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2025 National Conference of NAIWA

  • Monday
    healing the mind - educational
    7:00 a.m. - 12 noon Registration Table – Event Center Lobby● 7:30 Lighting the sacred fire - Front of casino
    ● 8 a.m. – 9 a.m. - Breakfast- Women Singers Welcome - Smudging Station -Event Center
    ● 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. - Vendor set up in casino lobby area
    ● 9 a.m. -10 a.m. - Opening Ceremony and Invocation
    ● 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. - “Good Mind Concept” Importance of a Good Mind - Tom Porter
    ● 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.- “Controlled Emotions” What Is Intergenerational Trauma - Lori Quigley
    ● Lunch 12-1 p.m. - Buffet style
    ● 1:15 p.m. – 2 p.m. - “Not Forgotten” MMIW - Jillian Issacs/Linda John
    ● 2:15 p.m. - 3 p.m. “Personal Safety” Session A- Self Defense - Nettie Watt Session B- Stalker Awareness- Human Trafficking -Christina Porter
    ● 3pm-3:30pm -Break with Refreshments
    ● 3:30 p.m. -4:15 p.m. “Inspiring Our Future” Session A - Rites of Passage - Jocelyn Jones Session B - Ganokyoh- Language and Environment Connection - Derise Whitcomb
    ● 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. “STORYTELLING” Tonia Galban
    ● 5:30 p.m. - Dinner on Your Own - Sightseeing Niagara Falls
  • TUESDAY
    healing the body - physical
    ● 6 am - Walk/Run to 3-Sisters Island - Meet in casino lobby dressed for the weather/comfortable shoes - Return shuttle
    ● 8 a.m. – 9 a.m. - Breakfast - Women Singers Welcome - Smudging Station.
    ● 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. - Vendor set up in casino lobby area
    ● 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. General Business Session - NAIWA Members Only - Event Center
    ● Lunch 12-1 p.m. Buffet style
    ● 1:15 p.m. - 2 p.m. “Our Connections to Food” Herb Gathering and Medicinal Use - Yolanda Smith
    ● 2:00 p.m.- 3 p.m. “Haudenosaunee Traditional Practices” Reclaiming Clay - Cami Jones ● 3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Break with refreshments
    ● 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. “Nature's Bounty” 3 Sisters gardening and Gakwiyoh Farm - Lorinda John ● 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - “Our Connections to Water” West Valley and the Cattaraugus Creek - Alyssa Warrior ● 5:30 p.m. - Dinner and/or Sightseeing Niagara Falls On Your Own
  • WEDNESDAY
    Healing the soul - spiritual
    ● 8 a.m. – 9 a.m. - Breakfast - Women's Singers Welcome - Smudging Station
    ● 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. - Silent auction begins
    ● 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. - Vendor set up in casino lobby area
    ● 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. General Business Session - NAIWA Members Only - Event Center Invitation of 2026 Annual Conference ● 10 p.m. - Noon Grief & Healing - a Native Perspective - Nicky Thompson
    ● 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Lunch Buffet style
    ● 1:00 p.m. - 3 p.m.- “Land Back Panel” “Connections to the Land “ Why We Remember the Removal - Odie Porter “Land Back -Reconnecting ”Our Land and Environment - Jeanne Shenandoah “Protecting Mother Nature” STAMP Project - Christine Abrams
    ● 3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Break with refreshments
    ● 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Visit Vendors / Silent Auction ends at 5:30 p.m.
    ● 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Banquet Fashion Show during dinner Announce Auction winners ● 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. - Closing Remarks - Kelly Edwards, Chair NAIWA Northeast Chapter Haudenosaunee Gathering - Social Dancing - Newtown Singers Closing- Travis Stafford

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