http://www.sullivanclinton.com/ en-us 2005-09-25T12:48:11-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000101.php For a "Who's Who" of the Sullivan/Clinton saga:... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:26-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000102.php For the Main Events & Sites of the Sullivan/Clinton saga:... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:27-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000103.php The Expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tribes of the Six Nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents. The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements, and the... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:28-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000104.php They make solitude, which they call peace - Tacitus We moved, on the next day, to Chinesee, crossing in our path a deep creek and the Little Seneca river, and after marching six miles we reached the castle, which consisted... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:29-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000105.php When your army entered the country of the Six Nations, we called you Town Destroyer: and to this day when that name is heard our women look behind them and turn pale, and our children cling close to the necks... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:30-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000106.php The immediate purpose was to give protection to the defenseless frontier settlements. This was to be accomplished by destroying the Indian villages and sources of food supply, and by driving the Indians westward and northward. A second objective was to... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:31-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000107.php [I write of] the great Loneliness which is creeping into my Soul with every hour and every mile which separates me from you. I really feel guilty as I applied the torch to huts that were Homes of Content until... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:32-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000108.php After this transaction, the voice of the birds from every quarter cried out: "You have lost your country. You have lost you country. You've lost your country! You have acted unwisely and done wrong." And what increased the alarm was... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:33-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000109.php All of these things are a gift provided by the Creator for our needs. That everything we need has been provided here, but we have to treat it in a manner that is respectful, so we don't use it all... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:34-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000110.php I would like to explain to you why we have the right and the desire to return to our native land here in New York… Each tribe here represented today has a similar story to tell regarding what happened during... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:35-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000121.php What makes it especially frightening is that whole communities have been annihilated. We've known for years now that the emotional devastation that survivors feel and experience is often greater than the physical devastation. Dr. John Clizbe Fmr. VP, Disaster Services... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:36-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000124.php Whole Indian nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly recorded by their destroyers... Finally the whole country, which the Cherokees and their... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:37-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000126.php sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:38-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000127.php Clearly, NY's taking of millions of acres of Haudenosaunee land in 1788 was based upon the devastation of the Van Schaick April 1779 raid on Onondaga and the September Sullivan/Clinton scorched earth raids on the Cayuga and Seneca villages. New... sullivan 2005-06-13T08:03:39-05:00 http://www.sullivanclinton.com/archives/000130.php Total land holdings for the Iroquois in 1995 are about 86,716 acres remaining from the original 25,000,000 or .034% of what we once had. Doug George-Kanetiio Haudenosaunee (Mohawk) Scholar How Much Land Did the Iroquois Possess? ______________________ ***** ______________________ During... sullivan 2005-09-25T12:48:11-05:00