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Hodinöšyö:nih Continuity Artist Workshops
Attend a workshop with a featured artist from our Hodinöšyö:nih Continuity | Innovation | Resilience exhibition to dive deeper into the subject matter and connect your creative hands with knowledge. Sign up for one workshop, or all five!
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”.
