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Today, the Oneida Indian Nation maintains sovereignty over roughly 18,000 acres of land in Madison and Oneida County, New York where they operate a number of businesses under the 2013 landmark agreement between the OIN, the State of New York, and Madison and Oneida Counties. These businesses include a resort with a Class III gambling casino.
The parent organization for the business operations of the Oneida Indian Nation, Turning Stone Enterprises is among the largest employers in Central New York with a team of over 5,000 individuals spanning hotels, restaurants, gaming, golf, spas, convenience stores and more.
The Oneida Nation is an Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking nation, whose ancestors came from what is now central-eastern New York. They became one of the original Five Nations of the powerful Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy .
Learn how the Oneida Indian Nation helped America win its independence and became an economic engine for Central New York.
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Ray Halbritter, Nation Representative of the Oneida Indian Nation Inc. since 1975 and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its enterprises since 1990, has led the Oneida people to an economic and cultural renaissance during the past 30 years. His accomplishments include achieving federal government recognition of the Nation’s traditional form of govern...
Under Halbritter’s leadership, the Oneida Indian Nation endowed a professorship at Harvard Law School for teaching American Indian law, sponsored the “True Spirit of Thanksgiving,” the first-ever American Indian-sponsored float in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and earned the 2007 Condé Nast Johansens “Most Excellent Resort” award for a...
Halbritter is chairman of the Turning Stone Resort Championship and the Upstate New York Empowerment Fund, the charitable arm of the tournament, which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for dozens of Central New York charities and civic groups. He serves on the boards of directors of the Environmental Media Association and the Harvard Nati...
Halbritter was named one of Temple Adath Yeshurun’s Citizens of the Year in 2008. He also won the “Person of Achievement” Award from The Post-Standard (Syracuse), the Paul Harris Fellow Award from the Rotary Foundation, an award from the Rome Area Chamber of Commerce for “Outstanding Contribution to the Economic Vitality of the Community,” and the ...
Halbritter has been leading a vocal protest against the name of the NFL Washington Redskins team, calling it racially insensitive. On January 31, 2014 he met with the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan While his protests fell on deaf ears, the Washington Redskins finally gave up the name after Nike pulled...
Critics inside the tribe have accused Halbritter of being a dictator, a heavy-handed leader who "answers to no one," according to Doug George-Kanentiio, the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association.Halbritter's initiatives have been criticized by some Oneida, who say he has violated the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee by embracing g...
Since 1992, the Oneida Indian Nation has invested more than $6 billion in its government programs and business enterprises, which now help draw more than 4.5 million visitors annually to the region.
Oneida Innovations Group is a Native American tribally owned information technology enterprise of the Oneida Indian Nation providing cyber solutions to government and leading industries.
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