Land Acknowledgment, First Nations of New York, Native American Histories: First Nations of New York

This is a collection of dual language texts printed in Abenaki, Algonquian, Cherokee, Chinook, Choctaw, Cree, Crow, Dakota, Delaware, Eskimo, Haida...

These map sets show the shifts in land claims and territories with period documents.

Artifact image collection from NYS Digital Collections holds 47 images of artifacts mainly from the Seneca and Mohawk Haudenosaunee groups. Items all have assumed dates near 1850.

This link is to the search portal of the collection, where one can search by place or time. Warning: the collection is huge with many many artifacts and navigation is made easier by knowing either the type of artifact you are attempting to find, or by narrowing the search by time period. For instance, there were ~580 items from New York without limiting by item type or time period.

Nation website includes cultural artifacts, land rights documents, and video resources, as well as a nation timeline.

Oyate is a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed with honesty and integrity, and that all people know that our stories belong to us.

Just southeast of Rochester, New York, in the town of Victor, lies Ganondagan (ga·NON·da·gan), the site of a Native American community that was a flourishing, vibrant center for the Seneca people.

This view of the entrance to the Cascadilla Creek gorge shows the Warrior's Trail in the foreground. The trail entered present-day Tompkins County from the north and included a segment connecting Cayuga Lake to Owego Street (now known as State/Martin Luther King Jr. Street). This path was an early migration route for the Cayugas, as well as European traders and settlers. Norris wrote in detail about the Warrior's Trail in his 1944 book, Old Indian Trails in Tompkins County. The log cabin of Peter Hinepaugh, one of the first settlers in 1789, is shown on the left. The Little Pepper Mill at the creek had a capacity of 25 bushels a day. Quigg's Log Cabin Store is also shown. David Quigg was Ithaca's first permanent merchant.
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Coreorgonel was a small village near Buttermilk Falls and home to the Tutelos and other remnants of subject tribes of the Cayuga Indians. In 1779, both the Cayugas and the Senecas, allies of the British during the American Revolution, saw their numbers massacred by General Sullivan's army expedition, who set out with orders of destruction from General Washington. Here, Norris depicts the village's fiery end by Colonel Dearborn's detachment.
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