Canoe journey helps renew the Two Row Wampum Treaty
On an epic river journey last summer, over 200 canoe and kayak paddlers celebrated the 400th anniversary of the Two Row Wampum Treaty, the first treaty between the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people and early Dutch settlers in what would later become New York State. The paddlers – Native people and their allies – sought to renew the treaty’s vital goals of friendship, cooperation, protecting native lands, and preserving the earth and waters that we all depend upon. Paddlers traveled over 300…