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Breaking News!
Powerful Statements of Support
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Chairwoman Tousey of the Brothertown Indian Nation has made an announcement of the partnership with us, Friends of Buttonhook Forest to protect this sacred land.
"I am sure you are wondering why this site is of particular importance to the BIN and why the Tribal Council entered into this partnership. It is likely, based upon historical information, that our ancestors traveled extensively through this area and no doubt attended ceremonies in this sacred place. It is possible the site may contain the remains of our ancestors and those of other tribes in the area. Buttonhook Forest should be preserved on behalf of all the tribes in the Northeast who once traversed this land." To read the full statement visit their website. |
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Click to read the letter of support in its entirety.
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On November 16, 2022, the Saw Mill River Audubon sent a letter to the Chappaqua Central School Board strongly supporting the Friends of Buttonhook and Brothertown Indian Nation's bid to protect Buttonhook forest.
"I recognize the responsibility of the Board of Education to act in a manner consistent with the community you serve... However considerations and concerns including steam and wetland protection, habitat protection, biodiversity, ... and climate change cross these lines so that as public officials you have a responsibility to consider likely and possible impacts of their deacons on the broader community." | ||
News Channel 12
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Click This Link to watch news coverage from September 15, 2022
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Print News
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Local Group, Native Americans Unite in Fight to Save Chappaqua Forest
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New obstacle for Chappaqua schools at Buttonhook development: Native American artifacts David McKay Wilson, Rockland/Westchester Journal News, April 27, 2022 We encourage everyone to visit The Journal News online, but for non-subscribers, you can download the article below.
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Chappaqua's Buttonhook property may contain Native American artifacts
In this video interview, Tracey Bilski talks about the ceremonial stone landscapes on her Chappaqua property April 19, 2022. Frank Becerra Jr., Rockland/Westchester Journal News |
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The Examiner News:
Read "Chappaqua’s Buttonhook Development Would Desecrate Sacred Site", a column written and submitted by Victoria Alzapiedi, Tracey Bilski, Kate Brady, Hermian Charles, Bill Connors, Haley Ferraro, Stacy & Robert Morgan, Maxine Margo Rubin, Cristina Shih and Lynn Trotta on behalf of Friends of Buttonhook. |
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Podcasts
The Many Shades of Green PodcastIn this episode, we focus on actions being taken by community residents to preserve and protect a beautiful pristine property in Northern Westchester, which appears to contain Indigenous Native American cultural stone landscape and other remnants of their life on that parcel. Victoria Alzapiedi and Tracey Bilski of New Castle Land Trust give us some history about the land in question and the surrounding properties. We must respect and take care of what the Indigenous Native Americans left us and honor their footprints, as they were the keepers of the land centuries ago.
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Allison & Ivana welcome Friends of Buttonhook guests, Victoria Alzapiedi, Tracey Bilski, Maxine Margo Rubio, Stacey Morgan, and Lynn Trotta, who are working diligently to preserve Buttonhook Forest in Chappaqua, NY, from being developed into luxury homes. Learn the facts and find out how you can get involved in this vital movement to save habitat, our watershed, and a sacred indigenous site.
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Webinars
A presentation on Native American Stone Prayers
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In Shappekwa (Chappaqua): Preserving endangred sacred heriate in a critical habitat.
A Native American perspective on the importance and significance of the Chappaqua Central School District Buttonhook Site - located in the Valley Ridge area of Chappaqua. Nohham Cachat-Schilling (Mohawk-Nashawe two-spirit), M.S., is Medicine Elder for Bridge in the Sky Medicine Circle and Chair of Massachusetts Ethical Archaeology Society. Nohham's research centers on Indigenous ethnobotany and sacred archaeology of the Northeast. They and their family operate Maguonket Organic Traditions Farm, a minimum-impact permaculture of Indigenous American foods and medicine plants. Bridge in the Sky Medicine Circle contact Miles Tardie, Secretary bridgeinthesky7@gmail.com; contact M.E.A.S. at ethicarch@gmail.com, or view at www.ethicarch.org. on 1/27/22 |
A Presentation by Marina Heron Tsaplina
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Marina Heron Tsaplina spoke with to the Friends of Buttonhook Forest community about early microscopy research on mycorrhizal fungi for the development of Soil and Spirit, a new participatory artistic work in endangered and old growth forests.
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Inspired to help?
If you have a platform, whether it's a podcast, newsletter, YouTube Channel, connection to a news outlet, or other audience, we'd love to connect about a potential collaboration to help spread the word.
Email us! We'd love to talk about the possibility.
Email us! We'd love to talk about the possibility.
