{"id":71674,"date":"2014-02-18T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=71674"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:08:58","slug":"indigenous-rights-and-environmental-activist-oren-lyons-to-discuss-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/18\/indigenous-rights-and-environmental-activist-oren-lyons-to-discuss-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous rights and environmental activist Oren Lyons to discuss sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chief Oren Lyons. (Larry Palumbo\/Coyote Magic)<\/p><\/div>\n

Chief Oren Lyons, a Native American leader and environmental activist, offers a lecture titled Peace, Power, Righteousness: Environmental Stewardship From a Native Perspective<\/em> at 7 p.m. Monday, March 3, in the Peter J. Gomes Chapel, 275 College St.<\/p>\n

Presented by the Office of Equity and Diversity in cooperation with other offices at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, the event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6031.<\/p>\n

Lyons, a member of the Onondaga and Seneca nations, is a Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and a chief of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee (“People of the Longhouse”).<\/p>\n

Lyons attended Syracuse University on an athletic scholarship. A lifelong lacrosse player, he was a standout in the sport at Syracuse, was later elected to the Lacrosse Hall of Fame and today is honorary chairman of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team.<\/p>\n

Graduating Syracuse with a degree in fine arts, Lyons became a successful commercial artist. He later taught at the University of Buffalo, and was named a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor Emeritus of American Indian Studies.<\/p>\n

In 1977, Lyons was a founding member of the Traditional Circle of Elders and Youth, a council that seeks to infuse Native American culture into contemporary cultural and political discourse.<\/p>\n

In 1982, he helped establish the Working Group on Indigenous Populations at the United Nations. He is the recipient of the United Nations NGO World Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

He serves on the Executive Committee of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival. Among many other honors, he is a recipient of Sweden’s prestigious Friends of the Children Award, along with his colleague, the late Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n

Lyons was the subject of Oren Lyons the Faithkeeper<\/em>, a 1991 PBS documentary by Bill Moyers, and appeared in the 2007 documentary\u00a0The 11th Hour<\/em>, a documentary on the state of the natural world and climate change, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.<\/p>\n

He is the author, co-author or editor of several books and has illustrated a number of children’s books.<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and related offices and programs making Lyons’ visit possible:<\/p>\n

The departments of history and athletics; the environmental studies program; the Harward Center for Community Partnerships; the offices of Intercultural Education and of Sustainability; the Learning Associates Program; the Multifaith Chaplaincy; and the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Group of the Wabanaki-ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½-Bowdoin-Colby Collaborative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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