May 18, 2023 | From Lake Shore Track & Field Join us in congratulating Stevieana Seneca (Seneca, Cattaraugus Territory, Turtle clan) – she was awarded Most Outstanding Female Athlete at the Jamestown Invite! She was also recently named Athlete of the Meet: Stevie Seneca – Sectional qualifying shot put. Ja:göh!
Successful in Gaining Seneca Women’s Right to Vote, May 23,1964 The first concerted effort to gain the vote for Seneca women occurred in June 1956 when the Women’s Suffrage Organization went before the Nation’s Council. The first to speak and recognized as a leader in the movement was Martha Greene Flammang. According to the Council […]
From Seneca Nation Archives/Onöhsagwë:de Cultural Center, Allegany Territory 1842, May 20 – Considered a compromise to the fraudulently executed Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838, the 1842 Buffalo Creek Treaty restored the Allegany and Cattaraugus reservations. It would later be determined that the Oil Spring reservation was also included among the restored Seneca territories. The Buffalo […]