Friday, Jul 11, 2008

2-05-08 Tribal and Non-Native Alliance-Building: Interview with Andy Mager

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J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews Andy Mager, a staff person at the Syracuse Peace Council and one of the founders of Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, a grassroots organization of Central New Yorkers that recognizes and supports the sovereignty of the traditional government of the Onondaga Nation. The Onondaga Nation is an Indian Nation, and a member of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee. The Nation's present territory is south of Syracuse, New York. According to their tribal website, the Onondaga Nation is taking action to assert its legal rights to its homelands in Central New York, with the principal goal of achieving legal recognition of title to its homelands, but without suing individual land owners. Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation supports the right of native peoples to reclaim land, and advocates for fair settlement of any claims which are filed. Learn more about this organization and how it is distinctly different from the numerous anti-Indian organizations that are flourishing in this country who oppose tribal land rights and self-determination, whose anti-indigenous racism is thinly veiled behind the purported quest for "equality."

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