Apache Danforth gets a little emotional thinking about being able to pass on to her children and grandchildren the Oneida New Year’s traditions she shared with her mother.
“She would take me Hoyaning,” Danforth said, referring to her mother, Marj Stevens, and her childhood growing up on the Oneida Reservation just west of Green Bay. “I don’t think a lot of people did it back then.”
But there were a few Oneida families who strongly believed in reviving tribal traditions in the 1970s and ‘80s, and Hoyan eventually caught on…