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| | March 2010 | | | Community Leadership Capacity Building Workshop
March 13-14, 2010 Six Nations Polytechnic 2160 4th Line Six Nations of the Grand River 9:00am - 4:00pm Presentors: Simon Brascoupe and Rick Hill Cost: Free, but space is very limited (lunch and nutrition breaks are included) The Indigenous Knowledge Centre of Six Nations Polytechnic presents this 2-day workshop focusing on using traditional Haudenosaunee values in environmental planning and economic development. To register: Tracy Hill, #519.445.0023, x222 or email: thill@snpolytechnic.com For more information: Rick Hill, #519.445.0023, x240 (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | | Kanatsiohareke Benefit Concert
March 13, 2010 Caffe Lena 47 Phila Street Saratoga Springs, NY 1:00pm - 4:00pm The Concert will feature: Roy "Poncho" Hurd, Adirondack singer/songwriter; The Akwesasne Women Singers; Jesse Bruchac; Kay Olan, Mohawk storyteller; Tami Mitchell; and Tom Porter will be doing the traditional Opening Address at 12pm. For more information: www.mohawkcommunity.com (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | | Growing Local: How Community Gardens are Shaping Buffalo
March 23, 2010 Allen Hall Theatre University of Buffalo, South Campus Buffalo, NY 7:00pm Free event The spring 2010 UB Green Climate Talks series introduces issues such as waste reduction, community gardens and sustainable transportation. This event will include participants from Grassroots Gardens, Massachusetts Avenue Project, Wilson Street Urban Farm, and UB Environmental Network. For more information: Erin Cala Moscati, UB Green Office, #716.829.5743, www.ubgreen.buffalo.edu (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | | Environmental Youth Summit
March 26-27, 2010 Rich's Atrium Buffalo, New York The Summit will bring together ten regional high schools with teams of 5-8 students and their teacher advisors to investigate an environmental challenge they face in their school or community. FMI: Dave Bauer, dbauer102@yahoo.com (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | Justice for Indigenous People, Guest Speaker Robert Coulter
March 29, 2010 University of Buffalo Law School O'Brian Hall, Room 509 7:00pm Free event Robert T. Coulter, Potawatomi Lawyer and human rights activist, will speak about working with indigenous peoples throughout the Americas to combat racism and oppression, realize their human rights, protect their lands and the environment, and achieve sustainable economic development and genuine self-government. Robert T. Coulter is founder and Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center. Coulter wrote the first draft of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 1976. The United Nations finally adopted the Declaration on September 27, 2007. Sponsored by the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the University of Buffalo School of Law, Buffalo Human Rights Center. (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | | |
| April 2010 | | | 1st Annual Early Technology Day
April 10, 2010 Iroquois Indian Museum Howes Cavern, NY 10:00am - 4:00pm Public Event This year they will demonstrate the process of flint knapping, using local and semi-local cherts and lithics. Are you interested in archaeology? have you found an artifact? Please bring it with you and we'll try to identify it for you. The day may also include demonstrations and teachings: primitive fire making, atl-atl spear throwing, dogbane rope making demonstration, and early archery. Archery is welcomed: If you have equipment, you may shoot, after 2:30pm, and that can be scheduled to happen between turns of spear throwing. Some spears and throwers are provided. For more information and a tentative schedule: www.iroquoismuseum.org/calendar.htm or call: #518.296.8949. (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | | SPARE Basic Photovoltaic Installer Course
April 12 - 16, 2010 Onondaga Community College 4585 West Seneca Turnpike J. Stanley Coyne Building (JSC) Rooms 214, 216/220 Syracuse, NY 9:00am - 5:00pm Cost: $495.00 per participant, $450.00 per person if more than two from same organization The four-day SPARE (Solar Power as Renewable Energy ) Photovoltaic Installer Course are offered by SUNY-ESF in collaboration with Onondaga Community College (OCC). The course is instructed by well-known physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Gay Canough, her long time colleague, Francine Notte, and ESF chemistry professor, Dr. Neal Abrams. For more information: BrandiLee Schafran, blschafran@esf.edu or at: http://www.esf.edu/outreach/pd/spare/ (Note: if you are Haudenosaunee and are interested in attending this course, please contact our TEP office for a potential discount offered through the HETF.) (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | Earth Day Festival 2010
April 17, 2010 Beaver Meadow Audubon Center North Java, NY 10:00am - 4:00pm $6 adults/$4 ages 3-12/under 3 free The 3rd annual Buffalo Audubon Earth Day Festival. Environmental groups from around WNY, solar panel display, nature hikes, crafts and much more. Fun for the entire family!! For more information: www.buffaloaudubon.com (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | | | | | |
| May 2010 | | Iroquois Wampum Belts
May 1, 2010 Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community 4934 State Highway Rte 5 Fonda, NY Part of the Kanien'kehaka Cultural Teaching Series, Darren Bonaparte (Akwesasne Mohawk, www.wampumchronicales.com) shares his knowledge on wampum and the historical significance of the wampum belts of the Iroquois Confederacy, their sacredness to the Iroquois & relevence within the context of European contact, settlement and subsequent treaties. Cost: $40.00 includes light lunch and materials For more information: www.mohawkcommunity.com (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | Stream Stabilization-Restoration Class
May 18-20, 2010 Henrietta Fire Training Center 60 Erie Station Road Extension West, Henrietta, NY 9:00am - 4:30pm Cost: $50.00 for all three days With an emphasis on Innovative Approaches to Stream Stabilization and Restoration, presented by: David Derrick, research hydraulic engineer, Corps of Engineer's Research & Development Center Coastal & Hydraulic Laboratory. This exciting workshop will introduce the methodologies and procedures for initiating, planning, analyzing, and ultimately designing long-term sustainable river and stream stabilization or restoration approaches. Innovative, environmentally sensitive, and cost-effective approaches to channel restoration will be discussed. Comprehensive case studies will also be presented. For more information: #585.473.2120 x3 or robert.kiley@ny.nacdnet.net www.monroecountyswcd.org (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | |
| June 2010 | | 2010 National Tribal Science Forum
June 6-10, 2010 Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Grand Traverse Resort and Spa Traverse City, MI The U.S. E.P.A. Tribal Science Council and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians will host the 2010 National Tribal Science Forum. The forum theme "Mother Earth: Indigenous Knowledge and Science to Promote Positive Change" will be explored in the following tracks: air, water, earth, community health and cross-theme issues. For more information: http://epa.blhtech.com/2010TribalScienceForum (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | | |
| July 2010 | | 165th Tuscarora Nation Picnic & Field Days
July 9-10, 2010 Tuscarora Nation Picnic grounds Walmore Road Tuscarora Nation, NY The 165th Picnic and Field Days will include native and regional music acts, 10k and fun run, Tuscarora raised beadwork contest, native foods, sports, Tuscarora princess contest much more. More information will be available soon. | | |
| September 2010 | | NAAEE Environmental Education Conference
September 29 - October 2, 2010 Buffalo, NY Cost: Registration opens June 1st and costs range from $260 to $490 per participant. They also offer per day rates as well. North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) 39th Annual Conference will be a gathering of over 1,000 educators. This year's theme is "Building Connections - Bridging Gaps". For more information: http://naaee.org/conference/ (TEP is not affiliated with this event.) | | |
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