Waterfall Unity Alliance

03/05/2026

Pipelines also bring the new risk of attracting AI Data Centers into communities. Communities are beginning to stand up against these centers. Here is some information we found about how communities are fighting back. Stay tuned for more news and information from communities who have been successful at pushing back against these centers that put our human and more-than-human communities at risk.

New constructions delayed or cancelled, raising questions about US’s ability to expand infrastructure to support boom

02/23/2026

❄️🙏🔥❤️ This land is sacred. Stop the Constiutuon Pipeline 2026. 🙏❤️
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01/29/2026

‼️⚠️ IMPORTANT NEWS FLASH RE: THE CONSTITUTION PIPELINE. See the link to our newletter in the comments for more info, pipeline maps and information on how to file public comments. 🙏❄️🔥

On December 19th, The Constitution Pipeline re-submitted their petition to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve the construction of a 30 inch fracked gas pipeline that would run from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to Schoharie County, NY.

On January 8, 2026, FERC responded and gave until TODAY, Thursday, January 29 at 5 pm EST, as the deadline to submit a public comment and/or file as an intervener.

The pipeline would threaten our rural culture, landscape and way of life. It would cut across 1,034 acres of forest. Approximately 700,000 trees will be cut and over 95 acres of wetlands will be impacted, 34 acres of which are irreplaceable forest wetlands. 1,872 acres of land will be cleared. 289 bodies of water will be disturbed, many of them protected cold water trout streams.

The pipeline would also open a new route through the region, where additional pipelines can be stacked (as they were in the past), which would be able to feed a corridor of AI data centers hungry for energy.

The Waterfall Unity Alliance began as a frontline organization in 2015 to help stop the Constitution Pipeline. It is time to stand again. Everywhere. Protect life. Protect the sacred. Protect each other. Here we are in the great spiraling transformation. In the middle of all the tragedy, terror and remaking – hope still rises and people are singing with hearts broken and love pouring out.

See you soon. Don't stop singing. With love from all of us at the Waterfall Unity Alliance. 💙

01/23/2026

For centuries, Haudenosaunee people have used astronomy to honor the many cycles of life on Turtle Island. This tradition continues as we celebrate the new year guided by the Pleiades constellation, also known as the Seven Dancers.

12/10/2025

HUGE CHANGES AND EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENTS AT THE WATERFALL UNITY ALLIANCE... and happy 10 year anniversary to us.... a decade standing together for our mountains, sacred waters and for the generations to come... a decade of building alliances across movements and cultures. See below for updates you don't wanna miss! 👇🥳🔥❄️🌻❤️👇
https://www.waterfallunityalliance.org/so/a1Phy2pNq?languageTag=en

The mission of the Waterfall Unity Alliance is to protect the Schohairie Valley and all Earth; build alliances across movements and cultures; and create solutions to the existential challenges of our time.

05/22/2025

We are devastated to learn Montgomery Clayton Hill, a language holder, mentor PhD, beloved son and father…. His mother Krissy was a fiscal sponsor of the Waterfall Unity Alliance and is part of our extended WUA family. Krissy and the family have set up a fundraiser to help cover funeral expenses. Below is more info. 💔

The family, clan, Tuscarora Nation, and many parts of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to which Rahnekawe:rih Dr Montgomery Clayton Hill belonged are devastated by Monty's recent transition to the spirit world. Many of our friends, colleagues, and larger networks of trust have expressed a desire to contribute something towards the material needs of the immediate family. Towards that end, we are setting up this fundraiser. The family's request is that the first $13,000 raised will go towards immediate financial needs, such as the cost of the funeral itself. His obituary is in the link below.

By Rē: The Regenerative School

05/22/2025

SOIL AMENDMENT WORKSHOP: USING BIOCHAR AND COMPOST TEA

Join Skywomans Forever Farm and Native Health Matters in a soil workshop using biochar and compost tea. Native Health Matters will do a talk about the benefits of using biochar and compost tea in your soil/gardens, how it’s made, and how to apply it yourself. All participants can take home biochar and compost tea, and the community is welcome to stop in to pick some up to bring home. Bring buckets and/or ziplock bags to carry it home.

- June 19th 5 PM

- At Skywomans Forever Farm, Middleburgh NY

- Dress for the weather, bring garden gloves and own refillable water bottle

- This is a rain or shine event

03/11/2025

“The loss that we’re seeing over such a short time is really alarming,” said Elise Zipkin, a quantitative ecologist at Michigan State University and one of the authors of the study, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science. “Unless we change things, we’re in for trouble.”

