Bookmark - How To Be An Ally To Indigenous Peoples

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Art: Onondaga Gustoweh Josephine M. Cook, Onondaga, ©2013, watercolor & acrylic Text & sponsor: Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign www.honorthetworow.org Design: SCW©2013 2013 marks the 400th Anniversary of the Two Row Wampum Treaty between the Dutch and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). This treaty was a model for all Indigenous/Euro treaties that followed.

  • Care for the Earth
  • Give thanks frequently
  • Respect and support Indigenous sovereignty
  • Remember that treaties are  the Supreme Law of the United States (Article 6, US Constitution)
  • Demand that our nation honor its treaty commitments
  • Consider future generations in all your actions
  • Resist stereotypes,  including team names and mascots
  • Learn about and reject the “Doctrine of Discovery”
  • Reach out to your Indigenous neighbors
  • Slow down, listen more than you talk
  • Notice where you are
  • Live with gratitude and lightly on the Earth
  • Work to avert catastrophic changes in global climate systems, Stop hydrofracking, dirty coal and uranium mining.
  • Support renewable energy
  • Don’t co-opt cultures or ceremonies, return sacred objects
  • Support Indigenous women at the center of decision-making, leadership and care for the Earth
  • Read and promote the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day
  • Learn about the people indigenous to wherever you are
  • Read Native Authors
  • Support Native craftspeople, businesses and events
  • Actively support #LandBack
  • Remember that all elements of creation (animals, plants, air, waters and more) are your relatives, not resources
  • Appreciate the diversity of nations, cultures and people

The Gustoweh The distinctive feature of the men's Haudenosaunee dress is our headgear. The Gustoweh is a fitted hat made of strips of wood. The wood is then covered and adorned with eagle, hawk, pheasant, or turkey feathers. The Gustoweh is also used to identify an individual's nation. A man wearing his Gustoweh with one feather pointing upward and another pointing downwards, indicates he is Onondaga. A man who has one feather pointing skyward is identified as Seneca. Each nation has their own way of identifying each other by our Gustoweh. Source: http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/dress.html