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Pages in category "Native American tribes in New York (state)" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Native Americans have lived in the New York area for at least more than 13,000 years. They initially settled in the space around Lake Champlain, the Hudson River Valley and Oneida Lake. [1] There are currently eight federally recognized Native Americans tribes in New York. [2]
Matinecock Tribal Nation, Kew Gardens, NY. Also Matinecock Tribal Nation of Queens and Long Island New York Inc. [126] Montauk Indian Nation, Amityville, NY. Also Montaukett Indian Nation of New York. [31] Letter of Intent to Petition 07/31/1995. [27] Montaukett Tribe of Long Island. Letter of Intent to Petition 03/16/1998. [27]
Aboriginal place names of New York. New York State Education Department, New York State Museum. Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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) Poospatuck (Suffolk County)
Native American tribes in New York (state) (14 C, 36 P) Tuscarora (3 C, 11 P) W. Wappinger (3 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Native American history of New York (state)"
In 1857, the Tonawanda Band signed a treaty with the United States and was recognized as a tribe independent of the Seneca Nation of New York. The new treaty with the US allowed the Tonawanda Band to buy back lands from the Ogden Land Company, which had been sold out without their permission in the Treaties of Buffalo Creek. The Tonawanda ...
The Onondaga in New York have a traditional matriachal form of government, wherein chiefs are nominated by clan mothers, rather than elected. One's clan is determined by their matrilineal lineage, meaning that clan membership is inherited from the mother. Membership in the Onondaga is also exclusively inherited matrilineally.