| Organization name | New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee |
| Org type | Yearly meeting |
| Bio notes | Established in 1795. New York Yearly Meeting was initially concerned with the Brotherton, Stockbridge and Oneida in central New York until those groups largely migrated west before 1820, and to a lesser extent with the Onondaga Indians. Work with the Haudenosaunee in western New York, largely Seneca was largely carried out by New York Yearly Meeting. In response to the Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838, which treatened the loss of the remaining Haudenosaunee lands in New York, New York Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) joined with Baltimore, Genesee and Philadelphia to anul the 1838 treaty, but finally advised the Indians to accept the "Compromise Treaty" of 1838, by which the Seneca lost the reservations at Tonawanda and Buffalo Creek, but retained Alleghany and Cattaraugus. |
| Citations | http://www.nym.org/?q=Handbook2013-IndianAffairs;http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/friends/New YorkYM/New Yorky600_799.xml#series10 |
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook
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