Syracuse.com
by Greg Coin
Syracuse, N.Y. – Centuries after losing nearly all of their land to the state of New York, the Onondaga Nation will see the return of a 1,000-acre sliver of their original, 2.5-million-acre territory.
U.S., state and Onondaga Nation officials announced today that the nation will be given two heavily forested parcels, one at the headwaters of Onondaga Creek, considered sacred by the nation.
The Tully land is now owned by Honeywell, the company responsible for cleaning Onondaga Lake and restoring area lands and waterways after decades of pollution.
It is one of the largest land transfers made to an Indian nation in the United States, officials said, and the first time that land has been returned directly to a New York tribe.