Letter from President John F. Kennedy to SNI President Basil Williams (pg 2 of 2)
1 2018-07-20T15:05:29-07:00 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0 30861 4 In a letter from U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Kennedy declares that he will not halt the construction of Kinzua Dam. plain 2018-08-23T17:57:42-07:00 Seneca Nation Archives Department 2018-07-19 text NAD-001-002 independent sovereign nations, flood dams, gravity dams, rolled-fill dams, rivers Seneca-Iroquois National Museum eng Seneca Nation Presidents', beginning with Cornelius Seneca (1956-1958), began writing to public officials in Pennsylvania, New York, and even the President of the United States in an effort to stop the construction of Kinzua Dam. In a letter from U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Kennedy declares that he will not halt the construction of Kinzua Dam. President Kennedy's reasoning, like many who supported building the dam, argued that national U.S. interests superceded that of our Seneca people. President Kennedy's remarks and stance on the issue were not unusual for this time period. image/jpeg print, 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 Allegany Reservation, Allegany (county), Pennsylvania (state), Warren (county), Allegany River This record was created by Dana Reijerkerk. President John F. Kennedy 2 pages 1961-08-09 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0This page has tags:
- 1 2018-08-08T17:33:47-07:00 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0 "Silent" Protests Dana Reijerkerk 18 In the 1950s and 1960s our elders protested Kinzua Dam through publications, legal action, and symbolic protests. On August 12, 1961 a small group of Quakers, the self-proclaimed Treaty of 1794 Committee and some of our Seneca people gathered in Kinzua, Pennsylvania for a silent vigil in protest of the dam. plain 2018-08-23T15:10:55-07:00 Dana Reijerkerk 3c44fb85ab096c2290175e81dd4f16f0002a41e0
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President to President Correspondence
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Seneca Nation Presidents during the Kinzua Era (1956-1966) were involved in a public media campaign to stop the loss of our lands. Seneca Nation President Basil Williams wrote to U.S. President John F. Kennedy. President Kennedy wrote back on August 9th, 1961. This is his reply.
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Seneca Nation Presidents during the Kinzua Era (1956-1966) were involved in a public media campaign to stop the loss of our lands. Seneca Nation President Basil Williams wrote to U.S. President John F. Kennedy. President Kennedy wrote back on August 9th, 1961. This is his reply.
The Merrill Bowen Letter
The Seneca people living on the Seneca Nation's Allegany Territory were not the only ones directly affected by building Kinzua. The Cornplanter Grant located in Pennsylvania was also inundated, leaving Chief Cornplanter's heirs without their communities, their homes, their land. In 1963, Merrill Bowen, the Cornplanter Indian Landowners Corporation, wrote a public appeal to President Kennedy asking for help relocating the Cornplanter Cemetery and Monument.
