitation of the autonomous zapatista caracoles lands in rebellion, a group of Sunset Parkers traveled to Chiapas, Mexico to join 1000+ students from around the world to participate in the zapatista’s first Escuelita Zapatista, La Libertad Según Los y Las Zapatistas (The Little Zapatista SchoolFreedom According to the Zapatistas). The escuelita was a profound experience and opportunity to learn about how the zapatistas have built, incorporated and imagined their autonomy into daily life and their Good Government. In this reflection, we will share our own journey, fotos, stories, art, short video clips, sound, as well as our experiences with the zapatistas to explore possibilities for autonomy in our own ‘calendars and geographies’ here.
Additionally, we will present on the resistance to tar sands development by indigenous and settler activists across Canada. This talk will focus on tar sands resistance and its expression of Indigenous sovereignty through land defense, blockading, and healing walks. Turtle, an NYC/NJ area activist and student, has spent the past two summers living in Alberta, participating in a growing anti-tar sands movement. This past summer, they travelled to the autonomous Unist’ot’en Action Camp in British Columbia ((http//unistotencamp.com/); to Fort McMurray, for grassroots healing walks (http//www.healingwalk.org/); and canoed down the Athabasca River to the small First Nations community of Fort Chipewyan. The latter which is a community heavily impacted by upstream tar sands mining. Turtle will share videos, photos, and memories of time spent and friendships made, learning about the various forms of resistance to tar sands development.
ESCUELITA ZAPATISTA Y TAR SANDS RESISTANCIAREFLEXIONES SOBRE CONSTRUIR AUTONOMIA Y SOBERANIA
Este verano, por invitación de los caracoles autónomos zapatistas, un grupo de vecinos de Sunset Park viajamos a Chiapas y participamos en la 1a Escuelita Zapatita, La Libertad según los y las zapatistas. Ven a compartir lo profundo de esta experiencia y a explorar con nosotr@s las posibilidades para crecer en autonomía en nuestros propios calendarios y geografías. Traemos fotos, videos, audios, historias y nuestras experiencias vividas. Trae las tuyas!
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Uptown location coming soon hopefully!
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NEW HORIZONS FOR THE OLD LEFT – WHAT THE ZAPATISTAS TEACH CHILDREN OF LEFTIES
Sunday, 12/29/13, 1p-4p @ The Commons
388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
Donations will be asked
For childcare & interpretation, please contactour.autonomies<at>gmail<dot>com or
(917) 525-3518
Join us, three children of Lefties, in reflecting about our time with the zapatistas this summer at the escuelita. In this workshop, we’ll explore perceptions that the Left and the non-Left have of one another and share strategiesas the non-Left, how do we navigate the Left? And to the Left, how do you not be irrelevant or alienating to others? We draw on a mix of being raised by Maoists and other Leftists, our experiences with the zapatistas, and our experiences organizing and studying. Be prepared to participate and donate funds as you will.
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Wednesday, 1/1/14, Time & Locations TBA
Co-sponsored by Bluestockings
¡Celebrate! 20 years of zapatista uprising. Movies, pictures, escuelita report-back, fun!
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For more info and updates, visit http//bit.ly/ourautonomies
Contact us (our.autonomies<at>gmail<dot>com, 917-525-3518) if you can’t make it and you want us to come to your neighborhood, church, state, crew, city, school–near or far–to share freedom in our calendars and geographies!
Download the flyer in English.
Download the flyer in Spanish.
Oren Lyons at NMAI New York City
Peter Seeger, folksinger and environmental activist,
will make a special guest appearance
with
Welcome Remarks
Kevin Gover
Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
and
Oren Lyons
Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs and
the Haudenosaunee Grand Council
Tonya Gonnella Fricher
(Snipe Clan, Onondaga Nation)
President of the American Indian Law Alliance
Andy Mager
Project Coordinator for the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign
Moderated by
Philip P. Arnold
Interim Director of Native American Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Religion,
Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign–400th Anniversary
HonorTheTwoRow.org
This event is being held to bring wider attention to an education and advocacy campaign initiated by the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation with major support from Syracuse University. It marks the 400th anniversary of the Two Row Wampum Treaty, the first treaty between Native Americans and Europeans. The campaign works to raise awareness of native treaties and protection of the earth. Protecting our water by supporting the anti-fracking movement in New York State is a particular focus.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
6-8 p.m.
National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green, New York City
Honor the Two Row Treaty – Symbolic Enactment
Native Resistance Network is a proud sponsor of the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, a partnership between the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON). They are developing a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and their allies in New York and throughout the world. Their statewide advocacy and educational campaign seeks to achieve justice by “polishing” the chain of friendship established in the first treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Dutch immigrants. Environmental cleanup and preservation is a core component of their campaign.
The Two Row Treaty (pictured above) is a belt of wampum beads. The two parallel rows of purple beads represent the courses of the Native canoe and the non-Native sailing ship. The treaty depicted an agreement that both peoples would travel together in their respective vessels as brothers in the river of friendship. We’d remain on parallel courses, meaning that neither group would attempt to steer the other’s vessel, or to make laws or set policies that would affect the lives of the other. We’d live side by side in the woodlands, without taking more than we needed. The treaty was made in 1613. It is a solemn agreement and the supreme law of the land.
2013 will mark the 400th Anniversary of this treaty. To honor this anniversary, we are being called upon to “polish the chain” of friendship and to stem the tide of damage being done to Mother Earth.
In Summer 2013, NOON and the Onondaga Nation will be staging a Symbolic Enactment of the Two Row Treaty, in which Haudenosaunee canoes and non-Native sailing ships will travel together down the Hudson River, ultimately arriving in New York City on August 9th, which is the UN’s Day of the World’s Indigenous People. In late July/early August, members of NOON and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy did a trial run of the Symbolic Enactment. Members of the Native Resistance Network, along with other Hudson Valley environmental activists, met the boats, canoes and kayaks at Kingston and Poughkeepsie, welcoming them with a pot luck supper.
We encourage you to visit the web sites of NOON and the Onondaga Nation, and to view the video “Brighten the Chain” (12 minutes) which the Onondaga put together to share information about their Land Rights Action. You can follow NOON on Twitter and like them on Facebook to receive future updates.
All photos of the Symbolic Enactment shown here are by Jeremy Schaller. See additional photos by Andrew Courtney here.
Screening of Broken Rainbow at the Brecht Forum
The Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee presented Broken Rainbow, a documentary film that presents a moving account of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo Native Americans from their ancestral homes in Arizona by the government. The Navajo were relocated to aid mining speculation in a process that began in the 1970s and continues to this day. The United States government claims that by moving the Navajo off the land, it is settling a long-standing dispute between the Navajo and Hopi Tribes. To the traditional Navajo and Hopi, there is no dispute.
Native Resistance Network co-sponsored the event and one of our founders, Firewolf Bizahaloni-Wong (Dine) and Jerry Greyhawk (Dine) spoke before the presentation of the film, then took questions from the audience afterwards. Firewolf is a member of Black Mesa Coalition and an advocate for Dine Water Rights.
