On Sunday, August 23, Judy Blackchief, North Church’s bookkeeper, gave the invocation at the historic wreathlaying ceremony held at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, where Ely S. Parker is interred. Parker was a Seneca attorney, engineer and tribal diplomat. He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel during the American Civil War, when he served as adjutant…

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