Why it took Seneca leader and Civil War general Ely S. Parker 176 years to be admitted to the NY bar
By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by anoth...
The recognition comes 130 years after his death, following efforts by his descendants. By CAROLYN THOMPSON BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in P...
It is, perhaps, a fruitless endeavor to demand that Howard Foster be fired or fined in the wake of yet another controversial stoppage. The reality is far more disheartening and rooted in the very fabr...
