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The Cayuga (Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. 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
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.
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.
In addition to his first language, Cayuga, he also spoke the other Iroquoian languages. [4] He worked as a lumberjack in the Allegheny Mountains in western New York and Pennsylvania . An accident forced him to return and he began to farm near Millpond, in the vicinity of Ohsweken on the Six Nations Reserve , [ 4 ] where he married and had four ...
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
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.
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Although the Encyclopedia of Native American Biography states that Fish Carrier “supported the patriot cause,” [1] historians Barbara Graymont [2] and Max Mintz [3] both record that Fish Carrier was allied with the British, and led the Cayuga contingent against the Americans at the Battle of Wyoming and the Battle of Newtown.