The Iroquois Confederacy. An Indigenous North American civilization with equal rights and representative government that left Europeans in bewilderment. Their influence affected the American free spirit and the modern day woman's rights movement. This show covers the culture, histories and legends of the Haudenosaunee. The People of the Longhouse.
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In the 1960s over 10,000 acres of the Seneca Nation's land was to be forcibly acquired by the US government to make way for a dam to protect Pittsburgh from flooding. To the Seneca who lived in the area however they would not take this treaty violation lying down. They would do everything in their power to find a way to save their ancestral lands and their family's homes.
Sources
Remembering the Removal [Kinzua Dam & Forced Seneca Relocation]
Caleb G. Abrams (https://www.youtube.com/@calebg.abrams6104)
Broken Promises and Peaceful Waters: Allegheny Reservoir -WARREN County
Keystone Curiosity (https://www.youtube.com/@keystonecuriosity)
Oldest Seneca citizen shares story of tribe’s struggle, survival
by Leslie Logan (https://ictnews.org/author/leslie-logan/) September 26, 2020
Johnny Cash "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow" Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sa=X&sca_esv=0e7e332804e82cc8&rls=en&biw=999&bih=740&q=Johnny+Cash+Bitter+Tears:+Ballads+of+the+American+Indian&si=AMgyJEveiRpRWbYSNPkEPxCUbItHSvun4xkRgDDPLmrOjDx35DjkcsK052wJ-DsZAyAW3cG5FhOkbcS3kG6PC4KQQmvM_1H8GGVYLuTr1c3Uwner7kLL6IciFhoGkdumu4DDFHt9wC4Qm77CaAngFKOXXDM_LRNBCm3h9fRjHnL8fPsByFpGKpaW-0LNvCTBB_fI6o5PdZ7NMyihDNLZf-4Utxs0NbZIRjK1Wh-9fkLoTcNW7F93d-xl7rhE1PKDZEoycc5hBFma&ved=2ahUKEwjx5Ln5staOAxXVrokEHVQwE4MQmxN6BAggEAI) 1964
Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235382
US Court of appeals ruling 1957
https://web.archive.org/web/20120517012641/http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/262/262.F2d.27.14488.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20120517012641/http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/262/262.F2d.27.14488.html)
103 Cong.Rec., 85th Cong., 1st Sess., part 10, p. 13977
John F. Kennedy's letter to the Seneca Nation, Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235382
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2 Feb 2025
67 Indigenous Languages
Join Andrew as he channels his inner word-nerd and talks about how the vocabularies of Native languages influenced English. He also discuses the characteristics of the "Iroquoian Languages", what they are like and how people are striving to save them after hundreds of years of efforts to eradicate them.
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17 Jul 2023
The Buffalo's Hump and the Brown Birds / A Short History of the American Bison
The first half of this episode is another Seneca story about a herd of buffalo (bison) and how you should choose who you follow carefully.
In the second half of the episode Andrew shares a very short history of the American Bison.
Sources:
Skunny Wundy: Seneca Indian Tales by Arthur C. Parker Brown-Headed Cowbirds: From Buffalo Birds to Modern Scourge by Lisa Petit
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/migratory-birds/news/brown-headed-cowbirds-buffalo-birds-modern-scourge
American bison by the Smithsonian Institute
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/american-bison
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68 Dam Nation
Published 4 Sept 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] yes and actually a rather famous engineer because he was the engineer that FDR had used in World War II for many army corps of engineer projects oh no kidding I know that and he came up with a pretty cool plan as a compromise to try and get everybody to make everybody happy yeah it's known as the Morgan proposal yep and and his idea you know it's it's kind of complicated but the general idea is diverting the river into Lake Erie and then through the other channels of the river that one the idea was the dam would be built further up not in Pennsylvania but in New York state in between Jamestown and Cataragas Lake and yes access water would be drained the other way into Lake Erie and then you never had to worry about it coming down to Pittsburgh or to any other areas but why didn't they do that Andrew? […]
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