Butterflies are an essential pollinator. Like may insects, they are on the decline. This interactive resource is a great tool to learn more about butterfly populations in our area.

Populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.

03/04/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/climate/agriculture-farmer-website-data-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k4.cuhJ.wv8txGV5UEle&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p

The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.

12/26/2024

“Western organizations that protect wildlife have tended to overlook biodiversity’s links with culture and language. Recently, there has been criticism of species reintroduction projects for not thinking enough about the people who live alongside them.
“Deep mapping appreciates an understanding of linguistic, cultural and biological diversity as all being important,” says Tero Mustonen, who is leading the reintroduction. He is a professional fisher and a lead climate scientist on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.”

For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forests

11/18/2024

DONATE HERE: https://www.gofundme.com/f/MohawkReturn

The Waterfall Unity Alliance sends you our love and gratitude to all our supporters. It has been quite some time since we’ve been in touch with you all. We hope you all have been having a beautiful autumn. As we close up our second season here at Skywoman’s Forever Farm, we would like to share all the gifts we received from the land and our Mother.

This year has brought tremendous inner growth for everyone here at the farm, with labor pains in all forms. We have spent the last 2 years allowing the land to transform us, the more we listened, the more we watched our vision become crystal clear. With pain and suffering, we experienced growth and transformation which in our case has presented itself with a beautiful plan moving forward. As spiritual beings and as a farm team, we managed to work through as many of the contractions of labor that presented itself as possible.

The birth of our collective vision as Original Beings, Ceremonial & House Keepers, Land & Water Stewards, & Seed Keepers, has begun intertwining with other farm & language communities across our Haudenosaunee and Iroquois Confederacy. These connections have strengthened all the moving and evolving parts as we continue envisioning and expanding our minds to what this farm will be for our Onkwehonwe people. From the very beginning, our intention has always been to reconnect and restore our alliances with all Onkwehonwe people on the Eastern & Atlantic seaboard under the Dish with One Spoon Wampum belt. We wholeheartedly believe in the ways of our Original Instructions and our responsibilities to the land, water and each other.

As we continue to restore the vitality to our ancestral Kanienhkehaka (Mohawk) Turtle Clan village here in Iohskohare, Schoharie Valley, and allow the land to guide us, our vision continues to become infinite. What we see for the collective of our Onkwehonwe people is continuing on the path of Kaianerehko:wa, the Great peace, learning to operate from our heart space once again has been the driving force to restoring our ancestral village. The gift of growing and sharing food with all walks of life has had a reciprocal effect on our nervous systems and we are forever grateful for the love it has created within us.

Often we are asked what Environmental Justice looks like to us, how do we as a people expect to restore the land and waterways and bring peace to one another, if we ourselves have not learned to restore peace amongst ourselves. Reconnecting to our mother is ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. Learning to be in relation with her again is ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. Building relations with self while growing and nurturing our seeds is ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. Feeding our people clean food free of harmful chemicals is ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. Building alliances across our Mothers back is ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.

It was always said that The Waterfall Unity Alliance would be the vessel to secure the land here at the farm until the project was ready to stand on its own. Without the guidance and support of the WUA, this may not have happened when it did. This group of strong minded women from the board of WUA, brought so much insight, and taught us some pretty hard lessons as well. For us, learning to navigate our canoe during this process of coexisting has been quite challenging at times and very thoughtful at other times. It hasn’t been an easy task learning to free ourselves of some really deep rooted beliefs. However, We believe that nothing is a coincidence and that creation puts us exactly where we are meant to be. Their dedication to this process of welcoming us back home to our homelands will not be forgotten. It has fostered the courage within ourselves to step into our roles as Kanienkehaka women and men and reclaim not only our ancestral teachings but our spirits as well. Kawenniiosta has stepped down as Co-Executive Director of WUA and will now be fulfilling her role as Director of Skymoman’s Forever Farm.

With the help of private funders, and other funding sources we were able to pay back all of our bridge loans and other loans that were given.

We now have $275,000 to raise to pay off the remaining balance on our mortgage. We want nothing more than to flourish as a community and as a people with full autonomy of our shared relationship with the land, the mountains and the Schoharie creek that surround us.

We are inviting others to create space with us and our collective vision, which will allow us to remain in close relation with our land and continue the vision of restoring peace amongst all creation. Please donate below if you can, or share with someone who may be interested in supporting this collective vision. We thank all of you who have helped to support our work, and continue to support our work - and we are excited to share how this journey continues to unfold with you!