Onondaga Nation

Politics & Policy

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• Expanded the History section with explicit dates and events related to assimilation, schooling, land/sovereignty measures, and notable figures; changes shift the section from a brief note to a detailed chronological narrative.

Add: Through the 19th and early 20th century the Onondaga faced repeated attempts at assimilation to American culture In 1850 a school was built along the border of Onondaga but was burnt down A second school was built in 1890 teaching exclusively in the English language In 1892 the Haudenosaunee protested allotment under the Dawes Act and in 1924 the Indian Citizenship Act which they saw as infringing on their rights as a sovereign nation and contradicting the Two Row Wampum Treaty They continued to oppose the Indian Reorganization Act in 1935 Leon Shenandoah was condoled as Tadodaho in 1968 The 1970s saw a number of sovereignty wins for the Nation including court victories against New York State on jurisdictional sovereignty On.

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