The Archives

A chronological record of stories, dispatches, and histories from across the Allegheny Plateau.

In the rich and complex tapestry of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) oral tradition, the physical world is defined by a delicate tens...

In the rolling hills of the Finger Lakes region in New York, overlooking the waters of Canandaigua Lake, stands Genundowa, or...

In the deep, ancient forests of the Haudenosaunee, there is a name spoken with a mixture of dread and profound respect: ...

In the rich and complex tapestry of Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) oral tradition, the physical world is more than what meets the e...

After Sky Woman established the earth upon the Great Turtle’s back, her daughter gave birth to twin sons who could not ...

In the beginning, there was no earth as we know it. There was only a vast, dark ocean below and a luminous ...

While the Allegheny National Forest is famed for its sweeping vistas and ancient hemlocks, Seneca tradition warns that the ma...

While the modern history of the Allegheny River is often defined by the engineering of the Kinzua Dam, a much older and more ...

<p data-path-to-node="2">To the casual observer standing at the Big Bend overlook, the Kinzua Dam is a silent concrete monolith. But beneath ...