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Scott Manning Stevens

Scott Manning Stevens

Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University; enrolled citizen of Akwesasne Mohawk Nation

Jul 29, 2026

14:49
So if you were to like close your eyes and, like, imagine what this would've looked like in 1778, like, can you describe it?
14:58
Beautiful.
14:59
I love the Finger Lakes.
15:00
They're these really, you know, they're, they're quite long, but thin, so you can see across them easily, and I, I find them kind of serene.
15:11
It would've been forested in some places, and farmland in, in others.
15:16
There'd be a number of large, um, traditional style long houses.
18:17
region.What does it feel like to see a monument celebrating that?
18:24
Well, it's a bitter thing.
12:45
So if you were to, like, close your eyes and, like, imagine what this would've looked like in 1778, like, can you describe it?
12:53
Beautiful.
12:54
I love the Finger Lakes.
12:55
They're these really ...
12:58
You know, they're, they're quite long, but thin, so you can see across them easily, and I, I find them kind of serene.
13:07
It would've been forested in some places and farmland in, in others.
13:11
There'd be a number of large, um, traditional style long houses.
16:14
What does it feel like to see a monument celebrating that?

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