The Allegany Senecas And Kinzua Dam

Author : Joy A. Bilharz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803262035

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The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam by Joy A. Bilharz Pdf

In the late 1950s the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its intention to construct a dam along the Allegheny River in Warren, Pennsylvania. The building of the Kinzua Dam was highly controversial because it flooded one-third of the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Nearly six hundred Senecas were forced to abandon their homes and relocate, despite a 1794 treaty that had guaranteed them those lands in perpetuity. In this revealing study, Joy A. Bilharz examines the short- and long-term consequences of the relocation of the Senecas. Granted unparalleled access to members of the Seneca Nation and reservation records, Bilharz traces the psychological, economic, cultural, and social effects over two generations. The loss of homes and tribal lands was heart wrenching and initially threatened to undermine the foundations of social life and subsistence economy for the Senecas. Over time, however, many Senecas have managed to adapt successfully to relocation, creating new social networks, invigorating their educational system, and becoming more politically involved on local, tribal, and national levels.

Author : Laurence M. Hauptman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815652380

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In the Shadow of Kinzua by Laurence M. Hauptman Pdf

The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, flooded approximately 10,000 acres of Seneca lands in New York and Pennsylvania, and forced the relocation of hundreds of tribal members. Hauptman offers both a policy study, detailing how and why Washington, Harrisburg, and Albany came up with the idea to build the dam, and a community study of the Seneca Nation in the postwar era. Although the dam was presented to the Senecas as a flood control project, Hauptman persuasively argues that the primary reasons were the push for private hydroelectric development in Pennsylvania and state transportation and park development in New York. This important investigation, based on forty years of archival research as well as on numerous interviews with Senecas, shows that these historically resilient Native peoples adapted in the face of this disaster. Unlike previous studies, In the Shadow of Kinzua highlights the federated nature of Seneca Nation government, one held together in spite of great diversity of opinions and intense politics. In the Kinzua crisis and its aftermath, several Senecas stood out for their heroism and devotion to rebuilding their nation for tribal survival. They left legacies in many areas, including two community centers, a modern health delivery system, two libraries, and a museum. Money allocated in a “compensation bill” passed by Congress in 1964 produced a generation of college-educated Senecas, some of whom now work in tribal government, making major contributions to the Nation’s present and future. Facing impossible odds and hidden forces, they motivated a cadre of volunteers to help rebuild devastated lands. Although their strategies did not stop the dam’s construction, they laid the groundwork for a tribal governing structure and for managing other issues that followed from the 1980s to the present, including land claims litigation and casinos.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Seneca Indians
ISBN : MINN:31951D020871533

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Kinzua Dam (Seneca Indian Relocation) by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs Pdf

Considers legislation to arrange for relocation and economic reimbursement of the Seneca Indians forced to leave the Allegany Indian Reservation to allow completion of the Kinzua Dam Project.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Allegany Indian Reservation (N.Y.)
ISBN : LOC:00010376579

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Kinzua Dam (Seneca Indian Relocation) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Committee Serial No. 6. Considers legislation to authorize relocation and compensation of Seneca Indians due to construction of Kinzua Dam on Allegheny Indian Reservation. May 18 hearing was held in Salamanca, N.Y.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Allegany Indian Reservation (N.Y.)
ISBN : LOC:00010376580

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Kinzua Dam (Seneca Indian Relocation) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs Pdf

Considers legislation to arrange for relocation and economic reimbursement of the Seneca Indians forced to leave the Allegany Indian Reservation to allow completion of the Kinzua Dam Project.

Author : William Hoover
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595381166

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Kinzua by William Hoover Pdf

The future of the valley of the upper Allegheny River was predetermined in the 1930s with talks of flood control. As time drew nearer for construction of Kinzua Dam, even the last protesters conceded their world was doomed. It was not the end of the world, but it was the end of their world, their way of life--for how can you infuse hope into the spirit of man when all is ordained to be taken from him? To those who intimately knew these times, perhaps the valleys are better known by what is gone than by what remains today. True, the past cannot be captured, but we may forever ponder the times lost--villages abandoned; farms without green fields; trees cleared and burned, as the fires set by the Corps rid the valleys and remote hamlets of the residue of human life. For centuries the Allegheny hills acted as stewards guarding, perhaps falsely, the destiny of the inhabitants. Kinzua Dam held back the Allegheny River as everyone and everything previously known vanished beneath it. As some witnessed the extinction of a valley, others marveled at the engineering of a great dam--for as Cornplanter discerned--upon the eternal scroll, time writes the passing.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Allegany Indian Reservation (N.Y.)
ISBN : MINN:31951P00787955U

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Kinzua Dam (Seneca Indian Relocation) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Committee Serial No. 6. Considers legislation to authorize relocation and compensation of Seneca Indians due to construction of Kinzua Dam on Allegheny Indian Reservation. May 18 hearing was held in Salamanca, N.Y.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045396269

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Kinzua Dam (Seneca Indian Relocation) by United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Allegany Indian Reservation (N.Y.)
ISBN : OCLC:897731745

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Kinzua Dam (Seneca Indian Relocation) by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Considers legislation to arrange for relocation and economic reimbursement of the Seneca Indians forced to leave the Allegany Indian Reservation to allow completion of the Kinzua Dam Project.

Author : Phyllis Eileen Wms. Bardeau
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359817405

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Definitive Seneca: It's In The Word by Phyllis Eileen Wms. Bardeau Pdf

"It is hoped that "It's in the word", definitive Seneca will be a useful and lasting tool in the study of Seneca culture through language. And that it offers the reader a historical sketch, revealing insights into the philosophy of a people with a different world-view."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Author : Peter Eisenstadt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 1960 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 081560808X

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The Encyclopedia of New York State by Peter Eisenstadt Pdf

The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.

Author : Thomas S. Abler
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815656098

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Cornplanter by Thomas S. Abler Pdf

The era following the American War of Independence was one of enormous conflict for the Allegany Senecas. There was then no Seneca leader more influential than Chief Warrior Cornplanter. Yet there has been no definitive treatment of his life--until now. Complex and passionate, yet wise, Cornplanter led his people in war and along an often troubled path to peace. This incisive biography traces his rise to prominence as a Seneca military leader during the American Revolution, and his later diplomatic success in negotiations with the Federal government. The book also explores Cornplanter’s dealings with other Native American councils and with his own people. It tells how Senecas faced heavy pressure to sell their lands, and how they concurrently embraced a reformed and revitalized Iroquois religion, as inspired by Cornplanter’s visionary half-brother, Handsome Lake. Thomas S. Abler skillfully weaves together previously discordant strands of the Chief Warrior’s life into a concise, animated and enlightening portrait. Even as Cornplanter examines a critical period in American history, it gives us a multi-dimensional knowledge of politics and diplomacy from the Seneca point of view. Thoroughly researched and clearly written, this is an ideal companion for students and aficionados of the American Revolution and early nationhood, the Iroquois, and New York State history.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015038807213

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022384989

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : Thomas Gary Smith
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822971054

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Green Republican by Thomas Gary Smith Pdf

A biography of John P. Saylor, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who became a prominent conservationist in the three decades after World War II.