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Friday at the Harley School in Rochester, students, faculty, and community members gathered for a flag raising ceremony. This ...
Community leaders share how the construction of the Erie Canal impacted the Haudenosaunee people. The Erie Canal helped build a nation, but devastated the Haudenosaunee. Leaders of the ...
One of them was made up of Mohawk Indigenous people, and they won bronze. In the 1932 Olympics, where lacrosse was not a medal event, seven American colleges and an all-star team of Haudenosaunee ...
"Our proper name is Haudenosaunee, and that means 'people of the longhouse.' So, we decided it was time that people got our proper name," said Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons, honorary chairman of the ...
They call it the “medicine game,” which is a bit of a misnomer because lacrosse is more than just a game to the Haudenosaunee people. Much more. It’s the spirit of their ancestors.
Lacrosse exists in Buffalo courtesy of its roots in Haudenosaunee culture. The Haudenosaunee – Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, ...
Libraries are beacons of democracy and diversity of thought. And native people of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy are historically credited as a model for the U.S. Constitution. As a born-and-raised ...
Leon Sam Briggs, a Tonawanda Seneca member, showed guests how Haudenosaunee people tapped the trees to collect the sap, then boiled the sap down to condense its sugars. He said his ancestors used ...
The white belt with purple stripes, depicted on the left side of the mural, was used to record the treaty as the Haudenosaunee people did not use paper. Lazore explained that one purple stripe ...