| Lcnaf uri | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119990 |
| Organization name | Seneca indians |
| Other names | O-non-dowa-gah;Cattaraugus |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | One of the original nations of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederation, the Seneca were the "Keepers of the Western Door" of the Confederacy. They were also known as the People of the Great Hill. Before the Revolutionary war, many of the Seneca lived in the Genesee Valley in New York State, thouigh other Seneca had moved as far west as the "Ohio Country." After the Revolution, the Seneca retained reservations in the Genessee Vallley, Tonawanda, Buffalo Creek, Cattaraugus, Alleghany and Oil Creek. Some Seneca moved to the Grand River Reserve in what is now Ontario. As a result of the treaties of 1838, 1842 and 1857, the Seneca lost the Buffalo Creek and Genesee Valley reservations. |
| See also | Six Nations, Sandusky Seneca indians |
| Citations | Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee |
Letter from Quakers to Cornplanter
The United States to Joseph Johnston
Missionary's address to the chiefs of the six nation Indian & Their answers
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804
Halliday Jackson's Book [of Corrrespondence], Genesinguhta, 1798-1800
Halliday Jackson 1800 Journal (continued)
Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806
Sketch of the Customs, Religion and Government of the Seneca Indians, in 1800
Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country
Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796
Joshua Sharpless's Journal Into Indian Country, 1798
Letter from Cornplanter to Quakers
Letter to the Quarterly Meeting of Friends at Hopewell
Account of Canandaigua Treaty Negotiations
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook
Life of Thomas Eddy
William Allinson Diary, Volume 1
William Allinson Diary, Volume 2
William Allinson Diary, Volume 3
Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue
Account of I. Coates, J. Sharpless, & J. Pierce, visits to Indian Reservation, NY
A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom
Joel Swayne Diary