©By Doug George-Kanentiio The Native North American Travelling College is celebrating its 50th year as a formal entity. It has long served the Akwesasne community by sponsoring many artists and teachers over the past five decades while giving visitors and students from the northeast insights into the culture and history of Indigenous peoples. In the spring of 1974 the founder of what was then the North American Indian Travelling College, the late Ernie Benedict, passed on the duties of directing the College to his daughter Salli Benedict, a student at the State University of New York at Oswego. A creative and effective grant writer Ms. Benedict hired Gloria Thompson as the finance director and a group of students to begin the work of converting the Peters farm on Kawehnoke into…
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