Oren Lyons Quote

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

Oren Lyons

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

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About Oren Lyons

Oren R. Lyons Jr. (born 1930, Seneca) is a Native American Faithkeeper of the Wolf Clan. The Seneca are one of the Six Nations of the historic Haudenosaunee Confederacy. For more than 14 years he has been a member of the Indigenous Peoples of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations and has had other leadership roles.
A highly recognized college lacrosse player at Syracuse University during his undergraduate years, Lyons later became increasingly active as an advocate for the rights of Indigenous peoples. He is the founder of the Haudenosaunee lacrosse team.He became a professor of American Studies at University of Buffalo.