With the use of various search engines one can access thousands of website with information about our friend Ben Franklin, However, I am very selective of the links that I post on the AYD website. Listed below are several websites that will save you time and expand your search for information. I post additional links from time to time based on the interest our clients and the time of year. Your feedback is appreciated.
Art Yeaman, DEEEEA – (Director of Environment, Enlightenment, Entertainment and Educational Affairs)
The the first few websites are specific to BF's life and the City of Philadelphia. Others are devoted to matters of interest to Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
Do you have a favorite BF link? Do you have a questsions about BF?
The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, one of the world's oldest democracies. It is at least three centuries older than most previous estimates, according to research by Barbara Mann and Jerry Fields of Toledo University, Ohio. Using a combination of documentary sources, solar eclipse data, and Iroquois oral history, Mann and Fields assert that the Iroquois Confederacy's body of law was adopted by the Senecas (the last of the five nations to ratify it) August 31, 1142. The ratification council convened at a site that is now a football field in Victor, New York. The site is called Gonandaga by the Seneca.
It is now time for a destructive order to be reversed, and it is well to inform other races that the aboriginal cultures of North America were not devoid of beauty. Furthermore, in denying the Indian his ancestral rights and heritages the white race is but robbing itself. America can be revived, rejuvenated, by recognizing a Native School of thought.
Chief Luther Standing Bear Lakota (Sioux) Land of the Spotted Eagle
