Media Coverage
Winter 2014 “Two Row Wampum” (Inside ESF Magazine)
3/10/2014 “A short introduction of the Two Row Wampum” (Briar Patch Magazine)
3/5/2014 “Original Wampum not released to museum exhibit” (Two Row Times)
2/14/2014 “Canoe journey helps renew the Two Row Wampum Treaty” (The Miscellany News)
Winter 2013 “They’re Still Paddling: Two Row Renews 400-year old promises” (Plank Road Magazine)
12/13/2013 “Syracuse Community Choir to honor Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
12/11/2013 “Anniversary celebration of Two Row Wampum help in Buffalo” (Two Row Times)
12/9/2013 “Native culture under threat from climate change may hold the key to addressing it” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
11/26/2013 “Two Row Wampum End of Year Celebration” (Native American Times)
11/20/2013 “ Congressman Won’t Say ‘Redskins’ in House Speech; Calls for Name-Change” (Indian Country Today Media Network)
11/19/2013 “Two Row Belts to be Presented” (Owego Penny Saver)
11/17/2013 “Daily Inspiration: We Are the One’s We’ve Waited For” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
11/17/2013 “Owego exhibit emphasizes Wampum Belt Treaty” (Ithaca Journal)
11/13/2013 “The Two Row Wampum and the Rules of Law” (Two Row Times)
11/12/2013 “SU to honor Native American heritage, culture in November” (The Daily Orange)
11/08/2013 “Celebration to honor end of yearlong Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
10/30/2013 “Exhibit looks at history of Susquehanna River” (Press Connects)
10/16/2013 “Pipeline plan threatens First Nations communities, NEB hears” (The Canadian Press)
10/09/2013 “Tecumseh portrayed by David Morris of Newmarket hold up 2 row wampum” (Two Row Times)
10/06/2013 “Haudenosaunee Renew Two Row Wampum With Dutch” (Indian Country Today Media Network)
11/06/2013 “Two Row Wampum unites NYS opposition to fracking” (Two Row Times)
11/05/2013 “Treaty Belt on display in Macedon Library” (Wayne Post)
11/03/2013 “Haudenosaunee Leaders Travel to Netherlands to Mark Two Row Wampum Agreement” (Before it’s News)
November 2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (JeanBrennan.com)
10/02/2013 “On the river: Catskill to Kingston” (New Paltz Times)
9/13/2013 “Onondaga Nation marks 400 anniversary of Two Row Wampum treaty” (CNY Central)
9/13/2013 “Onondaga Nation leader in Netherlands to honor 400th anniversary of Two Row Wampum Treaty” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
9/13/2013 “Iroquois leaders in Holland for treaty ceremony” (The Wall Street Journal)
9/12/2013 “Haudenosaunee Leaders Travel to Netherlands to Mark Two Row Wampum Agreement” (IC Magazine)
9/10/2013 “Native American Tribes Seek Help from UN, World Court” (Truth Out
9/4/2013 “Renewing the ‘Two Row Wampum'” (United South and Eastern Tribes Inc.)
