January 31, 2025 issue
to Plan for Settlement Expenditures President Rickey Armstrong’s Executive Order established the Opioid Task Force to develop an Opioid Response Plan to address and reduce the impact of addiction and opioid use in our Seneca communities. These plans are being developed in accordance with the Opioid Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Tribal Abatement Fund Trust. The Task […]
In 2018, the Seneca Nation filed suit in federal court in the Western District of New York against manufacturers and distributors of opioids for their role in the misuse, abuse, and over-prescription of opioids. Similar lawsuits were brought by hundreds of other Native nations, states, counties, and cities, and consolidated into multi-district litigation (MDL) in […]
Registration Open For WISPC! The Seneca Nation is honored to announce that Registration is now open for the 2024 World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference to be held July 22–25 at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino in Niagara Falls, New York. As Native Nations continue to struggle with preventing and recovering from the impacts of […]
EXECUTIVE ORDERContinuance of Exclusion for Cedric Cobb, Bradley Gabel and Ariel Eyoto WHEREAS, the Seneca Nation has the inherent right to exclude individuals from the territory of the Seneca Nation who cause harm or pose a threat to the health and safety of the Seneca Nation and Nation members; and WHEREAS, the Seneca Nation Council […]
Most of us do not have to think twice about this question. WE KNOW! Our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs in one form or another – the getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a […]
Who is Casa-Trinity? We are one of the few remaining Councils on Alcohol and Substance Abuse left in New York State. Although the original intent of Councils was a focus on alcohol and substance abuse services, our offerings have evolved over the past 15 years to encompass a full circle of care when it comes […]
716-532-8339 (24/7) Hotline Services with Connecting Communities In Action: 716-532-8185 Provides services to victims of a crime: Direct Supportive Services & linkages 24 Hour advocacy Emergency Shelter Assistance Court Accompaniment Transportation Therapy Compensation Assistance Supervised Visitation/Exchange Talking & Healing Circles offered monthly with Indigenous Seer & Healer, Christina Porter. Topics and conversation vary each month […]
SUNDAY: Narcotics Anonymous N/A10:30am – Saint Paul’s Church, 49 Indian Church Road, Buffalo, NY 142107:00pm – Amity Club, 340 Military Road, Buffalo, NY 14207 Alcoholics Anonymous A/A4:00pm – Language of the Heart – WOMENS, 2820 E. Church Street, Eden, NY 140577:00pm – The Well That Never Runs Dry, 10489 Main Street, North Collins, NY 14111 […]
A letter to the members of the Seneca Nation from the SENECA MOTHERS AGAINST DRUGS (SMAD): By Lucille White The Seneca Mothers against Drugs (SMAD) is a grassroots community group operating on both Territories. Our group was brought together due to our shared grief, our anger and frustration over the drug epidemic that is raging […]
Seneca Mothers Against Drugs By Lucille White There was no grand plan that day on July 26, 2020. There had been complaints all over Facebook about drug houses on the Cattaraugus Territory, but our community was paralyzed by fear of retaliation from the non-Seneca drug dealers, Seneca dealers and their network of customers and lack […]