The Senecas

       Some of the Seneca's words and what they mean in English:








 O-NO-YE-AH-NEE O-NA-AH-HAH TUG-GEH-SHOT-TA
 KON-NE-AT-OR-TEE-OOH HOT-OSH-A-HENH
 TEH-ONG-YOO-WUSH
                                                             Handsome Lake

 NON-DI-YAU-KA KON-NE-YOO-WE-SOT O-NES-HAU-EE
 KOS-SISH-TO-WAU TI-OOH-QUOT-TA-KAU-NA
                                                             Woods On Fire


 HENDRICK AUPAUMUT TO-HE-ONG-GO TA-OUN-DAU-DEESH
 DAVID NEESOONHUK OO-JAU-GEHT-A
                                                             Fish Carrier

 HO-NA-YA-WUS KANATSOYH
                                                                Farmer's Brother or Nicholas Kusick

 OOT-A-GUAS-SO SOG-GOO-YA-WAUT-HAU SOH-HON-TE-O-QUENT
 JOO-NON-DAU-WA-ONCH
                                                             Red Jacket

 TOS-SONG-GAU-LO-LUSS OO-TAU-JE-AU-GENH
                                                             Broken Axe


 OUN-NA-SHATTA-KAU JOHN SHEN-EN-DO-A TAU-HO-ON-DOS
 KA-UNG-YA-NEH-QUEE O-NE-AT-OR-LEE-OOH
                                                             Open The Way or Handsome Lake

 SOO-A-YOO-WAU TWAU-KE-WASH-A KUS-SAU-WA-TAU
 KAU-JE-A-GA-ONH SE-QUID-ONG-QUEE
                                                             Heap Of Dogs

 E-YOO-TEN-YOO-TAU-OOK KO-DJEOTE SOO-NOOH-SHOO-WAU
 KOHN-YE-AU-GONG
                                                                Half Town or Jake Stroud

 THA-OG-WAU-NI-AS KEN-JAU-AU-GUS SHA-QUI-EA-SA
                                                             Stinking Fish

 TWEN-NI-YA-NA HENRY YOUNG BRANT JISH-KAA-GA
 SOOS-YOO-WAU-NA
                                                            Green Grasshopper or Big Sky or Little
                                                            Billy


 

The United States have thus described and acknowledged what lands belong to the Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas, and engaged never to claim the same, not disturb them, or any of the Six Nations, or their Indian friends residing there on, and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof; now, the Six Nations, and each of them, hereby engage that they will never claim any other lands, within the boundaries of the United States, nor ever disturb the people of the United States in the free use and enjoyment there of.

Quoted from a United states Treaty
                                          SomE FactS AbouT
                                              ThE SenecaS:
                                     -The original homeland of the Iroquois was in upstate New York between the Adirondack Mountains and Niagara Falls.

                                      -In the United States, much of the Iroquois homeland was surrendered to New York land speculators in a series of treaties following the Revolutionary War. Despite this, most Seneca, Tuscarora, and Onondaga avoided removal
     during the 1830s and have remained in New York.

                                  -The Seneca were once the largest tribe of the Northern Iroquois League,  the number of their warriors was equal to the other four tribes combined.

                                -The languages of individual tribes were closely related and, although not identical, mutually intelligible. The greatest similarities existed between the Mohawk and Oneida and the Cayuga and Seneca.

                              -The Cayuga sold their New York lands in 1807 and moved west to join their Mingo relatives, the Senecas, in Ohio.

                            - The curent amount of poeple in the Seneca tribes is about,  91,000  most of whom are in Ontario at Grand River.

                           -There are four Seneca Reserves in western New York: Allegheny, Cattaraugus, Oil Springs, and Tonawanda (total 60,000 acres). There was once a fifth Seneca reservation, but only 100 of the original 9,000 acres of the Cornplanter grant in northern Pennsylvania remain after it was flooded by a dam project in the 1960s.

                         -The Seneca's are the only Native American tribe to own an American city - Salamanca, New York.


 

              SomE oF ThE Seneca'S VillageS:
 

        Buckaloon (PA), Canadasaga, Caneadea, Catherine's Town, Cattaraugus, Chemung,
          Cheronderoga, Condawhaw, Connewango (2-PA), Cussewago (PA), Dayoitgao, Deonundagae,
          Deyodeshot, Deyohnegano (2), Deyonongdadagana, Dyosyowan (PA), Gaandowanang, Gadaho,
          Gahato, Gahayanduk, Ganagweh, Ganawagus, Ganeasos, Ganedontwan, Ganos, Ganosgagong,
          Gaonsagaon, Gaousge, and much much more.
 
 


The Senecas are "The Keepers of the Western Door."

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