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Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post The Senecas in Settler Myth and Memory in the group Chenussio

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 01:06:53 +0000

The Indigenous population of Livingston County moved away after the disastrous sales of 1826. Some families and clans moved to Tonawanda. Others headed farther west, to Buffalo Creek and, after the corrupt […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post Dispossessing the Senecas in the group Chenussio

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:39:54 +0000

Handsome Lake’s message spread, and without question sparked something of a reformation in the morals and conduct of his adherents. But he could do nothing to stop the relentless pressure exerted by outsiders to […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post Handsome Lake in the group Chenussio

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:25:04 +0000

Red JacketOtetiani, later Sagoyewatha, Chromolithograph by Corbould from a painting by C.B. King; printed by C. Hallmandel – Copyright: Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digit […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post 1974, A Year of Consequence in the group Chenussio

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 23:55:57 +0000

The Road to Fallen Timbers, by H. Charles McBarron (U.S. Army Center of Military History)

What would have happened if the Senecas of the Genesee Valley joined with the northwestern conferederates? The […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post The New Nation in the group Chenussio

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 23:34:46 +0000

The New Nation faced significant challenges, and considerable disaffection remained in Iroquoia, especially amongst the Senecas. Timothy Pickering, sent by President Washington to meet with the Senecas in 1790, […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post The Covenant Chain in the group Chenussio

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:09:26 +0000

King Philip of Pokonoket. Wood engraving, mid-1800s, based on an engraving by Paul Revere – Connecticut Historical Society

In the 1670s the English colonies exploded into warfare as Algonquian peoples in Ne […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post in the group Chenussio

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 17:20:06 +0000

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post England’s Allies and the Confederation in the group Chenussio

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:23:13 +0000

As the end of the Revolutionary War approached, Americans viewed native lands as conquered territory. “A bare recollection of the facts,” a committee of the Continental Congress declared, “is sufficient to man […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post Declaration of Independence in the group Chenussio

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:10:45 +0000

Royal Proclamation, 1763

The American Revolution resulted from the collapse of the British Empire in the wake of the Seven Years’ War and Pontiac’s Rebellion. Colonists, who played an important role in the […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post The Great Wars for Empire in the group Chenussio

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:53:20 +0000

France and Great Britain went to war beginning in 1754. They had, of course, fought on a number of earlier occasions, and at the outset nobody knew that this conflict, known ultimately as the Seven Years’ War, t […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post Life at the Western Door in the group Chenussio

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:41:18 +0000

The Senecas and their kin in the Iroquois League ultimately expected much more from their French and English allies than the two imperial powers were prepared to give, and shortly after 1701, the neutrality of […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post The Grant Settlement in the group Chenussio

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:24:57 +0000

From their Covenant Chain alliance with the English, Iroquoian peoples secured the southern and eastern limits of the Longhouse, obtained regular supplies of guns and ammunition, and played an important role […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post The Word of God in the group Chenussio

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 22:31:07 +0000

After a number of abortive attempts, the Jesuit fathers of New France finally succeeded in establishing missions among the Iroquois. They did so in the wake of French raids in 1665 and 1666 designed to eliminate […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post Mourning Wars in the group Chenussio

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 22:19:21 +0000

The Haudenosaunee Longhouse, centered at Onondaga, with the Mohawks and Senecas respectively as the keepers of the eastern and western doors, preserved peace among its members. Like other peoples in the […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post Land Acknowledgment in the group Chenussio

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:27:20 +0000

We begin by acknowledging that SUNY Geneseo, the college where this website was constructed, stands on land that once belonged to the peoples who are now the Seneca Nation of Indians and the Tonawanda Seneca […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post Who We Are in the group Chenussio

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 17:40:03 +0000

Michael Leroy Oberg

Michael Leroy Oberg is Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY-Geneseo and the founder of the Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History. He has written several books on Native […]

Alla Myzelev wrote a new blog post Further Reading in the group Chenussio

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:02:48 +0000

A Bibliography of Indigenous Livingston County

Primary Sources:

Bigelow, Timothy. Journal of a Tour to Niagara Falls in the Year 1805, (Boston: J. Wilson,1876).

Brophy, Marion and Wendell Tripp, eds, […]

Paul Schacht joined the group Chenussio

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:30:41 +0000

Mercedes Simpson joined the group Chenussio

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:14:32 +0000

Una McGowan joined the group Chenussio

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:14:19 +0000

Alla Myzelev joined the group Chenussio

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:14:14 +0000

CDL created the group Chenussio

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:45:55 +0000