Nation

Cayuga

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Region: Northeast

In the record

The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Cayuga as a party: Treaty of Buffalo Creek with the New York Indians, 1838.

The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Cayuga: Fort Stanwix 1784: cession by Haudenosaunee delegates who lacked authority.

The records group it with Haudenosaunee (Six Nations). Today, Cayuga Nation and Seneca-Cayuga Nation carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

The record over time

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Names

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Other names in English

The People of the Great Swamp

Who is doing the work

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Working with these nations

Oneida Indian Nation Nation government About 18,000 acres in trust (2022 est.), 25,000-acre cap under 2013 agreement
Rematriation Native-led Indigenous women-led media, education, community advocacy Give on their site Website
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Allied land trust Funder/partner in several tribal land returns Website

Native legal and land defense, nationally

Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website

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Connections

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Land recorded in this nation’s name 27, matched by the Forest Service, under review

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Present-day governments that carry this history 2

Sources

cayuganation-nsn.gov/history-culture/reference work
known as The People of the Great Swamp , is one of the five original Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

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Confidence: Medium
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