Simeon DeWitt Central NY Military Tract c.1792
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gallery
Full Album for Little Beard’s Town
Little Beard’s Town, NY or “Genesee Castle” or more accurately Chenussio.
Danascara Place
Another view of this remote mansion in the Mohawk Valley. Its predecessor was burned down in retaliation for the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign.
Burned in 1780
This mansion, a.k.a. Danascara Place, replaced one that was burned in the Spring of 1780 by Iroquois raiders in retaliation for the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign.
Burned in 1779
A lonely sign in the Lake Cayuga area attests to the destruction of Tichero, a forgotten Cayuga village, by the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign.
Cayuga/Seneca County Line
County lines divide the land where footpaths once linked Senecas and Cayugas, before the coming of Sullivan -Clinton.
At the Source
Otsego’s waters still flow south (at you) into the Susquehanna. In 1779, they bore Clinton’s flotilla to join Sullivan at Iroquoia’s edge. With Indians remov...
Otsego Lake Launch
Here, Gen. Clinton’s troops first dammed, then blew up damworks to launch 220 bateaux down the Susquehanna R. to join Sullivan’s force at Tioga Pt., Pa., to ...
Last of the Mohican
Sign of the derelict Mohican Market, the last of this chain in Kingston, New York, America’s first capital.
Indians
Smoking break at a cigar store in New York’s Greenwich Village shows the entwined paths of indigenous and immigrant peoples.
End of History?
Somewhere down the road, in the great beyond, a piece of “history” remains. At least it’s marked!
Newtown Battle Map
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Against the Odds
Overmatched forces under Brant and Butler fall back as Sullivan’s juggernaut marches relentlessly forward. (Kenn Anderson/ Canterbury Tours)
Some Brits Arrive
Britain provided 15 regulars from Ft. Niagara to support Butler and Brant and assess Sullivan-Clinton’s massive force of 5,000. (Kenn Anderson/ Canterbury To...
A Reconciliation?
Erected in 1994, a rare dedication to all those fallen at Newtown - Iroqouis, British and Continental Army. (Robert Spiegelman)
Gotcha
Boyd is led off for questioning and his eventual death in Iroquois-Tory hands. (photo by Rick Losey)
Riveted
Yankee scout senses the ambush that may seal his fate. (photo by Rick Losey)
Another Aftermath
An old trinket that memorializes Chemung, the first village destroyed by Sullivan’s Army, just before the Battle of Newtown. (Robert Spiegelman)
In the Aftermath
Newtown Battlefield reenactors bid farewell until their next encounter.
Bearing Witness 2/2
Ceremony at Boyd- Parker Memorial Park honors what conveners called their sacrifice on behalf of freedom.
Captured
After the firefight, Boyd and Parker are captured and tied up. The famed Timothy Murphy, one of Boyd’s party and a serial scalper (who scalped a lone Seneca ...
Setting the Trap
A Seneca warrior and a Loyalist ally move into position to capture Boyd’s scouting party. The day before, a Seneca was scalped by the party’s Tim Murphy.
Planning an Ambush
Two weeks after New- town, Boyd’s scouting party searches for the Seneca capital (so Sullivan’s Army can burn it), Iroquois and Loyalists set off to trap them.
Summit Conference
Loyalist and English commanders consider the dismal options as the Sullivan & Clinton’s army closes in.
Yankee Advance
Detachments of Sullivan’s troops advance on retreating Iroquois- Loyalist positions. The rivers would run red with blood.
Eyes of the Empire
English officers watch the battle unfold. British numbers and political will were inadequate to help defend the Iroquois homelands.
Taking Stock
Outnumbered Iroquois warriors reload and assess their position as overwhelming Yankee forces and first-time field cannon advance.
Taking Stock
Outnumbered Iroquois warriors reload and assess their position as overwhelming Yankee forces and first-time field cannon advance.
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples
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Solistice 2
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Solistice 1
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Capital View
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George Washington and the Oneidas Status
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Bands of Brothers
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In Aztec Splendor
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South Rising: Aztecs
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Mohegan Three
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Mohegan Braves
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Mohegans Two
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Mohegans
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In Full Regalia
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Trail Blazers
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Back to the Future
At Ganondagan, there’s fun and a positive fu- ture for all our kids, as they learn about Haude- nosaunee values and lifeways. (GH)
Light Warms the Longhouse
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Homage to Iroquoia
Homage to Iroquoia Sculpture at Ganondagan celebrates Haudeno- saunee spirituality, vision and survival. For all they’ve endured, they’re still here and cont...
The Three Sisters
Haudenousaunee survivors return to the Longhouse and, with the coming of spring, the planting of corn, beans and squash - a time for renewal. (Collage by Jen...
On High
Canoes are stored in the rafters when water travel is out of season. (GH)
Inner Lives
In the longhouse, each family grouping has its sleeping and storage areas. Fires are communal. Roof openings allow ventilation, light and a path for smoke to...
Eastern Door
Entry way to the long- house. (GH)
As Long As The Rivers Flow
They continue to flow at Ganondagan State Historic Site, restored as a center and seed-bed of traditional Haudenosaunee culture, values and vision. (GH)
Ganondagan
Pete Jemison, a Seneca faithkeeper, is Historical Site Manager of Ganon- dagan. (Photo by Geoff Harding)
Longhouse
The Haudenosaunee are “people making a longhouse.” This stands at Ganondagan, a former Seneca capital burned by the French under Denonville in 1687, to drive...
Gen. James Clinton
first published in Mary L. Booth’s History of New York (1st ed. 1861, 2nd ed. 1880)
Oneida Silver
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
identity theft
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Longhouse Burning
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
aka Town Destroyer
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Fields of Fire 2
Note: Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005. Photos by Clint Fisher.
Bearing Witness
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Commander-in- chief
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Fields of Fire
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
225th Anniversary Fields of Fire Installation at the AICH
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
From the 5th Iroquois Biennial
Searing visions of Sullivan/Clinton by Haudenosaunee Artists at the 5th Iroquois Biennial Art Exhibition, curated by Peter Jemison, at the Fenimore Museum in...
West Wall
View of the west wall of the exhibition, with images and installations by Rick Hill and participating artists. (Courtesy of The Fenimore Museum)
East Wall 2
Rear view of the west wall of the exhibition, with installation by Tom Huff, and introductory text and works by Peter Jemison. (Courtesy of The Fenimore Muse...
East Wall 1
Frontal view of the east wall of the exhibition, with introductory text and two paintings by, the curator and painter, Peter Jemison. (Courtesy of The Fenimo...
From the 5th Iroquois Biennial
From the 5th Iroquois Biennial
Indians Have Always Paid the Price
Detail of a larger work by Peter Jemison (Seneca). (See the Audio Visual page for the full image)(Courtesy of Peter Jemison)
Across the Threshold
In the exhibit space, visitors will encounter an interactive map, where children and parents can sit & learn about Sullivan/Clinton, and/or go straight o...
Back to the Present
The Fenimore Museum, with courage, is the responsible host of present-day Haudeno- saunee renderings and responses - in painting, sculpture, ceramics and vid...
The Setting
The Fenimore Museum sits on Lake Otsego as it flows (at you) into the Susquehanna River. In 1779, these waters bore Clinton’s flotilla to join Sullivan at Ir...
Once A Crossroads
Markers on Rt, 220 note where Indian villages of Teoga & Queen Esther’s Town stood before September 1791 and Hartley’s Expedition burned them out.
Hartley’s Revenge
American Col. Hartley’s Expedition is remember -ed by this 1929 plaque for having burned Teoga and Queen Esther’s Town. It was another turn in a brutal cycle...
Immediate Retaliation
In September 1778, Col. Thomas Hartley led over 200 troops against the region’s Haudeno- saunee and Delware villages, to avenge the July defeat and bloody af...
Wyoming Massacre
The most common historical image (19th century) of the killings of July 3, 1778 in the Wyoming Valley. Today, the Pennsyl- vania Historical and Museum Commis...
Marking Wyoming
Wyoming’s stature in the American Revolu- tion is reflected by the battle being registered as a National Historic Site.
Wyoming!
Avenging the July, 1778 blood shed in the Wyoming Valley became the main rallying point, across the rebelling colonies, for launching the Sulli- van-Clinton ...
Over Ancestral Bones
Plaque at the Wyoming Monument commemo- rates the Yankee fallen, 80 of whose remains lie beneath, and are memo- rialized every July 4th, Independence Day.
Susquehanna Banks
The river runs through and links NY and PA regions traversed by S/C. This island, near the Wyoming Battlesite, is deemed the birthplace of Hiawatha, the grea...