9/2/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Interview: Beth Adams” (Bread and Roses Radio) –
8/30/2013 “Renewing the ‘Two Row Wampum'” (Lake Placid News)
8/30/2013 “Group calls attention to environmental issues” (YNN) –
8/28/2013 “Paddling Through History: Renewing the Two Row Wampum” (New York History Blog)
8/27/2013 “Historic Paddle: Renewing the Two Row Wampum” (Adirondack Almanack)
8/26/2013 “Two Row Wampum campaign took message throughout New York state” (WRVO Public Media) –
8/24/2013 “A Dutch Massacre of Our Lenape Ancestors on Manhattan” (Indian Country Today Media Network)
8/24/2013 “Letter: Tradition suggests agreement of 1613 did exist” (Times Union)
8/22/2013 “Native Roots Artist Guild Member Featured at Historic Two Row Wampum Campaign” (Ohi:yo’ Art Gallery)-
8/22/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Ends Journey, Message Lives On” (Indian Time)
8/22/2013 “Epic Open Water Canoe Trip Ends in NYC; Treaty Renewed” (Indian Country Today Media Network)
8/22/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Completes Journey to United Nations” (Indian Time)
8/22/2013 “Sharing the river of life: The Two Row Wampum and the next 400 years” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
8/21/2013 “Two-Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Reflects on Successful Journey, Plans for Future” (WAER 88.3) – [photos]
8/20/2013 “Dugout canoe used in historic trip to honor Two Row Wampum to be on display at NYS Fair” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
8/18/2013 “Three cheers to treaty paddlers, La Guelaguetza Fest, Ulster BOCES Voltech” (Poughkeepsie Journal)
8/16/2013 “Ancient Wisdom Rising, Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (larahentz)
8/16/2013 “‘Sharp Words’ from historians miss the point of Two Row Wampum Commemoration: Your Letters” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
8/15/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Completes Journey to United Nation” (Indian Time)
8/15/2013 “Haudenosaunee paddlers take traditional trek down to New York City” (APTN News)
8/14/2013 “Two Row Wampum Arrives at United Nations” (Syracuse New Times)
8/13/2013 “Two communities, distinct and side-by-side: In greater Syracuse, spirit of the Two Row” (Syracuse Post- Standard)
8/9/13 “400 Years of Friendship with the Haudenosaunee Remembered” (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
8/9/2013 “Indianen vieren 400-jarig verdrag met Nederlanders” (Dutch RTL4) –
8/9/2013 “Observance of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples” (UN Web TV)
8/9/2013 “The Disputed Myth, Metaphor and Reality of the Two Row Wampum” (Indian Country Today Media Network)
8/9/2013 “Indigenous canoe trip celebrating 400-year-old peace treaty culminates with UN event” (UN News Centre)
8/9/2013 “Two Row Wampum Canoe Journey Ends in NYC” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
8/9/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Journey” (Vimeo) –
8/9/2013 “Onondaga Leader Oren Lyons, Pete Seeger on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples” (Democracy Now)
8/9/2013 “Three Things to Celebrate on International Day of the World’s Indigenous People” (Color Lines)
8/9/2013 “International Day of the World’s Indigenous People” (AllAfrica)
8/8/2013 “Canoe convoy making quite a row” (The Villager)
8/8/2013 “Two Row Paddlers Stop in Piermont” (Patch) – [photos]
8/8/2013 “Open Dialogue Needed on Treaties” (Reuters)
8/7/2013 “Two Row Story Part One” (Josh Dolan SoundCloud) –
8/7/2013 “Tonya Gonnella Frichner Esq. on the Two Row Wampum Campaign (YouTube) –
8/7/2013 “The Good Mind” (Times Union)
8/7/2013 “Paddlers With Two Row Wampum Belt Land in Piermont Wednesday” (Patch)
8/7/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Sails From Croton to Piermont” (Patch)
