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Seneca · seneca · Onödowá’ga:’ · Onodowa’ga:’Seneca
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- Region
- Northeast
In the record
The United States made 15 treaties and agreements that name Seneca as a party, from Agreement (Treaty of Big Tree) with the Seneca, 1797 to Seneca; Mixed Seneca and Shawnee; Quapaw; Confederated Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, and Piankashaw; Miami; Ottawa; and Wyandot at Washington, DC (1867).
The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Seneca: Fort Stanwix 1784: cession by Haudenosaunee delegates who lacked authority and Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1838): sale of Seneca reservations and the 1842 and 1857 corrections.
The records group it with Haudenosaunee (Six Nations). Today, Seneca-Cayuga Nation, Seneca Nation of Indians and Tonawanda Band of Seneca 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.
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Self-names
- Onödowá’ga:’Seneca
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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 30, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1802 (area 32)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1802 (area 36)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1802 (area 37)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1838 (area 38)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1838 (area 39)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1838 (area 40)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 29)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 30)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 31)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 33)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 34)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 35)1797
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- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 41)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1838 (area 45)1802
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan, ceded 1817 (area 89)1807
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1817 (area 90)1807
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1817 (area 91)1807
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana and Ohio, ceded 1817 (area 87)1817
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan and Ohio, ceded 1817 (area 88)1817
- Land of the Seneka of Sandusky river in Ohio, ceded 1831 (area 163)1817
- 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
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Kansas, ceded 1867 (area 503)1833
- Reservation of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma (area 505)1833
- Land of the The several tribes of New York Indians in New York, recorded 1838 (area 250)1838
- Land of the The several tribes of New York Indians in Wisconsin, ceded 1838 (area 246)1838
- Land of the The several tribes of New York Indians in Wisconsin, recorded 1838 (area 247)1838
Party to 15
- Agreement (Treaty of Big Tree) with the Seneca, 17971797
- Seneca at Buffalo Creek, New York (1802)1802
- Seneca at Buffalo Creek, New York (1802)1802
- Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, Seneca, and Miami at Greenville, Ohio (1814)1814
- Treaty of Spring Wells, 18151815
- Treaty of the Maumee Rapids (Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie), 18171817
- Wyandot, Seneca, Shawnee, and Ottawa at St. Mary's, Ohio (1818)1818
- Seneca and Shawnee at Lewistown, Ohio (1831)1831
- Seneca of Sandusky River, Ohio, at Washington, DC (1831)1831
- Seneca and Shawnee at Seneca Agency, Headwaters, Cowskin River (1832)1832
- Treaty of Camp Holmes with the Comanche, Wichita and others, 18351835
- Treaty of Buffalo Creek with the New York Indians, 18381838
Present-day governments that carry this history 3
Named in 2
Part of 1
Sources
- sni.org/about/unclassified
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