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We are finding, coaching and training public media\u2019s next generation. F<\/span>ive talented reporters are participating in a week-long state-of-the-art training program.<\/span><\/p>\n In this project we are highlighting the experiences of people whose lives are being affected by climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Project Description” _builder_version=”4.14.9″ text_font=”||on||||||” text_font_size=”13px” header_font=”|700|on|on|||||” header_font_size=”25px” header_2_font=”Oswald|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_text_color=”#98bedb” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”29px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Photo credit: US. Govt. NOAA via flickr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/E28xwfq2cTs” admin_label=”YouTube Video” _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: Video Teaser” _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#ffffff” text_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Hickory Edwards, a member of the Onondaga Nation, Turtle Clan, is the founder of the Onondaga Canoe and Kayak Club. For the last 15 years, he\u2019s been using canoeing to connect with his ancestral history and to encourage others to get involved with water preservation efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”HERO IMAGE OPTION 1: Background image: DELETE IF NOT NEEDED” _builder_version=”4.14.9″ background_enable_color=”off” background_image=”https:\/\/naja.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2022\/04\/adrianna_ard_animated.gif” background_blend=”multiply” custom_margin=”-2px|||||” custom_padding=”12%||39.4%|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”6px||3px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”3px||6px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Illustrator credit” _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Illustration by Ard Su<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”7px||35px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_post_title date=”off” comments=”off” featured_image=”off” admin_label=”Post Title” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” title_level=”h3″ title_font=”Oswald||||||||” title_font_size=”42px” title_letter_spacing=”2px” title_line_height=”1.2em” meta_text_color=”#04a3e3″ meta_font_size=”18px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_post_title][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||12px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/naja.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2022\/04\/NGR_2022_NAJA_3_AAdame_MASTER.mp3″ title=”LISTEN TO THE STORY” artist_name=”ADRIANNA ADAME” album_name=”Next Generation Radio | Indigenous | April 2022″ admin_label=”Story Audio” _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#00bff3″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/naja.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2022\/04\/Adame-4.jpg” alt=”\u00d2The American dream is not my Indigenous dream. It’s so different than that,\u00d3 Jolie Varela said. \u00d2As an Indigenous woman, I would like to see our ceremonies restored, our traditions restored, our homelands restored, and our land back. When people come from other places and they come in the name of this American dream or in pursuit of this American dream, I don’t think they realize how that American dream erases Indigenous people, and further infringes upon our rights as Native people.\u00d3 (Photo by Jarrette Werk)” title_text=”Adame-4″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image 1″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 1″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Paddling is hard work, but becomes as easy as breathing for Edwards, to the point where he loses track of time. <\/span>(Photo courtesy of Hickory Edwards) [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 1″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Warm summer days are ideal when launching his 18-foot canoe made of Kevlar into the cool waters of Onondaga Lake. Once on water, Hickory Edwards begins paddling, setting off onto his next journey on forgotten water paths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Edwards, the founder of the Onondaga Canoe and Kayak Club and member of the Onondaga Nation, Turtle Clan, is leading the effort to relearn the water paths that the Haudenosaunee used for travel until centuries after European colonization of the land. Using paddling as a form of environmental activism, he also works to encourage other Haudenosaunee to get back on the water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt’s really important that we know these waterways,\u201d said Edwards. \u201cIt’s the same water that my ancestors drank. It’s going to make us up and our grandkids and our future generations. All that water is just being recycled and connected, and that’s why we bring our people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Onondaga Lake plays an important cultural role for the Onondaga Nation. Originally, the lake was a part of the tribe\u2019s territory, before being claimed by the state of New York in the 18th and 19th centuries. According to the <\/span>Onondaga Nation<\/span><\/a>, The Peacemaker is said to have brought the previously fighting Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga and Mohawk Nations together to form the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, bringing peace among the tribes by planting a tree with four white roots spreading out in all four directions from the lake.