Tag: Onondaga

Haudenosaunee values center around peace and humans’ spiritual connection to the Earth. Yet Oren watches the natural world drifting further away from how his ancestors intended it to be. He sees greed. Inequity. War. Natural disasters. Famine. Everything except peace.

Few people have had an impact on the sport like Simmons. Forget the 16 straight Final Fours, six National Championships and 290 career wins. Simmons has constantly advocated for lacrosse’s Indigenous roots. He didn’t bore his players with X’s and O’s. Instead, he gave them unlimited freedom, a homage to how lacrosse was first played.

Lyons and Simmons will receive the award named for their old friend at a dinner on Sept. 12, a Friday, at the Bellevue Country Club. Over the next two days, in an independent celebration, the annual Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Lacrosse Festival — along with the Restore Our Sacred Lake 5k Run — will be held at Onondaga…

McMahon gives Columbus statue new meaning: bartering chip The Onondaga Nation’s landback effort for a foothold on Onondaga Lake dates back to 2007, when Withers, a local businessman, began organizing a grassroots effort to give the Onondaga Nation a physical presence on their sacred lake. Withers spent years meeting with local and state elected officials,…

“We’ve given up enough. We have nothing left to give. We have nothing left to offer,” Lyons said. “They have taken all of it. They’ve already taken it all, and so we’re not bargaining.”