Barrage Kinzua

The Kinzua Dam, on the Allegheny River in Warren County, Pennsylvania, is one of the largest dams in the United States east of the Mississippi River. It is located within the Allegheny National Forest. The dam is located east of Warren, Pennsylvania, along Route 59, within the Allegheny National Forest. A boat marina and beach are located within the dam boundaries. In addition to providing flood control and power generation, the dam created Pennsylvania's second deepest lake, the Allegheny Reservoir, also known as Kinzua Lake, and Lake Perfidy among the Seneca. Quaker Lake, a smaller artificial lake that empties into the reservoir, was also formed as a result of the dam. The lake extends 25 miles to the north, nearly to Salamanca, New York, which is within the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of New York. Federal condemnation of tribal lands to be flooded for the project displaced more than 600 Seneca members and cost the reservation , nearly one-third of its territory and much of its fertile farmland. In 1936, a major flood struck the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and caused widespread damage. This prompted Congress to pass the Flood Control Acts of 1936 and 1938, authorizing the construction of a dam on the Allegheny River. Construction of the dam was not begun by the US Army Corps of Engineers until 1960. It was completed in 1965, and the filling of the reservoir continued until 1967. By then, considerable opposition to the dam had developed, particularly among the Seneca Nation of Indians based in New York. The proposed flooding of lands behind the dam to create a lake for recreation and hydropower would make them lose most of the historic Cornplanter Tract in Pennsylvania as well as numerous communities and thousands of acres of fertile farmland in New York. More than 600 families were displaced by the project and forced to relocate. The main purpose of the dam was flood control on the Allegheny River. Kinzua controls drainage on a watershed of , an area twice the size of the state of Rhode Island.

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Cornplanter

John O'Bail (né vers 1740 et mort en 1836), connu en seneca sous les noms de Kaiiontwa'kon (Kaintwakon) ou Gaiänt'wakê (Gyantwachia, « le planteur ») et ainsi connu sous le nom de Cornplanter, est un chef de guerre de la tribu amérindienne des Sénécas. Né vers 1740 à Canawaugus, dans ce qui est de nos jours l'État de New York, Cornplanter est le fils d'une mère sénéca et d'un père hollandais, marchand de fourrures. Son demi-frère Handsome Lake, était un chef religieux sénéca de la nation iroquoise et son neveu, le gouverneur Blacksnake, était un chef de guerre sénéca.

Barrage Kinzua

Iroquois

Les Iroquois, dont l'endonyme est Haudenosaunee (« le peuple aux longues maisons »), connus aussi par l'expression Cinq-Nations ou Cinq Cantons puis Six-Nations, constituent un regroupement de peuples autochtones d'Amérique du Nord faisant partie de la famille linguistique iroquoienne, à la manière d'une confédération. Ils comprennent effectivement cinq puis six nations, soit les Mohawks, les Onneiouts, les Onondagas, les Sénécas, les Cayugas et, après 1722, les Tuscaroras, vivant historiquement dans le nord de l'État de New York, aux États-Unis, ainsi qu'au sud du lac Ontario et du fleuve Saint-Laurent, au Canada.