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Keeping the 'Turtle Island' Alive: The Mohawk’s Fight Against Industrial Pollution

According to the Mohawk, an Indigenous tribe based in North America, the Earth as we know it used to rest on the back of a gigantic turtle – and after the continents separated, North America was known ...
WKBW

'We have this amazing culture to share': Community calls to reawaken the 'Turtle' in Niagara Falls

Hello! I'm Taylor Anthony and I'm covering the Northtowns for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at [email protected] NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WKBW) — Just steps from the iconic ...
Buffalo Rising

Preservation Alert: Big Win for The Turtle

The three-story zoomorphic building is 67,000 sq. ft. with eagle skylights. Its unique shape, with a geodesic dome roof “shell” and large porthole “eye” windows, invokes the Haudenosaunee creation ...
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First Major Retrospective of Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s Work To Go on View at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York

Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan, b. 1954), “The Rebel,” 1987. Hand-tinted gelatin silver print. Collection of the artist. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the ...