Faculty
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Oren R. Lyons SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Professor Emeritus of American Studies |
Oren Lyons is the publisher of Daybreak Magazine and co-editor of Exiled in the Land of the Free. His interests include Native American history, international indigenous affairs, contemporary indigenous issues, and international environmental issues. He has received the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, the National Audubon Award, the First Annual Earth Day International Award of the United Nations, and the Elder and Wiser Award of the Rosa Parks Institute for Human Rights, and he has been inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He is a member of the board of the Harvard Project on American Economic Development and chairman of the Board Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations.
Faithkeeper Turtle Clan Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee, Six Nations - Iroquois Confederacy
Publisher
Daybreak, a national Native American magazine
Chairman
Iroquois National's Lacrosse
Founding member
Onondaga Athletic Club, Onondaga Nation
Board Member
Salt City Amateur Boxing Club
Current
New York State Professional Boxing Second's License.
Executive Committee Member
World Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival Oxford, England, April 11-15, 1998
Presenter
4th World Wilderness Congress- Denver Colorado, September 1987
Public Service
Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Council of Chiefs of the Haudenosaunee, of the Onondaga Nation of the Haudenosaunee. Responsible for maintaining the customs and traditions of his people while representing the people's message from the Haudenosaunee to the World Community in every aspect as deemed necessary by the Onondaga people.
Jim Thorpe Annual Memorial and Parade. Participant and Host to the family of Jim Thorpe. Sponsored by the City of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. September 9, 2000.
Meeting with John Schmidt, Boydon Gray, Chief Counsel for President Bush, Delegation meeting included: Prince Alfred von Liechtenstein of Austria, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Carol Newhouse of New York, New York. Topic: Environmental issues in Eastern Europe. May 31, 1991.
Board Member, Salt City Amateur Boxing Club, Syracuse, New York.
Native American representative to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1974-present.
Haudenosaunee representative at the commemoration ceremonies of the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794. A treaty between the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States. Annual event.
Meeting with President Gerald Ford as Iroquois Delegate to the White House Meeting with Six Nations Leaders. 1976.
Six Nations Representative to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Commission on Human Rights, United Nations Economic and Social Council, Washingtion, D.C. 1976.
Mediator, Team Member for the American Arbitration Association, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Overseer of the transition of Native American Administration at the Oglala Sioux Nation as the term of Richard Wilson ended and Al Trimbull became Tribal Chairman.
Honorary Board Member, Co-Founder, Native American Center for the Living Arts, Niagara Falls, New York.
Advisory Board Member: Native American Family Nurse Practitioner Program, SUNYAB. A federally funded Public Health Service Program.
Graduate Advisor for Doctoral Candidates and Masters Candidates in the Department of American Studies.
Courses Taught
* American Studies 231, Survey of Native American History.
* American Studies 232, Survey of Native American History
* American Studies 551, Native American Studies Colloquium
* American Studies Graduate Courses as follows: Supervision in Reading, Research, Supervised Fieldwork, Supervised Teaching, Thesis Guidance, and Project Supervision.
* Supervised graduate student members of the Native American Studies unit of the American Studies Department in their research work. Principal faculty member for over forty Master degree committees and five Doctoral Degree Committees. Topic of research supervision included Native American Education, Native Legal Situation with the Federal Government and the Canadian Federal Government, Economic Development on the Native Territories and Sovereign Issues in the International Perspective, Native American Health Issues, Native American Cultural and Artistic Expression.