Submitted by the Onöhsagwë: de’ Cultural Center
April 3 – (In person & Virtual), Rebecca Bowen (Seneca, Bear Clan)
“Da-yo-it-ga-o, The spot where the river breaks through the hills. Squawkie Hill, Remembering the old homeland.”
BIO: A citizen of the Seneca Nation, born to the Bear Clan, a mother and grandmother. Born and raised on the Allegany/Ohi:yo’ Territory. Prior to the forced removal of Seneca families from our homesteads on Ohi:yo’, lived with extended family in the Red House community and attended the Allegany Indian School. Dedicated to the preservation and advancement of Seneca Nation history.
Over four decades of work experience within the Seneca Nation organization that includes the Education Department, the Health System, the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, the Seneca Nation Clerk’s Office (served one term as Seneca Nation Deputy Clerk), and currently the Manager of the Archives Department housed at the Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center. Served as an adjunct professor at Jamestown Community College and St. Bonaventure University from 2001 to 2004. Served as a community and historical resource for In the Shadow of Kinzua: The Seneca Nation of Indians Since World War II (2014) and The History of the Seneca Nation of Indians: An Instructional Manual for the Secondary Schools (2019, revised edition) by Dr. Laurence M. Hauptman and The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam: Forced Relocation Through Two Generations (1998) by Dr. Joy A. Bilharz. Interviewed for the PBS documentary Lake of Betrayal (2017, Toward Castle Films).
April 10- (In person & Virtual) , Scott Manning Stevens
“Unpacking the Doctrine of Discovery” – This talk considers how several 15th century papal decrees about colonization were imported into U.S. Federal Indian Law and still influence the government’s justification for the continuing dispossession of Indigenous lands.
BIO: Scott Manning Stevens, PhD is Associate Professor of Native American Studies and English, Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, and Founding Director of the Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice, Syracuse University. Dr. Stevens, a citizen of the Akwesasne Mohawk nation, earned PhD from Harvard University. He has been awarded a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University, a Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and in 2021 was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship for his new book project which confronts alienation and appropriation of Native American culture in museums, galleries, and archives. Dr. Stevens’ primary areas of interest include diplomatic and cultural strategies of resistance among Indigenous North Americans in the face of European and American settler colonialism, as well as the political and aesthetic issues that surround museums and the Indigenous cultures they put on display. Stevens is also preparing to publish a book-length research project titled “Indian Collectibles: Encounters, Appropriations, and Resistance in Native North.” He is the co-editor of Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians and Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North.
To access the link for the virtual option, please visit our website.
Reminder: Spring Break Activities
At the Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center (OCC)
Spring break for our school aged students is quickly approaching! During the week of April 2-5, 2024, stop on down to the Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center and join local artists from the Good Medicine Creatives collective as they share their expertise in mediums such as leather working, painting, sewing, cornhusk, storytelling, etc.
Call the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum for more information & to sign-up at 716-945-1790 or email
Info@senecamuseum.org.
Spring Break Activities Schedule:
