The Friends of Ganondagan is the private, non-profit organization that supports Ganondagan, the 17th century town of over 4000 Seneca Indians, and a national landmark and NYS historic site now. The Friends provide a lot of educational and cultural events to over 3500 school children and over 40,000 visitors each year. The strength of the Seneca People rests in their ability to achieve a lasting and sustainable peace with their former enemies through the creation of the League of the Iroquois. We focus our programs on this message of peace.

 

Our services and programs are expanding quickly and we are building a new year-round Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan. We have launched our first social entrepreneurship  in our Iroquois White Corn Project, a low glycemic, complex carbohydrate that served, along with beans and squash, as the healthy basis of the traditional Seneca diet.

 

We need volunteers interested in promulgating the message of peace through creative program design and delivery. Our Program Director, Jeanette Miller, a Mohawk, has twenty plus years of experience in communicating Ganondagan's message and would love to have you join her and her Programming and Partnership Team. If you want to find out more, then please call Laurie Allan at 585-820-3769 or e-mail her at cherrg1@aol.com.