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OREN LYONS
Traditional Chief of the Onondaga Nation, New York


Oren Lyons, traditional Chief of the Onondaga Nation, Iroquois Confederacy, New York. Professor, crisis-negotiator, coach, author and painter. He is an avid promoter of the Iroquois game of lacrosse, and an educator on the international level about the environmental perils upon which human beings need to act. Through his educational efforts, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution in 1992 that formally acknowledges the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy to the development of the United States Constitution. Lyons has a special relationship with the nation of Sweden, whose leaders are facing the realities of global warming.