Tioga (Turning) Point
Tioga (Turning) Point The Indian villages of Teoga and its neighbor Queen Esther’s Town (the “Southern Door”), were burned in revenge for Wyoming by the Hart...
War Memorial
War Memorial Monument to the more than 400 Yankee soldiers and settlers slain in the July, 1778 attack on Wyoming Valley by Tory and Indian forces under John...
Trailblazer, East
In 1774, Silas Deane backed annexing northern PA to Litchfield County, CT, as the Town of Westmoreland. CT’s projecting its “western claim” - through Hartfor...
As long as the Rivers flow
They continue to flow at NY’s Ganondagan State Historic Site, restored as a center and seed-bed of traditional Haudenosau- nee culture, values and vision. (P...
NOLA 2005
Since Hurricane Katrina’s first day, NOLA’s uprooted long-term residents were termed refugees. Iroquoia 1779 & NOLA 2005 share other com- monalities - li...
Stewardship Now
An Onondaga chief, Brad Powless, gazes on toxic Onondaga Lake. A legal action affirms his nation’s stewardship over the health of its traditional lands and u...
Sacred & Imperiled
Lake Onondaga is the birthplace of the Hau- denosaunee Confeder- acy under the Peace- maker. It’s contamina- ted, sits atop a sea of mercury, and stands at t...
Scorched Earth
Earth at the Western Door: the former Seneca capital Little Beard’s Town, near Geneseo, NY. Burned by S/C in September 1779, the land was ruined by the Retso...
Iroquoia 1779
Then, Sullivan/Clinton was a scorched earth campaign that smoked the Finger Lakes. Today, Global Warming is scorching the earth. Mother Earth summons us. (Ph...
Longhouse
The Haudenosaunee are “people making a long- house.” Spanning NY, Mohawks kept its Eas- tern Door, Onondagas kept (and keep) its cen- tral fire, and Senecas ...
Rt. 17 Corn Field
NY’s Southern Tier, formerly Iroquoia, is dotted with ample corn fields, echoing those reduced to scorched earth by Sullivan/ Clinton.
The Warrior’s Path
The Warrior’s Path Sullivan’s March looked upon the Susquehanna River, today among America’s most toxic. It had been an Indian path of commerce, war and dipl...
The Three Sisters
Traditional Haudeno- saunee life is a spiritual bonding with mother earth. The 3 - corn, beans and squash - are central to physical and spiritual survival. T...
The Western Door
The Western Door Iroquoia’s western door, where the Genesee River snakes on through what ranked atop North America’s most fertile regions. It was Seneca coun...
Tioga (Turning) Point
Where the Susquehanna and Chemung R’s meet, this once Indian village of Teoga and neighbor -ing Queen Esther’s Town (the “Southern Door”), were burned in rev...
The Haudenosaunee!
Announcing the endur- ing presence and courage of the Haudeno- saunee people & Iroquois Confederacy today.
Growing Corn
The “Three Sisters” - corn, squash and beans - are at the heart of Haudenosaunee survi- val and worldview. Their destruction was an objective of Sullivan/ Cl...
Red Jacket
1820 portrait of the Seneca orator by J.L.D. Mathies. Freedom Medal denotes his accommo- dation to Yankee rule. He ended as a bulwark for Indian traditions v...
At The Unveiling
It’s September 22, 1929, during Sullivan/Clinton’s 150th Anniversary: Cayuga people with Chief Wilbur Shango tend a council fire at the official unfurling of...
Cornplanter
Portrait of the great Seneca Chief by Fred. Bartoli, 1796. The original hangs behind the same glass with portraits of Red Jacket and Washington, as part of t...
At Wyalusing
“Warrior’s Path” of Haudenosaunee trade, diplomacy and war linking NY and PA to VA and the Carolinas. Viewed from 500 ft. above the Susquehanna River, along ...
Survivors
The Haudenosaunee people during another winter (1914). Some are Senecas from the Cattaraugus reservation. Several may be from a touring company. The worst wi...
Western Doorstep
The Genesee flows thru today’ Letchworth State Park, “The Grand Canyon of the East,” at the Western Door – where the Scottish-born, Seneca-reared Mary Jemiso...
Stilled Life
Shards in the storage area between the Brooklyn Museum and Botanical Gardens (Spring, 2004) Note: Traces from New York & Other Metropolises…
Equestrian Moment
Lord of its domain. This in the storage area between the Brooklyn Museum and Botanical Gardens. Note: Traces from New York & Other Metropolises…
Not At Liberty
Two national treasures in the dustbin of history. Note: Traces from New York & Other Metropolises…
Once A Warrior
Fraser’s End of the Trail statue was first modeled in 1894, within four years after the Wounded Knee Massacre of Ghost Dancers. Note: Traces from New York &a...
Equus
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for…” Free Indian life ended on the Southern Plains in 1874 when the Army killed their horses. Note: Traces from New York &...
End of the Trail?
Replica of James Earle Fraser’s once famous sculpture, End of the Trail, modeled in 1894, commissioned in 1915. (Courtesy Clint Fisher) Note: Traces from New...
Melting Point
Washington and Sullivan blazed the way toward the Erie Canal which made Manhattan rich. The city fuses their names at Greenwich Village’s famed Washington Sq...
Sullivan St. NYC
Named for General John Sullivan, the street starts at Washington Square Park, where this Sullivan/ Clinton cor- ner resides, hidden in plain sight. Note: Tra...
Sign Language
Note: Traces from New York & Other Metropolises…
Jemison 02
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Gen. James Clinton
The co-Commander of the Campaign, brother of NY rebel governor George Clinton, and father of NY State Gov. DeWitt Clinton.
Forever Set in Stone
Several of the 29 NYS road markers carry site- specific information on their back sides. This one, in Aurora, notes the destruction of the Cayuga capital.
Gen. John Sullivan
Co-commander of the Campaign. He filed its Offical Report to Congress. Then became New Hampshire’s first US Governor.
Cherry Valley Massacre Monument
Cemetery monument to settlers killed by Indian- English-Loyalist attack of November, 1778.
Signing Off
Re-enactors part ways after the 225th anniversary of the Cherry Valley Massacre.
Felled by Tomahawk
The town of Cherry Valley marks the site where Colonel Ichabod Alden, post commader, was killed in the Yankee defeat.
Sullivan-Clinton Road Monument
Twenty-nine such highway markers were commissioned by New York State in 1929 (the 150th anniversary) to mark the 1779 invasion route.
Cherry Valley!
Moment from the 225th Gala Reenactment of the 1778 Yankee defeat by English-Iroquois-Tory forces. Then termed a massacre, it became the pretext to invade wha...
Commander-in- chief
George Washington as he looked in 1779, the year he launches the Sullivan- Clinton Campaign. Painted then by Charles Willson Peale. (Courtesy of the U.S. Sen...
Iroquois Trail Rd.
note: Alternative Viewpoints, from Here & There…
Thru Mohawk Valley
note: Alternative Viewpoints, from Here & There…
Drive to Tribes Hill
What’s in a name? Well, this sign points to a village named Tribes Hill, in the Mohawk Valley since 1713, on former Mohawk lands.
To The Tribe’s Hill
A cul-de-sac in former Iroquois country, now called Tribes Hill, New York, in the Mohawk Valley.
End of the Trail?
note: Alternative Viewpoints, from Here & There…
Road to Tribes Hill
note: Alternative Viewpoints, from Here & There…
Rematch 2
Fighting for the league Championship, another Battle of Newtown. This time it’s just sports, just outside the Onondaga Nation Lacrosse/Hockey Arena.
For You, the Precious
Dutch trader shows all that glitters… New York’s first big conver- sion experience adorns the base of Henry Hudson’s statue in NYC.
Rematch 1
In the 225th Anniversary year of Sullivan-Clinton, well-organized landholders group opposes any concessions to Cayuga land claims with scores of signs.
Big Tree Under Glass
The shed on the right harbors a section of the famed great oak tree (27’ in diameter) who witnessed the signing away of Seneca lands at the Big Tree Conferen...
Innovation
Facing Cayuga Lake is the former site of Goi-O-Gouen, the Cayuga capital. As Cols. Dear- born and Wm. Butler burned their west and east bank villages, the Ca...
General Sullivan’s Slave House
Slaves quarters at the rear of Gen. Sullivan’s home at Durham, New Hampshire. He, George Washington, Jeremiah Wadsworth and Philip Schuyler all held slaves.
Stamped in History
Issued in 1929, the 150th Anniversary stamp joined the erection of over 55 highway markers and 35 stone memorials across NY State and many in Pennsylvania.
Not One Inch…
One of scores of signs posted around the Cayuga Lake region by opponents of Cayuga land claims. Since S/C, the Cayugas lost their NY lands. But the court cas...
Gen. John Sullivan with Spear
Though he won with superior numbers and first use of field cannons against N. American Indians, the Victor is depicted with a spear.
“The White Woman, Mary Jemison”
Captured by Indians, the famed Scotch-Irish Jemison lived mostly as a Seneca, bearing two children. Her burial-site statue, at Letchworth Park, NY, would rec...
Old Wine, New Bottle
Ancestral mound near Goi-O-Gouen, the former Cayuga capital, on private farmlands, behind an electric fence. Cayugas were burned out by Sullivan-Clinton on S...
I’ll Take Manhattan!
The iconic “sale” of Manhattan for $24 in trinkets, on the base of Henry Hudson’s towering statue. Hudson Park, Riverdale, NYC.
Boyd-Parker Park 1
Set beside the Geneseo -Cuylerville Rd.(Rt. 39), this site and their Ambuscade are the only true Memorials to any named individuals, among the more than 10,0...
Tortured Tree
Distressed, this tree expires on the very site of the Boyd-Parker ambush by the Senecas, three days before Sullivan’s burning of nearby Little Beard’s Town, ...
Order of Battle
Outnumbering the population of Western Iroquoia, Sullivan’s Army set out on a scorched earth invasion that burned all known villages and enlisted hunger by b...
Torches to Plough Shares
Ample farms now stand on the former fields and orchards of Little Beard’s Town. This one borders on the Retsof sink hole, only yards from Boyd- Parker Park a...
The Scorched Earth
The 1994 collapse of the nearby old Retsof mine made the area’s wells and waters toxic and turned some of its still amazingly fertile topsoil into this.
The Bitter Waters
The collapse and flooding of the old Retsof mine shafts created this toxic sink hole. It lies beneath the Geneseo- Cuylerville road bridge, only 50 yards fro...
Karmic Justice?
A nearby salt mine collapse in 1994 caused this toxic sinkhole. It festers with methane emissions, at the center of the former Seneca capital, Little Beard’s...
Little Beards Town Marker
The back of theS/C monument in Boyd- Parker Park is the only outdoor indication of the former site of the Seneca capital, the once West- ern Door, burnt by S...
Little Beard’s Town Map
The Seneca capital, at the Western Door, was S/C’s prime target. It is where Boyd & Parker were captured and killed while trying to locate the town for b...
Driven from Home
The flight of 5,000+ Haudenosaunee refugees from Sullivan’s advance in September, 1779. (Print of Ernest Smith’s 1936 watercolor.)
Boyd-Parker Park 2
Commemorates the martyrdom of the two Yankee scouts at the hands of Iroquois captors. Boyd led 28 scouts in a search for Little Beard’s Town, which is burned...
Clearing Darkness: The First Condolence
It is said that there once was a time in our (Haudenosaunee) history where the people (Onkwehonweh) came to forget the original instructions given to them by...
The Death of Jane McCrea
Eric v.d. Luft describes the painting as “a classic depiction of American attitudes toward Indian savagery,” in his “Mcrae, Jane” entry for the Encyclopedia ...
america1777
Steve’s allegorical painting is a commentary on and companion to the once well-known national icon, “The Murder of Jane McCrae,” painted by John Vanderlyn in...
No York
In this artwork, a classroom map of New York State is overpainted so that only Native American place names remain.
Indian Time 2
An installation consisting of a display of contemporary acrylic watches printed with imagery taken from the work of Swiss pioneer artist Peter Rindisbacher. ...
Indian Time 1
An installation consisting of a display of contemporary acrylic watches printed with imagery taken from the work of Swiss pioneer artist Peter Rindisbacher. ...
Corps a corps au couteau
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
Tazsunke Witko (Crazy Horse) est assailli
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
La riposte de Piz’i (Chief Gall)
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
Indien depouillant un soldat mort
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
La riposte de Piz’i (Chief Gall)
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
Three Sisters
De-o-ha-ko, “the foods that sustain us.” The 3 Sisters - corn, beans and squash - are the traditional heart of Iroquois survival and worldview. They were the...
Indians Have Always Paid The Price
Jemison’s mixed-media piece brings together past and present images of the domination of Indians in the Americas. What began with Columbus and continued with...
At The Border
Jemison’s painting depicts the schism imposed on Indians by nation state borders. Casting blood red shadows, the two crows facing each other symbolize both d...
america1777
Steve’s allegorical painting is a commentary on and companion to the once well-known national icon, “The Murder of Jane McCrae,” painted by John Vanderlyn in...
texts
From George Washington to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779
From George Washington to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779 Sir, The expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tri...
JOURNAL OF LIEUT. ERKURIES BEATTY, OF THE 4TH PENN LINE.
“21st. this morning set of about Day Break on the same line of march and went about 6 Miles when we halted, Capt. Graham with his Compy. was sent forward as ...
FROM THE LATE RAY FADDEN
“I love these woods. They’re alive to me. The woods have life of their own. From the smallest insect to the largest moose. Everything has a function. It is a...
DEVELOPMENT?
The forest which covers it, consisting chiefly [of] trees that live in excessive moisture, is now decayed and death struck, by the partial draining of the sw...
GOD’S CHOSEN
Indeed to see a forest tree, which had withstood the elements till it attained maturity, torn up by its roots, and bending itself to the earth, in obedience ...
AN EERIE CANAL
The forest which covers it, consisting chiefly [of] trees that live in excessive moisture, is now decayed and death struck, by the partial draining of the sw...
LIKE CORTEZ AND SHERMAN, BUT…
The expedition of General John Sullivan against the hostile Indian tribes of the north was one of the most important military movements of the Revolutionary ...
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
In September, 1776, Congress had passed resolutions for the enlistment of soldiers to serve during the Revolutionary War, resolved that each state was to fur...
(STILL) OPEN WOUNDS: NOLA DISPOSSESSED
America’s Open Wound by Bob Herbert It’s eerie. The air is still. There is no noise. Night is falling.
BURNING ONONDAGA, APRIL ‘79
21st. this morning set of about Day Break on the same line of march and went about 6 Miles when we halted, Capt. Graham with his Compy. was sent forward as a...
THAT VISION THING
GENERAL SULLIVAN’S RAID And when the soldiers in their marches, Advanced on that September morn, And pushed along through woodland arches, Or passed the fie...
CIVILIZATION DEFINED
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE HEROES AND ADVENTURERS WHO, BY THEIR VALOR AND WAR-CRAFT, BEAT BACK THE SAVAGES FROM THE BORDERS OF CIVILIZATION AND GAVE THE AMERIC...
BURY MY HEART
“When we look at historical accuracy, we look at history as it plays in the service of a narrative,” said Sam Martin, a vice president at HBO Films in charge...
ODE TO A CHOSEN PEOPLE
Indeed to see a forest tree, which had withstood the elements till it attained maturity, torn up by its roots, and bending itself to the earth, in obedience ...
BEARING WITNESS
I have seen him shrinking from civilized approach, which came with all its vices, like the dead of night upon him. I have seen him gaze and then retreat like...
BOTTOM LINES
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-Kanenti...
SULLIVAN-CLINTON 2005
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...
AFTER DINNER TOASTS
General Washington and the Army; General Sullivan & Western Expedition; King and Queen of France; A Successful and Decisive Campaign; May the new World ...
WE WILL HAVE OUR LANDS
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...
RIGHTS OF RETURN
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 s...
OURS OR MINE?
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 tha...
WHITE BIRDS CRY
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...
HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS
[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 applie...
THE ROAD TO EMPIRE
The immediate purpose was to give protection to the defenseless frontier settlements. This was to be accomplished by destroying the Indian villages and sourc...
ODE TO TOWN DESTROYER
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 t...
A DESERT CALLED PEACE
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, a...
TSUNAMIS, NOW & THEN
What makes it especially frightening is that whole communities have been annihilated. We’ve known for years now that the emotional devastation that survivors...
THE MARCHING ORDERS
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. ...
TIMELINE
WHEN & WHERE: TIMELINE & MAIN EVENTS For the Main Events & Sites of the Sullivan/Clinton saga: A Mini-Timeline A Mini-Timeline The context is co...
WHO’S WHO: THE KEY PLAYERS
For a “Who’s Who” of the Sullivan/Clinton saga: SULLIVAN/CLINTON AT-A-GLANCE: THE KEY PLAYERS Brant, Joseph (Mohawk) The most prominent Iroquois mi...
CLARITY & RESISTANCE
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...
RIGORS OF THE SEASON: DINNER IS SERVED, AS IROQUOIA STARVES
A handsome house halfway up the bank opposite the ferry seems to attract the eye and to invite strangers to stop at General Schuyler’s, who is its owner as w...
YANKEE ORIGINS…
The White Man comes, pale as the dawn, with a load of thought, with a slumbering intelligence as a fire raked up, knowing well what he knows, not guessing bu...
THE CHAPLAIN PREPARES
The necessity of a just & speedy retaliation for British & savage barbarity prompts the Army to encounter every fatigue & surmount every difficul...
THE DEATHS OF BOYD AND PARKER
The Boyd-Parker killings have stoked moral outrage and controversy. On the one hand, they were killed, if not tortured, in captivity, and their bodies left a...
SALT IN THE WOUNDS: THE MINES AT LITTLE BEARD’S TOWN
On March 12, 1994, a section of the massive 6,000-acre Retsof salt mine collapsed under Cuylerville. Underground water flooded the mines, threatening wells a...
SULLIVAN-CLINTON: A STRATEGY OF STARVATION?
The entries that follow address this terrible question… Provision is scarce with us, owing to our having been at Fort Stanwick &ca by which means our ...
FRONTIER METAPHYSICS
The instinct of antipathy against an Indian grows in the backwoodsman with the sense of good and bad, right and wrong. In one breath he learns that a brother...
KNOW THEM NO MORE FOREVER
The eastern tribes have long since disappeared; the forests that sheltered them have been laid low, and scarce any traces remain of them in the thickly-settl...
SENECAS SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
Father, the voice of the Seneca Nations speaks to you, the great counsellor, in whose heart the wise men of all the Thirteen Fires have placed their wisdom; ...
ENGLAND IN DEFEAT: WHERE PITY MEETS PRAGMATISM
[War leader, Joseph Brant] is much better informed and instructed than any other Indians, he is strongly attached to the Interest of his Country of men, for ...
THE OFFICERS JOURNALS!
Arguably among the most, if not the most “journalized” expedition in military history, Sullivan-Clinton’s officers journals are now going online. A Must See:...
TOWN DESTROYER
To the Irouqois, General George Washington was Ha-no-da-ga-nears, which means Town Destroyer, and this remained the name they gave to all Presidents of the U...
CHERRY VALLEY TRAGEDY
Click this to view the Cherry Valley Memorial… O haste, men of strength, the savages are near you; Now hurry to the fort, taking with you those you love, ...
SCALPS & FIREWATER
The people [American settlers] are not [yet] Sensible what a good affect It [the burning of villages] has had on the Indians. The Onandaga warriors offer to ...
ONEIDAS: BETWEEN A ROCK & A HARD PLACE
The Rock: Caught in an English Web… BROTHERS : It is now about four years ago since the Bostonians began to rise, and rebel against their Father, the King o...
WYOMING VALLEY TRAGEDY
Perhaps more than any other event, the so-called “Wyoming Massacre” of July 3, 1778 was a rallying cry for launching the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign in retalia...
TEN YEARS AFTER…
Brothers, you must not think hard if we speak rash, as it comes from a wounded heart, as you have struck the hatchet in our head and we can’t be reconciled u...
THE AFTERMATH: IMPENDING STARVATION
‘but the Indians not being supported [by English/Loyalist reinforcements] as they expected, thought of nothing more than carrying off their Families, and we ...
THE IROQUOIS NATIONS
The five original Iroquois/Haudenosaunee tribes are: the Seneca, the keepers of the Western Door; the Cayugas, the “people of the marsh” and “keepers of the ...
REFUGEES OF NIAGARA 1779-1780: THE WINTER OF HUNGER
The expedition you are appointed to command is directed against the hostile tribes of the Six Nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents. The im...
THE THREE SISTERS MEET SENECA FOODS
The Three Sisters - Corn, Beans and Squash - are the traditional core of Seneca survival and worldview. Today, the Seneca Foods plant in the area at Leiceste...
WHITE SETTLEMENT
When peace with England was finally declared, in 1783, there began a migration of settlers to western New York. Many of Sullivan’s men were given grants of l...
THE ERIE CANAL
The Erie Canal (1825), a monumental achievement, was ultimately made possible by Washington-Sullivan-Clinton’s ouster of the Iroqouis nations from the region...
LAND CALCULUS
Prior to European colonization the Iroquois exercised active dominion over most of what is now New York State. Of the 49,576 square miles of the state the Ir...
FINAL LAMENT
We are encircled, we are encompassed. The Evil Spirit rides the blast. The waters are disturbed. They rise. They press upon us and the waves settle over us. ...
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The land between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes appears good. Level and well-timbered; affording a sufficiency for twenty elegant townships which, in the process of...
PROMISE TO KEEP
The Indians shall see that we have malice enough in our hearts to destroy everything that contributes to their support. General John Sullivan Sullivan-Clint...
NO NEGOTIATIONS
But you will not by any means listen to any overture of peace before the total ruinment of their settlements is effected’. Our future security will be in the...
VICTOR’S VERSES
‘The wigwam fell, and the log cabin arose’ ‘Gwah U Gwah, Welcome to Civilization’ ‘Scalps in 1779, Brains in 1879’ ‘From the Trail to the Track’ ‘The End...
GEN. SHERMAN’S CREDO
I know it is common, and too common a practice to accuse General Sullivan of having destroyed peach trees and cornfields, and all that nonsense. He had to do...
ETHNIC CLEANSING?
I flatter myself that the orders with which I was entrusted are fully executed, as we have not left a single settlement or field of corn in the in the countr...
US AND THEM
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absol...
BIG TREE TREATY
By the time appointed for the Treaty at Big Tree on the Genesee River in the summer of 1797, Robert Morris was a prisoner in his own mansion, unable even to ...
HOLLAND PURCHASE
Years after the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, the Seneca sold their remaining Western lands to the land-speculating Robert Morris, former “financier of the Amer...
THE CONSEQUENCES
The nests are destroyed, but the birds are still on the wing… Major Jeremiah Fogg September 1779
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The objectives of the Sullivan Clinton Campaign were all realized. The hostile Senecas and Cayugas were terribly punished. Their homes were burned, their vas...
PUBLIC OPINION
The Sullivan Clinton Expedition against the Six Nations and their British Loyalist leaders captured the imagination of the Americans. It awakened tremendous ...
ADVANCE PLANNING & FINANCING
In advance of the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, on June 11, 1778, Congress already had allocated the huge sum of $932,743.1/3, to resolve the problem of Indian ...
IN BROAD STROKES: TIMELINE/CONTEXT
Authorization and financing were from the Continental Congress of the thirteen rebel colonies. NYS congressmen were especially keen on securing New York’s se...
SIZE AND SCALE
The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign was one of the largest offensive movements in the entire War of Independence. In the Spring, Van Schaick’s force numbered 558, ...
NEW YORK’S BIG PARTY: A NATIVE VOICE AT THE TABLE
The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779 was the largest expedition ever before mounted against the Indians of North America. Deploying 5,100 to 6,200 troops - ...
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From George Washington to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779
From George Washington to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779 Sir, The expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tri...
JOURNAL OF LIEUT. ERKURIES BEATTY, OF THE 4TH PENN LINE.
“21st. this morning set of about Day Break on the same line of march and went about 6 Miles when we halted, Capt. Graham with his Compy. was sent forward as ...
GOD’S CHOSEN
Indeed to see a forest tree, which had withstood the elements till it attained maturity, torn up by its roots, and bending itself to the earth, in obedience ...
AN EERIE CANAL
The forest which covers it, consisting chiefly [of] trees that live in excessive moisture, is now decayed and death struck, by the partial draining of the sw...
LIKE CORTEZ AND SHERMAN, BUT…
The expedition of General John Sullivan against the hostile Indian tribes of the north was one of the most important military movements of the Revolutionary ...
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
In September, 1776, Congress had passed resolutions for the enlistment of soldiers to serve during the Revolutionary War, resolved that each state was to fur...
BURNING ONONDAGA, APRIL ‘79
21st. this morning set of about Day Break on the same line of march and went about 6 Miles when we halted, Capt. Graham with his Compy. was sent forward as a...
THAT VISION THING
GENERAL SULLIVAN’S RAID And when the soldiers in their marches, Advanced on that September morn, And pushed along through woodland arches, Or passed the fie...
CIVILIZATION DEFINED
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE HEROES AND ADVENTURERS WHO, BY THEIR VALOR AND WAR-CRAFT, BEAT BACK THE SAVAGES FROM THE BORDERS OF CIVILIZATION AND GAVE THE AMERIC...
BEARING WITNESS
I have seen him shrinking from civilized approach, which came with all its vices, like the dead of night upon him. I have seen him gaze and then retreat like...
AFTER DINNER TOASTS
General Washington and the Army; General Sullivan & Western Expedition; King and Queen of France; A Successful and Decisive Campaign; May the new World ...
CLARITY & RESISTANCE
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...
RIGORS OF THE SEASON: DINNER IS SERVED, AS IROQUOIA STARVES
A handsome house halfway up the bank opposite the ferry seems to attract the eye and to invite strangers to stop at General Schuyler’s, who is its owner as w...
YANKEE ORIGINS…
The White Man comes, pale as the dawn, with a load of thought, with a slumbering intelligence as a fire raked up, knowing well what he knows, not guessing bu...
THE CHAPLAIN PREPARES
The necessity of a just & speedy retaliation for British & savage barbarity prompts the Army to encounter every fatigue & surmount every difficul...
FRONTIER METAPHYSICS
The instinct of antipathy against an Indian grows in the backwoodsman with the sense of good and bad, right and wrong. In one breath he learns that a brother...
KNOW THEM NO MORE FOREVER
The eastern tribes have long since disappeared; the forests that sheltered them have been laid low, and scarce any traces remain of them in the thickly-settl...
SENECAS SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
Father, the voice of the Seneca Nations speaks to you, the great counsellor, in whose heart the wise men of all the Thirteen Fires have placed their wisdom; ...
ENGLAND IN DEFEAT: WHERE PITY MEETS PRAGMATISM
[War leader, Joseph Brant] is much better informed and instructed than any other Indians, he is strongly attached to the Interest of his Country of men, for ...
THE OFFICERS JOURNALS!
Arguably among the most, if not the most “journalized” expedition in military history, Sullivan-Clinton’s officers journals are now going online. A Must See:...
CHERRY VALLEY TRAGEDY
Click this to view the Cherry Valley Memorial… O haste, men of strength, the savages are near you; Now hurry to the fort, taking with you those you love, ...
SCALPS & FIREWATER
The people [American settlers] are not [yet] Sensible what a good affect It [the burning of villages] has had on the Indians. The Onandaga warriors offer to ...
ONEIDAS: BETWEEN A ROCK & A HARD PLACE
The Rock: Caught in an English Web… BROTHERS : It is now about four years ago since the Bostonians began to rise, and rebel against their Father, the King o...
WYOMING VALLEY TRAGEDY
Perhaps more than any other event, the so-called “Wyoming Massacre” of July 3, 1778 was a rallying cry for launching the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign in retalia...
TEN YEARS AFTER…
Brothers, you must not think hard if we speak rash, as it comes from a wounded heart, as you have struck the hatchet in our head and we can’t be reconciled u...
THE AFTERMATH: IMPENDING STARVATION
‘but the Indians not being supported [by English/Loyalist reinforcements] as they expected, thought of nothing more than carrying off their Families, and we ...
FINAL LAMENT
We are encircled, we are encompassed. The Evil Spirit rides the blast. The waters are disturbed. They rise. They press upon us and the waves settle over us. ...
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The land between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes appears good. Level and well-timbered; affording a sufficiency for twenty elegant townships which, in the process of...
PROMISE TO KEEP
The Indians shall see that we have malice enough in our hearts to destroy everything that contributes to their support. General John Sullivan Sullivan-Clint...
NO NEGOTIATIONS
But you will not by any means listen to any overture of peace before the total ruinment of their settlements is effected’. Our future security will be in the...
VICTOR’S VERSES
‘The wigwam fell, and the log cabin arose’ ‘Gwah U Gwah, Welcome to Civilization’ ‘Scalps in 1779, Brains in 1879’ ‘From the Trail to the Track’ ‘The End...
GEN. SHERMAN’S CREDO
I know it is common, and too common a practice to accuse General Sullivan of having destroyed peach trees and cornfields, and all that nonsense. He had to do...
ETHNIC CLEANSING?
I flatter myself that the orders with which I was entrusted are fully executed, as we have not left a single settlement or field of corn in the in the countr...
US AND THEM
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absol...
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Iroquois Trail Rd.
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Thru Mohawk Valley
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Drive to Tribes Hill
What’s in a name? Well, this sign points to a village named Tribes Hill, in the Mohawk Valley since 1713, on former Mohawk lands.
To The Tribe’s Hill
A cul-de-sac in former Iroquois country, now called Tribes Hill, New York, in the Mohawk Valley.
End of the Trail?
note: Alternative Viewpoints, from Here & There…
Road to Tribes Hill
note: Alternative Viewpoints, from Here & There…
Rematch 2
Fighting for the league Championship, another Battle of Newtown. This time it’s just sports, just outside the Onondaga Nation Lacrosse/Hockey Arena.
For You, the Precious
Dutch trader shows all that glitters… New York’s first big conver- sion experience adorns the base of Henry Hudson’s statue in NYC.
Rematch 1
In the 225th Anniversary year of Sullivan-Clinton, well-organized landholders group opposes any concessions to Cayuga land claims with scores of signs.
Big Tree Under Glass
The shed on the right harbors a section of the famed great oak tree (27’ in diameter) who witnessed the signing away of Seneca lands at the Big Tree Conferen...
Innovation
Facing Cayuga Lake is the former site of Goi-O-Gouen, the Cayuga capital. As Cols. Dear- born and Wm. Butler burned their west and east bank villages, the Ca...
General Sullivan’s Slave House
Slaves quarters at the rear of Gen. Sullivan’s home at Durham, New Hampshire. He, George Washington, Jeremiah Wadsworth and Philip Schuyler all held slaves.
Stamped in History
Issued in 1929, the 150th Anniversary stamp joined the erection of over 55 highway markers and 35 stone memorials across NY State and many in Pennsylvania.
Not One Inch…
One of scores of signs posted around the Cayuga Lake region by opponents of Cayuga land claims. Since S/C, the Cayugas lost their NY lands. But the court cas...
Gen. John Sullivan with Spear
Though he won with superior numbers and first use of field cannons against N. American Indians, the Victor is depicted with a spear.
“The White Woman, Mary Jemison”
Captured by Indians, the famed Scotch-Irish Jemison lived mostly as a Seneca, bearing two children. Her burial-site statue, at Letchworth Park, NY, would rec...
Old Wine, New Bottle
Ancestral mound near Goi-O-Gouen, the former Cayuga capital, on private farmlands, behind an electric fence. Cayugas were burned out by Sullivan-Clinton on S...
I’ll Take Manhattan!
The iconic “sale” of Manhattan for $24 in trinkets, on the base of Henry Hudson’s towering statue. Hudson Park, Riverdale, NYC.
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FROM THE LATE RAY FADDEN
“I love these woods. They’re alive to me. The woods have life of their own. From the smallest insect to the largest moose. Everything has a function. It is a...
DEVELOPMENT?
The forest which covers it, consisting chiefly [of] trees that live in excessive moisture, is now decayed and death struck, by the partial draining of the sw...
BURY MY HEART
“When we look at historical accuracy, we look at history as it plays in the service of a narrative,” said Sam Martin, a vice president at HBO Films in charge...
ODE TO A CHOSEN PEOPLE
Indeed to see a forest tree, which had withstood the elements till it attained maturity, torn up by its roots, and bending itself to the earth, in obedience ...
BOTTOM LINES
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-Kanenti...
SULLIVAN-CLINTON 2005
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...
WE WILL HAVE OUR LANDS
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...
RIGHTS OF RETURN
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 s...
OURS OR MINE?
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 tha...
WHITE BIRDS CRY
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...
HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS
[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 applie...
THE ROAD TO EMPIRE
The immediate purpose was to give protection to the defenseless frontier settlements. This was to be accomplished by destroying the Indian villages and sourc...
ODE TO TOWN DESTROYER
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 t...
A DESERT CALLED PEACE
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, a...
TSUNAMIS, NOW & THEN
What makes it especially frightening is that whole communities have been annihilated. We’ve known for years now that the emotional devastation that survivors...
THE MARCHING ORDERS
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. ...
TIMELINE
WHEN & WHERE: TIMELINE & MAIN EVENTS For the Main Events & Sites of the Sullivan/Clinton saga: A Mini-Timeline A Mini-Timeline The context is co...
WHO’S WHO: THE KEY PLAYERS
For a “Who’s Who” of the Sullivan/Clinton saga: SULLIVAN/CLINTON AT-A-GLANCE: THE KEY PLAYERS Brant, Joseph (Mohawk) The most prominent Iroquois mi...
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Newtown Battle Map
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Against the Odds
Overmatched forces under Brant and Butler fall back as Sullivan’s juggernaut marches relentlessly forward. (Kenn Anderson/ Canterbury Tours)
Some Brits Arrive
Britain provided 15 regulars from Ft. Niagara to support Butler and Brant and assess Sullivan-Clinton’s massive force of 5,000. (Kenn Anderson/ Canterbury To...
A Reconciliation?
Erected in 1994, a rare dedication to all those fallen at Newtown - Iroqouis, British and Continental Army. (Robert Spiegelman)
Gotcha
Boyd is led off for questioning and his eventual death in Iroquois-Tory hands. (photo by Rick Losey)
Riveted
Yankee scout senses the ambush that may seal his fate. (photo by Rick Losey)
Another Aftermath
An old trinket that memorializes Chemung, the first village destroyed by Sullivan’s Army, just before the Battle of Newtown. (Robert Spiegelman)
In the Aftermath
Newtown Battlefield reenactors bid farewell until their next encounter.
Bearing Witness 2/2
Ceremony at Boyd- Parker Memorial Park honors what conveners called their sacrifice on behalf of freedom.
Captured
After the firefight, Boyd and Parker are captured and tied up. The famed Timothy Murphy, one of Boyd’s party and a serial scalper (who scalped a lone Seneca ...
Setting the Trap
A Seneca warrior and a Loyalist ally move into position to capture Boyd’s scouting party. The day before, a Seneca was scalped by the party’s Tim Murphy.
Planning an Ambush
Two weeks after New- town, Boyd’s scouting party searches for the Seneca capital (so Sullivan’s Army can burn it), Iroquois and Loyalists set off to trap them.
Summit Conference
Loyalist and English commanders consider the dismal options as the Sullivan & Clinton’s army closes in.
Yankee Advance
Detachments of Sullivan’s troops advance on retreating Iroquois- Loyalist positions. The rivers would run red with blood.
Eyes of the Empire
English officers watch the battle unfold. British numbers and political will were inadequate to help defend the Iroquois homelands.
Taking Stock
Outnumbered Iroquois warriors reload and assess their position as overwhelming Yankee forces and first-time field cannon advance.
Taking Stock
Outnumbered Iroquois warriors reload and assess their position as overwhelming Yankee forces and first-time field cannon advance.
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Clearing Darkness: The First Condolence
It is said that there once was a time in our (Haudenosaunee) history where the people (Onkwehonweh) came to forget the original instructions given to them by...
The Death of Jane McCrea
Eric v.d. Luft describes the painting as “a classic depiction of American attitudes toward Indian savagery,” in his “Mcrae, Jane” entry for the Encyclopedia ...
america1777
Steve’s allegorical painting is a commentary on and companion to the once well-known national icon, “The Murder of Jane McCrae,” painted by John Vanderlyn in...
No York
In this artwork, a classroom map of New York State is overpainted so that only Native American place names remain.
Indian Time 2
An installation consisting of a display of contemporary acrylic watches printed with imagery taken from the work of Swiss pioneer artist Peter Rindisbacher. ...
Indian Time 1
An installation consisting of a display of contemporary acrylic watches printed with imagery taken from the work of Swiss pioneer artist Peter Rindisbacher. ...
Corps a corps au couteau
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
Tazsunke Witko (Crazy Horse) est assailli
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
La riposte de Piz’i (Chief Gall)
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
Indien depouillant un soldat mort
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
La riposte de Piz’i (Chief Gall)
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
Three Sisters
De-o-ha-ko, “the foods that sustain us.” The 3 Sisters - corn, beans and squash - are the traditional heart of Iroquois survival and worldview. They were the...
Indians Have Always Paid The Price
Jemison’s mixed-media piece brings together past and present images of the domination of Indians in the Americas. What began with Columbus and continued with...
At The Border
Jemison’s painting depicts the schism imposed on Indians by nation state borders. Casting blood red shadows, the two crows facing each other symbolize both d...
america1777
Steve’s allegorical painting is a commentary on and companion to the once well-known national icon, “The Murder of Jane McCrae,” painted by John Vanderlyn in...
mixed-media
Clearing Darkness: The First Condolence
It is said that there once was a time in our (Haudenosaunee) history where the people (Onkwehonweh) came to forget the original instructions given to them by...
The Death of Jane McCrea
Eric v.d. Luft describes the painting as “a classic depiction of American attitudes toward Indian savagery,” in his “Mcrae, Jane” entry for the Encyclopedia ...
america1777
Steve’s allegorical painting is a commentary on and companion to the once well-known national icon, “The Murder of Jane McCrae,” painted by John Vanderlyn in...
No York
In this artwork, a classroom map of New York State is overpainted so that only Native American place names remain.
Indian Time 2
An installation consisting of a display of contemporary acrylic watches printed with imagery taken from the work of Swiss pioneer artist Peter Rindisbacher. ...
Indian Time 1
An installation consisting of a display of contemporary acrylic watches printed with imagery taken from the work of Swiss pioneer artist Peter Rindisbacher. ...
Corps a corps au couteau
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
Tazsunke Witko (Crazy Horse) est assailli
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
La riposte de Piz’i (Chief Gall)
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
Indien depouillant un soldat mort
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
La riposte de Piz’i (Chief Gall)
In the courtyard of his house, Ousmane Sow produced The Battle of Little Big Horn, a series of 35 epic pieces. These were first exhibited in Dakar in January...
Three Sisters
De-o-ha-ko, “the foods that sustain us.” The 3 Sisters - corn, beans and squash - are the traditional heart of Iroquois survival and worldview. They were the...
Indians Have Always Paid The Price
Jemison’s mixed-media piece brings together past and present images of the domination of Indians in the Americas. What began with Columbus and continued with...
At The Border
Jemison’s painting depicts the schism imposed on Indians by nation state borders. Casting blood red shadows, the two crows facing each other symbolize both d...
america1777
Steve’s allegorical painting is a commentary on and companion to the once well-known national icon, “The Murder of Jane McCrae,” painted by John Vanderlyn in...
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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples
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Solistice 2
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Solistice 1
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Capital View
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George Washington and the Oneidas Status
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Bands of Brothers
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In Aztec Splendor
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South Rising: Aztecs
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Mohegan Three
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Mohegan Braves
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Mohegans Two
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Mohegans
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In Full Regalia
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Trail Blazers
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TOWN DESTROYER
To the Irouqois, General George Washington was Ha-no-da-ga-nears, which means Town Destroyer, and this remained the name they gave to all Presidents of the U...
THE IROQUOIS NATIONS
The five original Iroquois/Haudenosaunee tribes are: the Seneca, the keepers of the Western Door; the Cayugas, the “people of the marsh” and “keepers of the ...
THE THREE SISTERS MEET SENECA FOODS
The Three Sisters - Corn, Beans and Squash - are the traditional core of Seneca survival and worldview. Today, the Seneca Foods plant in the area at Leiceste...
WHITE SETTLEMENT
When peace with England was finally declared, in 1783, there began a migration of settlers to western New York. Many of Sullivan’s men were given grants of l...
THE ERIE CANAL
The Erie Canal (1825), a monumental achievement, was ultimately made possible by Washington-Sullivan-Clinton’s ouster of the Iroqouis nations from the region...
LAND CALCULUS
Prior to European colonization the Iroquois exercised active dominion over most of what is now New York State. Of the 49,576 square miles of the state the Ir...
BIG TREE TREATY
By the time appointed for the Treaty at Big Tree on the Genesee River in the summer of 1797, Robert Morris was a prisoner in his own mansion, unable even to ...
HOLLAND PURCHASE
Years after the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, the Seneca sold their remaining Western lands to the land-speculating Robert Morris, former “financier of the Amer...
THE CONSEQUENCES
The nests are destroyed, but the birds are still on the wing… Major Jeremiah Fogg September 1779
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The objectives of the Sullivan Clinton Campaign were all realized. The hostile Senecas and Cayugas were terribly punished. Their homes were burned, their vas...
PUBLIC OPINION
The Sullivan Clinton Expedition against the Six Nations and their British Loyalist leaders captured the imagination of the Americans. It awakened tremendous ...
