Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center

The Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center opened in 1954, and is operated as a public museum, open seasonally. In the words of its manager: “The center’s design reflects the architecture of a traditional Haudenosaunee (Six Iroquois Nations Confederacy) bark house, and is a metaphor for the Six Nations Confederacy, symbolically stretching from East to West across ancestral territory. The Six Nations are: The Mohawks are the Keepers of the Eastern Door, the Senecas are the Keepers of the Western Door, the Onondagas are the Fire Keepers and the Oneidas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras (admitted into the Confederation in the early 18th century) are the Younger Brothers. The center houses a myriad of pre-contact, and post-contact artifacts, contemporary arts and crafts, diagrammatic charts, posters, and other items of Haudenosaunee culture. The objects within the center are primarily representative of the Haudenosaunee, but there are representations of other Native American cultures as well.”