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...
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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...