8/7/2013 “Two Hundred Paddlers Dock in Croton to Honor 400-year-old Peace Treaty” (Daily Voice)
8/6/2013 “Paddling Down the Hudson for the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (OpEd News)
8/5/2013 “NMHS Welcomes Onondaga Nation” (National Maritime Historical Society)
8/5/2013 “Traveling Hudson for Two Row Wampum, Paddlers Stop in Peeksill” (Patch)
8/4/2013 “Edge of the Woods Ceremony was the basis for the Two Row Wampum” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
8/4/2013 “Paddlers pass Walkway on trek to commemorate treaty” (Poughkeepsie Journal) –
8/3/2013 “Paddlers travel Hudson River for Two Row Wampum Treaty Renewal Campaign” (YNN)
8/3/2013 “Two Row Wampum Festival in Beacon” (Hudson Valley Reporter) – [photos]
8/3/2013 “Crowds gather to honor, cheer paddlers, unity riders” (Poughkeepsie Journal) –
8/3/2013 “Paddlers Commemorate Native American Treaty Stop in Cold Spring” (The Journal News) –
8/2/2013 “Two Row Wampum paddlers, Dakota Unity Riders, meet in Kingston” (MidHudson News)
8/2/3013 “Two Row Wampum campaigners sail (and ride) into Kingston” (Watershed Post)
8/2/2013 “One-sided colonial attitude must be replaced” (The StarPhoenix)
8/2/2013 “Two Row Wampum Boat Brought Back to Life” (CBS-6 News) –
8/1/2013 “Kingston welcomes Unity Riders , Native American Paddlers” (Daily Freeman) –
August 2013 “Two Row campaign reaches Manhattan shores” (Eastern Door)
August 2013 “Two Row Wampum Unity” (Vimeo) –
July/August 2013 “Two Row Wampum Campaign Prepares to Hit the Water” (Peace Newsletter)
7/31/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Celebration Troy, Ny” (Travels in Abbey)
7/31/2013 “Onward and ‘Onrust'” (Register-Star) –
7/31/2013 “Anniversary recalls water as sacred source of life” (The Washington Post)
7/31/2013 “Two Row Wampum Paddle Comes to Cold Spring” (The Putnam County News and Recorder)
7/31/2013 “Unity Riders aim to heal with 4,000 mile journey” (Poughkeepsie Journal)
7/31/2013 “Two Row Campaign Heads Down the Hudson” (Syracuse New Times)
7/30/2013 “Two Row Wampum campaigners sail (and ride) into Kingston” (Watershed Post)
7/30/2013 “Sacred Land: 400th Anniversary of 1st Treaty” (The Call of the Land)
7/30/2013 “Two Row Wampum Belt” (Friends of the NYS Military Museum)
7/30/2013 “Historic Native American journey reaches Rosendale” (The Herald-Record)
7/30/2013 “Two Row Wampum Flotilla Nearing United Nations” (Nyack News & Views) – [pdf version here]
7/29/2013 “Native American treaties journey down Hudson underway” (MidHudson News)
7/29/2013 “Haudenosaunee canoes reach Hudson River on trip to celebrate Two Row Wampum treaty” (Syracuse Post- Standard) – [photos]
7/29/2013 “Historic Native American Trip By Horseback, Canoe Passes Through Region” (The Herald-Record)
7/29/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (Great Northern Catskills)
7/28/2013 “Two Row Wampum flotilla embarks on Hudson River journey” (The Record) –
7/28/2013 “Peace Fest to Flow Through Beacon” (Poughkeepsie Journal)
7/28/2013 “Native American Treaties Journey Down Hudson Underway” (Mid-Hudson News)
7/27/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (Vimeo) –
7/27/2013 “Two Row Wampum Flotilla set to launch Sunday July 28, 2013 10 a.m. near Albany” (Examiner) –
7/26/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (Times Union)
7/26/2013 “Honoring a Neglected Pact” (Times Union)
7/26/2013 “Unity Riders’ journey of healing crosses area” (Daily Freeman)
7/26/2013 “Hudson paddlers’ journey to commemorate 1613 Iroquois-Dutch treaty” (The Journal News)
7/25/2013 “Journal Focuses on History of 400-year-old Two Row Wampum” (Indianz)
7/25/2013 “Two Row Wampum Epic Canoe Trip Kick Off Festival On July 27” (Popular Resistance)
7/25/2013 “A Message of Healing Comes During a Unity Ride” (WAMC) –
7/25/2013 “Row Your Boat- For Peace and Unity” (Almanac Weekly)
7/24/2013 “Two Row Wampum agreement is real even though written treaty is fake, Journal of Early American History says in special issue” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
7/24/2013 “Village Inks Less “Controversial” Wampum Resolution” (Saugerties Times)
7/24/2013 “Flotilla to Paddle Downriver, Towards a Better Future” (The Record)
7/23/2013 “Journal Explores debate on Two Row Wampum Treaty” (Brill)
7/23/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (InterOccupy)
7/18/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Arrives at Kanatsiohareke” (Indian Time)
7/18/2013 “To Row For Peace” (Straus News)
7/17/2013 “Thirteen-Day Voyage on Hudson River Marks Anniversary of Two Row Wampum Treaty Between Dutch Settlers and Hudson Valley Native Americans” (Hudson Valley Magazine)
7/14/2013 Oren Lyons and Andy Mager Interview on Two Row (WRVO Radio) – [half hour audio]
7/14/2013 “Native Heritage on Display at Farm” (Times Union) – [photos]
7/13/2013 “Paddlers Mark 400-year-old Iroquois-Dutch Pact” (Wall Street Journal)
7/10/2013 “Two Row Wampum Journey Begins” (Syracuse New Times)
7/9/2013 “Paddlers on Symbolic Trip to Honor 400th Anniversary of Two Row Wampum” (Little Falls Times)
7/6/2013 “Events Celebrate Two Row Wampum Treaty” (Poughkeepsie Journal)
7/4/2013 “Two Row Wampum Campaign Begins Symbolic Trip Over New York’s Waterways” (WRVO) –
7/4/2013 “The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign 2013 Begins at Onondaga Nation” (Syracuse Post-Standard) – [photos]
7/3/2013 “Paddlers Start Symbolic Trip to Honor 400th Anniversary of Two Row Wampum” (The First Perspective)
7/2/2013 “Onondaga Nation Representatives Embark on Epic Two Row Wampum Trip” (9WSYR-TV) –
7/2/2013 “Two Row Wampum Cultural Fest Launches” (Syracuse Post-Standard) – [photos]
7/1/2013 “Paddlers Start Symbolic Trip to Honor 400th Anniversary of Two Row Wampum” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
June 2013 “Woven Treaties” (Good Life Journal)
6/26/2013 “Onondaga Nation Preps Hand-Carved Canoe for Two Row Wampum Journey” (Indian Country)
6/26/2013 “Peace Sign” (New Times)
6/24/2013 “Two Row Wampum Campaign Training Paddle” (Syracuse Post-Standard) –
6/12/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Plans Symbolic Canoe Trip Down Hudson This Summer” (New Paltz Times)
6/11/2013 “Batavia Resident Using the Tonawanda to Prepare for Historic Canoe Trip From Albany to NYC” (The Batavian)
6/9/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (SculptingEarth)
6/9/2013 “Letter: Share and Protect the Environment” (Times Union)
6/7/2013 “Two Row Wampum Celebrates 400 Years of Friendship” (The Citizen)
6/7/2013 “400 Years: Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (WAMC) – [extended version on audio]
6/5/2013 “Journey Commemorates 400-Year-Old Treaty” (YNN)
6/5/2013 “Two Row Wampum Campaign Marking 400th Anniversary of First Haudenosaunee Treaty” (Ithaca)
6/4/2013 “Paddlers Launch Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (Ithaca Journal)
June 2013 “Sharing the River of Life” (NYS Conservationist)
5/29/2013 “Ithaca-to-Aurora Odyssey Observes a 400-Year-Old Lesson of Coexistence” (The Citizen)
5/28/2013 “Native Views Heard at Owen Sound Event” (Shoreline Beacon)
5/25/2013 “Celebrating 400 Years of the Two Row Wampum” (Indian Country)
5/23/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Peace Walk” (Grafton Peace Pagoda)
5/16/2013 “Onondaga Clan Mother Visits Nyack Center” (Nyack News and Views)
5/02/2013 “Onondaga Nation Men Create Dugout Canoe for Historic Trip Down the Hudson River” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
5/01/2013 “Hickory Edwards Talks About Making the Two Row Wampum Dugout Canoe” (Syracuse Post-Standard) –
