][<en wrote:

> True family story. Natives on the Allegheny Reservation in Western NY were 
> relocated for the Kinzua Dam. New houses were built for them with electric 
> power, and heat, that I understand was to be free of charge.

We have friends at that rez. The houses you mention there at Jimmerstown 
really were sad excuses and typical of our way of treating first nation 
folks. Our son is actually named after Carson Waterman from there. I have 
many fond memories of hunting and fishing with Johnny Abrams the upstart son 
of the rez game warden. Johnny really could sense the wildlife and 
supplimented his income from making medicine with being a guide.

I'll never forget the day I was in Johnny's back yard looking at the 
snapping turtle he had for us when he started a fire under a 55 gallon drum 
full of deer heads and water. He was boiling the flesh off the skulls so he 
could make medicine heads. The kindling for the fire was a bunch of trash 
from the kitchen including plastic milk jugs and the black smoke just 
billowed up into the sky over the transplanted Seneca Nation. I said to 
Johnny "Don't you think that's polluting the air?" Without turning and in 
his best deadpan voice he said "It's the white man's air."

I think the relocation and flooding of the sacred longhouses to build of the 
Kinzua Dam was the last treaty broken with the American Indians...... if I'm 
not mistaken.

Rudy 

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