Our executive director Betty Lyons was just interviewed for “Cicadas: ‘The other white meat’” by Mary Annette Pember for Indian Country Today.
The memory of that time [Sullivan-Clinton Campaign] is so indelible that even today the Onondaga call every U.S. president by the same name they called Washington after his campaign of destruction – Hanadaga’yas, or destroyer of villages.
With their crops and food destroyed, the Onondaga faced starvation. But an unlikely ally came to the rescue, the emergence of the 17-year periodical cicadas.
