49 Facts About Seneca people

Seneca people historically lived in what is New York state between the Genesee River and Canandaigua Lake.

The Seneca people were by far the most populous of the Haudenosaunee nations, numbering about four thousand by the seventeenth century.

Ganondagan, with 150 longhouses, was the largest Seneca people village of the 17th century, while Chenussio, with 130 longhouses, was a major village of the 18th century.

The western Seneca people lived predominantly in and around the Genesee River, gradually moving west and southwest along Lake Erie and the Niagara River, then south along the Allegheny River into Pennsylvania.

The eastern Seneca people had territory just north of the intersection of the Chemung, Susquehanna, Tioga and Delaware rivers, which converged in Tioga.

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Seneca people women held sole ownership of all the land and the homes.

Seneca people men were generally in charge of locating and developing the town sites, including clearing the forest for the production of fields.

Seneca people men spent a great deal of time hunting and fishing.

Seneca people men maintained the traditional title of war sachems within the Haudenosaunee.

Seneca people lived in longhouses, which are large buildings that were up to 100 feet long.

The Seneca people subjugated the Huron survivors and sent them to assimilate in the Seneca people homelands.

The Seneca people took over the vanquished tribe's traditional territories in western New York.

The Confederacy and the Seneca people moved into an alliance with the British in the east.

Eastern Seneca people traveled down the Chemung River to the Susquehanna River.

Seneca people warriors traveled the Forbidden Path south to Tioga to the Great Warrior Path to Scranton and then east over the Minnisink Path through the Lorde's valley to Minnisink.

In 1657 and 1658, the Seneca people visited, as diplomats, Dutch colonial officials in New Amsterdam.

In 1659 and 1660, the Seneca people interceded in the First Esopus War, which was going on between the Dutch and Esopus at current-day Kingston.

The Seneca people chief urged Stuyvesant to end the bloodshed and "return the captured Esopus savages".

From 1720 to the 1750s, the Seneca resettled and assimilated the Munsee into their people and the Confederacy.

The Seneca people received some of the Munsee's war prisoners as part of their negotiations.

Gradually, the Seneca people began to ally with their trading partners, the Dutch and British, against France's ambitions in the New World.

The Seneca people were a part of this confederacy with the Cayuga, Onondagas, Oneidas, Mohawks, and, later on, the Tuscaroras.

Seneca people chose to side with the British in the American Revolution.

Seneca people noted particularly on his behavior at Oriskany, and how he felt "it was great sinfull by the sight of God".

Seneca people had received anywhere from 3000 to 4500 soldiers to fight the Iroquois.

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However, an unknown Seneca people sachem informed the British "that the Americans and [F]rench had beat the English, that the latter could no longer carry on the War, and that the Indians knew it well, and must now be sacrificed or submit to the Americans".

The late-war Seneca people settlements were assigned to them as their reservations after the Revolutionary War, as part of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784.

On January 15,1838, the US and some Seneca people leaders signed the Treaty of Buffalo Creek, by which the Seneca people were to relocate to a tract of land west of the state of Missouri, but most refused to go.

Tonawanda Band of Seneca people Indians has about 1,200 citizens who live on their Tonawanda Reservation near Akron, New York.

Some 10,000 to 25,000 Seneca people are citizens of Six Nations and reside on the Grand River Territory, the major Iroquois reserve, near Brantford, Ontario.

Seneca people language was rated "critically endangered" in 2007, with fewer than 50 native speakers, primarily the elderly.

The Seneca had protested the plan for the project, filing suit in court and appealing to President John F Kennedy to halt construction.

Seneca people lost their court case, and in 1961, citing the immediate need for flood control, Kennedy denied their request.

The Seneca people had other issues with New York and had challenged some long-term leases in court.

In 1990, Congress passed the Seneca people Settlement Act to resolve the long-running land dispute.

The Seneca people sought review of this decision by the US Supreme Court, which on June 5,2006, announced that it declined to hear the case, which left the lower court rulings in place.

Seneca people had previously brought suit against the state on the issue of highway easements.

Seneca people have a diversified economy that relies on construction, communications, recreation, tourism, and retail sales.

The Highbanks Campground plays host to visitors in summer, as Seneca people take in the scenic vistas and enjoy the Allegheny Reservoir.

Seneca people have refused to extend these benefits and price advantages to non-Indians, in their own words "has little sympathy for outsiders" who desire to do so, They have tried to prosecute non-Indians who have attempted to claim the price advantages of the Seneca people while operating a business on the reservation.

Seneca people was arrested after investigation by federal authorities at the behest of the Seneca Nation accusing the native woman of being a front for Long.

Seneca people's office negotiated directly with credit card companies, tobacco companies, and delivery services to try to gain agreement to reject handling Seneca cigarette purchases by consumers.

Seneca people signed a new law requiring that manufacturers and wholesalers swear under penalty of perjury that they are not selling untaxed cigarettes in New York.

The Seneca people nation has repeatedly appealed the decision, continuing to do so as of June 2011, but has not gained an overturn of this law.

In 2007 the Seneca people opened a temporary casino on its land in Buffalo after federal approval, to satisfy its agreement with the state.

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Additional controversy has been engendered because there were questions about whether the Seneca people-controlled land met other status criteria for gambling as defined in the IGRA.

The Seneca people were given five days to respond or to face fines and a forced shutdown.

Nation has established an official broadcasting arm, "Seneca people Broadcasting", to apply for and purchase radio station licenses.

Many Seneca people are employed in the local economy of the region as professionals, including lawyers, professors, physicians, police officers, teachers, social workers, nurses, and managers.