This Migration Will Be Well Documented by Personal Journals and Video

I am sorry I can't be with everyone at this year's NTF. The region 2 priorities are listed on the slide. The major issue that I, at the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, are dealing with is Climate Change Adaptation Planning. I seem to be eating living breathing Climate change adaptation planning. I am trying to get the youths perspective of what is to come by hosting a climate change skills workshop in July. Hopefully this will get the youth into thinking what can be done now to help with not only adapting but to mitigating the effects of climate change.

In Ennisko:wa/March 2013 one of the Nations in Region 2 sponsored a walk from North Carolina to New York. This project was called the "Tuscarora Migration". The project seeks to build outdoor leadership skills in the youth by backpacking, running, walking, bicycling, and canoeing from North Carolina to Tuscarora to commemorate the 300th-year remembrance of the well-documented Tuscarora exodus from their Carolina homeland following the Tuscarora Wars (1711-1714).

In addition to building leadership skills and compiling traditional and historical knowledge about Appalachian and Great Lakes ecosystems, Migration 2013 seeks to bring awareness to climate change. The trip will re-enact a historical event while look forward to movement from a Carolinian, semi-coastal environment to the northern forests serves as a teaching tool for how plants and animals will migrate in response to climate change. Northward migrations of plant and animal species are expected under most climate change scenarios, and the trip from North Carolina to New York provides students with a historical experience to move across a path used by their ancestors and one likely to be used by future plant and animal species. This walk is scheduled to End Ohiari:ha/June 14, 2013.

This Migration will be well documented by personal journals and video.

Although I couldn’t be there with all of you this year I am hoping that Akwesasne will be considered a perfect site for Next Year's NTF. We have recently just opened a Hotel (Onerahtohko:wa/May 2013) attached to our casino which would be perfect. We also have the St. Lawrence River and a multitude of natural resources that we would love to show off.

So have fun but not too much fun.

Niawen/Thank you,

Angela