Audrey Shenandoah (aw-dree shen-on-dough-wah)
Onondaga clanmother
IMAGE SOURCE: Toba Pato Tucker. “Haudenosaunee: Portraits of the Firekeepers the Onondaga Nation.” Syracuse University Press, 1999. | QUOTE SOURCE: “Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment is a Religious Issue--An Interfaith Dialogue.” Edited by Steven C. Rockefeller & John Elder. Beacon Press. 1992.
QUOTE CONTEXT: “Our leadership must not make decisions that are going to bring pain or harm or suffering seven generations in the future. As individuals we have the same mandate.”
QUOTE QUESTION: What will you bequeath to your great, great, great, great grandchildren?
IMAGE CONTEXT: Clan Mother Audrey Shenandoah, Daughters, Midwife Jessica Jean Shenandoah and Rochelle Brown, Eel Clan, Onondaga
IMAGE QUESTION: How are the stories and images of your family shared and sustained?
MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from an interview in a book. The photo is from a collection by a documentary portrait photographer.
MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: Who decides on whether your peoples’ words and images should be shared with the public?
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