Yes, we have seen the displays, both at the New York State Museum in Albany and the Shakowi Cultural Center in Oneida. If you do a search for these place sin my website’s search bar, you will see the posts for these places.

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You might be interested to know that sometime around 1900′s, a Museum in Albany decided to create full size display models representative of the various Indian tribes in NY. They also had authentic Indian baskets, weavings, fishing tools, a baby model in a papoose, and much more from New York State tribes.

For many years they were stored in Albany and then a few years ago the Oneida Nation was given their representative displays to the Cultural Center in Oneida, NY. They are just so beautifully detailed.

One model was created using an actual Oneida Indian woman, while at Nichol’s Pond (above)in Madison County, NY as their background. These displays are at the Cultural Center in Oneida, NY. They are so realistic and detailed within their settings that makes this visit so special.

The Bank of New York (now The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation), the oldest bank in the United States, was established by Alexander Hamilton. I love interesting historical facts!

No, Hamilton never set foot on the campus; he and George Washington were trustees. Samuel Kirkland was a minister from Connecticut; he left his area to come to the wilderness of New York State, to begin missions to the Indians here. My daughter has loads and loads of information about it (as you can probably assume!).

The college was initially called the Oneida-Hamilton University or something like it. Hamilton was a champion for getting Congress to honor her pledges of land to soldiers and patriots, after the Revolutionary War. Hamilton was personally responsible for securing Baron von Steuben’s tract up in Remsen, for the Baron’s great work during the War. I greatly admire Hamilton.