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"Syracuse, N.Y. – Centuries after losing nearly all of their land to the state
of New York, the Onondaga Nation will see the return of a 1,000-acre sliver of
their original, 2.5-million-acre territory.
U.S., state and Onondaga Nation officials announced today that the nation will
be given two heavily forested parcels, one at the headwaters of Onondaga Creek,
considered sacred by the nation.
The Tully land is now owned by Honeywell, the company responsible for cleaning
Onondaga Lake and restoring area lands and waterways after decades of
pollution.
It is one of the largest land transfers made to an Indian nation in the United
States, officials said, and the first time that land has been returned directly
to a New York tribe.
“This return is a monumental thing that has happened to us,” said Jeanne
Shenandoah, an Onondaga Nation member. “This returning of this acreage demands
a massive celebration, a celebration that we finally have found somebody that
will listen to our words and will understand us and understand our culture and
our way of life and the historical things that have happened to us.”
The land, which consists largely of woods and wetlands, will be kept wild.
Nation attorney Joe Heath said the highest priority will be to help clean up
Onondaga Creek, which runs through the land, for native brook trout.
Honeywell, the company responsible for polluting and cleaning up Onondaga Lake,
will turn the land over to the Onondaga as part of the company’s settlement
with the state to clean up the lake."
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