by Nada Khader | Mar 14, 2023 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island
Tracy Basile, co-founder of WESPAC’s Friends of Turtle Island, has published her latest essay that looks at the lives of animals and colonization. Please take a look and share with friends! Animal Nations and the Doctrine of Discovery
by Nada Khader | Mar 14, 2023 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island, Movement Building
Repatriation By Sue Eiholzer from NOON, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation Repatriation is the returning of cultural items — human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony — to lineal descendants. In the United States this...
by Nada Khader | Jun 26, 2020 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island, Frontpage, Movement Building, Racial Justice
Here is the recording of an important webinar with South Dakota State Senator Red Dawn Foster on the work of Return to the Heart Foundation, an Indigenous-led grantmaking organization that empowers women-led initiatives throughout Indian Country....
by Nada Khader | May 31, 2017 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island
Important announcement from Tracy Basile: SUBJECT: WESPAC and the Ramapough Nation — Join us! WESPAC’s Friends of Turtle Island committee is forming stronger bonds with the Ramapough Nation across the Hudson River. We want to show our solidarity with this...
by Nada Khader | Apr 25, 2017 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island
Important statement written by Robin Kimmerer and others. Robin was a featured speaker in Westchester a few years ago upon the invitation of our Friends of Turtle Island solidarity group with Indigenous Peoples:...
