The Passing of Tonya Gonnella Frichner

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...

Peaceful Resistance Training at WESPAC

by Nada Khader | Jan 9, 2015 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Criminal Justice, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Friends of Turtle Island, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Racial Justice

 

Doctrine of Discovery

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...

Uranium Hearings from Lakota Homeland

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...

Ramapough Nation needs our help

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...

WESPAC Summer Potluck

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...