A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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When the New York Power Author presented these proposals to the CCP Team, they also announced that they would, holding separate meetings with Mohawks to discuss the Mohawk issues, the summer of 1998, the Mohawk governments united in their efforts to get our issues addressed and established a Mohawk Working Group, consisting of two representatives from each of the Mohawk governments (St. Regis Mohawk Tri Council, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne and Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs). In March 1999, the Mohawk Working Group proposed a process to...
Why the CCP Didn’t work for the Mohawks of Akwesasne As has been mentioned earlier, the Kaswentha or Two-Row Wampum Belt recognized that two distinct societies, the Haudenosaunee, in our canoe, and the Dutch, in their ship, were to travel down the river of life together, side-by-side, but each in our own vessel. We believe that the principles of the Two-Row-Wampum Belt apply to the re-licensing of the St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project. The Dutch have been replaced by the New York Power Authority and we represent the Haudenosaunee people. The CCP w...
The Senecas begin fighting against the Kinzua Dam as early as the mid 1920’s. However, they were up against a stacked deck. By the mid-40’s, the Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, and the New York State Council of Parks each prepared surveys that called for vast flooding of Seneca lands, in spite of Seneca protests. In the late 50’s Congress was sending pending legislation affecting Seneca treaty rights to public works appropriations committees and not to those whose charge was Indian affairs. The Army bulldozed sacre...
James Cooney, United States Department of Justice, threw the State of New York for a loop at the June 16, 2011 land claim hearing in Albany when he asserted that underlying title to Barnhart, Baxter, and Long Sault islands rests with the United States on behalf of the Mohawks and not with the State of New York. Cooney asserted that the Mohawk islands were part of the British empire and not part of New York State prior to the War of 1812. When the Treaty of Ghent was signed ending the war between Britain and the United States, the international...
The Lewiston Reservoir In 1950, the United States and Canada signed the International Niagara River Treaty to promote the hydroelectric potential of the river. Eleven years later, in 1961, when the Niagara project produced its first power, it was the largest hydro-power facility in the Western world at the time. It is located about 4 miles downstream from Niagara Falls and consists of two main facilities: the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant and the Lewiston Pump-Generating Power Plant. In between the two plants is a forebay capable of holding...
