2006

Syracuse Post-Standard Staff writer Mark Weiner A juvenile bald eagle attracted a crowd of onlookers this weekend at Onondaga Lake Park in Liverpool. The eagle, seen diving from a tree along the lakeshore, spent Thursday through Saturday hunting for fish between Hiawatha Point and Willow Bay. Eagles routinely visit the lake each year after nesting at Lake Neatahwanta … [Read more...] about Onondaga Lake hosts eagles

Syracuse New Times By Julie Pinsonneault A sovereign nation resides next door, yet most Central New Yorkers know little about the people who comprise the Onondaga Nation. Folks like Andy Mager, co-coordinator of the Syracuse Peace Council, and Joe Heath, general counsel for the Onondaga Nation, are working to remedy this knowledge gap. It's something they attribute to … [Read more...] about Face of the Nation

Syracuse Post-Standard Staff writer Elizabeth Doran Eight seniors accepted their diplomas wearing Native American regalia, for the first time in LaFayette's history. After the ceremonies, Marcia Lyons, who led the effort to wear the regalia at graduation, said she's glad the year is over and hopeful the new tradition will continue. "I felt really happy and excited" … [Read more...] about LaFayette High School Commencement

Syracuse Post-Standard Letter to the Editor: Isadore Warshaw's June 6 letter ("Column was wrong on grace in land-claim win") contains several factual errors and deeper misconceptions about early American and Haudenosaunee history needing correction. He really missed Mr. Kirst's call for grace and dignity in discussions about the Haudenosaunee and the Onondaga … [Read more...] about Remembering History – Let’s clarify facts on Haudenosaunee history

by Sue Wuetcher BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Oren R. Lyons, professor in the Department of American Studies in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. The rank of distinguished professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system, is an order above full professorship and has three … [Read more...] about Oren Lyons Named SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

Syracuse Post-Standard By Renée K. Gadoua Staff writer Roko Sherry Chayat led more than 200 people in a verse of purification Sunday at Syracuse's Inner Harbor. "All the evil karma ever committed by me since of old, on account of my beginning less greed, anger and folly, borne of my body, mouth and thoughts, I now confess and purify it all," Chayat, spiritual leader … [Read more...] about Inner Harbor concert makes a statement about water

By Amaris Elliott-Engel / The Citizen UNION SPRINGS - A peach sapling in a wheelbarrow was rolled to the end of an outdoor stage at the Cayuga Indian Nation's organic farm. Bernadette “Birdie” Hill, the Cayuga's Heron Clan mother, teared up at the gift meant to help replace a peach orchard of 1,500 trees destroyed during the April-to-October 1779 Sullivan-Clinton … [Read more...] about Cayuga Nation’s farm taking shape