Registration Is Open! Featuring local Seneca artists, academics and storytellers!
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Elder and student registration is free! (Please email indigenous-studies@buffalo.edu or call 716-645-7923 to receive discount code)
Vendors are asked to email: indigenous-studies@buffalo.edu to reserve a spot.
Ja:no’s Bowen will present with her daughter, Gahsenide Hubbell, student at Cornell University. Bowen will share how traditional teachings taught her to walk in two very different worlds without losing her Indigenous identity.
“In our presentation, my daughter and I will discuss our academic work (including both Haudenosaunee and Western academia); the ways in which we have merged this work; the passing down of knowledge from generation to generation; and tools we have equipped ourselves with on this journey to maintain a strong sense of who we are as Haudenosaunee women.
While I might have several degrees from non-Native educational institutions, I have used my education to develop Seneca language accessibility for our community members.
My work as a Seneca language director and educator stems from our teachings which encourage us to use our gifts to build up our people,” shared Bowen.
Maurice John, Jr., along with Hayden Haynes and Jamie Jacobs will discuss the process of the finishing the Bone Comb. “I will be showing the short film I made and discuss how over the course of a year we filmed the complicated task and how much pressure the situation actually had.
“I would like to encourage more people in the community to get into the arts, including film making. Everyone already has the tools at our fingertips, we just need creative energy and motivation to tell our stories,” shared John, Jr.
