February 14, 2023 | By Sheila Regan, Star Tribune Rosy Simas, a Twin Cities-based transdisciplinary artist, has been selected to receive a fellowship award of $550,000 from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. She is one of six this year to receive the honor. The foundation doubled down on its support for the 2023 fellowship class […]
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NYS Fair Indian Village News
Submitted by Mary Jacobs NYS Fair – Cattaraugus Area Agricultural Society Meeting will be held Sunday, March 5th at 6pm in the Stanley Huff Heritage Center, Irving, NY. Ag. Society by-laws to be handed out for review and fundraising to be discussed New York State Fair Indian Village Meeting will be held Saturday, March 18, […]
Ganondagan Celebrates 20th Annual Native American Winter Games
February 18, 2023 | By Adriana Loh | spectrumlocalnews.com ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Ganondagan’s Native American winter games celebrated its 20th anniversary last weekend. Guests discovered the Seneca and Haudenosaunee ways of winter through traditional Native American activities. “We are in traditional Seneca territory, we’re still here, as Indigenous people,” cultural liaison at Ganondagan State Historic […]
Rosalee LeBeau Featured during Career & Technical Education Month
GCSD in Collaboration with BOCES At Gowanda Central School District they are celebrating February as Career & Technical Education Month. Rosalee LeBeau (Seneca, Cattaraugus Territory, Turtle clan, daughter of Vanessa Young & Brandon LeBeau) is a Gowanda High student studying Culinary Arts via the Career & Technical Education division of Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES. Rosalee is […]
IGS Monthly Meeting March 2023
Submitted by Leatha Jimerson Please join us for our first monthly meeting for the year 2023! We are beginning our 8th year with IGS! Time sure flies when you are enjoying finding out about your family history! Our meeting will be held March 9, 2023 at 6pm at the Cattaraugus Community Center (CCC) MPR-Room – […]
2023-2024 Fellowship Opportunities
in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society The Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia invites applications for sabbatical, postdoctoral, predoctoral, and short-term research fellowships to support research projects utilizing its collections. The APS’s Library & Museum houses one of North America’s oldest and largest […]
L.I.N.E. Student Spotlight Features Talon Welch
Linemen Institute of the North East – Spring Class of 2023 January 10, 2023 Talon Welch, 23, from Salamanca, NY, resides on the reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians – Allegany Territory. Talon comes to L.I.N.E. after previously attending the Line School in California, yet did not take his schooling to seriously, he was […]
Ja:göh Luanne Redeye,
2023 Artist in Business Leadership Fellow, selected as 1st Broome County Arts Council Artist in Residency Repost from First Peoples Fund “First Peoples Fund is ecstatic to extend our warmest congratulations to 2023 Artist in Business Leadership Fellow Luanne Redeye (Seneca)! Luanne was selected as the first Broome County Arts Council Artist in Residency! Born […]
New HR leader takes helm at UAHS
Ja:göh Lesley Zurek! January 30, 2023 | Upper Allegheny Health System Photo: Lesley Zurek appointed senior director of human resources at UAHS. Upper Allegheny Health System (UAHS), parent company of Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) and Olean General Hospital (OGH) announce the official appointment of Lesley Zurek as senior director of human resources. Lesley steps […]
Ja:göh Kade Nephew, Marcellus Plain, Stevieana Seneca, and Ciara Thompson
Credit: #LakeShoreCentralSchoolDistrict and family FB Ja:göh to the following students for all their efforts, hard work and continued dedication to excelling. Kade Nephew, Seneca, Cattaraugus Territory, Hawk clan, and his fellow selected “January Stunning Students.” The Freshman Academy honors students every month for embodying the six “Cs” of the Academy (compassion, character, consistency, cooperation, critical […]










