Follow Defend Ohi:yo’ on Facebook HERE OLEAN N.Y. – Leaders from the Seneca Nation and several Seneca community members joined members of the Defend Ohi:yo’ advocacy group and other neighbors and concerned citizens in a peaceful demonstration outside the Olean Municipal Building prior to tonight’s meeting of the Olean Common Council. The Earth Day demonstration […]
April 25 2025 Issue
A message from President J.C . Seneca
Nya:wëh sgë:nö’ my fellow Senecas, I hope this message finds you well! Our students are back in school, and I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break! I’d like to take a moment to introduce a valued member of the President’s Office team: Allise Barreto. Allise (pictured below) serves as an Administrative Staff Assistant as […]
News from the Clerk’s Office
VIRTUAL COUNCIL SESSIONS The Seneca Nation will be utilizing the virtual online platform “GoToMeeting” for the Council Sessions for enrolled members to have access to each Council meeting. To participate, enrolled members will need access to a computer, tablet, or smartphone as well as a valid email address to sign up. May Regular Council: Please […]
Spring Vendor Day
Presented by the SN Clerk’s Office, Cattaraugus Territory Save the Date: Friday, May 9, 2025. Stop down to the William Seneca Building Café (12837 Route 438, Irving, NY 14081) between 10am-2pm and check out the upcoming SPRING VENDOR DAY, just in time to get something special for the amazing women in your life for Mother’s […]
Public Notice: Reclaim Kinzua Take Area Lands
In 1965, The United States through action of the Army Corps of Engineers and approval by the Federal Courts violated the terms of the Canandaigua Treaty when it seized by eminent domain a water flowage easement for the use of 10,000 acres of the Seneca Nations Allegany Territory for the Kinzua Dam Reservoir. A significant […]
Notice of Regular Session of Council
Attention all Enrolled Seneca Members: Next Regular Session of Council to be held on the Allegany Territory Pursuant of Section 12 of the Constitution of the Seneca Nation of Indians, notice is hereby given to you that the Council of said Nation will convene in Regular Session: When: Saturday, May 10, 2025 Time: Starting at 9:30 a.m. […]
Annual Water Walk for a Nuclear Free Future
Seneca Nation, Water Walkerz Participate in Annual Water Walk for a Nuclear Free Future CATTARAUGUS TERRITORY, IRVING, N.Y. – Leaders from the Seneca Nation joined Water Walkerz, a local grassroots group, for the annual Water Walk for a Nuclear Free Future today. The walk began near the Aldrich Street bridge in Gowanda. Walkers then followed […]
New Bus Garage Grand Opening – Catt. Territory
On Monday, April 14, 2025, Seneca Nation of Indians Lake Shore Transportation Department celebrated a Grand Opening and Official Ribbon Cutting of their new bus garage located on the Cattaraugus Territory (12589 Route 438, Irving NY). The garage is equipped with a bay that stores all eleven buses in the fleet, restrooms, a breakroom for […]
Seneca Nation, City of Olean Create Task Force to Address Ongoing Wastewater Overflows into Ohi:yo’
April 16, 2025 OLEAN, N.Y. – The Seneca Nation and the City of Olean have created a joint task force to find long-needed solutions to the chronic discharge of untreated sewage from the City’s wastewater treatment system into the Ohi:yo’, the Seneca name for the Allegheny River. Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca and Olean […]
Seneca Nation DOT Speed Sign Update
Compliant Speed is Speed limit + 5mph. Violators speed is over 30mph. The 85th percentile speed is the speed at or below which 85 percent of the drivers will operate with open roads and favorable conditions.Here’s what the data says: Steamburg:85% of drivers drive under 30 mph. Max speed for South Loop is 58 mph. […]