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<title>Senecas seek dam to redress &quot;historic injustice&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 3, 2010) Forty-five years ago, the federal government built the Kinzua dam on the Alleghany River, just south of the New York border in northwestern Pennsylvania.  The government said it was needed to control flooding in the Pittsburgh area.150 families from the Seneca Nation were forcibly removed from the area.  Their homes were burned and bulldozed.  Their sacred longhouse and burial grounds were flooded by the rising waters.This week, the Seneca Nation made a bid to become owner of the Kinzua dam.  The federal license of the current operator, FirstEnergy of Akron, Ohio, expires in 2015.  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will decide who gets a new 50-year license.Robert Odawi Porter is the Seneca Nation president.  He told David Sommerstein granting the Senecas the license to operate the Kinzua dam would correct what he calls a “grotesque injustice.” [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16771/20101203/senecas-seek-dam-to-redress-quot-historic-injustice-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Forty-five years ago, the federal government built the Kinzua dam on the Alleghany River, just south of the New York border in northwestern Pennsylvania.  The government said it was needed to control flooding in the Pittsburgh area.150 families from the Seneca Nation were forcibly removed from the area.  Their homes were burned and bulldozed.  Their sacred longhouse and burial grounds were flooded by the rising waters.This week, the Seneca Nation made a bid to become owner of the Kinzua dam.  The federal license of the current operator, FirstEnergy of Akron, Ohio, expires in 2015.  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will decide who gets a new 50-year license.Robert Odawi Porter is the Seneca Nation president.  He told David Sommerstein granting the Senecas the license to operate the Kinzua dam would correct what he calls a “grotesque injustice.” [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16771/20101203/senecas-seek-dam-to-redress-quot-historic-injustice-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>photolead, native, indian, seneca nation, iroquois, land management, hydropower, energy, history, environment, akwesasne, [loc:41.8439486 -79.1450445], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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