The Untold Voices of the Erie Canal
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The Untold Voices of the Erie Canal
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Ely S. Parker
Tonawanda Seneca Sachem
Colonel in the Union Army who drafted Lee’s articles of surrender, and first Native American to be the U.S. Commissioner of Native affairs. He worked as an assistant engineer on the Genesee Valley Canal.
-National Archives
The Untold Voices of the Erie Canal
Cornplanter
Chief of the Allegany Senecas 1796
Painting by: F. Bartoli
Had to face the pressure of land speculation and was around before the Erie Canal was built.
-New York Historical Society
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Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket)
Painting by: R.W. Weir (1828) Picture: Library of Congress
“Governor Clinton, whose pet project, the Erie Canal, did more to increase the size of the white population on the Niagara Frontier than any other development, was sympathetic. At his urging the state legislature passed a law which forced the removal of all persons other than *native people from the Seneca lands. The Seneca mission closed and the missionaries and teachers retired to Buffalo.”
The text below is an excerpt from Mark Goldman, "High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York." Pub. by State U. of New York Press, Albany, 1983
The Untold Voices of the Erie Canal
The Untold Voices of the Erie Canal
The Untold Voices of the Erie Canal
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
The Untold Voices of the Erie Canal
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
The Untold Voices of the Erie Canal