| Bio notes |
This name describes a collection of Seneca and other Iroquian peoples who reacted to colonial pressure by moving west in the mid-to-late 18th century. They were granted reservation land along the Sandusky River in north-central Ohio, near the Cayuga, Shawnee, and Seneca-Cayuga bands. Following the Battle of Fallen Timbers they ceded most of their lands in the Treaty of Greenville (1795), and after the Indian Policy Removal Act of 1830 were forced on a series of relocations, first to Kansas and finally to Oklahoma. Owing to geography and subsequent alliances with Algonquian peoples, the Sandusky Seneca became politically distinct from their New York brethren. |