Statement by Gaen hia uh, Betty Lyons (Onondaga Nation, Snipe Clan), President & Executive Director of the American Indian Law Alliance: “Governor Cuomo, in calling for adding the statue of Christopher Columbus to the State Register of Historic Places, and…
Read MoreHappy Indigenous People’s Day. That is what people are saying today in 90 cities and counties large and small across the country today, ranging from Los Angeles and Phoenix to Ithaca. This is not Columbus Day, NY Daily News Op-Ed…
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A Story of Survival Revived by the Cicadas’ Loud (and Crunchy) Return
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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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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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a brief photo gallery from the American Indian Law Alliance and Haudenosaunee Confederacy United Nations Meeting.
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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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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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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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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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