Guest Speaker Series: Dr. Randy John, “Oil Springs Territory”

The Holland Land Office is proud to announce the next presenter in our Guest Speaker Series on Thursday, June 18th at 7 pm. Randy John, Ph.D., will be presenting on “The Oil Spring Territory.” Randy John will be sharing the history of oil springs and wells on Seneca land, particularly the Oil Springs Reservation, and the importance of it in Seneca culture. Admission is by suggested donation. Please contact the museum at 585-343-4727 or hollandlandoffice@gmail.com if you plan to attend.

Thank you to Tompkins Community Bank and the Batavia Rotary Club for sponsoring in part the Guest Speaker Series.

“This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO ART!.

“GO ART! acknowledges that the land on which this project takes place is the ancestral territory of the Seneca Nation, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. GO ART! recognizes the historical and ongoing presence of Indigenous peoples in Western New York and honors their enduring relationship to this land.”