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This is a list of Indian reservations in the U.S. state of New York. Allegany (Cattaraugus County) Cattaraugus (Erie County, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County) Cayuga Nation of New York (Seneca County) Oil Springs (Cattaraugus County, Allegany County) Oneida Indian Nation (Madison County) Onondaga (Onondaga County) Poospatuck (Suffolk County)
Horicon is a town in Warren County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. [3] Horicon's population was 1,389 at the 2010 census. [2] Horicon is on the county's northern border and is located inside the Adirondack Park.
Native Americans have lived in the New York area for at least more than 13,000 years. They initially settled in the space around Lake Champlain, the Hudson River Valley and Oneida Lake. [1] There are currently eight federally recognized Native Americans tribes in New York. [2]
The Buffalo Creek Reservation was a tract of land surrounding Buffalo Creek in the central portion of Erie County, New York. [1] [2] It contained approximately 49,920 acres (202.0 km 2) of land and was set aside for the Seneca Nation following negotiations with the United States after the American Revolutionary War.
The town of Ohio was established as the town of West Brunswick in 1823 from part of the town of Norway. The name was changed to Ohio in 1836. Ohio was increased by some of the now-defunct town of Wilmurt, which itself had been partly formed with territory from Ohio and the town of Russia in 1836. Wilmurt was once the largest town in New York.
In Kevin Costner’s first installment of his four-part epic Horizon: An American Saga, bands of settlers head west in search of a so-called promised land, where they can park their wagons and set ...
The Lamoka site, or simply Lamoka, is an archaeological site near Tyrone, in Schuyler County, New York that was named a National Historic Landmark in 1961. [3] According to the National Park Service, "This site provided the first clear evidence of an Archaic hunting and gathering culture in the Northeastern United States (c.3500 BC)".
Mahopac (/ ˈ m eɪ ə ˌ p æ k / or / ˌ m ə ˈ h oʊ p æ k /) is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in the town of Carmel in Putnam County, New York, United States.Also known as Lake Mahopac, the exurb is located some 47 miles (76 km) north of New York City, on U.S. Route 6 at the county's southern central border with Westchester County.