Articles from the March 3, 2016 edition
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Pink Shirt Day Celebrated in Akwesasne
The Akwesasne Family Wellness Program staff delivered over 600 pink shirts to Kawehnoke, Kanatakon and Tsi Snaihne Schools and area childcare...
Akwesasne Art Wars Deliver an Evening Filled with Talent on Canvas
Saturday, February 26, was an evening of experience, appreciation, and visualization. It was an event called "Art Wars", a first for Akwesasne's commu...
Akwesasne Art Wars Deliver an Evening Filled with Talent on Canvas - Part 2
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Akwesasne Art Wars Deliver an Evening Filled with Talent on Canvas - Part 3
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Beading for Healing with Niio Perkins: Healing Through Art & Expression
On Sunday February 29, 2015, the Seven Dancers Coalition and the Three Sisters Program collaboratively hosted Beading for Healing with Niio Perkins:...
AMBE Schools Science Fair
The next generation of explorers and scientists are getting their start at AMBE Schools in Akwesasne. Students at each of the schools in head start...
Prayer Night for the Winter Carnival 2016
Thank You/Niawen Ko:wa Father Henry Sands from the Black and Indian Mission office in Washington, D.C. for the Saint Kateri Door Prizes: Winners: 1st Brenda King, 2nd Cole Phillips and 3rd Carole...
Cornell's Jemison Visits 4-H Tribal Mentoring Program
By Connie Gerow, 4-H Mentoring Coordinator The invitation was extended, but for many who have travelled from the southern part of our great New York...
TRIBAL COUNCIL CONGRATULATES SONNY WHITE ON BEING NAMED 2016 CHAMPION FOR CHANGE
(Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Press Release) Akwesasne, NY - Members of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council were onhand as the Aspen Institute’s Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) recognized B...
"The Good Mind" Premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
New York, NY—For the Onondaga Nation, it’s all about relationships. Relationships with ancestors, relationships with governments, relationships with each other, and relationship with the natural wor...
NYS Attorney General: TRUMP UNIVERSITY DECISION A CLEAR VICTORY IN EFFORT TO COMBAT FRAUD
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued the following statement on today’s decision by the Appellate Division in the office’s lawsuit against Trump University: “Today’s decision...
ATFE Offers Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
The Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment (ATFE) will be offering a fruit tree pruning workshop for the community on Saturday March 5th at 12:30. It will be held at the apple orchard behind the...
Joanne Shenandoah on the Road to Recovery
Joanne Shenandoah's condition as of February 29: Joanne is doing well and has undergone many tests and treatments prior to her being placed on the...
AMBE Schools Take Part in Have a Heart Day Initiative
Submitted by Hannah Leaf As part of the Valentine's Day activities in AMBE schools this year, we incorporated the Have a Heart Day initiative. Have a...
AMS Science Fair
Last week after a weather delay the Akwesasne Mohawk School students showed their scientific and creative sides during a two day Science Fair. The...
Spring Defeats Winter (Seneca)
When the world was new, long ago, an old man was wandering around. This old man had long, white hair and wherever he stepped the ground grew hard as...
Movement is Your Medicine
By Tyler Touchette We are a culture that has lost its way in many ways. We are disconnected from the Earth, disconnected from our food, disconnected from our spirit, and disconnected from our...
Are Your Trees Over the Hill?
Submitted by Paul Hetzler Senescence is the decline in vigor that happens to all creatures great and diminutive as they close in on the life expectancy of their species. People my age suddenly find...
NYS Health Dept Issues "Don't Eat" Fish Advisory for Hudson River
ALBANY, N.Y. The New York State Department of Health issued a “Don’t Eat” fish consumption advisory for walleye fish taken from Rondout Creek (downstream of Eddyville Dam), and the Hudson River (betw...
