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Developing statistical and machine-learning models for professional box lacrosse w/ Dr. Robbie Jimerson Jr. (Seneca Nation, Bear Clan) is a Seneca speaker, AI researcher, cybersecurity professional, Indigenous language activist, and lifelong computer nerd whose research sits at the intersection of technology, language, and data. He holds a PhD in Computing and Information Sciences from Rochester Institute of Technology, where his research focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and low-resource AI. He has also been accepted into the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence program.

His work spans artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, Indigenous language technology, and applied analytics. Most recently, his novel research has focused on developing statistical and machine-learning models for professional box lacrosse, including expected goals, expected assists, player efficiency, and offensive impact metrics.

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Haudenosaunee Festival SUNY Binghamton: Tusky Talk Re-Visited w/ Taylor Hummel (Tuscarora Nation) Brad Thomas (Tuscarora Nation)

 The 2026 theme of the Haudenosaunee Festival is Storytelling. This event celebrates the culture of the Haudenosaunee people who have been stewards of the land on which Binghamton University exists for time immemorial.

In the Episode I have a follow up conversation with two citizens of the Tuscarora Nation who have been on a journey in navigating Higher Education and how as Indigenous Scholars they have been able to find ways to incorporate their traditional community backgrounds and upbringing to help inform their path towards degrees within Higher Education.

Taylor Hummel is a citizen of the Tuscarora Nation. 

She holds a Masters of Library and Information Science from San José State University where she was a Bridging Knowledge Scholar and is currently a PhD student at SUNY—Binghamton where her research combines the study of archaeological plants from ancestral Tuscarora sites, Tuscarora language, and oral tradition to investigate how her ancestors moved into the inner coastal plain of North Carolina and Virginia and became a major power in the region before joining the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in the early 1700s. 

As an archaeologist and information science professional, she is passionate about supporting systems that strengthen the continuity of cultural knowledge for the future. This is reflected in her work at Tuscarora where she’s worked with the Tuscarora Environment Program—a subsidiary of HETF—the Nęyękwawętaˀθkwáhshek Tuscarora Language Program, and the Tuscarora Historical Society. Externally, she has worked in museum spaces like the Field Museum as a Mellon Fellow and the Peabody Essex Museum as a Native American Fellow, and has experience in the Cultural Resource Management industry as an archaeological field technician. Ultimately, she wants to improve opportunities for the Tuscarora Nation to tell their own story.

Brad Thomas is a member of the Tuscarora Nation, Snipe clan. 

He is a professional consulting forester. SAF (Society of American Foresters) Certified Forester and Vice President of the New York American Tree Farm.  He is a Sloan Foundation indigenous graduate thru the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY ESF (Environmental Science and Forestry); earning a Masters of Forestry degree in 2022. 

He is currently the owner of Tuscarora Forestry, a forestry consulting firm providing forest management planning and forestry services across the northeast US. 

Brad previously worked as the Forester for Oneida Nation in Wisconsin, an Environmental Technician at Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force / Tuscarora Environment Program, Outreach Coordinator for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, New York Field Office, Agroforester / Community Partner at Cornell University and as a lumber stacker at Gutchess Lumber Mill in Cortland NY. 

His current study is the integral relationship between Traditional ecological knowledge and Western ecological knowledge pertaining to the forestry industry. He also enjoy hunting, fishing and coaching lacrosse.

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Haudenosaunee Festival SUNY Binghamton

The 2026 theme of the Haudenosaunee Festival is Storytelling. This event celebrates the culture of the Haudenosaunee people who have been stewards of the land on which Binghamton University exists for time immemorial.

Tonya (K^nikanlahtá:sa') Shenandoah, Ph.D.(Oneida Turtle Clan)

Assistant Director of Native American and Indigenous Student Initiatives.

Multicultural Resource Center

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Haudenosaunee Festival SUNY Binghamton

The 2026 theme of the Haudenosaunee Festival is Storytelling. This event celebrates the culture of the Haudenosaunee people who have been stewards of the land on which Binghamton University exists for time immemorial.

Laurie Miroff, Ph.D Director of Public Archaeology Facility

Miroff, who holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Connecticut, earned two master’s degrees (one in anthropology and another in teaching) from Binghamton before completing her doctorate at Binghamton in 2002. Miroff specializes in Native American pottery analysis, lithic analysis and spatial analysis. She works to protect sacred sites and has been involved with NAGPRA Consultations. A true Ally and key component to the organization of the Haudenosaunee Festival.

