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The producers of "Dexter: New Blood" sought guidance from Seneca Nation citizens about their culture, communities, and beliefs for last year’s revival series. Although filmed in Massachusetts, the show is set in the foothills of Western New York, in the fictional town of Iron Lake, New York.
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The Seneca language is on the brink of extinction. It is one of hundreds of Native American languages and cultures that Indian boarding schools sought to annihilate. However, some Seneca people in Western New York are fighting to save their language from oblivion.
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Mothers of the Seneca Nation gave New York State a Mother's Day present: a protest song encapsulating what they called the Nation's contentious relationship with the state.
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The Seneca Nation Council has decided to withhold casino revenue payments to New York State until the National Indian Gaming Commission has reviewed the legality of the compact deal between the Seneca's and the state.
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Mothers of the Nation member Jody Clark said her group is looking ahead, not to this November's Nation election.
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The Seneca Nation has a deal with Albany to pay $540 million in casino revenues to the state and, in turn, start negotiations in a new compact over gambling to replace the current deal that expires next year. Opponents expect a decision on their objections Monday from the Seneca Peacemakers Court.
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The tangled relationship between New York State and the Seneca Nation took another turn Wednesday, when the two sides said they will finish out the current compact for the nation's three casinos and bargain a new one.
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The City of Niagara Falls kicked off the start of Indigenous Peoples Weekend, the first of its kind in the city, Thursday with the raising of the flag of the Iroquois Confederacy outside of City Hall.
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In the Haudenosaunee creation story, Sky Woman, the daughter of the Great Spirit, descends from the heavens toward a watery world whose animals, fearing for her safety, dredge mud from the bottom of the sea to make the earth grow on the back of a giant turtle. That story has been depicted on a new mural unveiled Tuesday in downtown Rochester at the edge of the Genesee River.
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Buffalo is now home to one of the first Native American-owned art galleries in the United States and perhaps the only commercial gallery to exclusively…