Onondaga Nation

Syracuse Post Standard By Elizabeth Doran Staff writer The Onondaga Nation School is taking an unusual approach to teaching in an effort to boost its pupils' state test scores. The school last year adopted collaborative, or "team," teaching in math and other core classes. Collaborative teaching traditionally involves a classroom teacher who periodically teams … [Read more...] about Onondaga Nation uses team teaching to improve scores

Syracuse Post Standard By Philip P. Arnold Syracuse University It wasn't until the Onondaga Nation filed its "land rights action" in U.S. Federal Court March 11, 2005, that I became fully aware of my living in a toxic soup. This action has identified over 90 Superfund sites in an area that extends from Canada south to the Pennsylvania line; through Watertown, … [Read more...] about Toxic Soup

Syracuse Post Standard By Delen Goldberg Staff writer Almost 100 people showed up Thursday at the state fairgrounds to discuss Honeywell International's strategy to clean Onondaga Lake, and the vast majority said they supported the company's plans. Only a handful of speakers criticized the cleanup project. The state Department of Environmental Conservation … [Read more...] about Many praise Honeywell’s plan; some say it’s not enough

The goal: bridging traditional ecological knowledge, conventional science. Syracuse Post Standard By Delen Goldberg Staff writer Robin Kimmerer has a goal. She wants to make sure that every environmental scientist who graduates from the State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry has an understanding of issues facing Native Americans. She … [Read more...] about ESF launches Native Peoples Center

Onondaga Nation objects to making Lake smaller Syracuse Post Standard By Delen Goldberg Staff writer This week, giant drills will plunge dozens of feet into the bottom of Onondaga Lake to bore huge holes in the lake floor. Thursday, workers will begin filling the holes with steel pilings, the first step in Honeywell International's plan to build a barrier wall in … [Read more...] about How to detoxify Onondaga Lake

Syracuse Post Standard By Dick Case Staff writer So, we're cleaning Onondaga Lake. Again. This gets to be an epic with thousands of years on it. First, natural forces had their way with the body of water. Then, man forced himself upon it. We're told this was an inland sea 10 million years ago. Our yards lay under hypersaline water that dropped many feet to a … [Read more...] about Salt Shook Up History Of Onondaga Lake

Syracuse Post Standard SEAN KIRST Staff writer Maybe two dozen people huddled in a pavilion Thursday at Willow Bay in Salina, near the shoreline of a wind-swept Onondaga Lake. They showed up to watch as civic officials officially announced that Honeywell International had agreed to spend $451 million on cleaning up the lake. Yet the question hanging over the event … [Read more...] about Doubts remain as deep as the lake