Leon Shenandoah
Leon Shenandoah (May 18, 1915July 22, 1996) was an Onondaga people, Onondaga politician who headed the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy from 1968 to his death. Leon Shenandoah was born on May 18, 1915, in a cabin on Hemlock Creek, New York. He belonged to the Eel clan, Eel Clan of the Onondaga. On December 7, 1968, Shenandoah became the 235th Tadodaho of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. As Tadodaho, he led the resurgence of the Longhouse Religion among the Haudenosaunee, and he was a great proponent of Onondaga and Haudenosaunee self-rule. On October 24, 1985, he delivered a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in which he compared the United Nations to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and in 1992, he represented the Haudenosaunee at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples at the Earth Summit. On July 4, 1996, he supervised the repatriation of 74 wampum belts from the George Gustav Heye Center, Museum of the American Indian. Shenandoah mainly lived on the Onondaga ...
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Hemlock Creek (New York)
Hemlock Creek is a river located in Cayuga and Tompkins counties. It flows into Owasco Inlet by Locke, New York Locke is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States. The population was 1,877 at the 2020 census. The town was named after John Locke, an English philosopher, and is the birthplace of Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States. Lo .... References {{authority control Rivers of Cayuga County, New York Rivers of New York (state) Rivers of Tompkins County, New York ...
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