Cayuga nation
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The Cayuga nation (Guyohkohnyo or the People of the Great Swamp) was one of the five original constituents of the Iroquois, a confederacy of Indians in New York. The Cayuga homeland lay in the Finger Lakes region between their league neighbors, the Onondaga and the Seneca.
The Cayuga sided with the British during the American Revolution and, after many attacks on American colonists, the punitive Sullivan Expedition devastated the Cayuga homeland, destroying major Cayuga villages such as Cayuga Castle and Chonodote (Peachtown). Survivors fled to other Iroquois tribes or to Ontario, Canada where they were granted land by the British in recognition of their loyalty to the Crown.
Today, there are three Cayuga bands. The two largest, the Lower Cayuga and Upper Cayuga, still live in Ontario, both at Six Nations of the Grand River. Only a small number remain in the United States - the Cayuga Nation in Versailles, New York State. After the Mohawks, the Cayugas are the most numerous people at Six Nations.
On November 11, 1794, the (New York) Cayuga Nation (along with the other Haudenosaunee nations) signed the Treaty of Canandaigua with the United States.
One current spelling of the Cayuga name for "Cayuga" is Gayogohó:no’. [link]
External links
- http://tuscaroras.com/cayuganation/
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