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Erie Canal Museum Event: The Haudenosaunee and the Origins of the Erie Canal – Ditches, Defense, and Dispossession

October 8, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT

The creation of the Erie Canal is considered to be one of the great engineering feats of the nineteenth century. One historian has even compared the technological achievement of building this canal with NASA’s going to the moon in the 1960s. As a result of the canal’s substantial cultural, economic, political and social impact, New York became the “Empire State,” the leader of the nation in so many areas. Until the publication of Laurence M. Hauptman’s Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State (1999), no historian had previously examined the devastating effect of the canal era on Indigenous peoples in the Empire State. In this talk, Hauptman, the author of numerous books on the Haudenosaunee, will focus on the half century before the opening of the Erie Canal, specifically on state canal policies on three of the Six Nations—the Cayugas, Onondagas, and Oneidas. He will show that even before the establishment of the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company in the 1790s, the Erie Canal’s predecessor, state politicians in Albany, transportation interests, and speculators were working hand-in-hand at separating the Haudenosaunee from their extensive territories.

Join the Erie Canal Museum and Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center for this free virtual discussion on October 8th at 11AM on Zoom. Register here: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/the-haudenosaunee-and-the-origins-of-the-erie-canal/

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Erie Canal Museum
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Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Boulevard East
Syracuse, NY 13202 United States
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