The Haudenosaunee Visit the Susquehanna River
Before the Europeans came over to Turtle Island, indigenous Nations used to inhabit all the lands along the Susquehanna River. On October 14, 2011, Thatotaho-Sid Hill, Chief Jake Edwards from the Onondaga Nation, David Arquette, Director of HETF, and Ann Dapice from the Lenape Nation visited the confluence of the Susquehanna River, where the North branch, West branch and South Branch all come together near the town of Sunbury, south of Lewisburg. There standing on the ridge over seeing the Susquehanna below imagining many nations of Indigenous Peoples like the Lenape, Delawares, Shawnees,Shinnecocks, nanticotes, Conoy, Tutelos and Haudenosaunee gathering in this one spot trading and living and hunting and creating peace with each other to continue our existence for the future generations.
Northeastern Tribes benefit from National Fish and Wildlife Service’s Generosity
On August 28, 2011, Hurricane Irene caused the waters of the White River in Bethel, Vermont to spill over its banks and flood the White River National Fish Hatchery contaminating the “closed well water” hatchery. This contamination was to the well water and not the fish. The hatchery rears Atlantic salmon brood stock for restoration efforts in the Connecticut River, lake trout for stocking in the Great Lakes, and native brook trout to support recreational fishing in some Vermont rivers.
