The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam :
Bilharz, Joy Ann.
The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam : forced relocation through two generations / Joy A. Bilharz. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, �1998. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 194 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-181) and index.
Allegany Senecas -- Involuntary relocations: an overview -- Building Kinzua Dam: broken treaties -- "New places": broken hearts -- Making it in the Great Society -- 1980s: rebellion and reassessment -- Legacies of Kinzua Dam.
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In the late 1950s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its intention to construct a dam along the Allegheny River in Warren, Pennsylvania. The building of the Kinzua Dam was highly controversial because it flooded one-third of the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Nearly six hundred Senecas were forced to abandon their homes and relocate, despite a 1794 treaty that had guaranteed them those lands in perpetuity. In this revealing study, Joy A. Bilharz examines the shortand long-term consequences of the relocation of the Senecas. Granted unparalleled access to members of the Seneca Nation and reservation records, Bilharz traces the psychological, economic, cultural, and social effects over two generations. The loss of homes and tribal lands was heartwrenching and initially threatened to undermine the foundations of social life and subsistence economy for the Senecas. Over time, however, many Senecas have managed to adapt successfully to relocation, creating new social networks, invigorating their educational system, and becoming more politically involved on local, tribal, and national levels.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
0585268479 9780585268477
Seneca Indians--Relocation.
Indian land transfers--New York (State)
Dams--Pennsylvania.
HISTORY--State & Local.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.
Seneca (Indiens)--Transfert.
Dams.
Indian land transfers.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
New York (State)
Pennsylvania.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
E99.S3 / B45 1998eb
974.7/0049755
U5001 T707 -1998
The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam : forced relocation through two generations / Joy A. Bilharz. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, �1998. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 194 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-181) and index.
Allegany Senecas -- Involuntary relocations: an overview -- Building Kinzua Dam: broken treaties -- "New places": broken hearts -- Making it in the Great Society -- 1980s: rebellion and reassessment -- Legacies of Kinzua Dam.
Use copy
In the late 1950s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its intention to construct a dam along the Allegheny River in Warren, Pennsylvania. The building of the Kinzua Dam was highly controversial because it flooded one-third of the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Nearly six hundred Senecas were forced to abandon their homes and relocate, despite a 1794 treaty that had guaranteed them those lands in perpetuity. In this revealing study, Joy A. Bilharz examines the shortand long-term consequences of the relocation of the Senecas. Granted unparalleled access to members of the Seneca Nation and reservation records, Bilharz traces the psychological, economic, cultural, and social effects over two generations. The loss of homes and tribal lands was heartwrenching and initially threatened to undermine the foundations of social life and subsistence economy for the Senecas. Over time, however, many Senecas have managed to adapt successfully to relocation, creating new social networks, invigorating their educational system, and becoming more politically involved on local, tribal, and national levels.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
0585268479 9780585268477
Seneca Indians--Relocation.
Indian land transfers--New York (State)
Dams--Pennsylvania.
HISTORY--State & Local.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.
Seneca (Indiens)--Transfert.
Dams.
Indian land transfers.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
New York (State)
Pennsylvania.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
E99.S3 / B45 1998eb
974.7/0049755
U5001 T707 -1998