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GANONDAGAN CULTURAL RESOURCES CENTER ONLINE

I reviewed the Ganondagan Cultural Resources Center Online.  I have visited Ganondagan once as a child and found it a very interesting place.  The website was created by Ganondagan (or Friends of Ganondagan).  Ganondagan is the site of a Native American Community that was a “flourishing, vibrant center for the Seneca people”.  The entire site is dedicated to the Ganondagan State Historic Site and what it is, how to contribute to the historic site and projects involving the site, tours and scheduled events and history. There is a site timeline that chronicles the events and efforts that were put forth by individuals to preserve and create the Ganondaga State Historical Site. 

Below is a  picture of the “Bark Longhouse”.  This longhouse was dedicated on July 25, 1998 and it represents the return of a traditional Seneca dwelling in a place where in 1687, the French Marquis de Denonville razed the site. 

 

The web resources that have been suggested in this course seem to follow our text book Atlas of Indian Nations and I think that is why they have been chosen.  The site itself is an education in the Seneca Indians and very informative.  The site’s section “Learn More About the Haudenosaunee” says that one of their main missions is to “share information and teach about the Haudenosaunee, not only in a historical sense but also as the Haudenosaunee people live today”.

This website has reminded me what strong, peaceful people the Six Nations Indians were.  The nations had an agreement that they would live peacefully under an imaginary longhouse that stretched across New York State from the home of the Senecas to the home of the Mohawks.  The Senecas were the keepers of the Western door and the Mohawks were the keepers of the Eastern door.

http://www.ganondagan.org/, Retrieved February 11th 2016