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50th Annual Seneca Fall Festival! "THE LONG HOPE"

This year marked 50 years of the Seneca Fall Festival on the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory, and it was packed with exciting fun for the whole family. 

I had the opportunity to sit down with Ross John (Seneca Nation, Beaver Clan) Former Councilor of the Seneca Nation, Businessman and now a Film Producer, the film is called the “Long Hope”.

THERE WILL BE A COMMUNITY SCREENING of "THE LONG HOPE" FRIDAY OCTOBER 17th at Hollywood Theatre in Gowanda, NY 6-8pm

The film's Executive Producers are Holly John, Ross John Sr. and John Kane.

“The Long Hope” is not an ordinary documentary. It looks at past, present, and future:

• Legal history dating back to the earliest documents asserting a right (!) of domination over Original Peoples and their lands.

• Present-day examples in everyday Haudenosaunee life of the claim of a right of domination that is the core of US law and policy.

• Haudenosaunee projects implementing a future rooted in their own past.

The vibrancy of the film arises from the fact that it is produced by people whose lives are affected. It is by the People, not simply about them. This was written by Professor Emeritus Peter D'Errico about the film.

IndigeQuit is a research study comparing two smartphone apps for American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) people quitting smoking.

The study was created by scientists at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health in collaboration with an advisory board of AIAN community members. Our lead investigators are:

• Dr. Lonnie A. Nelson, a descendant of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (Ani Kituwah) and a leading expert in smoking cessation interventions to reduce health inequities in AIAN communities, based at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
• Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson, a Navajo Nation Tribal citizen and a leading expert in health disparities research in the field of tobacco and nicotine addiction focusing on Indigenous peoples and Tribal communities, based at the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health.
• Dr. Jonathan Bricker, a scientist who specializes in smoking cessation research. He is a Full Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington.
• Dean S. Seneca, MPH, MCURP, Seneca Nation, a national expert on indigenous health, teaches courses on the subject at the University of Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions. He was a first responder at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He also served as tribal planning director for the Seneca Nation of Indians.




Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is a world leader in research to prevent, detect, and treat cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Our world-renowned researchers have received three Nobel Prizes and many other major awards. We're located in Seattle, Washington.




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https://indigequit.org/

Grace Ohwensadeyo Rundberg (Cayuga Nation) @gracerundberg  

(Plays Georgie/Concierge/Others)

THE NOTEBOOK, a new musical based on the best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film, will play at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre for Eight performances, October 7 – 12, 2025.  As part of the Five Star Bank 2025-2026 Season, audiences in Buffalo are about to fall in love all over again with this beloved story. 

 FEATURING AN AWARD-WINNING CREATIVE TEAM 

Music & Lyrics by INGRID MICHAELSON 

Book by BEKAH BRUNSTETTER 

Choreography by KATIE SPELMAN 

Directed by MICHAEL GREIF and SCHELE WILLIAMS 

Grace recently graduated from Pace University's Musical Theatre program and is excited to be making her National Tour debut! Love and gratitude for my family, friends, teachers, and agents at Nicolosi & Co. 

THE NOTEBOOK was recognized with three 2024 Tony Award nominations (Best Book of a Musical, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical), Drama League Award nominations

 for Outstanding Production of a Musical, two Distinguished Performance Awards and the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing, Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical, and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for

 Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical.  

A limited number of tickets to THE NOTEBOOK are still available at the Shea’s Box Office at 650 Main Street in Buffalo or online at:

https://www.sheas.org/performances/the-notebook.    

50th Annual Seneca Fall Festival!

This year marks 50 years of the Seneca Fall Festival on the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory, and it was packed with exciting fun for the whole family. 

New Episodes Drop!! Going to be a Bunch of Episodes Coming out I was recently set up at the 50th Annual Fall Festival on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. Get them wherever you get your podcasts. These are all videos you can see. I encourage everyone to watch the videos as well as listen.

Todd Gates (Seneca Nation, Turtle Clan) Seneca Nation Councilor and Former Seneca Nation President. Reflects on his time in a leadership role and his hopes for the future of the Seneca Nation of Indians.

50th Annual Seneca Fall Festival!

This year marks 50 years of the Seneca Fall Festival on the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory, and it was packed with exciting fun for the whole family. 

New Episodes Drop!! Going to be a Bunch of Episodes Coming out I was recently set up at the 50th Annual Fall Festival on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. Get them wherever you get your podcasts. These are all videos you can see. I encourage everyone to watch the videos as well as listen.

Friends of the Turtle

Shaun Wilson (Six Nations Mohawk, Turtle Clan) Conner Ground (Six Nations Mohawk, Bear Clan)

The Turtle is a three-story building in Niagara Falls, NY. It opened in May 1981 as the headquarters for the Native American Center for the Living Arts, an organization dedicated to promoting Native American visual and performing arts. Its unique shape, with a geodesic dome roof “shell” and large porthole “eye” windows, invokes the Haudenosaunee creation story of the earth forming on the back of a giant turtle. After closing in 1995 due to financial trouble, the building has remained vacant, with its future preservation and use in question.

Our goal is to be a supportive advocacy group for the preservation of this iconic and culturally important structure. We will work for and support its acquisition by a group/persons who pledge to restore the building and fulfill its cultural vision.

https://niagaraturtle.wordpress.com/

The Turtle (Native American Center for the Living Arts) was originally founded in 1971, with the building created between 1977 and 1981 by Arapaho architect Dennis Sun Rhoades and Tuscarora sculptor Duffy Wilson in Niagara Falls, NY. 

