“In our light speed, 24/7 society, people need to remember that just like ‘1776 and the Declaration of Independence’ and ‘1789 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution,’ ‘1794 and the Treaty of Canandaigua’ are just as alive and in force today as then,” said Seneca Nation President Robert Odawi Porter.
Her bookshelves are lined with thick binders of regulations, but there are few papers lying around. There is going to be a rush to re-start Niagara County, now that Albany is allowing Phase One to start, especially construction and manufacturing.
But the gaming business – particularly the payments that members of the tribe receive from it – has created problems, too.
We allow Indians to engage in enterprises that we can’t or won’t have in other neighborhoods. For most, though, these are hardly viable paths to economic growth.
For the 216th consecutive year, the U.S. government recently fulfilled its obligation under the treaty with the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee by sending each a piece of cloth and its share of a collective $4,500. SNIEDC, as it is known, was launched to help members of the Seneca Nation start businesses, by offering them not only loans but also technical assistance to help them create business plans and grow their already existing enterprises.
I am 50% Native American, I've grown up in the culture. There are a couple of small businesses – a logging company, for instance – that have come to SNIEDC for loans to purchase more equipment. The Seneca Nation Tribal Council has unanimously approved a recommendation by President Cyrus Schindler to improve the "old age benefit" and create an annuity for its members.
This “payment” called for by treaty demonstrates clearly that, in the eyes of the now mature United States, the provisions of that special sovereign treaty relationship must be met, as a matter of federal law, now and into the future. "As a sovereign nation, the Seneca Nation and government will make the final determination on opening our territories for business," he said.
Lucille Brooks is perched at an empty conference table in the neat new office of the sprawling Seneca government building in upstate New York. Two police officers have been shot in Louisville, Ky., amid riots following the announcement of an indictment in the shooting of Breonna Taylor. The Nation has received some cash from Washington in the CARES Act aimed at easing the effects of the virus.
The Self-Inflicted Decline of Science and the Academy, Metropolitan Opera Announces It Will Not Stage Productions Until At Least September 2021, DOJ to Propose Legislation Targeting Legal Immunities for Internet Companies, in Bid to Curb Illegal Content, Mass MoCA, the World’s Biggest Contemporary Art Museum, Looks Fantastic. Elders get a larger amount, in a kind of American Indian social security program. — Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.
Louisville chief of police Robert Schroeder confirmed that the officers were shot and were taken to a local hospital.
Those who don’t get a high-school degree have to wait until they’re 21 to receive the money. Many people have the mistaken idea that these treaties are irrelevant today. "Both payments will remain fully intact during this period," Armstrong said. The Justice Department decided in December 2014 to allow marijuana to be grown on reservations – even if the drug is illegal in the state where the reservation is located.
This “annuity cloth” represents the continuing government-to-government relationship with the United States and forms a symbolic but real annual affirmation of the sanctity of this agreement. There is supposed to be money for some local governments from the casinos, but that is tied up in a fight with Albany.