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Oren Lyons
Iroquois traditionalist, orator, artist, and athlete
Oren R. Lyons Jr. (born 1930) is a HaudenosauneeFaithkeeper of the Wolf Clan of both the Onondaga Nation and the Seneca Nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River.[1][2] 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.[3]
He became a professor of American Studies at University at Buffalo.[4]
Background, education, and athletic career
Lyons was born in 1930 and raised in the culture and practices of the Seneca and Onondaga nations in what is now Upstate New York.[4]
In the summers of 1947 and 1948, he work