A march and ceremony in Canandaigua, New York on November 11 commemorated the 211th anniversary of the Canandaigua Treaty that established a relationship of peace and friendship between the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee, and the United States government. Although the United States has violated the terms of the treaty, including the seizure of 9,000 acres of Seneca land to build the Kinzua Dam in 1964, the treaty has upheld the sovereignty of both nations for more than two centuries, according to the Post-Standard online. This year's celebration was held in the front of the Ontario County Courthouse in Canandaigua, reported the Post-Standard, and honored the 1795 signing of the treaty by President George Washington, government agent Timothy Pickering, and 50 chiefs and sachems of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
