The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam : forced relocation through two generations /

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 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bilharz, Joy Ann
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1998.
Temas:
Seneca Indians > Relocation.
Indian land transfers > New York (State)
Dams > Pennsylvania.
Peuples autochtones > Terres > New York (État)
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Dams
Indian land transfers
Seneca (Indiens) > Transfert.
New York (State)
Pennsylvania
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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