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March 3, 2022 in Uncategorized

Oneida Nation and Brothertown Nation cultural exchange announced

The Brothertown Indian Nation is excited to announce that our relationship with our cousins, the Oneida Nation, is once again being reaffirmed through a cultural exchange of goods.

The Oneida Nation purchased a large private collection on behalf of the Brothertown Indian Nation’s behalf in 2010. It was our responsibility to repay the Oneida for this purchase, but because of our continual struggles as an unrecognized tribe, we have not been able to keep up with payments. Through the goodness of their hearts knowing this collection would help with our goals of restoration, as well as to strengthen our already solid relationship between tribal nations, the Oneida Nation has graciously decided to have a cultural exchange, much like we would have done pre-colonial times.

The Brothertown Indian Nation needs your help to raise funds to purchase cultural materials for this exchange. Materials include calico fabric and wampum to commemorate this historic exchange.

If you’d like to give, you can donate via PayPal
or mail your donation to: Brothertown Indian Nation c/o Michelle Wood PO Box 2206 Fond du Lac, WI 54935. Please indicate that your donation is related to the Oneida Cultural Exchange.

February 7, 2022 in Uncategorized

New videos added to the BIN Channel

The website committee is focused on routinely adding new content to Brothertown YouTube channel – currently the channel includes 24 videos.

Our goal is to feature the best content relating to Brothertown history, its ancestors, presentations, as well as the tribes’ current events.

Newest content includes “Joanna Brooks discussion of Samson Occom”, “The Brothertown Tribe in the 1980’s”, “Laura Murrays discussion on Joseph Johnson”, “Craig Cipolla’s Presentation on our Brothertown Cemeteries”, “Professor Glenda Goodman presents Early Native American Hymnody with focus on Joseph Johnson”, and several others.

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Current playlists now include:

Additional Education videos of the Brothertown Indians
Brothertown Indian Nation Homecoming 2021
Brothertown Indian Nation Videos
Education: History and Heritage of The Brothertown Indian Nation

January 12, 2022 in Uncategorized (1 Comment)

Clyde Bellecourt, One of Original Founders of the American Indian Movement, Passes Away at 85

Clyde Bellecourt, one of the original founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), passed away today due to complications with cancer, according to Lisa Bellanger, Co-Director of the American Indian Movement’s Grand Governing Council. His Ojibwe name is “Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun-“Thunder Before the Storm.” He was 85 years old.

Along with Dennis Banks, Eddie Benton-Benai, and George Mitchell, Clyde Bellecourt co-founded the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968. In its beginning, the American Indian Movement aimed to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against urban American Indians.

September 18, 2021 in Uncategorized

Rebecca Pelky- Brothertown Indian Nation member releases her latest book

Earlier this year, the book was awarded the Perugia Press Prize. “Through a Red Place”, a story-in-poems that assembles her research into her Native and non-Native heritage in the land now known as Wisconsin.

“Through the poets’ ancestors – and documented through text and image – this book relates narratives of people who converged on and impacted this space in myriad ways. Written in English and Mohegan, “Through a Red Place” reshapes itself from page to page, asking what it means to navigate place as both colonizer and colonized. It builds a map between distances and lost stories to unearth and honor the past.”