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Oneida Member Mary Winder

Mary Winder


In an era when minorities were allotted few freedoms, Mary Cornelius Winder (Wolf Clan) came of age.

In 1920 at age 22, she threw off the confines society sought to inflict upon her, and began what would become her lifetime crusade -- winning recognition of the Oneida Nation's right to thousands of acres of its ancestral lands guaranteed to the Oneida People in the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua. Mary had inherited this mission from her father, Wilson Cornelius, and she in turn would pass it down to her daughter, Gloria, and grandson, Ray Halbritter. ...
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