Seneca People



Ancestral Homeland: Seneca Lake to Allegheny River now in western New York

One of the Iroquois Nations- largest tribe

Prominent Leaders: Cornplanter (ayentwahga, John O'Bail), Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha), Ely Parker

Brief Timeline

 * 1775-1783: Fought with British during the Revolutionary War
 * 1831: ceded land removed to Indian Territory
 * 1838: Treaty of Buffalo Creek the tribe lose their New York reservations
 * 1842: Regained the Cattaraugus and Allegheny Reservations
 * 1848: become Seneca Nation of Indians
 * 1857: repurchase the Tonawanda and Buffalo Creek lands using money they had for relocation to Kansas.

Reservations
Three State Reservations:


 * Allegany
 * Cattaraugus
 * Oil Springs

Tonawanda Band of Seneca reservation near Akron, New York

Six Nations Reserve, Ontario

Seneca-Cayuga Tribe hold land in Ottawa County, Oklahoma

Records
Correspondence and Census

Treaties


 * 1784 October 22, at Fort Harmar
 * 1789 January 9, at Fort Harmar
 * 1792 April 23, with the Five Nations of Indians
 * 1794 November 11, at Konondaigua
 * 1797 September 15, on Genesee River
 * 1802 June 30, at Buffalo Creek
 * 1802 June 30,
 * 1814 July 22, at Greenville
 * 1815 September 8, at Spring Wells
 * 1817 September 29, on the Miami
 * 1818 September 17, at St. Mary's
 * 1823 September 3, unratified
 * 1831 February 28, at Washington
 * 1831 July 20, at Lewistown
 * 1832 December 29, at Seneca Agency
 * 1835 August 24, at Camp Holmes
 * 1838 January 15, at Buffalo Creek, with New York Indians
 * 1842 May 20, at Buffalo Creek
 * 1857 November 5,
 * 1865 September 13, at Fort Smith - unratified
 * 1867 February 23, at Washington

Vital Records 


 * Quapaw Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1932, FHL Film: 581408

Important Web Sites
Seneca History -- from Seneca Nation website -- http://www.senecaindian.com/seneca_tribal.htm

Seneca History -- Wikipedia article -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_nation

Seneca Tribal History -- from Handbook of American Indians... by Frederick Webb Hodge -- http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/seneca/senecahist.htm

Seneca History -- from Catholic Encyclopedia -- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13714a.htm