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Six Nations (or Six Nations of the Grand River) [a] is demographically the largest First Nations reserve in Canada. As of the end of 2017, it has a total of 27,276 members, 12,848 of whom live on the reserve. [2] The six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy are the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora.
Some 10,000 to 25,000 Seneca are citizens of Six Nations Reserve and reside on the Grand River Territory, the major Iroquois reserve, near Brantford, Ontario. [citation needed] Enrolled members of the Seneca Nation also live elsewhere in the United States; some moved to urban locations for work.
The Konadaha Seneca First Nation is a Seneca First Nation in southern Ontario, and is a member nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River. [2] Its reserves include the shared reserves of Glebe Farm 40B and the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation.
The Niharondasa Seneca First Nation is a Seneca First Nation in southern Ontario, and a member nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River. [2] Its reserves include the shared reserves of Glebe Farm 40B and the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation.
In addition, some Seneca relocated to Indian Territory in the early 19th century; their descendants now form part of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation in present-day Oklahoma. The Cayuga people are another nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. In the 21st century, the majority of Seneca people live in Western New York.
Six Nations Polytechnic (SNP) is a Haudenosaunee-governed Indigenous institute on Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation.SNP is an Indigenous Institute, the third pillar of post-secondary education in Ontario, as recognized by the Indigenous Institutes Act of 2017, [1] The Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation are the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca, and Tuscarora.
In 1848 the Seneca Nation of Indians formed as a federally recognized tribe, counting the Oil Springs Reservation as one of its three territories (along with the Allegany and Cattaraugus reservations). Oil Springs is the only one of the three Seneca territories without a recognized capital or any jurisdictional representation in Seneca government.
Territory of the Seneca Nation in 1794. The treaty established peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Six Nations and affirmed Haudenosaunee land rights in the state of New York, and the boundaries established by the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1788.