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Hodinöšyö:nih Continuity Festival
Join us at the RMSC for the Hodinöšyö:nih Continuity Festival! Celebrate Indigenous creativity and cultures with demonstrations from incredible Hodinöšyö:nih artists.
Hodinöšyö:nih Continuity Festival
Programs and activites
- Grandmother Pots: Get a hands-on opportunity to touch 3D-printed Grandmother pots, just like the ones in Hodinöšyö:nih Continuity | Innovation | Resilience, and then color your own pottery!
- Beading Perler: Check out some of the incredible beaded work from our Teaching Collection, then design your own beading pattern and add it to our community beading project!
Presenter schedule and activities are subject to change.
WHY DO we SPELL
HAUDENOSAUNEE AS HODINÖŠYÖ:NIH?
The word Hodinöšyö:nih translates to English as People of the Longhouse. Lewis Henry Morgan published this name in his 1851 book, League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois, along with a map showing Hodinöšyö:nih and other Indigenous communities across the land that has come to be known as New York. The common English spelling of “Haudenosaunee” derives from this publication, and there are many different spellings, pronunciations, and translations used within regional Hodinöšyö:nih communities today. This exhibition prioritizes Onödowa’ga:’ (Seneca) language terms and spellings used by the curator in his community of Tonawanda. Hodinöšyö:nih contains diacritical marks (e.g. ö) that help the reader pace the spoken word as “ho-dee-noh[nasalized]-sh-oh[nasalized and long]-nee”.
