Jul. 2—PLATTSBURGH — Longhouse means more than one thing to the Haudenosaunee, People of the Longhouse. "Longhouse with a lower case l is a term that describes the traditional building we used to live ...

May 11—Old Fort Niagara will host its second annual smoke dance competition, Native Nations at Niagara today. The Smoke Dance was originally a Haudenosaunee war dance, primarily danced by men, but has ...

Midwinter ceremonies mark the start of the new year for Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) this week. When the Seven Dancers, or Pleiades star cluster, are mid-sky, the following new moon marks ...

Geddes, NY -- Alma Ransom said the greatest gift the Creator gave the Native people is memory. "The memory was given to us so not to forget what he has taught us," Ransom, a Mohawk from the St. Regis ...

Efforts are underway to rebuild a Haudenosaunee longhouse more than a century old that was destroyed by fire on the Cattaraugus Territory. The Newtown Longhouse, the center of spiritual and cultural ...

NMAI copy 39088009653973 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, S. Dillon Ripley Endowment, From his friends, 1993. Contents Adodaroh (Tadadaho) -- Adoption -- Affiliated nations of the ...

“We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That’s what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and ...