Written by Ty Defoe

"Our Words Are Seeds” was a project that commissioned playwright Ty Defoe to collaborate with communities of the Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga, Tuscarora, Mohawk nations that form the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. This included sessions with youth and elders, weaving Indigenous history and futures. It was presented first as part of the Cold Read Festival of New Plays, then as a workshop performance at Syracuse Stage that traveled to the Onondaga Nation School and Big Picture School. The process of this community collaboration was shared at Western Arts Alliance in Seattle as well as at the Rematriation Haudenosaunee and Indigenous Matrilineality Symposium in Syracuse.