The Onondaga Nation has announced the creation of the Upstate Onondaga Promise. The Upstate Onondaga Promise offers a full scholarship and stipend to any resident of the Onondaga Nation who is accepted and enrolled in the Norton College of Medicine at Upstate Medical University. “This scholarship opportunity with the Norton College of Medicine and the Onondaga Nation … [Read more...] about Onondaga Nation Announces Historic Partnership
2025
March 11, 2025: 20th Anniversary of the Land Rights Action
March 11, 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the filing of the Onondaga Land Rights Case. The Onondaga Nation chose March 11th as the filing date as over 200 years ago, New York State made their first illegal land acquisition of Onondaga lands. New York State knowingly defiled United States law, three treaties, and their own Constitution in order to illegally purchase … [Read more...] about March 11, 2025: 20th Anniversary of the Land Rights Action
Angela Ferguson of Onondaga Nation Farm on the Importance of Saving Seeds
By Ellie Shechet | November 22, 2024 Angela Ferguson, a member of the Onondaga Nation (Eel Clan), is supervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm and a member of Braiding the Sacred, a grassroots network of Indigenous corn growers. Known as a leader in the Indigenous food sovereignty movement, Ferguson helps grow and distribute food for members of the Onondaga Nation while … [Read more...] about Angela Ferguson of Onondaga Nation Farm on the Importance of Saving Seeds
Onondaga Nation Health Center Job Openings
Onondaga Nation – The Onondaga Nation Health Center is seeking applicants willing to provide gracious patient friendly service efficiently and in a confidential manner. The applicants are expected to work as an effective member of a multi-disciplinary team in a unique and culturally diversified community. The Health Center is seeking applicants beginning March 4, 2025 for the … [Read more...] about Onondaga Nation Health Center Job Openings
Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future: The Quest for Justice
Join us to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the historic filing of the Onondaga Nation’s Land Rights Action at Syracuse Stage on March 10, 2025 at 6:30. Onondaga elder and Traditional Medicine Keeper Jeanne Shenandoah (Onondaga Nation, Eel Clan) and Onondaga educator Haiwhagai’i Jake Edwards (Onondaga Nation, Eel Clan) will share important history and reflect on progress … [Read more...] about Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future: The Quest for Justice
A herd, a hide and a 50-year friendship: How the Onondaga Nation brought the buffalo back: The U.S. once intertwined the elimination of the American buffalo and attempted destruction of Indigenous people. Now, the Onondaga Nation has brought bison back to Central New York.
Central Current by Patrick McCarthy Sid Hill eased his pickup truck through a yawning gate and into a snow-hampered pasture. Nearly 70 buffalo cast expectant, snow-tinged glances up at the approaching vehicle. They knew it was feeding time Hill, the Tadodaho of the Onondaga Nation, had not come to feed the bison, but rather to watch the feeding. As the hungry bison … [Read more...] about A herd, a hide and a 50-year friendship: How the Onondaga Nation brought the buffalo back: The U.S. once intertwined the elimination of the American buffalo and attempted destruction of Indigenous people. Now, the Onondaga Nation has brought bison back to Central New York.
Phyllis Farmer
Phyllis Farmer passed onto Creator’s Land earlier this month. She was 91. Auntie Phil was the last of the surviving children of Cecelia and Chief Irving Powless Sr. She was a wonderful, kind soul who loved to laugh and help others. Her favorite color was purple and she made a mouth-watering rice pudding at all family get-togethers. Often when you would run into her, she would … [Read more...] about Phyllis Farmer