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The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west. Today, Cayuga people belong to the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation in Ontario, and the federally recognized Cayuga Nation of New York and the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma.
The Cayuga Nation of New York is a federally recognized tribe of Cayuga people, based in New York, United States. Other organized tribes with Cayuga members are the federally recognized Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma and the Canadian-recognized Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation in Ontario , Canada.
The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe (SCT) has claimed that they are more Cayuga than Seneca; hence the Cayuga Land Claim. There are 5000 SCT members compared to 300 Cayuga members in New York; some of the SCT tried to assert their claims to the Cayuga Reservation over the members and descendants who have lived there for generations.
Canadian Cayuga Isaac Davis visited the United States Commissioner, James C. Strong (who, in private practice, would later litigate Seneca Nation of Indians v. Christy ), who was representing the Cayugas in connection with the claim, on May 4, 1884 to discuss the status of the still-pending claim. [ 5 ]
Logan the Orator (c. 1723 – 1780) was a Cayuga orator and war leader born of one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.After his 1760s move to the Ohio Country, he became affiliated with the Mingo, a tribe formed from Seneca, Cayuga, Lenape and other remnant peoples.
Owasco is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States. It is part of the traditional territory of the Cayuga nation. The population was 3,793 at the 2010 census. [3] Owasco is in the eastern part of Cayuga County and is at the southeast city line of Auburn. The town borders Owasco Lake, from where it gets its name.
Chonodote was an 18th-century village of the Cayuga nation of Iroquois Indians in what is now upstate New York, USA. It was located about four and a half miles south of Goiogouen, on the east side of Cayuga Lake. [1] Earlier, during the 17th century, this village was known as Deawendote, or Village of the Constant Dawn.
Cayuga Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant in Indiana; Cayuga Productions, the production company for The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) Cayuga White, a variety of grape; Cayuga (passenger train), a US passenger train operated by the New York Central Railroad and Amtrak; USS Cayuga, three ships in the United States Navy