Lack of legal title excluded the Onondaga from cleanup negotiations

Evidence

Onondaga Chief Irving Powless characterized the solution as a Band-Aid on the lake bottom. Band-Aids are fine for small hurts, but “you don’t prescribe a Band-Aid for cancer.” The Onondaga Nation called for a thorough cleanup of the sacred lake. Without legal title, however, the powers that be will not give the nation an equal place at the negotiating table. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1175

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to chapter-level theme of restoring by treating whole systems vs symptoms (ch19) and to Honeywell-as-corporate-actor contrasts relevant to pollution narratives. — connects to: Land dispossession tied Onondaga hands but never broke their stewardship covenant — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1165