Thursday, November 8 at 12:00pm: AILA’s President Betty Lyons (Onondaga Nation) will offer the keynote address at Iona College’s annual Week of the Peacemaker. The title of her keynote address is: “We Know Our Relatives: Indigenous Nations Rejecting Colonial Borders.”…
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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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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
Read Morea brief photo gallery from the American Indian Law Alliance and Haudenosaunee Confederacy United Nations Meeting.
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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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In 2016 American Indian Law Alliance (AILA) and members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy met with then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon. During the meeting they discussed the efforts to restore Onondaga Lake in particular and Mother Earth in…
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“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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