Cornplanter Grant Visit, Stop at Kinzua Dam
1 2018-07-20T15:20:11-07:00 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0 30861 9 Members of the Seneca Nation stopped at the construction site of Kinzua Dam on their way to the Cornpanter Grant. Identified in the photograph, Front to back, right to left: Harry Watt (center), Myra Watt, Fred Claflin, Gert Claflin, Darla Claflin, Butch Claflin, Walter Jimerson, Dorothy Jimerson, Gordon Jimerson, Ron Jimerson, Effie Johnson, and Boyd Johnson. plain 2018-08-20T14:12:26-07:00 Seneca-Iroquois National Museum 2018-07-16 stillimage 85.1003.0209 independent sovereign nations, native peoples reservations, flood dams, gravity dams, rolled-fill dams Seneca-Iroquois National Museum eng September 15, 1962 was declared "American Indian Day" by New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller, most likely in response to the controversy surrounding the building of Kinzua Dam. Members of the Seneca Nation of Indians, Society of Friends, and Congress gathered at the Cornplanter Monument located on the Cornplanter Grant in Warren County, Pennsylvania to mourn and remember Chief Cornplanter and the land that makes up the Cornplanter Grant. The Cornplanter Monument and the Cornplanter Grant were both named in honor of Chief Cornplanter, one of the signers of the Canandaigua Treaty and a very esteemed member of the Senecas; if Kinzua Dam was completed the Allegany Reservoir would completely submerge the Cornplanter Grant. Members of the Seneca Nation stopped at the construction site of Kinzua Dam on their way to the Cornpanter Grant. Senecas in the photograph can be seen wearing components of Plains Indian regalia, which was worn throughout many of the photographs of the Kinzua Era as a way to bring attention to the issue and be seen as identifiably "indian" by the American public. Identified in the photograph, Front to back, right to left: Harry Watt (center), Myra Watt, Fred Claflin, Gert Claflin, Darla Claflin, Butch Claflin, Walter Jimerson, Dorothy Jimerson, Gordon Jimerson, Ron Jimerson, Effie Johnson, and Boyd Johnson. image/jpeg photoprint, electronic reformatted digital Record has been transformed into MODS from the original accession record. Metadata originally created in a locally modified version of qualified Dublin Core. languageOfCataloging authority = "iso639-2b"; dcTerm:language recordCreation Date encoding = "w3cdtf"; dcTerm:date subject authority = "aat"; dcTerm:subject subject authority = "tgn"; dcTerm:coverage dateCreated encoding= "w3cdtf"; dcTerm:temporal Kinzua Reservoir (reservoir), Allegany River Ted Hetzel This record was created by Dana Reijerkerk. 1 photograph; Black and White, Glossy 5" x 7" 1962-09-15 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0This page has tags:
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American Indian Day, Sept. 15, 1962
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On September 15th our ancestors gathered near the Cornplanter Monument in Pennsylvania to honor Chief Cornplanter and express their sadness for the impending inundation of the Cornplanter Tract.
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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.