Cattaraugus Reservation, Chautauqua County, New York

State Senator George Borrello and Assemblyman Andrew Molitar face similar challenges in their reelection campaigns for state office.

Borrello is challenged for the 57th State Senate District, which includes all of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties, and more, by Victoria Gweet-Williams, while Molotar is challenged in the 150th Assembly District, which includes all of Chautauqua County and the Cattaraugus Reservation in Erie County, by Thomas Carl of Fredonia.

The argument for both Democratic Party candidates is that a Democrat would find themselves working with a majority party in the Senate and Assembly, something that hasn't happened since the independent Democratic caucus dissolved and rejoined the rest of the state Senate Democrats in April 2018.

That, Democrats argue, will bring more state help to Chautauqua County.

And as they leave Palmyra, before they get to Kirtland, they stop off.

You can see here on my map where the, uh, Cattaraugus Reservation was, and they begin preaching the gospel there, and they have great success.

They leave copies of the Book of Mormon.

They have to use translators, but they're going very quickly.

Yeah, that would tick me off, too, and I do think it's rich that on this, uh, Monday, on this Columbus Day/Indigenous People Day, you've got people like Mark Poloncarz, who said to The Buffalo News, "We're looking at our options," when talking about the gas station.

Apparently today he says, "Our county is the proud home of the Seneca Nation, Cattaraugus Territory, and Tonawanda Seneca Nation.

Our region has been enriched by our indigenous friends' culture for centuries.

On this Indigenous People Day, learn more about the Seneca Nation." I mean, if that's not pandering to, uh, to the top degree.

They listened.

In the fall of 1929, on the Cattaraugus Reservation outside Buffalo, two women leaned over a Ouija board, waiting for the dead to speak.

On one side sat Nancy Bowen, a 66-year-old Seneca healer who was still mourning the sudden death of her husband, Charlie, known in the community as Sassafras Charlie, also a healer.

Across from her sat close friend Lila Jimerson, the 36-year-old model who had been working with Henry Marchand.

Section six, Gawahadis.

In the western part of the state of New York, there is a territory known as the Cattaraugus Reservation.

This is the home of the Senecas, one of the tribes of the Iroquois, or six nations of Indians of western New York.

There were six tribes that, in the early history of our country, formed a confederacy or union and were sometimes called the Huron Iroquois.