Educational Resources

Several museums and other places in New York State feature exhibits and programming about the Haudenosaunee.

• National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution
  George Gustav Heye Center
  New York, New York
  www.nmai.si.edu
  This Manhattan museum features changing exhibits about cultures throughout the Western Hemisphere and has an entire room about the Haudenosaunee.

• The New York State Museum
  222 Madison Ave
  Albany, New York
  www.nysm.nysed.gov
  Exhibits picturing native life in the state over the last 12,000 years include dioramas of an Iroquois corn field and the interior of a longhouse. Contemporary beadwork is featured, extensive web site with historic pictures

• Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center
  Onchiota, New York (in the Adirondacks)
  www.sixnationsindianmuseum.com
  Founded by Ray Fadden and run by his son and grandsons, this museum was the first to teach about the Iroquois. Open only during the summer.

• Iroquois Indian Museum
  Howes Cave, New York
  www.iroquoismuseum.org
  An educational institution dedicated to fostering understanding of Iroquois culture using Iroquois art as a window to that culture. As an anthropological institution, it is informed by research on archaeology, history, and the common creative spirit of modern artists and craftspeople. Extensive web site, exhibits, gift shop, public events.

• Skä•noñh–Great Law of Peace Center
  Liverpool, New York
  www.skanonhcenter.org/
  As of January 1st 2013, the Onondaga Historical Association (OHA) took over management of the Onondaga County facility known as “Sainte Marie among the Iroquois” located on the eastern shore of Onondaga Lake. OHA is currently in the process re-purposing this facility into a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Heritage Center named the Skä•noñh–Great Law of Peace Center. Skä•noñh, is an Onondaga welcoming greeting meaning Peace and Wellness.

• Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community
  Near Fonda, New York
  in the Mohawk Valley
  www.Mohawkcommunity.com
  Mohawk land where in 1993 Mohawks returned to the home of their ancestors where they hold classes and festivals, no museum

• Akwesasne
  Hogansburg, New York
  www.akwesasneculture.org
  www.nc3r.org/akwlibr/
  Mohawk reservation in New York, Ontario, and Quebec, small museum

• Shako:wi Cultural Center
  Oneida, New York
  www.oneidaindiannation.com/culture/shako
  Small museum located on the original 32 acre Oneida land base

• Ganondagan State Historic Site
  Victor, New York
  www.ganondagan.org
  Ganondagan is the site of a Seneca village destroyed in 1687 which was designated a State Historic site in 1987 where nature trails, a recreated longhouse, gift shop, and interpretive center explain life over 300 years ago, public programs including large July festival, extensive web site, newsletters

• Rochester Museum and Science Center
  657 East Ave
  Rochester, New York
  www.rmsc.org
  Features the Keepers of the Western Door exhibit that includes the largest display of Iroquois artifacts in the state, web site contains pictures of objects collected by Morgan before 1850

• Letchworth State Park
  Castile, New York
  http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/79/details.aspx
  "Grand Canyon of the East" park that includes home of Mary Jemison, "white woman of the Genesee," museum with information about her and the Senecas with whom she lived, historic structures, hiking trails

• Seneca-Iroquois National Museum
  Onöhsagwë:dé Cultural Center
  Salamanca, New York
  www.senecamuseum.org
  www.sni.org
  Seneca nation designed and operated by the Seneca Nation of Indians, exhibits on clans, history, and material culture of the Seneca, craft classes, nation supported annual festival Site of 2010 Iroquois Beadwork Conference in September.

• Fenimore Art Museum
  5798 State Hwy 80
  Cooperstown, New York
  Tel: 1-888-547-1450
  www.fenimoreartmus.org
  Extensive collection of American Indian art, including some Iroquois material on exhibit and in open storage.