by Nada Khader | Feb 17, 2015 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island, Movement Building
Tonya Gonnella Frichner, Esq. Gowanahs, Snipe Clan name, a citizen of the Onondaga Nation, Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, Haudenosaunee. Ms. Gonnella Frichner, the eldest of eight children of Henry and Maxine Nolan Gonnella. A global indigenous leader and President...
by Nada Khader | Sep 19, 2014 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island
Article quoting Tonya Gonnella Frichner on the Doctrine of Discovery: http://www.mintpressnews.com/ny-tribes-in-decades-long-battle-with-gov-cuomo-lawyers-for-rights-to-their-land/195998/ Article regarding the Treaty of Canandaigua arriving in Washington, DC for the...
by Nada Khader | Aug 26, 2014 | Communities & Focus Areas, Friends of Turtle Island
“Mni is our first home, when we arrive here on Mother Earth, the water of our mothers’ womb is our first dwelling. Water is our first medicine. Without water, there is no life.” Debra White Plume (Kiza Park, Oglala Homeland, August 24, 2014) Sacred Water...
by Nada Khader | Aug 26, 2014 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island
Tax Exempt Hearing Monday, September 8th 2014 Will be held in the solution Center’ conference room 501 East State Street,1st Floor Trenton , New jersey The Hearing is to determine if The Ramapough Lunaape Nations Ceremonial Grounds should be declared Tax Exempt We...
by Nada Khader | Jul 3, 2014 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Friends of Turtle Island, Movement Building
WESPAC’s Friends of Turtle Island presents The Teachings of the Tree People Summer Monthly Potluck and Film: Monday night, July 21 @ 6 pm “The trees are our first teachers” featuring artist & Skokomish leader Bruce Miller (subiya) “You look up...