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Haudenosaunee Festival SUNY Binghamton

The 2026 theme of the Haudenosaunee Festival is Storytelling. This event celebrates the culture of the Haudenosaunee people who have been stewards of the land on which Binghamton University exists for time immemorial.

Brennen Ferguson (Tuscarora Nation, Turtle Clan) Brennen Ferguson is a member of the Tuscarora Nation, Turtle Clan. Brennen is a graduate of Syracuse University with an interest in Haudenosaunee and Tuscarora history. He is a part of the Tuscarora Nation Language and Agricultural Program. He currently serves on the Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee for the Tuscarora Nation. Additionally, he is part of multiple working groups of the Haudenosaunee.#podcast #podcastclips #indigenouspractices #TuscaroraNation #indigenouspodcast #haudenosaunee #chenangoriver #Tuscarora#susquehannariver #sunybinghamton #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousFestival #awareness #allies #nativeamerican #IndigenousStudents #IndigenousStudies #nativestudies #nativeculture #nativestudents #storytelling #StoriesThatMatter #stories #oncampus #campuslife #universities #college #HigherEducation #leadership #turtleclan #confederacy #Haudenosauneeconfederacy

Haudenosaunee Festival SUNY BinghamtonThe 2026 theme of the Haudenosaunee Festival is Storytelling. This event celebrates the culture of the Haudenosaunee people who have been stewards of the land on which Binghamton University exists for time immemorial.

Wendy Gonyea Clan Mother (Onondaga Nation, Beaver Clan) As a Clan Mother, Wendy Gonyea helps fulfill traditional duties of leadership, governance, and spiritual stewardship to uphold the Great Law of Peace and preserveIndigenous cultural practices. She is also a poet and writer, and community leader serving as an active advocate and voice for environmental issues, education reform, and the removal of Native American mascots in local schools.As a Clan Mother, Wendy Gonyea helps fulfill traditional duties of leadership, governance, and spiritual stewardship to uphold the Great Law of Peace and preserveIndigenous cultural practices. She is also a poet and writer, and community leader serving as an active advocate and voice for environmental issues, education reform, and the removal of Native American mascots in local schools.#podcast #podcastclips #indigenouspractices #ClanMother #matriarch #indigenouspodcast #haudenosaunee #chenangoriver #susquehannariver #sunybinghamton #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousFestival #awareness #allies #nativeamerican #IndigenousStudents #IndigenousStudies #Anthropology #archaeology #archaeologist #ethnobotany #paleoethnobotany #nativestudies #nativeculture #nativestudents #storytelling #StoriesThatMatter #stories #oncampus #campuslife #universities #college #OnondagaNation

Haudenosaunee Festival SUNY BinghamtonThe 2026 theme of the Haudenosaunee Festival is Storytelling. This event celebrates the culture of the Haudenosaunee people who have been stewards of the land on which Binghamton University exists for time immemorial.BrieAnna Langlie, Ph.D Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of MA in Public Anthropology (MAPA)Langlie's research is focused on the origins and long-term sustainability of agricultural systems and foodways. She specializes in paleoethnobotany and landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America. She has recently been studying how terraced fields, cropping schemes, and food systems were tuned to warfare and climate oscillations for a large community living in the hinterlands near Lake Titicaca between AD 1100 and 1450. She is also involved in ongoing and collaborative research on agricultural terraces, and the biological and cultural processes of domestication of Andean crops such as potatoes and quinoa.#podcast #podcastclips #indigenouspractices #indigenouspodcast #haudenosaunee #chenangoriver #susquehannariver #sunybinghamton #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousFestival #awareness #allies #nativeamerican #IndigenousStudents #IndigenousStudies #Anthropology #archaeology #archaeologist #ethnobotany #paleoethnobotany #nativestudies #nativeculture #nativestudents #storytelling #StoriesThatMatter #stories #oncampus #campuslife #universities #college

Art of the Earth: Jodi Lynn Maracle, Kanien'keha:ka Ista //doula//artist//hidetanner.

Jodi Lynn Maracle was born and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo, NY. Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’kehá:ka mother, artist, teacher and language learner. 

Jodi utilizes Haudenosaunee material language and techniques, such as hand tanning deer hides and corn husk twining, in conversation with sound scapes, projections, video, and performance to interrogate questions of place, power, erasure, story making, and responsibility to the land. 

Her scholarly research focuses on Haudenosaunee material culture, language, land and birth practices. Of her accomplishments, she is most proud to hear her child speak their Mohawk language each day.

