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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]
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. *
The Oneida Indian Nation (OIN) or Oneida Nation (/ oʊ ˈ n aɪ d ə / ⓘ oh-NY-də) [1] is a federally recognized tribe of Oneida people in the United States. The tribe is headquartered in Verona, New York, where the tribe originated and held territory prior to European colonialism, and continues to hold territory today.
In 1994, the State of California recognized the Gabrieliño-Tongva Tribe in Assembly Joint Resolution 96, Resolution Chapter 146 of the Statutes of 1994; however, it has no state-recognized tribes today. [60] The tribe, however, has broken into several factions, some of whom are seeking federal recognition as separate tribes.
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.
In 1970 and 1974 the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, and the Oneida Nation of the Thames (made up of descendants of people who did not move to Canada until the 1840s) filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York to reclaim land taken from them by New York without approval of ...
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)
The Tonawanda Seneca Nation (previously known as the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians) (Seneca: Ta:nöwö:deʼ Onödowáʼga꞉ Yoindzadeʼ) is a federally recognized tribe in the State of New York. They have maintained the traditional form of government led by sachems (hereditary Seneca chiefs) selected by clan mothers .