This 400th anniversary campaign, carried out throughout 2013, is finished. The work to honor treaties with Native Nations and protect the Earth continues. Learn more, or join in that work: contact the Onondaga Nation, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, Neetopk Keetopk (Hudson Valley), Onondaga Canoe and Kayak Club or Two Row Paddle down the Grand (2016).

Video Available: Onondaga Nation Land Rights Action Goes International

Onondaga Nation leaders bring the Canandaigua Treaty belt to the White House to remind the U.S. government of their obligations. Photo: Travis Shoff

Onondaga Nation leaders bring the Canandaigua Treaty belt to the White House to remind the U.S. government of their obligations. Photo: Travis Shoff

On May 5, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) organized a public presentation for Central New Yorkers to hear from Onondaga Nation leaders and their legal counsel about the petition they filed in April to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. Tadodaho Sid Hill, Clanmother Freida Jacques, General Counsel Joe Heath, Faithkeeper Oren Lyons and Chief Irving Powless, Jr. all spoke. You can watch the video here. (Thanks to Rochester Indymedia for filming and posting it.)

The Onondaga went to this international venue seeking the justice denied to them by the United States courts. For further details, see the Onondaga Nation website.