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”3px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 2″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n A combination of industrial pollution, wastewater pollution and polluted runoff impacts Onondaga Lake\u2019s quality of water, which until the last decade was known as America\u2019s \u201cmost polluted lake\u201d. From the 1880s, manufacturing companies including Solvay Process Company and Allied-Signal (now Honeywell) were responsible for dumping chemicals ranging from soda ash to mercury into the lake, according to the <\/span>Onondaga Nation<\/span><\/a>. Toxicity levels and algal growth still affect the water, as <\/span>reported by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nowadays, one of the struggles that Edwards\u2019 faces as a canoer is the declining state of water. From lakes, rivers, streams and into the ocean, pollution affects the quality of water everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt’s different to see the different lands and different pollution because there’s pollution everywhere you go,\u201d said Edwards. \u201cYou can’t get away from it now. Every single body of water has some sort of form of pollution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 4a” _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n While Onondaga Lake remains culturally significant, the level of pollution adds barriers that prevent the Onondaga from making contact with the lake.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI always grew up knowing not to not to go in the water, not to touch the water,\u201d Edwards said.<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the pollution, Edwards continues to paddle to advocate for water preservation \u2013 for both the environment and in respect to his culture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI see that as putting that knowledge and instilling that we need to protect this water through canoeing and being on the land using the land like we are at least here,\u201d said Edwards. \u201cLike the same way our creator intended for us to be here on this land.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/naja.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2022\/04\/Adame-2.jpg” alt=”\u00d2The American dream is not my Indigenous dream. It’s so different than that,\u00d3 Jolie Varela said. \u00d2As an Indigenous woman, I would like to see our ceremonies restored, our traditions restored, our homelands restored, and our land back. When people come from other places and they come in the name of this American dream or in pursuit of this American dream, I don’t think they realize how that American dream erases Indigenous people, and further infringes upon our rights as Native people.\u00d3 (Photo by Jarrette Werk)” title_text=”Adame-2″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image 3″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 3″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Onondaga Lake contains high levels of mercury, making it unsafe to eat the fish within it. (<\/span>Photo by Adrianna Adame)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/naja.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2022\/04\/Adame-3.jpg” alt=”\u00d2The American dream is not my Indigenous dream. It’s so different than that,\u00d3 Jolie Varela said. \u00d2As an Indigenous woman, I would like to see our ceremonies restored, our traditions restored, our homelands restored, and our land back. When people come from other places and they come in the name of this American dream or in pursuit of this American dream, I don’t think they realize how that American dream erases Indigenous people, and further infringes upon our rights as Native people.\u00d3 (Photo by Jarrette Werk)” title_text=”Adame-3″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image 2″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 2″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Canoeing is not only a passion, but a way for Hickory Edwards to reconnect with his roots. (Photo credit: Neil Benedict, courtesy of Hickory Edwards)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 4a” _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Edwards also paddles out of passion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After being introduced to paddling at a cousin\u2019s birthday, he\u2019s continued to be drawn to water ever since. When on the water, Edwards said that while it\u2019s hard work, he loses track of time to the point where he is automatically paddling.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTo be on water, it feels like home. It’s really special to me because it’s just that feeling of where I’m supposed to be,\u201d Edwards said.<\/span><\/p>\n Canoeing isn\u2019t Edwards\u2019 only act of environmental activism. Previously, he protested at Standing Rock and contributed to getting fracking banned in New York state. However, canoeing is the form of environmental activism that he\u2019s most passionate about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Edwards wants to encourage others to be able to participate in canoeing, which is why he continues to host trips during the spring and summer. His next trip will be from Cooperstown to Binghamton from May 14-16.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n By bringing people together, Edwards hopes to create a bigger impact.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAlone we can change ourselves, but do that together and we can change the world,\u201d Edwards said. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/naja.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2022\/04\/Adame-1.jpg” title_text=”Adame-1″ admin_label=”Image 4″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 4″ _builder_version=”4.14.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Onondaga Lake was once known as America\u2019s \u201cmost polluted lake.\u201d Hickory Edwards avoids 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