Nation
Seneca-Cayuga NationSeneca-Cayuga Nation
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- Official name
- Seneca-Cayuga Nation
- Recorded status
- Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)
In the record
This nation carries the history of Cayuga and Seneca in the treaty record.
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.
Who is doing the work
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
These links were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Land recorded in this nation’s name 10, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Six Nations in New York, ceded 1784 (area 2)1784
- Land of the Six Nations in Pennsylvania, ceded 1784 (area 1)1784
- Land of the Six Nations in New York, recorded 1794 (area 10)1794
- Land of the Six Nations in New York, recorded 1794 (area 9)1794
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 498)1832
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 500)1832
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 501)1832
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 504)1832
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, recorded 1832 (area 499)1832
- Reservation of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma (area 505)1833
Carries the treaty history of 2
Sources
- Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
Listed in 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026).
- okhistory.org/publications/enc/entryunclassified
Known collectively as Mingo or as Seneca, they are the ancestors of today's Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma.
- Kind
- Nation
- Confidence
- High
- Nation review
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