Land of the Senecas

147 pp. 8vo. "The Land of the Senecas, known to the red men as Nun-da-wag-ga, (as described by Arch Merrill), was a natural paradise, and so entrancing in its qualities that the soldier and settler, once having seen it, was eager to possess it. The Senecas fully appreciated their incomparable hills, their jewel lakes, their fertile valleys, and their oak openings. It was a wonderland that all men might covet and treasure. When, at the Treaty of Big Tree (1797) this land was wrested from them, they were crushed. Even then, though impoverished and dispirited, they would often leave their shrunken acres and wander over their old town sites to drop flowers and incense upon the graves of their ancestors, nor could they suppress a warrior's tears. The Senecas of today, whether upon still smaller reservations or as workers in our towns and cities, have become reconciled and now eagerly seek to do their part as constructive citizens endeavoring to build a better world for all mankind." - Dr. Arthur C. Parker