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Colgate University in November returned more than 1,500 items that the Oneidas had buried with their dead as far back as 400 years ago.

From Washington Times • May 15, 2023

Representative of the Oneidas, Colgate and the museum will attend the repatriation ceremony Wednesday at the university.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2022

The Oneidas once held six million acres in New York, but agreed to a treaty ceding nearly all their land to the state.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2022

“The mistake the Oneidas made and everyone else made,” he said, “was they believed in the sanctimony of the movement.”

From Washington Post • May 21, 2016

But the awful fear of fire was in this whimpering wretch, and I was ashamed to have my Oneidas see a white man so stricken with cowardly terrors.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)