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

Correspondence and Census

Treaties


 * 1784 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/nat0005.htm October 22, at Fort Harmar
 * 1789 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/six0023.htm January 9, at Fort Harmar
 * 1792 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/fiv1027.htm April 23, with the Five Nations of Indians
 * 1794 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/six0034.htm November 11, at Konondaigua
 * 1797 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen1027.htm September 15, on Genesee River
 * 1802 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0060.htm June 30, at Buffalo Creek
 * 1802 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0062.htm June 30,
 * 1814 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0105.htm July 22, at Greenville
 * 1815 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0117.htm September 8, at Spring Wells
 * 1817 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0145.htm September 29, on the Miami
 * 1818 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0162.htm September 17, at St. Mary's
 * 1823 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen1033.htm September 3, unratified
 * 1831 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0325.htm February 28, at Washington
 * 1831 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0327.htm July 20, at Lewistown
 * 1832 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0383.htm December 29, at Seneca Agency
 * 1835 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/com0435.htm August 24, at Camp Holmes
 * 1838 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/new0502.htm January 15, at Buffalo Creek, with New York Indians
 * 1842 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0537.htm May 20, at Buffalo Creek
 * 1857 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0767.htm November 5,
 * 1865 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0960.htm September 13, at Fort SMith - unratified
 * 1867 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0960.htm 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