How many here knew that George Washington ordered slaughter of Indians during Revolutionary War?

[H2O Man]

29. Great question!

One of the tasks the Grand Council of Chiefs gave Paul, that expanded our work together, was to teach about environmental issues. The federal Burial Protection & Repatriation Act had helped resolve most future cases of grave robbing. But there is still an issue with construction projects that destroy Savred Sites. The Confederacy sued the state on one, for failure to follow their own laws, but the site was destroyed in a rush to get gravel to cover a toxic industrial waste site that destroyed a community's water reservoir.

Paul used the Two Row Wampum Belt treaty -- their first with Euro-Americans -- to illustrate that we travel along side each other in the river of life. And that the Susquehanna is sacred, it is an essential part of life here. He spoke of how the decisions to destroy Sacred Sites almost always was related to things like toxic dumps. How we need to be conscious of the fact we are part of the living environment.

I'm not really familiar with your area's environmental issues, though they must be very similar, even exact, as what we face here. A lot of environmental groups have connections with the traditionals, and I think that is the best way. Heck, at the Jamesville re-burial ceremony, Paul invited the area's environmentalists. It was the first time non-Indians were allowed to watch (with very rare individual exceptions).