![]() | In the Shadow of Kinzua: The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II Subjects: Seneca Indians -- History -- 20th century; Seneca Indians -- Government relations; Seneca Indians -- Land tenure; Kinzua Dam (Pa.) -- Environmental conditions; The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, flooded approximately 10,000 acres of Seneca lands in New York and Pennsylvania, and forced the relocation of hundreds of tribal members. Hauptman offers both a policy study, detailing how and why Washington, Harrisburg, and Albany came up with the idea to build the dam, and a community study of the Seneca Nation in the postwar era. Although the dam was presented to the Senecas as a flood control project, Hauptman persuasively argues that the primary reasons were the push for private hydroelectric development in Pennsylvania and state transportation and park development in New York. Laurence M. Hauptman is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of numerous books on the Iroquois, including Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations since 1800 , which was awarded the 2012 Herbert Lehman Book prize from the New York Academy of History. |
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