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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'.

Johnny Cash, "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow"

In 1964, Johnny Cash released his album titled Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. It was one of Johnny Cash's more controversial albums because it brought public attention to the U.S. government's treatment of its indigenous population. In his song, "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow", Cash brings attention to and narrates the Kinzua Dam controversy.
In the song's lines "The treaties are safe we'll keep our word but what is that gurgling/ It's the back water from Perfidy Lake it's rising all the time" Cash is referencing words from Melvin Patterson spoken on September 15, 1962 at the gathering and honoring of Chief Cornplanter and the Cornplanter Grant, land that would be completely inundated by the Allegany Reservoir.

During Patterson's speech he said "From this day forward we of Indian blood will call the waters that will flood this reservation practically out of existence the Lake of Perfidy." Lake of Perfidy is a reference to the lake that the reservoir would make out of the Senecas unceded land.

In 2015, Antonino D'Ambrosio directed and wrote the documentary We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited that provides more in-depth information on Johnny Cash's album Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian (1964).

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Johnny Cash, 1969 In 1964, Johnny Cash, a well-known American country singer, released his album titled Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. One of Johnny Cash's more controversial albums, Cash's album brings attention to the U.S. government's treatment of its indigenious population. In his song, "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow", Cash brings attention to and narrates the Kinzua Dam controversey. In his lines "The treaties are safe we'll keep our word but what is that gurgling/ It's the back water from Perfidy Lake it's rising all the time" Cash is referencing words from Melvin Patterson (Seneca) spoken on September 15, 1962 at the gathering and honoring of Chief Cornplanter and the Cornplanter Grant, land that would be completely inundated by the Allegany Reservoir. During Patterson's speech he said "From this day forward we of Indian blood will call the waters that will flood this reservation practically out of existence the Lake of Perfidy." Lake of Perfidy is a reference to the lake that the reservoir would make out of the Senecas unceded land. This work has been released into the public domain by its copyright holder, Cowles Communications, Inc. This applies worldwide. This is a photo taken by Joel Baldwin when working as a staff photographer of LOOK Magazine, and is part of the LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. Their former owner, Cowles Communications, Inc, dedicated to the public all rights it owned to these images as an instrument of gift. Cowles has expressed its desire that these images not be used for "trade or advertising purposes". However, this request cannot be meant as a legally binding copyright restriction on their re-use, as all the rights to this image were released, rather, it is a caution against the use of celebrity images to imply product endorsement, drawn from civil rights law, and is unrelated to copyright. It may be the case that the copyright to this photograph may be retained by Joel Baldwin or his/her heirs. Please make sure that Joel Baldwin's photos from Look Magazine are freely licensed.