Seneca People

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

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

Brief Timeline
Fought with British during the Revolutionary War

1831: ceded land removed to Indian Territory

Reservations
Three State Reservations:


 * Allegany
 * Cattaraugus
 * Oil Springs

Tonawanda Band of Seneca reservation near Akron, New York

Six Nations Reserve, Ontario

Semeca-Cayuga Tribe hold land in Ottawa County, Oklahoma

Records
Agency Records

Correspondence and Census

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