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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]
Matinecock Tribal Nation, Kew Gardens, NY. Also Matinecock Tribal Nation of Queens and Long Island New York Inc. [126] Montauk Indian Nation, Amityville, NY. Also Montaukett Indian Nation of New York. [31] Letter of Intent to Petition 07/31/1995. [27] Montaukett Tribe of Long Island. Letter of Intent to Petition 03/16/1998. [27]
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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)
The Tonawanda Seneca Nation is one of two federally recognized Seneca tribes in Western New York; the other is the Seneca Nation of Indians. The latter approved a republican constitution in 1848, electing a council and executive officials to govern their lands of the Allegany , Cattaraugus and Oil Springs reservations.
On November 11, 1794, the Onondaga Nation, along with the other Haudenosaunee nations, signed the Treaty of Canandaigua with the United States, in which their right to their homeland was acknowledged by the United States in article II of the treaty. [12] In 1816, 450 Onondaga were living in New York, 210 of whom lived on Buffalo Creek ...
On November 11, 1794, the (New York) Cayuga Nation (along with the other Haudenosaunee nations) signed the Pickering Treaty with the United States, by which they ceded much of their lands in New York to the United States, forced to do so as allies of the defeated British. It was the second treaty the United States entered into.
The Seneca Nation of Indians is a federally recognized Seneca tribe based in western New York. [1] They are one of three federally recognized Seneca entities in the United States, the others being the Tonawanda Band of Seneca (also in western New York) and the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma.