Project

As well as games there will be a section that will be devoted to the traditional dances
of the iroquois such as the eagle, bear, rabbit and stomp dances. All of the dances will
be preformed one after the other with a few minutes between. during this break one of
the dancers will explain the signifigance and origin of the dance to the spectators. An
example would be the rabbit dance. In this legend two hunters saw hunreds of rabbits
dancing around a larger rabbit. when the hunters returned to their village they showed
the elders the dance the rabbits preformed and the elders were impressed so they named
the dance after the rabbits to show their gratitude. Also before the dances that
spectators can participate in there will be a demonstration of how the dance is supposed
to be preformed. volunteers will then be able to preform along side the professional
dancers. Here is a clip of one of the most popular dances and is also a dance that the
audience can join in.
It's called the bear dance. once all the dances have been completed there will be a
longer 30 min break before the dances are repeated. Dancing will start at around noon and
will continue until the festival ends with this formula.

The intense culture of Iroquois Indians included a set of six different languages,
Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Tuscarora (Lewis and Redish). At the Great
Council and different religious events, mostly Mohawk was spoken. Children had different
games and toys, including cornhusk dolls and a game where a dart is thrown through a
moving hoop. For art and medicine, masks were created to frighten away evil spirits and
illness. This sacred form of recreation lead to the the False Face Society, a clan of
medicine men said to have special powers wearing their self-created wooden masks
(Iroquois).
It is obvious that the Iroquois Indians participated in a variety of activities,
many of
which for recreation. Our attempt to revive Onondaga Lake begins with an idea of
displaying all of these Iroquois traditions in order to educate children, and open minds
of adults and students. Hopefully, we bring more activity and publicity to Onondaga
Lake. It would be wonderful to cause the history of Onondaga Lake to come full circle
and bring back the excitement-filled atmosphere of the past. Our primary goal is to
provide at least one annual day of activity for visitors of Onondaga Lake.

The Iroquois lived in Longhouses which were about 25 feet by 200 feet
The longhouses could house a family of up to 60 people.
Family was matrilineal, meaning that women owned property and determined kinship
When married the husband moved into the wife?s longhouse and the children were part of
the mother?s clan
There were three clans, turtle, bear, and wolf, each headed by a clan mother.
Everyone within the longhouse cared for each other as though the children were their own
and that the person living with them were like their brother or sister.
The Iroquois League was created to maintain peace
This was accomplished through The Great Law of Peace which stated that Iroquois should
not kill one another
The leaders in the Iroquois council were nominated by tribal clan mothers, yet they were
all male.
Without any modern technology, the Native Americans of this area has to survive based
solely on instinct, especially when it comes to food. The Native Americans developed a
hunter-gatherer style of obtaining food. Although this means of gathering food may not be
consistent in the sense that there is always food available in one place, they found many
natural crops and new methods of cooking so there was always food available. The crops
that were the basis for their diet were corn, beans and squash. Corn, beans and squash
are commonly referred to by the Onondagas and the Oneidas specifically as the 3 sisters.
These foods were the three foods first ?given to us from our mother earth.? The Onondagas
live near the finger lakes area of present day New York. That allowed the Onondagas for
the spring and summer months to fish in the streams. The fall and winter allowed for the
hunting of deer, turkey, rabbit and game found throughout the area. The Cayuga tribe,
Mohawk tribe, and the Tuscarora tribe were primarily agricultural people. The women
planted crops of corn, beans, and squash and harvested wild berries and herbs. The men
hunted deer and elk and fished in the rivers and on the shores of Lake Ontario. The
tribes? recipes included cornbread, soups, and stews, which they cooked on stone hearths.
The Iroquois were a hunting, fishing and agricultural people. The young men hunted and
the women and elderly men did the gardening. Children served as lookouts to keep birds
and other pests from the fields. By this cooperative effort, everyone contributed to the
production of food in the Iroquois village. Livestock included pigs and other
domesticated animals.

