A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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Hydraulic Fracturing, commonly referred to as Hydro-fracking is a process used to push high volumes of water and chemicals into deep vertical wells to break up the shale to release the natural gas pockets and extract them to the surface. Drilling companies are using this technique with horizontal drilling to reach more of the gas pockets in deep shale. This technique has raised major questions about the environmental and social impacts in other areas of Turtle Island including Colorado, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Drilling companies have bought...
Ganondagan Seneca Historic Site hosted the Haudenosaunee Seed Workshop on March 24th of this year. It was well attended from farmers and seed growers across the Confederacy. The workshop started with Pete Jemison doing the Ohenton Kariwahtekwen or Ganiono in his Seneca language since it was hosted by the Western Door. Our main mission is to share the knowledge and keep our main food source growing like Hegowa, the main corn needed for our ceremonies. Pete wanted to share with everyone what is...
Before the Europeans came over to Turtle Island, indigenous Nations used to inhabit all the lands along the Susquehanna River. On October 14, 2011, Thatotaho-Sid Hill, Chief Jake Edwards from the Onondaga Nation, David Arquette, Director of HETF, and Ann Dapice from the Lenape Nation visited the confluence of the Susquehanna River, where the North branch, West branch and South Branch all come together near the town of Sunbury, south of Lewisburg. There standing on the ridge overlooking the...
The Challenges facing the Small plants and Grasses The biggest challenge faced by the small plants and grasses is the ignorance of humans toward the natural world. Some of the most devastating impacts experienced by plants have come as a result of massive development projects promoted by profit oriented individuals and corporations who turned our environment upside down, Hydro-electric dams have flooded the land and killed many important plants including grasses, berry bushes and medicine plants. Economic development along rivers and ways has...
