Onondaga Oren Lyons -- Excerpts from article on Ethics and Spiritual Values and the Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Development

• Seneca Nation -- upstate New York. Tribal government info, not much history or cultural content. Official website.

  • Seneca Nation's tax resistance -- backgrounder, latest developments in roadblocking (april 20) and police. Canadian Settlers in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty site.

  • Seneca Grandma Twyla Nitsch Wolfclan Teachings in what appears to be a sort of NuAgey support group's version of cultural info she was the original source for.

  Norman Tarbell, Chief
  St. Regis Mohawk Tribe
  Akwesasne Comm. Bldg., Rte 37
  Hogansburg, NY 13655
  P: 518/358-2272
  F: 518/358-3203
  (NY Liaison Office)
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  • Mohawk Traditional Government -- Centered at Akwsasne, only reservation-reserve that spans the U.S.-Canadian border. The council of chiefs rejects the artificial division into two halves, St. Regis on the U.s. side and athe Canadian half north of the border. The current council members are identified and there is a dignified warning against some who are passing themselves off as "chiefs". News of the council and its projects. Akwesasne Notes magazine and bookstore info. Site was prepared by long-time Mohawk pro journo Francis Jock, who had to discontinue parts of it that were a web newspaper, Sarsari's Drum

  • Akwesasne Mohawk School -- takes up some school news (but not the pix, poetry, etc by students) that had bene on Sarsari's Drum.

  Bernie Parker, Chief
  Tonawanda Band of Senecas
  7027 Meadville Road
  Basom, NY 14013
  P: 716/542-4244
  F: 716/542-9692
  (NY Liaison Office)
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  • Poodry v. Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians Court opinion of a lawsuit by some members of the Tonawanda band Seneca tribe who were kicked out of the tribe over what appears to have been some kind of dispute with tribal government. Court had a fun time quoting the pretentious fake ceremonial language the tribal government used kicking the dissenters out. Kind of embarassing to read.

  Arnold Hewitt, Chief
  Tuscarora Nation
  5616 Walmore Road
  Lewiston, NY 14092
  P: 716/297-4990
  F: No Fax
  (NY Liaison Office)
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  • The Singing Tuscaroras -- much good history here, info on treaties, current events, maintained by Loren Greene, who also provides web access to Native individuals and groups.

  • Indian Defense League of America -- supports sovereignty, particular focus on Jay treaty that Canada and US will allow Indians to cross border unhindered by customs, duties, etc. Holds a protest bridge crossing every year.

  • Deskaheh, Levi General -- early 20th-century stateman and diplomat working for 6 Nations and other Indian rights.

  • Chief Clinton Rickard, Tuscarora Nation statesman and rights crusader.

  Cattaraugus Reservation, Seneca Nation
  140 Rt 438
  Irving, NY 14081
  716/532-4900; 716/532-4907
  716/532-9132
  Oil Springs: same contacts (NY Liaison Office)
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  Poospatuck Reservation, Unkechauga Nation
  Community Center, P.O. Box 86
  Mastic, NY 11950
  516/281-6464
  (NY Liaison Office)
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  Shinnecock Tribe
  Rte 27-A, Montauk Hwy
  Southhampton, NY 111968
  631-283-6143
  State recognized; no BIA office liasion
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  • Shinnecock Tribe vs. NY State -- Tax War by the East Hampton Independent

  
  

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