For the festival, each tribe would create a traditional dish, one that is representative
of their history and one that they would like to be associated with from the general
populace. There is also a sense of decorum that is expected to be done when eating and
preparing food. For example, hunters and gatherers are taught to take only what is
needed. It is a lesson to learn not to deplete all of your resources and leave none for
the people who are following you tomorrow, or to save for your grandchildren of the
people not yet born. These are the messages that we would like to convey to the audience
through the food. The food isn?t merely corn, squash etc. There is a meaning behind each
piece of food and the Native Americans do not take anything for granted, a value which
should be conveyed to the people attending the festival.

If the festival is successful, it could become an annual event which would continuously
reunite the recreation of the area with the history of the people. The point of the
entire festival is to bring people back to Onondaga Lake. Since swimming and fishing was
banned from the Lake, they lost a lot of business. The Lake also has been separated from
its roots. The foundation for the Iroquois Confederacy was formed on the shores of the
Lake. The festival will revive the Lake, bringing back people, culture and recreation in
one epiphenomenon that will reunite the people and the area in which they live.


1-Show images of Native American recreational activities.

2-Address a detailed timeline of Native American history around Onondaga Lake and the
decline of recreation around the lake.

3-Play the Sacred Bowl Game.

According to legend, directly on the shore of Onondaga Lake, the warlike Onondaga
chief
Tadodaho was persuaded by Hiawatha and Deganawidah (the Peacemaker) to accept the Great
Law of Peace, thus creating the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois
Confederacy (Onondaga Lake).

4- Show pictures and representations of this event.

The last of the grand resorts around Onondaga Lake, Maurer's Long Beach, closed down in
1938 (Williamson 10). By the mid twentieth century, Onondaga Lake had transformed from a
resort area filled with activity, water sports, boating, concerts, games and amusement
parks, to one of the most polluted lakes in America (Williamson).

5- Show pictures of Onondaga Lake and these activities.

The beginning of the resurgence is now. As a Superfund site, the government has
invested millions of dollars to clean up Onondaga Lake. Our project attempts to bring
the lake back to its roots, to honor history and bring back recreation around Onondaga
Lake.

Iroquois Indians played the Sacred Bowl Game and invented the sport of lacrosse
(Iroquois, Lewis and Redish). The strong and powerful nation of the Iroquois Confederacy
hunted, gathered crops, survived and thrived around the Onondaga Lake. Unappreciated
culture and traditions began around Onondaga Lake.

The Iroquois practiced year-round festivals (Iroquois).

6-Show list of festivals and more pictures.


Zack Owens Domestic & Housing

Slide 1 -The Iroquois lived in Longhouses which were about 25 feet by 200 feet
The longhouses could house a family of up to 60 people.

Slide 2 -Family was matrilineal, meaning that women owned property and determined kinship
When married the husband moved into the wife’s longhouse and the children were part of the mother’s clan
There were three clans, turtle, bear, and wolf, each headed by a clan mother.
Everyone within the longhouse cared for each other as though the children were their own and that the person living with them were like their brother or sister.

Slide 3 -The Iroquois League was created to maintain peace
This was accomplished through The Great Law of Peace which stated that Iroquois should not kill one another
The leaders in the Iroquois council were nominated by tribal clan mothers, yet they were all male.

Dance & Music - Rick Dojan
Recreation - Jason Wang
Food - Stephanie Musat
Domestic & Housing - Zack Owens

Public Project

The project’s meaning is to educate the people around Onondaga Lake of the history of the Onondagan’s as well as their history with the lake.

The project is a festival where we will invite the Onondagans to teach people about their tribe as well as booths set up to educate the people about Onondaga Lake’s pollution

I want to work in the site we chose because I believe that pollution is a serious matter that needs to be attended to. By educating these people we could help the environment and future generations of human beings

The history of the site is interesting. First you have the Five Nations (five native American tribes grouped together) and the lake was in both the Onondaga Nation and the Oneida Nation. Of course our main focus is the pollution that has occurred in the lake since the late 1800’s. Sewage, as well as toxic materials from plants around Onondaga Lake polluted the lake. However clean-up has begun, although it is slow. The Onondaga tribe also believes that not enough is being done to clean up the site.

This site is appropriate because it is outdoors and a lake with a lot of shoreline to use. By staging the festival here we can show the people what the lake could be like if we can clean it up. Showing the lake and showing its pollution by actually having people there would increase how the people would be affected by what they learned.

