From left are Jilina Harris, Linda Kuzara, Carol Abell and Keri Wendel. Back row, from left, are Barbara Pietro, Bonnie Larkin, Deborah Langbaretel, Myra Johnston, Lisa Sedlmayer and Brenda Johnson. Submitted photo

Several members of the Benjamin Prescott Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently went on an historical fieldtrip to the DEYONOHSAGWEDE Cultural Center in Salamanca.

The Seneca-Iroquois National Museum is housed within the museum. DAR members heard a presentation of Native American history and the contemporary culture of the Haudenosaunee people with emphasis on the area’s Seneca people. The exhibits included arts and crafts — not just beading and basket making, but paintings and murals with turtle rattles and distinctive head ornamentation which depicted which clan one belonged to and the almost-lost Seneca Language that is now being taught again.

The next regular meeting of the Benjamin Prescott Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution is Nov. 1 at the Patterson Library in Westfield at 1 p.m.

Those who had an ancestor who fought for freedom in the Revolutionary War and would like to join can call Dawn Ubaney at 679-1218 or email gingerbread–8@hotmail.com.