Join us for a Talk
The Two Row History – The Paddle – The Future
by Onondaga Clan Mother, Freida J. Jacques and
Jack Manno, from SUNY Environmental Forestry
Friday, May 17, 2013
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
The Nyack Center
58 DePew Avenue (corner of So. Broadway)
Nyack, NY
Talk followed by live music and conversation
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Wendy Rosenbach
Monday, May 6, 2013
(845) 256 -3018
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DEC SERIES AT TIVOLI LIBRARY CONTINUES ON May 16
Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Hudson River Research Reserve (Research Reserve) and the Village of Tivoli continue their monthly series entitled “Tivoli Bays Talks” on Thursday, May 16, 2013, from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Jack Manno, a professor of Environmental Studies at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Frieda Jacques, a Clanmother of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs, will enlighten us about the history and future of the Two Row Wampum.
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The Two Row Wampum is a 400-year-old treaty with the Dutch, the founders of New Netherlands, which became New York State. The concepts explained in this agreement are the basis of diplomatic relations between the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois Confederacy) and the United States to this day.
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The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign is a statewide effort to promote understanding and respect for Native Nations. This campaign will also highlight our common obligation to protect our environment. Our campaign will do this by holding educational events throughout the year, which will include an epic canoe trip in August on the Hudson River.
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“Tivoli Bays Talks” take place seasonally in the Tivoli Free Library. The library is located in the Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, New York 12583. Programs cover a wide range of topics connecting the Tivoli Bays to the Village of Tivoli and the Hudson River. The library is wheelchair accessible. Talks begin promptly. Admission is free. For directions or further information, call 845-889-4745 x109.
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Tivoli Bays can be accessed from public areas on both Route 9G and Kidd Lane.
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For more information about the NYSDEC Hudson River Research Reserve:
http://nerrs.noaa.gov/Reserve.aspx?ResID=HUD
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4915.html
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For more information about the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign:
http://honorthetworow.org/
From The New York Times:
Knowing the Land is Resistance: Towards an Anarchist Ecology essays
On the Canadian side of Turtle Island is a group of folks known as Knowing the Land is Resistance. They’re doing some interesting work, and I just wanted to link and highlight some of that work. You can look at their entire website here.
One of their recent projects is on developing ideas towards an Anarchist Ecology. During the month of April they will be posting essays in relation to this, and the first essay, an introduction, can be found here.
Happy reading!
Native Resistance Network members and colleagues will be presenting a workshop this coming Saturday at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair. It’s titled “Custer Died For Your Sins: How to be an Indigenous Ally”.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street – Room 203
New York, NY 10002
Native Resistance Network will also have a table at the Book Fair. If you’ll be attending, please stop by and say hello.
Native Resistance Network’s new zine, Water, will be available next week.
Visit our table at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair, April 6th and 7th.
Say hello and take a look.
Table of Contents:
Mni
Let the Land Speak for Itself
Call Me Mohicanituck
Water is Life
Prisons and Sovereignty
Listening to Sandy
We’ll also be making a .pdf of the zine available on this web site.
Native Resistance Network will have a table at this year’s NYC Anarchist Book Fair.
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This year’s book fair moves from the genteel West Village to the rough-and-tumble Lower East Side, the real historic hub of dissident squatter and anarchist culture, where we’ll reconnect with other LES organizations in a nucleus of uprising, conspiracy, and mutual confabulation bringing together for the general public two days of books and book reading, lectures, workshops, pamphlets, broadsides, zines, films, demos, skill shares, and much much more. (There will be weekly updates as events, presses, and speakers sign on.) In addition to being hosted by the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, a dynamic multicultural center on Rivington & Suffolfk Streets, the book fair will partner events with Bluestockings and ABC No Rio, all within walking distance (very close!)
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In previous years, publishers have included AK, Fifth Estate, PM, Semiotext, WW3, Crimethinc, Black Cat, IWW, Institute for Anarchist Studies, Earth Journal, Native Resistance, OWS, Red Emma’s, Seven Stories, Bread & Puppet Press, Books Through Bars, Black Cross Federation, Charles Kerr, Combustion Books, Earth First! Journal, etc.
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Panels, workshops, lectures have focused on a range of topics, from Anarchism and Intersectionality; Community-based Exchange: Mutual Aid Models with Rock Dove Collective; Radical Parenting, Sex, Sobriety, and More; Greece 2008; Hacking Your Library to the ABCs of Squatting; Defending Our Land, Air, and Water; The Politics of Disaster; Anarchist People of Color; Another Year of the Economic Crisis; and more!
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Films and Art events have included: The NYC Anarchist Art Festival and Film Festival, and including performances, music, installations, video art, dance, sculpture, drawing, experimentation, and collaboration.
Update: Native Resistance Network members and colleagues will be hosting a workshop at the book fair. Click here for details.
Who’s Got Reservations? Journalism In Indian Country
When: Monday, April 1, 7-9 p.m.
Where: Columbia Journalism School, Joseph Pulitzer World Room (third floor), 2950 Broadway at 116th Street
*Free to the public*
The popular narrative of Indigenous North Americans, “American Indians,” “Native Americans,” or simply “Natives” living in Indian Country, i.e. the Native American community, is often shaped from a western perspective. It comes of no surprise to Natives that indigenous peoples are misrepresented far too often and crafted into stereotypical mystical beings that “once roamed the west” but are supposedly no longer around. As it is said, listen the language used.
The continual genocidal action against Native peoples manifests explicitly when mainstream media dramatizes Indian Country and exploits the rich culture, spirituality and strength of these multifaceted communities. Superficial media coverage on Indian Country (or any country) handicaps real solutions.
Indigenous North Americans continually fight for and maintain their sophisticated sovereignty despite years of colonization. The general American irreverent ignorance about Native Americans only further marginalizes the people whom are the original inhabitants of North America.
How does one begin to educate non-Natives so they can eschew stereotypes in order to begin understanding and seeing the dynamic truth that is Native America?
We wish to explore the critical role of contemporary media in Native America with the scholars, activists and media professionals whom have extensive experience advocating for or reporting from Indian Country.
Panelists:
Harvard PhD candidate and Native Appropriations author, Adrienne Keene (Cherokee): http://nativeappropriations.com/
Indian Country Today Op-Ed Editor, Ray Cook (Mohawk): http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/author/ray-cook
Canadian Aboriginal Journalist, Musician, and Director of Indigenous Inclusion at the University of Winnipeg, Wab Kinew (Midewin):http://wabkinew.ca/
Actor and Activist, well known from “Skins,” “Dreamkeeper,” “Into The West,” and as “Sam Uley” from the “Twilight Saga” film series “New Moon,” “Eclipse,” and “Breaking Dawn” parts 1 & 2, Chaske Spencer (Lakota Sioux): http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftherealchaske.com%2F&h=uAQGaobrp&s=1
Columbia Journalism School Dean of Academic Affairs and founding editor of the weekly Dakota Sun on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota and co-author of “The Story So Far: What We Know About The Business of Digital Journalism,” Bill Grueskin: http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/profile/40-bill-grueskin/10