ADVANCE PLANNING & FINANCING
In advance of the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, on June 11, 1778, Congress already had allocated the huge sum of $932,743.1/3, to resolve the problem of Indian ...
IN BROAD STROKES: TIMELINE/CONTEXT
Authorization and financing were from the Continental Congress of the thirteen rebel colonies. NYS congressmen were especially keen on securing New York’s se...
SIZE AND SCALE
The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign was one of the largest offensive movements in the entire War of Independence. In the Spring, Van Schaick’s force numbered 558, ...
three-cities
Boyd-Parker Park 1
Set beside the Geneseo -Cuylerville Rd.(Rt. 39), this site and their Ambuscade are the only true Memorials to any named individuals, among the more than 10,0...
Tortured Tree
Distressed, this tree expires on the very site of the Boyd-Parker ambush by the Senecas, three days before Sullivan’s burning of nearby Little Beard’s Town, ...
Order of Battle
Outnumbering the population of Western Iroquoia, Sullivan’s Army set out on a scorched earth invasion that burned all known villages and enlisted hunger by b...
Torches to Plough Shares
Ample farms now stand on the former fields and orchards of Little Beard’s Town. This one borders on the Retsof sink hole, only yards from Boyd- Parker Park a...
The Scorched Earth
The 1994 collapse of the nearby old Retsof mine made the area’s wells and waters toxic and turned some of its still amazingly fertile topsoil into this.
The Bitter Waters
The collapse and flooding of the old Retsof mine shafts created this toxic sink hole. It lies beneath the Geneseo- Cuylerville road bridge, only 50 yards fro...
Karmic Justice?
A nearby salt mine collapse in 1994 caused this toxic sinkhole. It festers with methane emissions, at the center of the former Seneca capital, Little Beard’s...
Little Beards Town Marker
The back of theS/C monument in Boyd- Parker Park is the only outdoor indication of the former site of the Seneca capital, the once West- ern Door, burnt by S...
Little Beard’s Town Map
The Seneca capital, at the Western Door, was S/C’s prime target. It is where Boyd & Parker were captured and killed while trying to locate the town for b...
Driven from Home
The flight of 5,000+ Haudenosaunee refugees from Sullivan’s advance in September, 1779. (Print of Ernest Smith’s 1936 watercolor.)
Boyd-Parker Park 2
Commemorates the martyrdom of the two Yankee scouts at the hands of Iroquois captors. Boyd led 28 scouts in a search for Little Beard’s Town, which is burned...
americana
Gen. James Clinton
first published in Mary L. Booth’s History of New York (1st ed. 1861, 2nd ed. 1880)
Commander-in- chief
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Gen. James Clinton
The co-Commander of the Campaign, brother of NY rebel governor George Clinton, and father of NY State Gov. DeWitt Clinton.
Forever Set in Stone
Several of the 29 NYS road markers carry site- specific information on their back sides. This one, in Aurora, notes the destruction of the Cayuga capital.
Gen. John Sullivan
Co-commander of the Campaign. He filed its Offical Report to Congress. Then became New Hampshire’s first US Governor.
Cherry Valley Massacre Monument
Cemetery monument to settlers killed by Indian- English-Loyalist attack of November, 1778.
Signing Off
Re-enactors part ways after the 225th anniversary of the Cherry Valley Massacre.
Felled by Tomahawk
The town of Cherry Valley marks the site where Colonel Ichabod Alden, post commader, was killed in the Yankee defeat.
Sullivan-Clinton Road Monument
Twenty-nine such highway markers were commissioned by New York State in 1929 (the 150th anniversary) to mark the 1779 invasion route.
Cherry Valley!
Moment from the 225th Gala Reenactment of the 1778 Yankee defeat by English-Iroquois-Tory forces. Then termed a massacre, it became the pretext to invade wha...
Commander-in- chief
George Washington as he looked in 1779, the year he launches the Sullivan- Clinton Campaign. Painted then by Charles Willson Peale. (Courtesy of the U.S. Sen...
mother-earth
As long as the Rivers flow
They continue to flow at NY’s Ganondagan State Historic Site, restored as a center and seed-bed of traditional Haudenosau- nee culture, values and vision. (P...
NOLA 2005
Since Hurricane Katrina’s first day, NOLA’s uprooted long-term residents were termed refugees. Iroquoia 1779 & NOLA 2005 share other com- monalities - li...
Stewardship Now
An Onondaga chief, Brad Powless, gazes on toxic Onondaga Lake. A legal action affirms his nation’s stewardship over the health of its traditional lands and u...
Sacred & Imperiled
Lake Onondaga is the birthplace of the Hau- denosaunee Confeder- acy under the Peace- maker. It’s contamina- ted, sits atop a sea of mercury, and stands at t...
Scorched Earth
Earth at the Western Door: the former Seneca capital Little Beard’s Town, near Geneseo, NY. Burned by S/C in September 1779, the land was ruined by the Retso...
Iroquoia 1779
Then, Sullivan/Clinton was a scorched earth campaign that smoked the Finger Lakes. Today, Global Warming is scorching the earth. Mother Earth summons us. (Ph...
Longhouse
The Haudenosaunee are “people making a long- house.” Spanning NY, Mohawks kept its Eas- tern Door, Onondagas kept (and keep) its cen- tral fire, and Senecas ...
Rt. 17 Corn Field
NY’s Southern Tier, formerly Iroquoia, is dotted with ample corn fields, echoing those reduced to scorched earth by Sullivan/ Clinton.
The Warrior’s Path
The Warrior’s Path Sullivan’s March looked upon the Susquehanna River, today among America’s most toxic. It had been an Indian path of commerce, war and dipl...
The Three Sisters
Traditional Haudeno- saunee life is a spiritual bonding with mother earth. The 3 - corn, beans and squash - are central to physical and spiritual survival. T...
The Western Door
The Western Door Iroquoia’s western door, where the Genesee River snakes on through what ranked atop North America’s most fertile regions. It was Seneca coun...
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Once A Crossroads
Markers on Rt, 220 note where Indian villages of Teoga & Queen Esther’s Town stood before September 1791 and Hartley’s Expedition burned them out.
Hartley’s Revenge
American Col. Hartley’s Expedition is remember -ed by this 1929 plaque for having burned Teoga and Queen Esther’s Town. It was another turn in a brutal cycle...
Immediate Retaliation
In September 1778, Col. Thomas Hartley led over 200 troops against the region’s Haudeno- saunee and Delware villages, to avenge the July defeat and bloody af...
Wyoming Massacre
The most common historical image (19th century) of the killings of July 3, 1778 in the Wyoming Valley. Today, the Pennsyl- vania Historical and Museum Commis...
Marking Wyoming
Wyoming’s stature in the American Revolu- tion is reflected by the battle being registered as a National Historic Site.
Wyoming!
Avenging the July, 1778 blood shed in the Wyoming Valley became the main rallying point, across the rebelling colonies, for launching the Sulli- van-Clinton ...
Over Ancestral Bones
Plaque at the Wyoming Monument commemo- rates the Yankee fallen, 80 of whose remains lie beneath, and are memo- rialized every July 4th, Independence Day.
Susquehanna Banks
The river runs through and links NY and PA regions traversed by S/C. This island, near the Wyoming Battlesite, is deemed the birthplace of Hiawatha, the grea...
Tioga (Turning) Point
Tioga (Turning) Point The Indian villages of Teoga and its neighbor Queen Esther’s Town (the “Southern Door”), were burned in revenge for Wyoming by the Hart...
War Memorial
War Memorial Monument to the more than 400 Yankee soldiers and settlers slain in the July, 1778 attack on Wyoming Valley by Tory and Indian forces under John...
Trailblazer, East
In 1774, Silas Deane backed annexing northern PA to Litchfield County, CT, as the Town of Westmoreland. CT’s projecting its “western claim” - through Hartfor...
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Jemison 02
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Note: Lecture-Presentation with G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)
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Back to the Future
At Ganondagan, there’s fun and a positive fu- ture for all our kids, as they learn about Haude- nosaunee values and lifeways. (GH)
Light Warms the Longhouse
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Homage to Iroquoia
Homage to Iroquoia Sculpture at Ganondagan celebrates Haudeno- saunee spirituality, vision and survival. For all they’ve endured, they’re still here and cont...
The Three Sisters
Haudenousaunee survivors return to the Longhouse and, with the coming of spring, the planting of corn, beans and squash - a time for renewal. (Collage by Jen...
On High
Canoes are stored in the rafters when water travel is out of season. (GH)
Inner Lives
In the longhouse, each family grouping has its sleeping and storage areas. Fires are communal. Roof openings allow ventilation, light and a path for smoke to...
