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The Treaty of Canandaigua (or Konondaigua, as spelled in the treaty itself), also known as the Pickering Treaty [1] and the Calico Treaty, is a treaty signed after the American Revolutionary War between the Grand Council of the Six Nations and President George Washington, representing the United States of America.
1786 – Treaty of Friendship – with Morocco formally recognizing their 1777 recognition of the United States; oldest unbroken U.S. treaty; 1794 – Treaty of Canandaigua (Pickering Treaty) – negotiated by Pickering for George Washington with Red Jacket, Cornplanter, Handsome Lake, and fifty other Iroquois leaders by which they were forced ...
In 1794 they, along with other Haudenosaunee nations, signed the Treaty of Canandaigua with the United States. They were granted six million acres (24,000 km 2 ) of lands, primarily in New York; this was effectively the first Indian reservation in the United States.
Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 commemoration In this file photo, G. Peter Jemison, of Ganondagan State Historic Site, leads the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 commemoration.
The Oneidas alleged that vast swathes of tribal lands had been conveyed to the state of New York in violation of the Nonintercourse Act and three Indian treaties: the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784), the Treaty of Fort Harmar (1789), and the Treaty of Canandaigua (1794).
Under the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, land for the Cayuga was reserved, [8] [9] namely 64,000 acres at the north end of Cayuga Lake. In 2005, the Cayuga Nation began to purchase land within its claimed territory at the north end of Cayuga Lake, beginning with 70 acres in Union Springs. [10]
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The Oneida Indian Nation (OIN) originally possessed approximately 6,000,000 acres (9,400 sq mi; 24,000 km 2) in what is now known as Central New York. [2] The OIN entered three treaties with the United States: Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1784; The Treaty of Fort Harmar of 1789; and the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794. [2]