Senator Joseph S. Clark editorial response, Jan. 30, 1960
1 2018-07-25T15:53:29-07:00 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0 30861 2 In Senator Joseph S. Clark (Rep. of Pennsylvania) reply to the "Second Look at Kinzua" editorial, he voices an opinion that many public policy officials within the U.S. government held at this time. When Senator Clark states that the reimbursement will be "to the same extent as other American citizens", he is not recognizing the soverignty of the Seneca Nation of Indians, sovereignty afforded and recognized by our treaty with the U.S. and our special political and economic federal recognition indigenous status. Clark also directly states his position that the U.S. national interest superceedes that of the Seneca which further corroborates his viewpoint, like many others in this time period, that there are no more Native Americans just Americans. plain 2018-08-06T16:47:08-07:00 Seneca Nation Archives Department 2018-07-23 text A.001.2602.014c independent sovereign nations, native peoples reservations, flood dams, gravity dams, rolled-fill dams, rivers Seneca-Iroquois National Museum eng In Senator Joseph S. Clark (Rep. of Pennsylvania) reply to the "Second Look at Kinzua" editorial, he voices an opinion that many public policy officials within the U.S. government held at this time. Senator Clark outlines the viewpoint that Native American status is an antiquated government policy that should be dissolved. When Senator Clark states that the reimbursement will be "to the same extent as other American citizens", he is not recognizing the sovereignty of the Seneca Nation of Indians, sovereignty afforded and recognized by our treaty with the U.S. and our special political and economic federal recognition indigenous status. Clark also directly states his position that the U.S. national interest supersedes that of the Seneca which further corroborates his viewpoint, like many others in this time period, that there are no more Native Americans just Americans. This idea of the "dying Indian" has been around since the turn of the 20th century and has only been fueled by the Hollywood trope of what is seen as identifiably "indian" by the American public. image/jpeg print, electronic digitized other analog Record has been transformed into MODS from the original accession record. Metadata originally created in a locally modified version of qualified Dublin Core. dateCreated encoding= "w3cdtf"; dcTerm:temporal subject authority = "aat";dcTerm:subject subject authority = "tgn"; dcTerm:coverage recordCreation Date encoding = "w3cdtf"; dcTerm:date languageOfCataloging authority = "iso639-2b"; dcTerm:language Allegany (county), Pennsylvania (state), Warren (county), Allegany River, Kinzua Reservoir (reservoir), New York (state), Cattaraugus (county), Allegany Reservation This record was created by Dana Reijerkerk. Senator Joseph S. Clark (writer) Washington-Times Post Herald editor 1 page, originally printed in newspaper 1960-01-30 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0This page has tags:
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Second Look at Kinzua: The Morality of Building Kinzua Dam
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"The forced dispersal of a whole community is an irrevocable act, and ought to be considered only when no feasible alternative exists. " -"Second Look at Kinzua", The Washington Post, 1960
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There are two sides to every story. For our Seneca people Kinzua Dam held great significance.
- "Second Look at Kinzua", January 24, 1960No one questions the desirability of a project intended to end the disastrous floods on the upper Allegheny River. But it is open to serious question whether the only way in which the Corps of Engineers can achieve this end is by dishonoring a treaty with the Seneca Indians signed in 1794 by George Washington-the oldest treaty, incidentally, to which the United States is a party and which is still in force.
Impounding of the funds appropriated by the Congress after long and exhaustive Congressional review, and after resolution by our judicial process of the legal right of the Federal Government to acquire the property necessary to the construction of the reservoir, would not be proper.
-President John F. Kennedy, August 9, 1961
-Clarence Wesley, January 28, 1960Again according to reliable professional information, Kinzua Dam will not give Pittsburgh and other communities down the Allegany River protection from flood control. Our information is that Kinzua Dam is wanted in order to wash industrial plant waste down the river; competent engineers assert that what is needed is a good job of cleaning up the stream. Congressman Gavin has admitted that what the proponents of the Dam want is really more water in the river.
-Senator Joseph S. Clark, January 30, 1960Five alternative proposals have been found to be engineeringly sound but more costly than the authorized project. The sixth proposal, the Committee commented, "does not provide a solution to the water resource development problems of the Allegheny River Basin that compares favorably with the authorized plan." In addition, it would raise new problems, such as flooding of the Conewango watershed, a valuable agricultural area, and the complication of international jurisdiction.
-Theodore B. Hetzel, November 3, 1959Does a sovereign nation have the right of eminent domain in a situation in which it has made a treaty that it will not exercise that right? Of course it is legal for the sovereign Government of the United States to break every treaty it ever agreed to, but it would not be ethical, and it would not improve our international relations.
-William G. Weart, August 13, 1961Completion of the 179-foot high dam, the largest in Pennsylvania, is schedules for 1965. The man-made lake will extend north to Salamanca, N.Y., and will inundate 9,000 acres or two-thirds of the usable land on the New York reservation of the Seneca nation of Indians. The project will displace more than 1,000 white persons and some 550 Indians.
-Brooks Atkinson, February 25, 1964Our home no longer belongs to us. It is the sole property of the Army Corps of Engineers. We are merely living in it because we have no other place to go. There is no money for us to put into a new home. We have just eight months left. Eight months to say good-bye to home, valley and a heritage I've known for eighteen years. How much harder it must be for those having to say good-by to generations of living, growing and dying inherited by a plot of ground called home.