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Ganienkeh (meaning Land of the Flint in Mohawk) is a Mohawk community located on about 600 acres (2.4 km 2) near Altona, New York in the far northeast corner of the North Country. [1] Established by an occupation of Mohawk warriors in the late 1970s, it is a rare case in which an indigenous people reclaiming land from the United States succeeded.
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)
There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [ 1 ] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos.
UTC-5 (EST) • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT) Area code. 716. The Tonawanda Indian Reservation (Seneca: Ta:nöwöde') is an Indian reservation of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation located in western New York, United States. The band is a federally recognized tribe and, in the 2010 census, had 693 people living on the reservation.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Indian reservation has a total area of 9.3 mi 2 (24.1 km 2). 9.2 mi 2 (24.0 km 2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) of it (0.54%) is water. [1] New York State Route 11A is a north-south highway in the reservation. The reservation is bordered by the Town of Onondaga and the Town of ...
Area code. 716. Website. Seneca Nation of Indians. Cattaraugus Reservation is an Indian reservation of the federally recognized Seneca Nation of Indians, formerly part of the Iroquois Confederacy located in New York. As of the 2000 census, the Indian reservation had a total population of 2,412. Its total area is about 34.4 mi² (89.1 km²).
The Cayuga Nation of New York began a land claim action on November 19, 1980, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York to pursue legislative and monetary restitution for land taken from it by the State of New York during the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1981, the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma was added as a ...
The Tuscarora Reservation (Nyučirhéʼę [3] in Tuscarora) is an Indian reservation of the Tuscarora Nation (Skaru:reʔ Kayeda:kreh in Tuscarora) is an Indian reservation in Niagara County, New York. The reservation population was 1,152 at the 2010 census. The Tuscarora Nation, previously named the Tuscarora Nation of New York, is a federally ...