We want to share this new op-ed, “Dreamers Must be Protected – as Indigenous Peoples Were Not,” by Betty Lyons, President of the American Indian Law Alliance, which was published today in The Guardian. Please share and post this op-ed…
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Buy tickets: Haudenosaunee Influence on Early Feminism
Details: Haudenosaunee Influence on the Women’s Rights Movement: Then & Now Date: April 18, 2018, Time: 6-9pm Place: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106, 435 West 116th St, NYC Tickets: $20 per person
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United Nations Photo Gallery
a brief photo gallery from the American Indian Law Alliance and Haudenosaunee Confederacy United Nations Meeting.
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Coverage from the People’s State of the Union
The New York Amsterdam News write up of the #PeoplesSOTU mentions Betty Lyons speech on the Haudenosaunee influence on democracy and the women’s rights movement.
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NYC, Wells Fargo, and the DAPL
Coverage of our efforts to get NYC to pull money from Wells Fargo over their funding of DAPL: Coverage from event: Dakota Pipeline protests come to Wall Street: Native American activists hope to pressure big banks to back off Indigenous…
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The People’s State of the Union
We were honored to be part of the Peoples State of the Union on Monday, January 29, 2018 and to provide an Indigenous opening to the event. Mark Ruffalo welcomed Tadodaho Sid Hill of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy & the Onondaga…
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The Fight for Indigenous Peoples Day
It is essential to remember, or learn in the first place, that Columbus’ transatlantic voyages and those of the other European explorers were protected under the Doctrine of Discovery, especially Inter Caetera, issued in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI as…
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Calling on Cuomo to save Eagles and halt pipeline
Clara Soaring Hawk and Betty Lyons co-wrote an op-ed calling on Governor Cuomo to halt construction on the Millennium Valley Lateral Pipeline out of respect for Mother Earth and to save the Bald Eagles who nest in the area. As…
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Say no to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Respect indigenous sovereignty, sacred lands, and treat Mother Earth with dignity.
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National publication, The Atlantic
“The Iroquois Are Not Giving Up Confronted with a string of unfavorable court rulings, the Confederacy staged a 13-day demonstration to kickstart a social movement” by Julian Taub, Aug 17, 2013.
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