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Post Commander Connects Seneca Nation Teens with Native Traditions in April Magazine

The American Legion

April 03, 2023 | legion.org

Check out the April issue of The American Legion Magazine, now online, with feature article by Ronald Cook, Jr. Alarmed by the loss of three youth to drug overdoses in their Seneca Nation community in southwestern New York, Army Veteran Ron Cook Jr. approached the tribe’s leaders with a plan. “The primary focus is to strengthen the family unit,” says Cook, commander of Iroquois American Legion Post 1587. “I developed this program that was traditionally oriented to go back to our old ways on teaching our young people how to be strong, resilient and able to handle adversities.”

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