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Councilman Questions

Monument Referring

To Iroquois 'Savagery'

Murphy Said He Will Raise Issue

Today Before Rights Commission

By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Council member Luke Murphy, First Ward, is facting-finding on what to do about this marker, in front of Oneonta Neahwa Park, which refers to the "savagery" of the Iroquois people.

ONEONTA –  After 118 years, Common Council member Luke Murphy, First Ward, is concerned about a marker in Neahwa Park referring to the “savagery” of the Iroquois pursued by the Clinton-Sullivan Expedition.

Murphy

A neighbor of Murphy’s walking through Neahwa Park alerted the freshman council member to the plaque at the park’s River Street entrance, which says the 1779 expedition “destroyed the Indian savagery and opened the westward pathway of civilization.”

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