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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'.

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Throughout this exhibit, our Seneca people can be seen wearing components of Plains regalia. During this particular period the Plains regalia was seen as identifiably "Indian" to the American public. Today our Seneca people wear regalia reflective of our Onödowá'ga:' and Hodinöhsö:ní heritage.

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The Seneca Nation of Indians The Seneca people have lived between the Genesee River and Canandaigua Lake in New York State for time immemorial. Today our territories can still be found on our aboriginal lands. The Seneca Nation (Nation) has five territories: Allegany, Cattaragus, Oil Spring, Buffalo Creek, and Niagara Falls.
These are our faces, our culture, our history. We are the Seneca people. Still today, we are Onödowá'ga. We are a resilient people who continue to follow our traditions and make new ones. On November 11, 1794 the Seneca people signed a treaty with the United States, known as The Treaty of Canandaigua (or as the Pickering Treaty of 1794), which guaranteed us our sovereignty and rights to our land. This exhibit focuses on events related to our Allegany Territory. Our Allegany Territory is a valley with steep hills that hugs the Allegheny National Forest.
American Indian Day, Sept. 15, 1962 September 15th, 1962 was declared to be "American Indian Day" by New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller, most likely in response to the controversy surrounding Kinzua Dam.

On this day our Seneca people visited the Cornplanter Grant in Pennsylvania to honor Senator Haines and gather in solidarity for the impending relocation and loss of this land. Members of the Seneca Nation of Indians, Society of Friends, and Congress were in attendance. The Cornplanter Grant would be inundated when Kinzua Dam was completed in December of 1965.
Our Seneca people stopped at the construction site of Kinzua on their way to the Cornplanter Grant.
The New York Times reported on these events, highlighting the viewpoint that favored building Kinzua Dam.