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Tuscarora Summer 2003
STAFF NEIL PATTERSON
JR. LYNETTE PRINTUP RENE RICKARD BRYAN PRINTUP NYPA STAFF LEVI RICKARD MARILYN ISAACS MATTHEW PATTERSON RANDY GREENE If you have any questions, comments, articles, or editorials please direct them to: TEN Editor 2045 Upper MTN. Road Sanborn, NY 14132 or #716.609.3810 Page Index |
Tuscarora Index 1. The year U.S. Congress entered into a treaty, for the first time, with an Indian Nation: 17782. Number of years, in estimation, that the Tuscarora have ‘officially’ been the Sixth Nation: 283 3. The total of states that contain village sites the Tuscarora Nation have "rightful" claim to: 7 4. Number of Haudenosaunee Communities, as of 2002: 17 5. Number of different native plant species planted at the Tuscarora Elementary School Garden and Nature Trail: 17 6. Length, in miles, the Garden and Nature Trail is, if walked in a looped format: 3/4 7. According to the United States Census, the percentage of Tuscarora Nation residents that are ‘Native American’: 3/4 8. Percentage that are ‘Puerto Rican’: 1.2 9. The number of times the Tuscarora Nation participated in the United States Census, since 1972: 0 10. Number of distribution utility poles on the Tuscarora Nation: 453 11. The number of different locations the “Tuscarora National Picnic and Field Days” has been held on our Nation: 3 12. Rank, among Niagara County ‘Field Days’, the Tuscarora National Picnic and Field Days stands as the oldest: 1 13. Of 200 designated areas of high biological diversity worldwide, the percentage of them threatened by deforestation: 65 14. The amount of water, in gallons, a U.S. household uses per year: 146,000 15. Percentage of tribal croplands, on a national level, leased to `Non-Natives': 70 16. Reservation land, on a national level, classified as “highly productive" by the BIA: less than 1% Source Information, see page 11
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