Treaties guaranteed Onondaga rights that the US government then violated

Evidence

The wounds to these waters are as numerous as the snakes in the Tadodaho’s hair, and they must be named before they can be combed out. The ancestral Onondaga territory stretches from the Pennsylvania border north to Canada. It was a mosaic of rich woodlands, expansive cornfields, clear lakes and rivers that sustained the Native people for centuries. The original territory also encompasses the site of presentday Syracuse and the sacred shores of Onondaga Lake. Onondaga rights to these lands were guaranteed by treaties between the two sovereign nations, Onondaga Nation and the United States government. But water is more faithful to its responsibilities than the United States would ever be. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1163

Categorization

• XREF: ‘But water is more faithful to its responsibilities than the United States would ever be’ ties directly to ch25’s water-as-responsible-being and ch77’s Superfund-site treatment of the sacred founding ground — the legal systems thread of this polyad. — connects to: Land dispossession tied Onondaga hands but never broke their stewardship covenant — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1165; The US government failed to enforce treaties and settlers encroached on Cherokee land — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 477; The Onondaga framed their suit as seeking justice for all creation — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1178

Broader Connections

• The US government failed to enforce treaties and settlers encroached on Cherokee land #exemplifies (0.85) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 477
• The Onondaga framed their suit as seeking justice for all creation #expands (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1178