5/01/2013 “Andy Mager on the Two Row Wampum Canoe Trip” (Syracuse Post-Standard) –
May 2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (Natural Awakenings)
4/19/2013 “American Indian Program at Cornell Celebrates 30 Years” (Indian Country)
4/11/2013 “Two Row Wampum Subject of Forum Tonight at Le Moyne College” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
4/09/2013 “Recognize Indian Passport Here Too” (NRC) – [Dutch version]
3/28/2013 “Bringing the Two Row Wampum Treaty to Life”
(Indian Country)
3/27/2013 “Students in Ithaca Learn About 400-year-old Two Row Wampum Treaty” (Ithaca)
3/25/2013 “Storytellers Conference April 13th at University of Buffalo” (The Buffalo News)
3/23/2013 “Woodstock Fundraiser Will Aid Campaign to Renew Native American Treaty” (Daily Freeman)
3/23/2013 “Honoring the Two Row Wampum” (Examiner)
3/17/2013 “Group Displays Native American History” (WIVB4)
3/16/2013 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Honors Native Treaties with Rebecca Myles” (WBAI) –
3/14/2013 “Historic 400-Year-Old Wampum Belts come to Western New York” (WGRZ 2)
3/14/2013 “Onondaga Nation Calls on Pope Francis to Repeal Lands Doctrine” (Indianz.com)
3/14/2013 “Historic 400-Year Old Wampum Belts Come to Western New York” (Niagara Frontier Publications)
3/14/2013 “Western New York to see 400-Year Old Wampum Belts” (WIVB)
3/13/2013 “Indian Nations & Neighbors Commemorate 400th Anniversary of Two Row Wampum Treaty” (The Nation)
3/13/2013 “Sharing the River of Life: The Two Row Wampum Treaty Renewal Campaign and Our Collective Future” (Chronogram)
3/13/2013 “New Pope Named as Natives Push for Recant of Doctrine of Discovery” (Indian Country)
3/13/2013 “Native Americans to new Pope: Recant the ‘Discovery Doctrine,’ which Catholics dominion over New World” (Daily News)
3/13/2013 “Renewing the First Treaty Between American Indian Nations and European Settlers: Two Row Wampum” (The Pachamama Alliance)
3/12/2013 “NYC National Museum of American Indians to Host Panel on 400 Year Wampum Treaty” (Native News Network)
3/6/2013 “400th Anniversary of Two Row Event Planned July” (TEKAWENNAKE)
2/15/2013 “Lindsay Speer and Jake Edwards Discuss the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign on The Forum” (WERW) –
2/14/2013 “ABORIGINAL JUSTICE: Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Begins” (Christian Peacemaker Teams)
2/11/2013 “Spirit of Two Row Wampum Lives Strong in Central New York” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
2/10/2013 “Onondaga Nation Launching “Honor the Two Row Wampum Campaign” (CNY Central) –
2/8/2013 “Andy Mager Shares Insight on the Two Row Wampum Campaign with Susan Arbetter in the Capitol Pressroom” (WCNY) –
2/6/2013 “Jake Edwards and Andy Mager Discuss the Educational Campaign” (9WSYR)-
2/5/2013 “Editorial Board Meets with Organizers of the Two Row Wampum Campaign” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
2/4/2013 “Celebrating Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” (Syracuse Post-Standard) –
2/3/2013 “Two Row Wampum: Made-up Controversy Over Treaty Document Belittles Haundenosaunee Oral History” (Syracuse Post-Standard)
2/1/2013 “Respect for The Two Row Wampum” (570 WSYR) – [podcast]
1/25/2013 “Rebuttal: ‘Two Canoes’ Extremely Meaningful to Aboriginals” (London Free Press)
1/13/2013 “Letter to the Editor: Linked by Respect and Friendship” (Times Union)
1/8/2013 “As Long as Grass is Green” (Almanac Weekly)
11/15/2012 “Onondaga Chief Discusses 400-year Wampum Treaty” (Mid-Hudson News Network)
10/4/2012 “Two Row Wampum Renewal Thursday Morning Roundtable” (WCNY) –
Fall 2012 “Polishing the Covenant Chain in the Hudson Valley and Beyond” (ONGWAWENNA)
Fall 2012 “Environmental Consortium Two Row Feature Story” (Environmental Consortium of Colleges and Universities)
