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Calling All Food Truck Owners!

Food Truck Fridays are returning to the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center this summer! This year, craft vendors are welcome to setup as well. Please call Stephanie at (716) 945-1790, ext. 3852 if you’re interested in participating.

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Lucille Jimerson and Timothy Williams Receive NYS Seal of Biliteracy

Repost from Silver Creek Central School District FB Ja:göh Lucille Jimerson and Timothy Williams, both seniors at Silver Creek High School, for receiving the prestigious New York State Seal of Biliteracy and being the first ever to receive the distinction for Onöndowa’ga:’ Gawë:nö’ (Seneca Language)!! “Five Silver Creek students have received the prestigious Seal of […]

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Ja:göh Yanenowi Logan!

May 13, 2024 | Repost from American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program FB Yanenowi (She Guards the Corn) Logan (Seneca) is graduating with a degree in Environment & Sustainability from the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a minor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Cornell University. Yanenowi served as […]

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Jöhehgöh” They Sustain Us

Indigenous Food Event at Ganondagan Join us at Ganondagan for “Jöhehgöh” They Sustain Us – Indigenous Food Event with Braiding Sweetgrass author, Robin Kimmerer (Potawatomi), chef Loretta Barrett Oden (Potawatomi), and Haudenosaunee culture bearers for demonstrations, hands-on activities, speaking, and a delicious, Indigenous lunch. This will be an engaging cultural experience as two internationally known […]

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Indigenous Cancer Health Film Premier

Film screening followed by a Haudenosaunee Social! The Roswell Park Department of Indigenous Cancer Health will be holding a film screening on Tuesday, June 11th at 6pm. Plus, get a chance to hear from Kaniehtiio Horn, actress featured in Rez Dogs, Hemlock Grove, Letterkenny, and more! This event is free and open to the public.

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Notes from Red House Memorial Chapel

8077 East Loop Rd., Jimersontown Submitted by Winfield Bowen Under the leadership of Elder Winfield Bowen and his wife Aline, the chapel is the continuation of the church that was adjacent to the Indian school in the old community of Red House. We celebrate on Sunday mornings with a three piece praise band led by […]

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News from Pleasant Valley Baptist Church

12557 Route 438, Irving, NY Submitted by Kathy Bloom Is Genesis History? was the title of the movie shown at our last movie night of the season. What an experience as various scientists, biologists, and archeologists ‘took us’ as viewers to places all over the world, such as the Grand Canyon, showing that the events […]

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US President Biden Signs Proclamation

Declaring May 5, 2024 as Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day Repost from NCAI President Joe Biden has signed a Presidential Proclamation declaring May 5, 2024, as Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, urging all Americans and every level of government to support Tribal Nations in raising awareness, addressing this crisis of violence, […]

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Annual Boat Race in Support of Mental Health Awareness Month

In collaboration with Family Support Services, Prevention and the Behavioral Health Unit of the Seneca Nation Health System hosted its Annual Boat Race on Wednesday to raise awareness of the importance of Mental Health. It was a fun evening of family engagement watching and racing homemade boats across the pond! Families were treated to hamburgers, […]