Sa:gwáyoˀ Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ/ Cayuga People, We Returned Panel Discussion

Schedule

Wed Jun 10 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00
Location

Carriage House Theater | Auburn, NY

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This program engages with the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫˀ Reoccupation of their Homelands after the 1779 Sullivan-Clinton Invasion, the Treaty of Cayuga Ferry (1795), and Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫˀ Community Perspectives on the Treaty of 1795.
Featuring talks and a discussion to follow with:
Peter Whiteley — Curator of North American Ethnology and Curator-in-Charge of African and Pacific Ethnology; Professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School
Kurt A. Jordan — Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University
Steve Henhawk — first-language Gayogohó:nǫˀ (Cayuga) speaker, historian, and faithkeeper who grew up on the Six Nations Reservation in Canada
The panel discussion will open with the Ganǫ́hǫnyǫhk (also known as the Thanksgiving Address, or the Words that Come Before All Else), given by Hoyá:neh Sam George (Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ/Cayuga, Bear Clan).
Learn More: https://cayugamuseum.org/cayuga-people-returned-panel-discussion/
Image Credit: Tom Huff (Seneca-Cayuga, Deer Clan), Ancestors – Tree of Life, 2013, Stone sculpture. 13.5” x 7.5” x 3.16”. Courtesy of New York State Museum, Albany, NY
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Carriage House Theater, 203 Genesee Street (rear),Auburn, New York, United States

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