Community Conversations
Community CONVERSATIONS WITH BOBBI WEBSTER
In April’s episode of Community Conversations, Chamber President/CEO, Laurie Radke, is joined by Bobbi Webster, Director of Public Relations for Oneida Nation. Bobbi shares more about her career path as well as provides insight on Oneida Nation, its people and its culture.
Share with (us) a little bit about the heritage of Oneida and talk to us about the culture and things that we may not know. Well, I think people sort of overlook the fact that Oneida Nation is a government. It’s a separate, unique and distinct government. And there’s a lot of our culture that defines who we are, and
we’ve intertwined that culture, our history, our pride into the government and how it works. So our core values are a part of how we determine our way of life. One of the most unique things is Oneida is a matriarchal and a matrilineal society. We’re a government that values the women. So the clan mothers, the aunties, the moms, the sisters, they all had a role and still have a role in defining our community.
When we look in the future for Oneida Nation, what kind of exciting things are on the horizon that you’re able to share? I see the dependency upon our core values, our traditions, our culture becoming more
important to another generation. I see our young people wanting to know, “how do we go back to farming? What are our traditional agricultural practices? How do we get back to sustaining food sovereignty? How do we keep our language? How do we keep our ceremonies? How can we make sure that everything that we say and everything that we do today will resonate for the next seven generations?”
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Spring 2022 | Collective IMPACT 3
