Educational Resources
Several museums and other places in New York State feature exhibits and programming about the Haudenosaunee.
National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian
Institution
George Gustav Heye Center
New York, New York
www.nmai.si.edu
This Manhattan museum features changing exhibits about
cultures throughout the Western Hemisphere and has an
entire room about the Haudenosaunee.
The New York State Museum
222 Madison Ave
Albany, New York
www.nysm.nysed.gov
Exhibits picturing native life in the state over the last
12,000 years include dioramas of an Iroquois corn field and
the interior of a longhouse. Contemporary beadwork is
featured, extensive web site with historic pictures
Six Nations Indian Museum
Onchiota, New York (in the Adirondacks)
www.sixnationsindianmuseum.com
Founded by Ray Fadden and run by his son and grandsons,
this museum was the first to teach about the Iroquois. Open
only during the summer.
Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, New York
www.iroquoismuseum.org
An educational institution dedicated to fostering
understanding of Iroquois culture using Iroquois art as a
window to that culture. As an anthropological institution,
it is informed by research on archaeology, history, and the
common creative spirit of modern artists and craftspeople.
Extensive web site, exhibits, gift shop, public
events.
Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community
Near Fonda, New York
in the Mohawk Valley
www.Mohawkcommunity.com
Mohawk land where in 1993 Mohawks returned to the home of
their ancestors where they hold classes and festivals, no
museum
Akwesasne
Hogansburg, New York
www.akwesasneculture.org
www.nc3r.org/akwlibr/
Mohawk reservation in New York, Ontario, and Quebec, small
museum
Shako:wi Cultural Center
Oneida, New York
www.oneidaindiannation.com/culture/shako
Small museum located on the original 32 acre Oneida land
base
Ganondagan State Historic Site
Victor, New York
www.ganondagan.org
Ganondagan is the site of a Seneca village destroyed in
1687 which was designated a State Historic site in 1987
where nature trails, a recreated longhouse, gift shop, and
interpretive center explain life over 300 years ago, public
programs including large July festival, extensive web site,
newsletters
Rochester Museum and Science Center
657 East Ave
Rochester, New York
www.rmsc.org
Features the Keepers of the Western Door exhibit that
includes the largest display of Iroquois artifacts in the
state, web site contains pictures of objects collected by
Morgan before 1850
Letchworth State Park
Castile, New York
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/79/details.aspx
"Grand Canyon of the East" park that includes
home of Mary Jemison, "white woman of the
Genesee," museum with information about her and the
Senecas with whom she lived, historic structures, hiking
trails
Seneca-Iroquois National Museum
Salamanca, New York
www.senecamuseum.org
www.sni.org
Seneca nation designed and operated by the Seneca Nation of Indians,
exhibits on clans, history, and material culture of the
Seneca, craft classes, nation supported annual festival
Site of 2010 Iroquois Beadwork Conference in
September.
Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Hwy 80
Cooperstown, New York
Tel: 1-888-547-1450
www.fenimoreartmus.org
Extensive collection of American Indian art, including some
Iroquois material on exhibit and in open storage.