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Part 1: 60 minutes_ Featuring: Tonya Gonnella-Frichner Onandoga Nation Alex Ewen, Flying Eagle Woman Fund Steven Newcomb, Sycuan University Nicholas Robinson
PROFESSOR OF LAW_Pace University Gail Small Northern Cheyenne Nation Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan_ Onondaga Nation of the Six Nations In honor of Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa work in theSovereignty of the indigenous people and as side panel event of the The Seventh Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. NY,NY April 2008. Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, 1999 "Since the time that human beings offered thanks for the first sunrise, sovereignty has been an integral part of Indigenous peoples' daily existence. With the original instructions from the Creator, we realize our responsibilities. Those are the laws that lay the foundation of our society. These responsibilities manifest through our ceremonies ... Sovereignty is that wafting thread securing the components that make a society. Without that wafting thread, you cannot make a rug. Without that wafting thread, all you have are un-joined, isolated components of a society. Sovereignty runs through the vertical strands and secures the entire pattern. That is the fabric of Native society." Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, 1999.

• Release Date

  Jun 23, 2008

• Runtime

  01:01:06