In the mid-1970s, the Haudenosaunee had developed a clear concern that their culture needed bolstering after centuries of the United States Government controlling nearly every action of tribal life, despite not overtly trying to dissolve tribal governments.  The Turtle’s construction was a result of a growing awareness on the part of the Haudenosaunee for self-determination and preservation of their arts and culture

In terms of architectural importance, as a prime and exceedingly rare example of a cross between Postmodern and Indigenous architecture, the Turtle’s anthropomorphic shape is based on the Haudenosaunee creation story of the world resting on the back of a turtle.  The Turtle’s design blends Postmodern approaches to anthropomorphism in conjunction with meaningful Haudenosaunee symbols and practices embodied in the function and form of the building.

For fifteen years The Turtle served as a cultural center for the Native American community nationally; it was the largest center for Indigenous arts in the Eastern United States.  Representatives from the Smithsonian Institution visited The Turtle and incorporated some of its features into the design of the Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.  

The Turtle hosted Pow Wows, Indigenous dance groups, and other performing arts in an amphitheater (under the domed turtle ‘shell’), art, artifacts, exhibitions, a quarterly magazine, and craft festivals featuring Indigenous artists from across the hemisphere.  The permanent collection of the Center included thousands of artifacts, 200 contemporary artworks, a 500-volume library, and an archive of photographs.  Eventually folding for lack of funding in 1995, it was sold to a real estate development firm; the three-story, 67,000 square foot building has sat vacant and unmaintained for thirty years of ownership.

50th Annual Seneca Fall Festival!

This year marks 50 years of the Seneca Fall Festival on the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory, and it was packed with exciting fun for the whole family. 

New Episodes Drop!! Going to be a Bunch of Episodes Coming out I was recently set up at the 50th Annual Fall Festival on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. Get them wherever you get your podcasts. These are all videos you can see. I encourage everyone to watch the videos as well as listen.

Lance Hemlock (Seneca Nation, Beaver Clan) Filmmaker from the Newtown Community on the Cattaraugus Territory formally educated at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

50th Annual Seneca Fall Festival!

This year marks 50 years of the Seneca Fall Festival on the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory, and it was packed with exciting fun for the whole family. 

New Episodes Drop!! Going to be a Bunch of Episodes Coming out I was recently set up at the 50th Annual Fall Festival on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. Get them wherever you get your podcasts. These are all videos you can see. I encourage everyone to watch the videos as well as listen.

Hayden Haynes (Seneca Nation, Deer Clan) Director of the Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center and an Accomplished Antler Carver.

50th Annual Seneca Fall Festival!

This year marks 50 years of the Seneca Fall Festival on the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory, and it was packed with exciting fun for the whole family. 

New Episodes Drop!! Going to be a Bunch of Episodes Coming out I was recently set up at the 50th Annual Fall Festival on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. Get them wherever you get your podcasts. These are all videos you can see. I encourage everyone to watch the videos as well as listen.

Dr. Faye Lone (Tonawanda Seneca, Hawk Clan) Faye is multifaceted and talented as an artist and an educator, she has a PhD in Education, however she is now pursuing a passion project in Fashion, Design and political pieces in Wallhangings and Quilts. 

Her company LongHaus of Lone creates authentic Native art and designs. Handmade. Quilts, apparel, home goods, traditional regallia, hotel bed scarves, customized ribbon shirts and vests.

Faye was recently awarded Best in Show in the 50th Annual Fall Festival Arts show, her piece is entitled “Replacement Theory History” 

To learn more about Faye’s work please check out her Page on FB and her website.

Facebook: Faye Lone Designs  (Longhaus Of Lone)

Website:

https://www.longhausoflone.com/

50th Annual Seneca Fall Festival!

This year marks 50 years of the Seneca Fall Festival on the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory, and will be packed with exciting fun for the whole family. 

New Episodes Drop!! Going to be a Bunch of Episodes Coming out I was recently set up at the 50th Annual Fall Festival on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. Get them wherever you get your podcasts. These are all videos you can see. I encourage everyone to watch the videos as well as listen.

Cami Jones (Seneca Nation, Wolf Clan) She’s a multi-talented artist and media specialist, with a focus and apprenticeship in Traditional Pottery. She’s a mother of two and hails from the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. She’s been crafting and designing her own curriculum to share and teach the art of Pottery Making from a Traditional Process. She has her studio in the Stanley “Sully” Huff Cultural Center on the Cattaraugus Territory. Her mentor is the renowned Potter Mr. Peter B. Jones, she has collaborated with her sister Jocelyn Jones to create a documentary on the life and work of Peter B. Jones.

See below for screenings.

https://sflxtraditions.org/cultural-mapping/peter-b-jones/

50th Annual Seneca Fall Festival!

This year marks 50 years of the Seneca Fall Festival on the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory, and will be packed with exciting fun for the whole family. 

New Episodes Drop!! Going to be a Bunch of Episodes Coming out I was recently set up at the 50th Annual Fall Festival on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. Get them wherever you get your podcasts. These are all videos you can see. I encourage everyone to watch the videos as well as listen.

Bernadette Scott (Seneca Nation, Deer Clan) She’s a Mother of 2 adult children, a Grandmother and a PhD Candidate at the State University at Buffalo in the Indigenous Studies Program. Bernadette is an artisan who makes Corn Husk Dolls, she is also a former Radio Personality where she was an on-air DJ for the former WGWE 105.9 Radio station.