It is an integration because we are integrating Onondaga Lake and the Onondaga tribe. Also we are attempting to show the people what is happening to Onondaga Lake through teaching them be about it.

I believe that Onondaga Lake is public property, however we would have to ask the Onondaga tribe to aid us.

This piece will fit in with the surroundings because it will be about the lake and its clean up. The festival will attempt to honor the Lake and its surroundings.

Valery’s Ankle, by Brett Kashmere. Although the medium we will use will be different the point is the same. He attempted to point out a problem he saw, and so are we. While he got people questioning the violence in hockey, so do we want people to question if enough is being done to clean up Onondaga Lake, and to inform them of its true past, just as Brett attempted dispel the myth of hockey’s history in Canada.

The goal of the project is to inform people of the pollution at Onondaga Lake, as well as educate them about the Lake’s history. Hopefully people will step up and take action to clean up the lake.

It is tough to measure success this way. As long as people come away from the festival having learned something new it will be a success. It will definitely be a success if people find a way to help clean up the lake. The target audience are the people who live around Onondaga Lake. They are everyone from the blue-collar workers, to rich CEO’s. They care about their well-being as well as their family’s well-being. We want them to react a little shocked at the fact that the lake is still as dirty. They should also understand what is being done and what other procedures could be done to clean up the lake.

Our audience should interact physically and mentally. They should see the polluted water talk with those who know about the lake, smell the air around Onondaga Lake. They will be at Onondaga Lake and they should see what Onondaga Lake is, what is was, and what is can still be.

Essay 3 outline

TS (Intro) Valery's Ankle, by Brett Kashmere, looks at the violence in hockey and hockey's place in Canadian culture.
Thesis: Brett questions hockey's values and their correlation to Canadian national pride by analyzing the 1972 Summit Games, Todd Bertuzzi's assault on Steve Moore and other acts of hockey violence.

I. The medium used to present the art
TS - Through film Brett was able to show the violence of hockey, although video was one of the few media that could accomplish this, that doesn't mean that some things are lost in translation
1)Video
a) how this shows his points better
b) how this retracts from his points

II. The content in the film
TS - Brett uses film from throughout hockey's history to show the audience the violence that has become hockey.
1)NHL expands
a) more teams in larger cities. Leads to need to "sell" hockey
2)1972 Summit Series
a) Canada vs. USSR in Canadian national sport
b) Canadian team wants to win so bad that they resort to cheap tactics including the "accidental" injuring of the Soviets best player.

III. Intended Impact
TS - Brett created this in an attempt to question the values of hockey that are associated with Canada, and to bring to light the violence, brutality, and thuggery that has become hockey.
1)Brett's reason for creating film
2)impact on myself after watching film

IV. Actual Impact
TS - Valery's Ankle is not a sports fan's plea to "save" his sport it is a citizen concerned with what hockey has become to Canada.
1)The election after the 1972 Summit Series

Conclusion
TS: Valery's Ankle was an attempt to get people to question what they thought about hockey, and more the way that Canada was represented by hockey and the way that it even affected their history.
Thesis: Brett uses hockey as a vehicle to try and get the Canadian people to take a look at their values and make them why they are so dependent upon hockey.

Quote "How do we form collective or communal identities without scapegoating those who are excluded from them?" Kester

Essay 3

Valery's Ankle
by Brett Kashmere

Telling Time: Essays of a visionary filmmaker, Canadian Journal of Film Studies

Kings of the : a history of World Hocke, in by by Richmond Hill

The Russians Remember, by Malcom Gray in Maclean's Journal

Hockey Twilight in Canada, Our Tarnished Past, in Saturday Night Journal

Questions?

What are we to learn from completing this essay?
If we find that information is becoming scarce may we change our essay topic.
What is the nature of this essay/ what is the essay about?

