"One example of the violation of the (Canandaigua) treaty by the United States government occurred in 1964 with the construction of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny river. The dam flooded 9000 acres of Seneca land on the Allegany Indian Reservation in western New York. This required our people to be relocated. It required the removal of our people from that valley which was our traditional farming land, the area where we gather our medicines. It required the moving of our cemeteries from that location to another location. It required us to extinguish the fire of our traditional Longhouse, to move it to another Longhouse, to build another fire there, and to hold the ceremony that is involved in the moving of a fire. Following that, we were relocated on the Allegany reservation in suburban-type communities at Steamburg and at Jimersontown, away from the rich valley where we had lived. We saw the land inundated with water. Our elders wept openly as a result of that." -An excerpt from a guest essay by G. Peter Jemison

from: http://www.ratical.com/ many_worlds/6Nations/ TreatyRights.html#fn2