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Reclaiming Ohi:yo'- Restoring the Altered Landscape of the Beautiful River Ohi:yo' Restoration and Resiliency Projects Members of the Seneca Nation's Watershed Resources Working Group are involved in various restoration and resiliency projects for our Ohi:yo'. The Seneca Nation's Fish and Wildlife Department in particular engages in projects related to building artificial habitat, repopulating our river's Walleye population, and building trenches to help land locked fish. Fighting for the Water: Fracking Wastewater in Ohi:yo' In 2016 the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) began deliberating a 1,000-barrel/day of unconventional gas drilling wastewater (Frack Wastewater) disposal facility in Potter County proposed by Epiphany Allegheny LLC. In response to the news of these fracking plans, our Seneca people again fought for our people, our communities, and our Ohi:yo'.

Additional Resources

The following are additional resources that can provide more in depth information that is perhaps not included within our exhibit.

Blue-Green Algal Blooms

USGS. 2018. Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs). Online at: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oki-water/science/harmful-algal-blooms

EPA. 2015a. Nutrient Policy and Data/ Control and Treatment [of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms]. Accessed online at: http://www2.epa.gov/nutrient-policy-data/control-and-treatment

Visser, P.M., J.M.H. Verspagen, G. Sandrini, L.J. Stal, H.C.P. Matthijs, T.W. DAVIS, H.W. Paerl, and J. Huisman. 2016. How rising CO2 and global warming may stimulate harmful cyanobacterial blooms. Harmful Algae 54:145-159 (DOI:10.1016/j.hal.2015.12.006).

Song, H., L.X. Coggins, E.S.Reichwaldt, and A. Ghadouani. 2015. The Importance of Lake Sediments as a Pathway for Microcystin Dynamics in Shallow Eutrophic Lakes. Toxins 7:900-918.

United States Department of Agriculture. 2007. Allegheny National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan.

NYSDEC. 2016a. Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). Online at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/77118.html

Harmful Algal Blooms: Tiny Organisms with a Toxic Punch, National Ocean Service: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Online at: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/hab/

Water Safety Plans: Managing drinking-water quality from catchment to consumer (2005), Water, Sanitation and Health Protection and the Human Environment, World Health Organization, Online at: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/wsp170805.pdf?ua=1

Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water: A guide to their public health consequences, monitoring and management (1999), World Health Organization, Online at:http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/resourcesquality/toxcyanbegin.pdf?ua=1

Guidelines for Safe Recreational Water Environments: Volume 1- Coastal and Fresh Waters (2003), World Health Organization, Online at: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/bathing/srwg1.pdf

Environmental Impacts

NYSDEC. 2017. Impacts of Climate Change in New York. Online at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/94702.html

Soil Survey Staff, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Web Soil Survey. Available online at the following link: https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/.

GIS Dept. Story Map, Available online at: Today's Allegany Territory Overlayed by 1960's pre-Kinzua Dam Aerial Imagery.

GIS Dept. Story Map, Seneca Nation of Indians-WRWG Application, Available online at: https://gisportal.sni.org/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=f5f94a7ec60a49e19c6692f5a871abca

Invasive Species

NRCS. 2007. Managing Japanese Knotweed, Factsheet #4. Online at: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_017951.pdf

NYSDEC. 2014. 6NYCRR Part 575, Prohibited and Regulated Invasive Species. Online at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/lands_forests_pdf/islist.pdf

Seneca Nation of Indians. 1999. Cultural Plants and Trees – A study of the proposed US Route 219 Corridor.

Restoration and Resiliency Projects

Seneca Nation. 2017a. Seneca Nation of Indians Fish Hatchery. Online at: http://www.senecaconservation.com/senecaconservation.com/Fish_Hatchery.html

National Research Council. 1999. New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Washington, DC: The National Academics Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/6128.

"H.R. 6- 99th Congress: Water Resources Development Act of 1986." www.GovTrack.us.1985. August 26, 2018 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/99/hr6>

Fracking along Ohi:yo' Headwaters

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Mar 18, 2018. At Allegheny River's headwaters, treatment plant for fracking wastewater stirs debate. Online at: http://www.post-gazette.com/powersource/companies/2018/03/18/Seneca-Nation-Allegheny-River-shale-gas-fracking-drilling-wastewater-epiphany-pittsburgh-potter/stories/201803080213

Buffalo's NPR News Station WBFO 88.7. Mar 22, 2018. Discharge plan could harm the Allegheny River and the life it supports. Online at: http://news.wbfo.org/post/discharge-plan-could-harm-allegheny-river-and-life-it-supports

The Niagara Reporter. Jan 26, 2018. Proposal to dump Pegula Frackwater in Allegheny River upstream of NY's southern tier advances. Online at: http://niagarafallsreporter.com/proposal-dump--frackwater-allegheny-river-upstream-new-york-states-southern-tier-advances/

Olean Times Herald. Jan 27, 2018. Senecas call for denial of proposed wastewater treatment facility in Potter Co. Online at: http://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/senecas-call-for-denial-of-proposed-wastewater-treatment-facility-in/article_44ebde3c-0318-11e8-8fbf-af2b6b37bc9d.html

Environmental Health News. Mar 30, 2018. Seneca Nation takes on Pittsburgh startup to defend the Allegheny River. Online at: https://www.ehn.org/new-york-tribe-takes-on-pittsburgh-startup-to-defend-the-allegheny-river-2554105551.html

Kinzua Dam

Tribal Relations-Seneca File Unit. Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999, General Records, 1938-1949, Textural records housed at the National Archives at New York (RE-NY). National Archives Identifier 7553744.

Task Force File: Kinzua Dam File Unit. Philleo Nash Papers, 1925-1998 Collection, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Files, 1961-1966. Textual records housed at the Harry S. Truman Library. National Archives Identifier 1700231.

Ne'Ho Níyo' Dë:Nö', That's What It Was Like, 1986, Volume 1, Seneca Nation Curriculum Development Project, Seneca Nation Education Department, Seneca Nation of Indians. Copies can be purchased at the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum.

Ne'Ho Níyo' Dë:Nö', That's What It Was Like, 1989, Volume 2, Seneca Nation Curriculum Development Project, Seneca Nation Education Department, Seneca Nation of Indians. Copies can be purchased at the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum.

Lake of Betrayal (Documentary) (2017) Online at: http://towardcastlefilms.com/filmography/lake-of-betrayal

In the Shadow of Kinzua: The Seneca Nation of Indians Since World War II (2014), Lawrence M. Hauptman, Syracuse University Press.

"Dam Building and Treaty Breaking: The Kinzua Dam Controversy, 1936-1958", Paul C. Rosier, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 119, no. 4 (Oct. 1995), pp. 342-368, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20092990

Broken Treaties, Collaborative Archives Project, digital exhibit. Online at: http://ds.haverford.edu/brokentreaties/#event-broken-treaties-forgotten-archives