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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Hill

Rejected by US courts, Onondaga Nation take centuries-old land rights case to international panel

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The Onondaga Nation has protested for centuries that illegal land grabs shrank its territory from what was once thousands of square miles in upstate New York to a relatively paltry patch of land south of Syracuse.

It took its case to President George Washington, to Congress and, more recently, to a U.S. court.

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