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Syracuseprogram Layout 1 George Washington and the West FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013, 9:00 A.M. TO 4:00 P.M. PROGRAM SCHEDULE 8:30–9:00 am — Registration 9:00–9:15 am Welcome and Introductions 9:15–10:30 am Washington’s 1779 Campaign against the Haudenosaunee Dr. Philip P. Arnold, Director of Native American Studies,Syracuse University; Tadodaho Sidney Hill, Onondaga Nation 10:45 am – 12:45 pm Agriculture, Canals, and Washington’s Vision for the West: Teaching Trade, Commerce and Economy through Primary Documents Esther White, Director of Historic Preservation and Research, Mount Vernon Nancy Hayward, Director of Education Outreach, Mount Vernon 12:45 pm – 1:30 pm — Lunch 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm The Information Superhighway of its Day: The Erie Canal Dan Ward, Curator, Erie Canal Museum 2:15 pm – 4:00 pm Project Focused Tour and Discussion on STEM Connections This program is made possible by a generous gift from the Kenan Foundation Philip P. Arnold, Ph.D. Philip P. Arnold (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1992) is Associate Professor of Indigenous religions in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. Arnold specializes in the Indigenous religious traditions of the Americas. He worked in Mesoamerican materials for fifteen years culminating in Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan (University of Colorado Press, 1999). Since 1990 Arnold has been working more directly on issues related to Indigenous people in North America. He co-edited the book with Ann Grodzins Gold titled Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree (Ashgate, 2001). Also, The Gift of Sports: Indigenous Ceremonial Dimensions of the Games We Love (Cognella, 2012). Currently he is collaborating with the Haudenosaunee (i.e., the Six Nations Iroquois, or “People of the Longhouse”), in particular with the leadership of the Onondaga Nation, which is Central Fire of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and located 5 miles south of Syracuse. Arnold is active in issues related to “religion, spirituality, and land.” He has given several talks to local groups through his association with NOON (Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation), which is a grassroots organization sponsored through the Syracuse Peace Council. Arnold’s talks for NOON associate matters of religion, environmentalism, social justice, and land with respect to Haudenosaunee-U.S. relations. He has accompanied Haudenosaunee delegations to Tokyo, Japan; Melbourne, Australia and Oslo, Norway for meetings between scholars of religion and Indigenous people from around the world. He collaborated with people of the Onondaga Nation on an International Day of Peace event at Onondaga Lake in 2005-09. Since 2007 Arnold has co-organized the Doctrine of Discovery Study Group which brings together academics, students, community members and Haudenosaunee people from the city and the Onondaga Nation to discuss the legacy of Christianity in the destruction of Indigenous peoples. In 2009 he initiated the newsletter and website Indigenous Values Initiative in collaboration with the leadership of the Onondaga Nation. In 2013 he became the founding director of “Skä noñh, Great Law of Peace Center” at Onondaga Lake Park in Liverpool, NY. Tadodaho Sidney Hill Sidney Hill became the Tadodaho in 2002. As Tadodaho, Hill (referred to as "Tadodaho Sid Hill") led a group of people from the Onondaga Nation to file papers in United States federal court in 2005 claiming land ownership over 4,000 square miles (10,000 km2) in Upstate New York. The ownership assertion by the Onondaga included land from the Thousand Islands—through Syracuse, and up to the border of Pennsylvania. The Tadodaho is the spiritual leader of the Haudenosaunee which includes the Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca, and Tuscarora people. The title is also called the "Head Chief of All the Six Nations." The six nations of the Haudenosaunee (also called Iroquois) are presided over by a Grand Council, which is led by the Tadodaho. The Great Council Fire of the whole Iroquois Nation is located within the Onondaga Nation. Along with other Native American leaders, the Tadodaho is responsible for maintaining the history of the Haudenosaunee people. The position of Tadodaho is a lifetime appointment. According to tradition, when the previous Tadodaho dies, a confederacy council of chiefs from the Haudenosaunee chooses a leader from the Onondaga title holders. Esther C. White, Ph.D. Esther White, Director of Historic Preservation & Research, joined the archaeological staff at Mount Vernon, George and Martha ashington’sW Potomac River plantation, in 1989, overseeing the archaeological research since 1994. At Mount Vernon, the permanent archaeology program is designed to study the layout of the plantation and the interaction of the Washington family with the slaves and white servants that lived on the 8,000 acre farm. Archaeological excavations to date have studied slave life, daily life in the Mansion, blacksmithing and whiskey distilling, among other activities. A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Ms. White graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in history and anthropology. Combining her love of history with the thrill of discovery, she studied Historical Archaeology in Williamsburg, VA, receiving her MA from the College of William and Mary. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in England. She and her husband live in Alexandria with their two boys, dog and two cats. Nancy Hayward Nancy Hayward, Director of Education Outreach has worked at George Washington’s Mount Vernon for 19 years. Ms. Hayward oversees all out- reach education and professional development initiatives for educators; Mount Vernon’s distance learning programming, and the creation of electronic resources for both teachers and students. She served as the web master for the Mount Vernon web sites (1995 – 2000) and is producer of the interactive CD-ROM, Dig Into George Washington. She served as the project manager and writer (with Esther White and Amy Shook) of Digging Through Time: Archaeology and Slave Life at Mount Vernon ( Jackdaw Publications, 1999) and project manager and principal writer (with Dennis Pogue, Peg Pokusa, John Riley and Mary Thompson) of George Washington: Gentleman from Mount Vernon, Cobblestone Publishing, Teaching With Primary Sources, Volume 14, 1999, as well as editor and contributing writer to “Slavery at Mount Vernon”, Footsteps Magazine, November 2000 and “A Visit to Mount Vernon”, Cobblestone Magazine, January 2013. Ms. Hayward received a B.A. in history and American studies from Mary Washington College and an M.A.T. in Museum Education from The George Washington University. Daniel Franklin Ward Daniel Franklin Ward is Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse. Since 2004, he has co-directed collaborations with a number of organizations along the Erie Canalway Corridor on an extensive documentation of contemporary culture along inland waterways in upstate New York. One outcome of this project will be a feature length documentary film that examines the cultural impact of economic boom and bust cycles in canalside communities throughout the Erie Canal’s two centuries of operation. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Bowling Green and an M.A. from the Cooperstown Graduate Program..
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