Artist’s website: jodilynnmaracle.com
IG: @lasauvagesse

On Saturday September 26, 2026 a gathering of Indigenous woodland arts practitioners came together at Ganondagan State Historic Site in Victor, NY. This was an opportunity to engage with Indigenous artists, learn about what the natural world provides, how materials are harvested and processed to create art.

Visitors were able to enrich their understanding of the interconnection between Mother Earth and her gifts and learn about the reciprocal relationships of care and attention that all living things have for each other through these arts. Artists were engaged in their art practices while engaging the public by sharing their personal relationship with the natural world, the process of collection of natural materials, cultural history and significances and the materiality of their own arts practices. Many of the artists were also selling their work.

“Certain Indigenous artists engage directly with the natural world, their practices connect cultural heritage, time, ancestral knowledges, local environments and community. We want this event to highlight that work and to bring the greater public into direct dialogue with a truly exceptional assemblage of practitioners as

well as give the artists a chance to work alongside one another and share their experiences and journeys with each other.” - Michael Galban (Washoe/Mono Lake Paiute), Historic Site Manager, Ganondagan State Historic Site

Featured Artists & their disciplines -

Noodin & Ashley Shawanda, Anishinabek, Bullrush mats

Jamie Jacobs, Seneca, Quillwork

Tonia Galban, Mohawk, Basketry

Jodi Maracle, Mohawk, Hide tanning

Talon Silverhorn, Shawnee, Multiple skills

Michael Galban, Washoe/Mono Lake Paiute, Multiple skills

Jared Nally, Miami, Weaving

Cole Reuben, Seneca, Carving

Renee Wasson Dillard, Anishinbe, Weaver

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Noodin Niimebin Shawanda is an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, and Cree) artist, traditional dancer, and cultural educator from Wikwemikong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. He is part of the Shawanda family, known for preserving and sharing traditional Anishinaabe arts and lifeways. He specializes in traditional woodland arts, including carving wood, making spoons and bowls, and traditional weaving and twining of mats and bags. He also works with traditional materials like snowshoe hare skins. He conducts cultural workshops and demonstrations, focusing on land-based healing, traditional harvesting, and youth connection to the land—topics he has spoken on at major assemblies including the Assembly of First Nations.

Join us for a gathering of Indigenous woodland arts practitioners. This is an opportunity to engage with Indigenous artists, learn about what the natural world provides, how materials are harvested and processed to create art.

Visitors will enrich their understanding of the interconnection between Mother Earth and her gifts and learn about the reciprocal relationships of care and attention that all living things have for each other through these arts. Artists will be engaged in their art practices while engaging the public by sharing their personal

relationship with the natural world, the process of collection of natural materials, cultural history and significances and the materiality of their own arts practices. Many of the artists will also be selling their work.

“Certain Indigenous artists engage directly with the natural world, their practices connect cultural heritage, time, ancestral knowledges, local environments and community. We want this event to highlight that work and to bring the greater public into direct dialogue with a truly exceptional assemblage of practitioners as

well as give the artists a chance to work alongside one another and share their experiences and journeys with each other.” - Michael Galban (Washoe/Mono Lake Paiute), Historic Site Manager, Ganondagan State Historic Site

Featured Artists & their disciplines -

Noodin & Ashley Shawanda, Anishinabek, Bullrush mats

Jamie Jacobs, Seneca, Quillwork

Tonia Galban, Mohawk, Basketry

Jodi Maracle, Mohawk, Hide tanning

Talon Silverhorn, Shawnee, Multiple skills

Michael Galban, Washoe/Mono Lake Paiute, Multiple skills

Jared Nally, Miami, Weaving

Cole Reuben, Seneca, Carving

Renee Wasson Dillard, Anishinabe, Weaver

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Gina Herrera (Tesuque Pueblo) is a California-based mixed-media artist, educator, Army veteran, and artist of Tesuque Pueblo and Costa Rican heritage. At the heart of Herrera's practice is a vision of herself as a protector—of the environment, of the natural world, and of those who exist on the margins. Her work is informed by a lifelong experience of navigating multiple worlds: Indigenous and contemporary, military and artistic, educator and activist. Through immersive installations and emotionally resonant sculpture, Herrera creates spaces that invite viewers to consider their relationship to nature, community, and the enduring search for belonging.

The Exhibition:

The Misfit Dollhouse

September 9–December 5, 2026

Opening reception, Wednesday, September 9, 6-8PM

Savage Wonder Tribeca

89 Franklin Street

New York, NY 10013

@ginaherreraart 

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