WISH CNY and NOON File Amicus Curiae Brief
"History describes the people and places of the past in all their greatness and grimness, achievements and failures, nobility and notoriety. Commemoration elevates an act, event or individual by bestowing it with communal esteem and honor. The best histories present humans and their choices in the context of the complex and complicated days they live through... History is about who we were. Commemoration is about who we strive to be.”
This quote, cited on page 19 of WISH CNY/NOON’s Amicus Brief, is from the United States Naming Commission, charged with renaming military assets that commemorated the Confederacy or Confederate soldiers.
Members of WISH CNY and NOON (Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation jointly filed an Amicus Curiae Brief. For the past several years, the members and leadership of WISH CNY and NOON have been actively involved in the community discussions concerning the removal of the Columbus monument.
Several members of both groups participated in the formal dialogue circles and committees created by the City of Syracuse to discuss, study, and make recommendations on the future of the Columbus monument.
NOON and WISH CNY have both been heavily involved in community education around the true and complete history of Christopher Columbus and the disastrous impacts of the colonization and subjugation of Native peoples triggered by his arrival in the Americas.
