Two Row Events across New York State this week!

Guswenta: Renewing the Two Row Wampum

, a short film by Gwendolen Cates, won the award for best short film at the Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Fest in New York City.

The film will be followed by refreshments and a panel discussion featuring:

• Christine Abrams, Tonawanda Seneca, organized Tonawanda participation in the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign
• Rick Levins from Batavia, and of Six Nations Tuscarora descent, paddled from Albany to New York City
• Neil Patterson, Jr., Tuscarora, works for the Haudenosaunee Environmental TAsk Force and paddled from Onondaga to New York City
• Jack Spula, writer, social justice activist and non-native ally from Rochester, paddled from Albany to New York City

This 33-minute film features stunning footage of the 28 day paddling journey from the Onondaga Nation to the United Nations in New York City during the summer of 2013, along with powerful words from Haudenosaunee leaders including Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, Onondaga Clanmother Freida Jacques, Mohawk spiritual leader Tom Porter, and Tadodaho Sid Hill. The film inspires people, indigenous and non-native, to consider our collective responsibility 400 years after the Two Row Wampum Treaty was created.
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Listening to the voices of the Earth and of Native peoples to heal our relationship with the land and with each other