Seneca
Red Jacket, Seneca Sachem
In 1830 Red Jacket, the most famous Seneca orator, died in New York at the age of 74. Seneca writer, historian, and archaeologist Arthur Caswell […]
Seneca
Indian Justice in New York
( – promoted by navajo) When one person kills another, it is often considered to be murder and certain legal sanctions can be brought against […]
American Indian Biography: Redirecting Museums
( – promoted by oke) There was a time, particularly during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when museums were simply “cabinets of curiosities” which […]
Handsome Lake, Founder of the Longhouse Religion
( – promoted by navajo) In 1799, a new religious movement was born among the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. The new religious movement, […]
Dam Indians: The Allegheny River
In 1928 the Army Corps of Engineers began to survey the Seneca’s Allegheny Reservation for the building of a large reservoir to reduce flooding on […]