on current issues. On August 9, the paddlers arrived in New York City to attend a UN session for Indigenous Peoples Day with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and member state representatives. At the session, UN officials underscored the UN's role as a peacemaker, negotiator, and advocate for treaty rights. Oren Lyons, a diplomat from the Onondaga Turtle Clan, described the Two Row Treaty as the foundation for all Haudenosaunee treaties, many since broken by New York State, the US and Canada. UN representatives from Panama and Bolivia described their work to restore land to native ownership and protection. The UN Secretary for Human Rights outlined the UN's goal to redress treaty violations, treat them as human rights violations, and help enforce treaties like the Two Row in the future. See also Ganienkeh Hendrick Christiaensen Mohawk Dutch Normans Kill Sewant References Further reading Jon Parmenter (2013). "The Meaning of Kaswentha and the Two Row Wampum Belt in Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) History: Can Indigenous Oral Tradition be Reconciled with the Documentary Record?". Journal of Early American History 3, 82–109, at p. 83–84. The Meaning of Kaswentha and the Two Row Wampum Belt in Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) History: Can Indigenous Oral Tradition be Reconciled with the Documentary Record?. Fenton, William Nelson. The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy, University of Oklahoma Press, 1998 External links Onondaganation.org Tworowwampum.com Canada's Forgotten Founders: The Modern Significance of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Application for Membership in the League of Nations Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign Iroquois Treaties of indigenous peoples of North America 1613 treaties First Nations history Native American history of New York (state) Treaties of the Dutch Republic 1613 in the Dutch Republic 1613 in North America New Netherland Documents of New Netherland