Seneca president redefining native leadership
To understand the modern Seneca Nation – and its president of 9 months, Robert Odawi Porter - start here, in Allegany, one of the Seneca’s two territories in southwestern New York near the Pennsylvania border. A paved road turns to dirt and disappears into the woods.
DAVID: We’re standing at the end of Old Route 17 and there’s a “road closed” and a concrete bunker, but if you go down this road a quarter of a mile, there’s the old Red bridge? And the former community of Red House?
Leslie Logan is spokeswoman for the Seneca Nation. Sixty years ago, this road meandered past thriving communities, with Seneca homes along the Alleghany River, hunting and fishing grounds, cemeteries, churches, schools.
[schoolchildren sing national anthem]
That’s from a video of Seneca children chanting the Pledge of Allegiance at one of those schools. But in the 1960s, the U.S. government decided it needed the land to control flooding downriver in Pittsburgh. The Army Corps of Engineers condemned the villages, burnt down the houses and schools and churches, and built the Kinzua hydropower dam. The Senecas had fought the plan in Washington for years. Johnny Cash even sang a song about it.
…Across the Allegheny River they're throwing up a dam
Flash forward to today. Rob Porter, as he’s known, has taken the helm of a native Nation awash in money. 600 million dollars in annual revenue from three casinos.
[casino sound]
A cigarette trade worth tens of millions more. A radio station.
[radio station]
And a fancy new administration building, where Rob Porter’s office is…
Yeah, we can sit on the couch…
Porter’s a big guy at 6-foot-4. He has graying hair. He’s dressed casually for a president in a striped button-down and khakis.
Porter says Senecas enjoy universal health care, college tuition assistance, subsidized day care, new sports complexes. For a few years, there was even a program that paid Senecas 1400 dollars a year to lose weight.
In New York State, the Senecas and other native tribes are often portrayed as villains, getting rich off gambling and tobacco addicts.
Porter bristles at that criticism.
Right when we’re starting to recover from a couple hundred years of deprivation, I’ve even had members of Congress, their staff, tell us, y’know, you guys really should be getting into something else. This is really not something you should be doing, and I just can’t believe the hypocrisy of that.
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The Nation's new president, Robert Odawi Porter, has taken a lead role in negotiating native issues with the Cuomo Administration. Porter wants the Senecas to go beyond smoke shops and slot machines. He's a Harvard-educated lawyer and academic.
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DEVENS -- Harvard selectmen created their own Devens Economic Advisory Team to advise on the revenue pluses and minuses associated with providing municipal services to Devens. The DEAT reports back to the Harvard board on Sept. 6.
Regarding the proposed Vicksburg Square development, the DEAT has also shared its findings with the Joint Boards of Selectmen for Ayer, Shirley and Harvard. The 19-acre campus straddles the Ayer/Harvard town line.
Boston-based Trinity Financial proposes a 248-unit apartment complex in the four main buildings that once served as office space and barracks for the U.S. Army.
Vicksburg Square is zoned to allow only innovation and technology uses. This fall, Trinity Financial will seek tri-town approval to allow the residential reuse of the buildings.
DEAT Chairman Victor Normand said his committee quizzed Trinity about its market research which allegedly revealed a demand for rental housing. But Normand said Trinity steered Byrne McKinney & Associates to provide results to justify the developer's affordable housing plans.
"We asked 'Did that market really correspond to the housing needs locally?' Their market extends from Interstate 495 to Fitchburg," said Normand. "If you read it carefully, basically what it appears is that their assignment to McKinney was: 'We intend to build a 246-unit low-income tax credit rental project 80/20 -- with 80-percent affordable and 20-percent market set rents. Is there a market? If we build this, can we fill it?' and Byrne McKinney came back yes.'"
Trinity hosted workshops last fall to solicit community input on how to repurpose the buildings. Requests were made for retail shops, research and development space, and assisted living quarters.
"They didn't do a marketing study of the needs in this area," said Normand. "There's a big difference."
Normand said Trinity didn't place Harvard in its five-town "primary" market area of Shirley, Ayer, Lunenburg, Lancaster and Sterling.
Why?
"They really didn't give an answer," said Normand. Harvard, Groton and Littleton to the east, and Fitchburg and Leominster to the west, were identified as "secondary" market areas.
"Their marketing study was structured in such a way that it responded to what they intended to build," said Normand. "They identified a market and it just so happened that primary market didn't include Harvard, but it does include Ayer and Shirley.
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