George Heron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge Heron
tribal leader
Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1919
Place of Birth: Red House, New York, United States
Date of Death: 26-May-2011
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About George Heron
- George D.
- Heron (February 22, 1919 – May 26, 2011) was president of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Seneca Nation of New York) from 1958 to 1960 and again from 1962 to 1964.
- In addition to his cultural and community work, he is known as a leader of the Seneca opposition to Kinzua Dam, and for his work organizing the tribal resettlement. Heron was known as a tribal historian, Seneca language linguist, and teacher.
- He worked extensively with William N.
- Fenton, an ethnologist who studied and wrote about the Seneca and Iroquois Confederacy.
- A political progressive, Heron was a member of the New Deal Party, one of the political factions in the nation before the current Seneca Party achieved one-party rule in the 1990s.
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