Mary Jane Jacob Lecture

The lecture that Mary Jane Jacobs gave was based upon one location, Charleston, South Carolina. The majority of the works that she mentioned were based in Charleston. Jacob's showed that Kwon's quote, "These artists eschew the constricting limitations not only of artistic conventions but of the traditional institutional spaces of their production, such as studios, museums and galleries”. Mary Jane Jacobs talked about how larger spaces were needed for art projects. She started by mentioning the Camoflauge House as one of these art projects. She soon began talking about Charleston and the projects she did there. You could tell from the way that she spoke about Charleston that she truly enjoyed the place and the work that she has done there. This included the house that was formerly a plantation that the artists refurbished and created rugs that had the names of those that had worked the soil (under slavery). Mary Jane Jacobs did not let the constrictions of a museum to keep her from showing art, even if the art was a house, as it was for the house in Charleston. These large art projects that she helped to show were art that questioned how people viewed the past. They made people think "about the past. This was what Mary Jane Jacobs wanted after she stated "Asks big questions about important concepts" in the beginning of her lecture. She certainly achieved that goal.

Paying for Onondaga Lake the Superfund way

Zack Owens
Oct 14th, 2007
Onondaga Lake Essay
Paying for Onondaga Lake the Superfund way
Technological advancements have made our lives easier, whether it’s vehicles to travel far distances in a short amount of time, or air conditioning to keep our homes cool and comfortable in the summer heat. Technology does have its downsides. Including emmissions from said vehicles, as well as the coolants released by air conditioners. The inadvertant pollution of our environment by technology led to government regulations, laws and cleanup plans for polluted areas. Superfund was one of these plans. It was created to cleanup hazardous waste sites and while it has done what it is supposed, the article “Superfund Program: A Smaller Cleanup Rag” commentates on the issues that Superfund faces, most importantly funding Superfund. Funding is an issue because pollution hasn’t been forced into the public eye, and hasn’t become an issue for politicians to do something about.
In 1980 the government initiated Superfund to combat the polluted areas in the US. However Superfund is almost bankrupt. The EPA announced that 40 waste sites had been cleaned up during the fiscal year. The total sites cleaned since Superfund began is up to 886, but 1203 sites still remain. According to the US Public Interest Group, 1 out of 4 Americans live within 4 miles of a Superfund site (Knickerbocker). Superfund’s basis for payment of the cleanup was to make the polluter pay. One problem is that orphan sites have begun popping up. These sites do not have a company responsible for the pollution to pay for the cleanup. Superfund paid for these sites out of its budget. Payment for the cleanup is the biggest problem with Superfund right now. Anyone and everyone who was ever associated with the polluted site can be made to pay for cleanup. This causes legal battles to ensue and money that should be put towards cleanup is used in litigation. Critics of Superfund use this as an example to show that Superfund isn’t doing what it was made to do. Using taxes to pay for Superfund seems like a good idea as cleanup of pollution is very important. Everyone is at fault with pollution as the author says “And if one considers consumers to be ultimately responsible for the products associated with hazardous waste, then it may be that the ‘polluter pays’ in the end” (Knickerbocker). The responsibility to clean up pollution is everyones responsibility.
Superfund was government legislation that has been attempting to cleanup hazardous waste sites throughout the US including Onondaga Lake. The cleanup of Onondaga Lake has been ongoing for awhile, and has slowly cleaned the lake. Being on the Superfund national priority list in the 1990’s helped shut down the factories that were polluting the lake, “The active pollution of the lake stopped when the factories shut down, but work continues on those sites to prevent any more leakage” (Stevenson). Onondaga Lake still faces many hurdles before becoming clean enough to fish or swim in.
One of these problems is one that faces not only Onondaga Lake but also the entire Superfund program. Who is going to pay for Onondaga Lake’s cleanup. Superfund’s plan was to make the polluter pay, but many of these polluters like to propose their own cleanup plan as well as how much they will give. Honeywell International is being required to pay 488 million dollars for aid in the plan to fix the pollution in Onondaga Lake. Honeywell International has proposed only 237 million dollars. The Onondaga Nation who believe they have the biggest need in the cleanup of Onondaga Lake believe that about 2.33 billion dollars would be needed to truly clean up the lake. An Onondaga nation lawyer said, “The nation is deeply concerned that the Department of Environmental Conservation’s preferred alternative for the cleanup of the bottom of the lake is not adequate and will leave substantial amounts of dangerous toxins throughout the lake bottom” (Urbina). Even with Superfund how clean the site gets is up to how much money they can get.
Another big problem is that the money that Superfund has been getting back from companies has been steadily decreasing, “the amount of money Superfund is getting back from other companies in reimbursements for cleanups has steadily declined. The amount of money the agency recovered from those companies has fallen by half in the past six fiscal years, compared with the previous six years” (Sapien). Onondaga Lake is a sad example of this problem. Honeywell is only proposing half what Superfund wants from them, and even then according to Onondaga nation, it will not be enough to truly clean the lake “Capping is not allowed on the Hudson and should be avoided on the Onondaga Lake because it is a Band-Aid approach that will surely fail” (Urbina).
The best plan for cleaning the lake is the one prepared by the Onondaga nation, because the plan includes dredging the entire bottom of the lake and then putting a permanent cap over the bottom of the lake as well. This would effectively clean the pollution in Onondaga Lake. Unfortunately the state’s plan is most likely to be put into effect because of funding issues. This occurs throughout the US where Superfund is attempting to cleanup pollution. Even though Onondaga Lake was placed on the Superfund high priority list in the 1990’s, it still hasn’t been completely cleaned up.
Superfund’s funding issue can only be solved through a more reliable way of raising money, whether through taxes directly to Superfund’s budget, government funding, or fund raisers. This issue isn’t lost on Washington after this, “Resources for the Future a Wahington-based environmental think tank, proposes this explanation: It’s all about declining funding. In a 2001 book written for Congress on the subject, it says EPA managers have been cautious about listing larger more expensive toxic waste sites to avoid ‘breaking the bank… Sites that need cleanup are not being addressed because of funding concerns.’ The group’s book recommends a budget increase, which never came” (Sapien). The government has not been up to the task in keeping Superfund funded. Due to this Onondaga Lake and other sites throughout the US are not being cleaned up correctly or not cleaned up at all.
Superfund was created because of the environmental health issues at Love Canal, New York (Sapien). This prompted action by the government to attempt to fix the polluted area. The reason why the government put Superfund into action is because of the pressure the public put on the government. Now that Superfund’s funding is no longer there, something has to be done to fix it. With more funding, polluted areas would be cleaned up on time, and they would stay clean because the solutions would not be stop-gap procedures. Funding is the most important need for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites. For this to happen the government needs to be pushed by the public. The public needs to emphasize that the cleanup of waste sites are something that needs to be done. With this pressure, funding would be provided and Superfund would be able to run the best cleanup plan presented, including for Onondaga Lake.

