NEDROW, NY – Representatives of the Onondaga Nation have signed legal documents with Honeywell International for the return of 1,000 acres of land at the headwaters of Onondaga Creek, which sits within the original treaty footprint set aside for the Onondaga under the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua.
That agreement transferring control of the land was facilitated by the U.S. Department of Interior and the State of New York under provisions of the U.S. superfund program. This is the first acreage returned to the stewardship of the Onondaga since New York State and the U.S government repeatedly broke the terms of the treaty, which originally set aside 2.5 million acres for the Onondaga…