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  • Spring Speaker Series: Dr. Erica Nuckles

    Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center 82 W Hetzel St, Salamanca, NY, United States

    Title: “Remarks on a March”: A Female Perspective on the French and Indian War Description: Charlotte Browne served as matron of the British army’s general hospital during the French and Indian War (1754-1763). She left a rare account from a woman’s perspective on daily life in the army on campaign as well as her observations of North America during wartime. Explore the complexity of her identity as a British middling woman in the mid-eighteenth century and the impact of war on her life and roles within the army and society. Bio: Dr. Erica Nuckles is an award-winning museum leader, curator, educator, and scholar who currently serves as the Director of Learning, Engagement, and Partnerships at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She is the former Director of History & Collections at Fort Ligonier and the Braddock's Battlefield History Center, an alumnus of the 2013 Yale Public History Institute, and has worked at several other museums and historic sites in the Washington D.C. area and the Hudson River [...]

  • Spring Speaker Series: Jare Cardinal

    Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center 82 W Hetzel St, Salamanca, NY, United States

    Part of our Spring Speaker Series, this talk will be presented virtually via Zoom and in person.

  • Spring Speaker Series: Jolene Rickard

    Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center 82 W Hetzel St, Salamanca, NY, United States

      Deskaheh in Geneva 1923-2023: Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, City of Geneva, and Docip observed the centenary of Deskaheh Levi General’s intervention at the League of Nations in 1923. He was sent as a spokesperson for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy representing six sovereign nations: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. His petition is recognized as the catalyst for the international Indigenous sovereignty movement against ongoing structural inequities globally. This discussion will detail the exhibition mounted in Geneva, Switzerland in 2023 celebrating his work in favor of Indigenous Peoples and the role that the City of Geneva has played and still plays in this field. It expresses the voices of the Haudenosaunee and Geneva allies.

  • Spring Speaker Series: Laura Habecker

    Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center 82 W Hetzel St, Salamanca, NY, United States

    Titled Caneadea: "Where the heavens rest(ed) upon the earth," this talk will be presented virtually via Zoom or in person. Gaoyadeo (Caneadea) was a town nestled beside the great angle of the Genesee River. It was where the Council House was at the time of the Treaty of Big Tree, it became part of the Caneadea Reservation, was taken away shortly after and now 200 years later is a place of renewed friendship.

  • Spring Speaker Series: Suzan Harjo

    Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center 82 W Hetzel St, Salamanca, NY, United States

    Titled “Hot Topics in Native Peoples’ Museums and Cultural Centers: From Identity and Repatriation Issues to Writing History Right," this talk will be presented virtually via Zoom only.

  • Spring Speaker Series: Michael Burke

    Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center 82 W Hetzel St, Salamanca, NY, United States

    Titled "A Country Between: Seneca Peoples in the 18th-Century Ohio Country," this talk will be presented virtually via Zoom and in person. This presentation will explore Seneca peoples’ deep history and connections to the upper Ohio Valley, especially the region surrounding the Forks of the Ohio in present-day Pittsburgh.