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Rev. Nick Miles and Dr. Airy Dixon at Judson

2013_8.5x11_nrn.inddTHE 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.

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Building Circles of Trust

Building Circles of Trust

“Building Circles of Trust – The Economic Theory of the Algonquin People”
A Talk by Evan Pritchard
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Sunday, February 24th, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
New York, New York
212. 477.0351
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Evan will expand on themes of “trust” from his landmark talk “Circles of Trust” given at St. Mary’s Church in Harlem, last November. He will talk about traditional Algonquin Way of the Heron,” as well as contemporary social movements including “Idle No More” in Canada, and the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign in New York State. The service will be followed by a “talk-back” Q and A session.
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Evan Pritchard of Mi’kmaq and Celtic descent, is the author of the critically acclaimed books, No Word For Time, Native American Stories of the Sacred, Native New Yorkers, and its sequel, Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York. As founder and director of the Center for Algonquin Culture in Woodstock/Pine Hill, he has worked with countless elders to help preserve the ancient history of North America. Evan has taught Native American studies courses at Marist, Vassar, and at Pace University, and lectures widely across the Eastern US and Canada.  His latest book is Bird Medicine: The Importance of Birds in Native American Spiritual Traditions— and Why They are More Endangered Than Ever Before. He is currently working on an interactive educational DVD/film/ebook on Anishinabe musical and cultural traditions for Global Voices.

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Two Row Campaign at Judson Memorial Church

Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign at Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
New York, New York
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Starting Sunday January 27th,11:00am, Judson will be hosting a series of Native American Testimonies on the last Sunday of every month, as part of the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign.  The first guest speakers will offer poetry and information on the campaign.
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Firewolf Bizahaloni-Wong is Dine’ (Navajo & Apache) and her clans are Bitter Water born for Red Clay.  Her father, Jimmie Bidziil Bizahaloni, was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and Indians of All Nations that took over Alcatraz Island in 1969.  A lifelong activist, Firewolf became a member of AIM as a teenager, has been part of the Black Mesa Coalition since it’s inception, and is a co-founder of Native Resistance Network.
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Sally Bermanzohn, an ally of Indigenous rights, is active in the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, and a member of Native Resistance Network.  Now retired, she taught social movements and Native American Studies at Brooklyn College, and wrote Through Survivors’ Eyes, and coauthored Violence and Politics: Globalization’s Paradox.
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The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign:
A partnership between the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) is developing a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and their allies in New York and throughout the world. This 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, and opposition to hydro-fracking are the core components of the campaign.

Two Row History:
The Two Row Wampum belt is the symbolic record of the first agreement between Europeans and American Indian Nations on Turtle Island/North America. 2013 will mark the 400th anniversary of this first covenant, which forms the basis for the covenant chain of subsequent treaty relationships made by the Haudenosaunee and other Native Nations with settlers on this continent. The agreement outlines a mutual, three-part commitment to friendship, peace between peoples, and living in parallel forever (as long as the grass is green, as long as the rivers flow downhill and as long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west). Throughout the years, the Haudenosaunee have sought to honor this mutual vision and have increasingly emphasized that ecological stewardship is a fundamental prerequisite for this continuing friendship.

Symbolic Enactment:
A focal point of the year-long educational and advocacy Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign will be a symbolic “enactment” of the treaty in the summer of 2013. It will bring the treaty to life with Haudenosaunee and other Native People paddling side-by-side with allies and supporters down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City. These two equal, but separate rows will demonstrate the wise, yet simple concept of the Two Row Wampum Treaty.

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