Our government is violating treaties.
Halftown is violating human rights.
We're telling our government: Halftown Must Go.
Our government is violating treaties.
Halftown is violating human rights.
We're telling our government: Halftown Must Go.
Who We Are: Halftown Must Go is a campaign organized by people of the U.S. in solidarity with the governance & community-building prerogatives of Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ citizens & titleholders living on their ancestral land. See below for a more detailed history of the campaign.
Our Purpose: We take collective action to prompt the US government to: heed Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ removal of Clint Halftown; respect Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ and broader Haudenosaunee governance decisions and protocols; and honor treaties, specifically the Two Row Wampum and the Treaty of Canandaigua.
Accountability: HMG works in dialogue and alignment with Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ community organizing and diplomatic efforts. We remain attentive to the nuances of cross-National collaboration, and specifically in accordance with the principles and values of the Two Row Wampum: mutual respect, peace, and friendship.
In an effort to support allies in taking initiative and organizing collective action under the umbrella of #HalftownMustGo, we created a simple set of Points of Unity. These points of unity serve as baseline principles and commitments that we agree to abide by and keep at the forefront of our hearts and minds in our work to support Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ community & governance.
All who agree on these points of unity are invited to work under the umbrella of #HalftownMustGo as we act toward a post-colonial future on Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ land where Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ sovereignty is thriving and respected.
In this moment, these points of unity guide us to heed calls from Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ governance. Our shared goals are:
HalftownMustGo began as a week of action in response to a call for assistance from Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ titleholders in a May 2021 letter. This letter requests that people of the U.S. hold the U.S. government accountable for continuing to recognize and enable Clint Halftown's regime despite his removal by his Clan Mother. This continued recognition and support make the U.S. government complicit in the Halftown regime's ongoing and escalating human rights abuses.
From the beginning, the responsibility of settlers in organizing this work has been grounded in dialogue with Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ neighbors about the Two Row Wampum treaty, in which it was agreed that settlers and Haudenosaunee people (of which the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ are part) should uphold values of peace, friendship, and non-interference in each other's governance. In accordance with our understanding of this treaty, which developed in conversation with Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ titleholders and community members, HMG believes that settlers must take responsibility for the ways the U.S. government has already interfered—and continues to interfere—by recognizing Halftown. Like Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ titleholders, we view the U.S. government's ongoing, active state of interference in Gayogohono governance as a violation of the Two Row Wampum treaty.
After a week of action in August, 2021, we used HMG social media pages to share public education materials and build the campaign. We supported efforts of allies around Cayuga Lake who successfully advocated for their municipalities to pass resolutions urging the federal government to follow their lead in working only with the traditional governance in any and all government-to-government interactions (such as in Dryden). We organized a trip to Washington, D.C. in May of 2022, where we held a demonstration on the steps of the Department of Interior (which houses the Bureau of Indian Affairs) and met with staff from the offices of Senators Gillibrand and Schumer.
We continued advocating with senators' staff upon our return from D.C., holding several meetings with titleholders, attorneys, allies, local U.S. elected officials, and senator office staff, and even once directly speaking with Senator Gillibrand herself. Unfortunately, these efforts did not lead to the results we wanted—staffers moved on and changed positions, lukewarm assurances did not translate to meaningful action, and the senators failed to do even the bare minimum of acknowledging the tragedy and injustice of Halftown's destruction of Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ ceremonial space.
Due to their wide reach, we used HMG social media accounts in a responsive manner later in 2022 to raise awareness regarding violent evictions, demolitions, and kidnappings perpetrated by Halftown and his 'police' force, and to assist as we were able in coordinating on-the-ground support amidst the violence. This was not the original intent of these accounts, but one that was responsive, in real time, to violence and harm as experienced by Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ folks with whom we have built relationships during the HMG campaign.
While the HMG campaign has not yet succeeded in ending U.S. recognition of Halftown's regime, we are committed to continuously working toward a movement based on cultivating relationships of care both with Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ folks and amongst allies around the lake.
In January 2026, Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ folks in Seneca Falls asked us to revive HMG social media presence and bring awareness to the Halftown regime's more recent efforts to silence the community of Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ families who continue to live in accordance with their Nation's rightful governance processes. As they do so, Halftown's regime has enacted more evictions, pursued legal efforts to 'banish' one citizen, and continued to engage in "lawfare," endlessly filing lawsuits to try to expand and solidify power.
More recently, Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ community members began hosting a series of Q&A sessions around the lake, spreading awareness of the Halftown regime's violence toward their community and way of life. In turn, HMG organizes monthly 'Q & Action' sessions, where we gather to build community around supporting Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀo community-building efforts.
