As the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal approaches on Oct. 26, organizers are seeking to temper the celebration with an acknowledgment of the waterway’s displacement of Native American communities.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A tree is planted in Buffalo. It is planted in the brush along the Buffalo River on what used to be Seneca land. The tree is an Eastern White Pine, known to the Haudenosaunee as ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Sunday marks 200 years since one of the United States’ greatest accomplishments first opened: the Erie Canal. Just like the advent of the cotton gin, the telephone and the ...
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