Header image by Jess Cherofsky. Image description: A bright green wetland, an area of clear water with lily pads, under a bright blue summer sky. 

Welcome

Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation are joining with the Nation to defend their unceded homelands from a
​massive industrial development project sited on the boundary of their Reservation, located in western New York.
The project is already underway despite lacking several critical permits.

​Click below to learn more about the Nation, their homelands, the development, & our solidarity campaign.
Close-up of a white trillium, a flower with three broad, creased, pointed white petals and a yellow center, with three similar green leaves. There are more trillium flowers in the background and a bed of brown leaves below.
Photo by Jess Cherofsky

​About

Click here to learn more about the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation. 
The lower part of a huge maple tree growing in a pool of water, with many smaller trees around. The base of the tree is moss-covered, and around are many ferns and other vegetation.
Freeman Maple by Catherine Landis. Used with permission of TSN. All rights reserved.

Protect the Big Woods campaign

One of Western New York’s greatest treasures is a 20,000-acre wetland-grassland complex. The area is home to the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, part of the Haudenosaunee. ​Now, this place and the Nation itself face an existential threat.
​Click here to continue reading.
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A Scarlet Tanager - a bright red bird with black wings, tail, bill, and eye - is perched on a branch amidst a scene of criss-crossing dark branches and blurred green trees and leaves in the background.
Scarlet Tanager by Jonathan Kresge. Used with permission of TSN. All rights reserved.

​Take Action

Click here for our November 10 action alert!

OUR GOAL

We are rallying allies in support of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and their fight to protect these sacred lands & waters.
​Join with us!
Photo by Jess Cherofsky. Image description: Macro photo of sundews - tiny bright red and green carnivorous plants that grow in wetlands, glowing with droplets of the substance they use to attract their prey. The red part of the sundew is reaching out like tentacles and there is an insect captured in the central plant in the image.

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