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Following many years of pre-trial motions, a jury trial on damages was held from January 18-February 17, 2000. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York and the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma, finding current fair market value damages of $35 million and total fair rental value damages of $3.5 million.
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.
Ourehouare (died 1698) was a native American leader of the Cayuga people. [1]Ourehouare had helped prevent the purchase of Susquehanna lands by William Penn. [2] The Cayugas had moved from what is now the Finger Lake region of Northern New York State to the present Prince Edward County area in Ontario prior to 1673.
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.
USS Cayuga, three ships in the United States Navy; HMCS Cayuga, a Tribal class destroyer with the Royal Canadian Navy; SS Cayuga, one of the early steel cargo ships to ply the Great Lakes, sunk in Lake Michigan in 1895; Cayuga, a synonym of the moth genus Peoria; Cayuga, a fictional New Mexican town in the movie The Vast of Night
Under pressure from English settlers and Seneca Iroquois, they joined with other Virginia Siouan tribes in the late 17th century and became collectively known as the Nahyssan. By 1740, they had largely left Virginia and migrated north to seek protection from their former Iroquois opponents. They were adopted by the Cayuga tribe of New York in 1753.
Farmer was born in Ohsweken, Ontario into the Cayuga Nation and Wolf Clan [2] of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy. [3] [4] [5] He grew up in the American city of Buffalo where his father worked as a crane operator. [6] Farmer attended Syracuse University and Ryerson Polytechnic University, where he studied photography and film production. [5]
She is a member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation [2] and attended local schools. In 2007, she moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. [3] There she made her first documentary film, Tiny Red Universe (2007), serving as screenwriter, producer and lead actor. The short film aired on IFC. [4] In 2012, she released Heartland: A Portrait of Survival. [5]