| Organization name | Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians |
| Other names | Tanawanto |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | Located along Tonawanda Creek in Niagara County, Pennsylvania. By the Treaty of 1838, the Tonawandas would have lost their reservation and would have had to move west. The Compromise Treaty of 1842 would have also deprived the Seneca of this reservation. The Tonawanda maintained that none of them had agreed to the 1838 or 1842 treaty and remained on their land. Another treaty in 1857 agreed that the Tonawanda could retain their reservation as if the earlier treaties had never been written. The Alleghany and Cattaraugus reservations of the Seneca Indians are part of the Seneca Nation of Indians, while the Tonawanda band maintains their own government. |
| See also | Seneca indians |
| Citations | Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonawanda_Band_of_Seneca |
Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook