by Kurt Jordan
Kurt Jordan, currently the Director of Cornell’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program and a GRASAC Steering Committee member, recently published a short, public-facing book titled The Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ People in the Cayuga Lake Region. Jordan consulted with Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ leaders and speakers about the content of the book, and Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ language terms form an important part of the content.
The book was commissioned by the Tompkins County Historical Commission. It covers events from the last Ice Age to August 2021, discussing issues such as the time-depth of ancestral Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ occupation, processes of settler dispossession, Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ return to the region after the 1779 American Sullivan-Clinton invasion, and the reoccupation of the traditional homeland since 2003. The book was written with a non-scholarly audience in mind without citations or a bibliography.
Copies are available through the online bookshop of The History Center in Tompkins County. The cost is US$10.