Eastern Door
Entry way to the long- house. (GH)
As Long As The Rivers Flow
They continue to flow at Ganondagan State Historic Site, restored as a center and seed-bed of traditional Haudenosaunee culture, values and vision. (GH)
Ganondagan
Pete Jemison, a Seneca faithkeeper, is Historical Site Manager of Ganon- dagan. (Photo by Geoff Harding)
Longhouse
The Haudenosaunee are “people making a longhouse.” This stands at Ganondagan, a former Seneca capital burned by the French under Denonville in 1687, to drive...
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Stilled Life
Shards in the storage area between the Brooklyn Museum and Botanical Gardens (Spring, 2004) Note: Traces from New York & Other Metropolises…
Equestrian Moment
Lord of its domain. This in the storage area between the Brooklyn Museum and Botanical Gardens. Note: Traces from New York & Other Metropolises…
Not At Liberty
Two national treasures in the dustbin of history. Note: Traces from New York & Other Metropolises…
Once A Warrior
Fraser’s End of the Trail statue was first modeled in 1894, within four years after the Wounded Knee Massacre of Ghost Dancers. Note: Traces from New York &a...
Equus
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for…” Free Indian life ended on the Southern Plains in 1874 when the Army killed their horses. Note: Traces from New York &...
End of the Trail?
Replica of James Earle Fraser’s once famous sculpture, End of the Trail, modeled in 1894, commissioned in 1915. (Courtesy Clint Fisher) Note: Traces from New...
Melting Point
Washington and Sullivan blazed the way toward the Erie Canal which made Manhattan rich. The city fuses their names at Greenwich Village’s famed Washington Sq...
Sullivan St. NYC
Named for General John Sullivan, the street starts at Washington Square Park, where this Sullivan/ Clinton cor- ner resides, hidden in plain sight. Note: Tra...
Sign Language
Note: Traces from New York & Other Metropolises…
iroquoia
Tioga (Turning) Point
Where the Susquehanna and Chemung R’s meet, this once Indian village of Teoga and neighbor -ing Queen Esther’s Town (the “Southern Door”), were burned in rev...
The Haudenosaunee!
Announcing the endur- ing presence and courage of the Haudeno- saunee people & Iroquois Confederacy today.
Growing Corn
The “Three Sisters” - corn, squash and beans - are at the heart of Haudenosaunee survi- val and worldview. Their destruction was an objective of Sullivan/ Cl...
Red Jacket
1820 portrait of the Seneca orator by J.L.D. Mathies. Freedom Medal denotes his accommo- dation to Yankee rule. He ended as a bulwark for Indian traditions v...
At The Unveiling
It’s September 22, 1929, during Sullivan/Clinton’s 150th Anniversary: Cayuga people with Chief Wilbur Shango tend a council fire at the official unfurling of...
Cornplanter
Portrait of the great Seneca Chief by Fred. Bartoli, 1796. The original hangs behind the same glass with portraits of Red Jacket and Washington, as part of t...
At Wyalusing
“Warrior’s Path” of Haudenosaunee trade, diplomacy and war linking NY and PA to VA and the Carolinas. Viewed from 500 ft. above the Susquehanna River, along ...
Survivors
The Haudenosaunee people during another winter (1914). Some are Senecas from the Cattaraugus reservation. Several may be from a touring company. The worst wi...
Western Doorstep
The Genesee flows thru today’ Letchworth State Park, “The Grand Canyon of the East,” at the Western Door – where the Scottish-born, Seneca-reared Mary Jemiso...
tales-survivors
From the 5th Iroquois Biennial
Searing visions of Sullivan/Clinton by Haudenosaunee Artists at the 5th Iroquois Biennial Art Exhibition, curated by Peter Jemison, at the Fenimore Museum in...
West Wall
View of the west wall of the exhibition, with images and installations by Rick Hill and participating artists. (Courtesy of The Fenimore Museum)
East Wall 2
Rear view of the west wall of the exhibition, with installation by Tom Huff, and introductory text and works by Peter Jemison. (Courtesy of The Fenimore Muse...
East Wall 1
Frontal view of the east wall of the exhibition, with introductory text and two paintings by, the curator and painter, Peter Jemison. (Courtesy of The Fenimo...
From the 5th Iroquois Biennial
From the 5th Iroquois Biennial
Indians Have Always Paid the Price
Detail of a larger work by Peter Jemison (Seneca). (See the Audio Visual page for the full image)(Courtesy of Peter Jemison)
Across the Threshold
In the exhibit space, visitors will encounter an interactive map, where children and parents can sit & learn about Sullivan/Clinton, and/or go straight o...
Back to the Present
The Fenimore Museum, with courage, is the responsible host of present-day Haudeno- saunee renderings and responses - in painting, sculpture, ceramics and vid...
The Setting
The Fenimore Museum sits on Lake Otsego as it flows (at you) into the Susquehanna River. In 1779, these waters bore Clinton’s flotilla to join Sullivan at Ir...
Fields-of-Fire
Oneida Silver
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
identity theft
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Longhouse Burning
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
aka Town Destroyer
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Fields of Fire 2
Note: Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005. Photos by Clint Fisher.
Bearing Witness
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Commander-in- chief
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
Fields of Fire
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
225th Anniversary Fields of Fire Installation at the AICH
Fields of Fire: Our recent installation at the American Indian Community House, NYC. Summer 2004-Winter 2005.
notes
New Sources on Sullivan-Clinton Campaign
Butler, John, Haldimand, John McDonell, Walter Butler, Mason Bolton, John Docksteder, Fred Haldimand, et al. “NEW SOURCES ON THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN IN...
Past Events Pre 2008
Events 2006 COMING JUNE 3: Visit Our Great NYC Conference Panel! It’s Panel 703: “Fresh Approaches to the Iroquois Experience,” a multi-media f...
Accolades
Past Exhibit @ the American Indian Community House (NY) – AICH Winner of the CVHS Sullivan/Clinton Essay Competition! – CVHS Welcome to the “Website o...
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
2007 UN Recognizes Indigenous Rights Long Overdue Measure Taken!
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Talk
Speaking appearance at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NY) – NATIVE RESPONSE TO HISTORY | The Sullivan - Clinton Campaign: Then an...
Donate to Hurrican Katrina Survivors
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Ganandogan
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NY Humanities Lectures
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articles
(STILL) OPEN WOUNDS: NOLA DISPOSSESSED
America’s Open Wound by Bob Herbert It’s eerie. The air is still. There is no noise. Night is falling.
REFUGEES OF NIAGARA 1779-1780: THE WINTER OF HUNGER
The expedition you are appointed to command is directed against the hostile tribes of the Six Nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents. The im...
NEW YORK’S BIG PARTY: A NATIVE VOICE AT THE TABLE
The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779 was the largest expedition ever before mounted against the Indians of North America. Deploying 5,100 to 6,200 troops - ...
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THE DEATHS OF BOYD AND PARKER
The Boyd-Parker killings have stoked moral outrage and controversy. On the one hand, they were killed, if not tortured, in captivity, and their bodies left a...
SALT IN THE WOUNDS: THE MINES AT LITTLE BEARD’S TOWN
On March 12, 1994, a section of the massive 6,000-acre Retsof salt mine collapsed under Cuylerville. Underground water flooded the mines, threatening wells a...
SULLIVAN-CLINTON: A STRATEGY OF STARVATION?
The entries that follow address this terrible question… Provision is scarce with us, owing to our having been at Fort Stanwick &ca by which means our ...
resource
New Sources on Sullivan-Clinton Campaign
Butler, John, Haldimand, John McDonell, Walter Butler, Mason Bolton, John Docksteder, Fred Haldimand, et al. “NEW SOURCES ON THE SULLIVAN-CLINTON CAMPAIGN IN...
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
2007 UN Recognizes Indigenous Rights Long Overdue Measure Taken!
Ganandogan
We Are a Proud Friend of Ganandogan! NY’s Great Native Heritage Site
lectures
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Talk
Speaking appearance at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NY) – NATIVE RESPONSE TO HISTORY | The Sullivan - Clinton Campaign: Then an...
NY Humanities Lectures
Our Lectures Backed by NY Council for The Humanities Sullivan/Clinton & Westward Expansion go statewide!
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Simeon DeWitt Central NY Military Tract
Newtown Battle Map
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Revisiting George Washington’s assault on the Haudenosaunee 240 Years Later
In 1779, General George Washington suspended the colonial war against England and moved to extinguish the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois) with his “Sull...