Superfund Synopsis

As our nation has industrialized, the price of it has been hazardous waste polluting our environment. The government started a federal program dubbed Superfund in 1980, to combat the threat to human life. However the fund used to clean up hazardous waste sites is almost bankrupt. The EPA announced that 40 waste sites had been cleaned up during the fiscal year. The total sites cleaned since Superfund began is up to 886, but there are still 1203 sites left. According to the US Public Interest Group, 1 out of 4 Americans live within 4 miles of a Superfund Site(Knickerbocker para. 5). Superfund’s basis for payment of the cleanup was to make the polluter pay. Orphan sites have popped up however where no one could be made to pay. These sites were paid for by excise taxes. This is the major issue now with Superfund how to pay for it. With anyone and everyone who was ever associated with the site responsible companies linked to the site by the EPA go after someone else who was a part of the pollution, and legal battles ensue. The critics say that this is the incorrect way to go about payment as much of the money goes to payment of lawyers and the like. The author states that “Eliminating Superfund is by all means politically infeasible, so the main question remains: how to pay for it.” (Knickerbocker para. 16). Eliminating Superfund is a possibility if another environmental bill that would viably replace Superfund were enacted. I do agree though that right now the question to focus on is how to pay for Superfund. Using taxes on both companies and consumers seems to be a solid idea, as some of the pollution can be attributed to the companies and consumers, as the writer states “And if one considers consumers to be ultimately responsible for the products associated with hazardous waste, then it may be that the ‘polluter pays’ in the end.” (Knickerbocker para. 21). The consumers are partly responsible but they aren’t completely responsible. The responsibility of cleaning up the pollution lies with everyone.
Knickerbocker, Brad. Superfund Program: A Smaller Cleanup Rag. Nov. 14 2003. Oct 2 2007.


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