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Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1797–1838, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 41,131 km² in 29 cessions across Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Wisconsin.

A cession records when the United States took title — not the full extent of a homeland, and much land was taken without any treaty. The link between each cession and present-day nations is the one the U.S. Forest Service and the National NAGPRA Program’s dataset records; the nation’s own account comes first. Corrections: [email protected].

Named in the treaties as: Seneka · Shawnee · Wyandot · Kaskaskia · Mixed Seneka · Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf · Peoria · Piankishaw

Royce 246, 1838Royce 247, 1838Royce 250, 1838Royce 503, 1833Royce 505, 1833Royce 498, 1832Royce 499, 1832Royce 500, 1832Royce 501, 1832Royce 504, 1832Royce 87, 1817Royce 88, 1817Royce 89, 1807Royce 90, 1807Royce 91, 1807Royce 45, 1802Royce 29, 1797Royce 30, 1797Royce 31, 1797Royce 32, 1797Royce 33, 1797Royce 34, 1797Royce 35, 1797Royce 36, 1797Royce 37, 1797Royce 38, 1797Royce 39, 1797Royce 40, 1797Royce 41, 1797
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
29September 15, 1797 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
30September 15, 1797 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
31September 15, 1797 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
32September 15, 1797; June 30, 1802 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
33September 15, 1797 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
34September 15, 1797 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
35September 15, 1797 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
36September 15, 1797; June 30, 1802 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
37September 15, 1797; June 30, 1802 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
38September 15, 1797; January 15, 1838; May 20, 1842 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
39September 15, 1797; January 15, 1838; May 20, 1842 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
40September 15, 1797; January 15, 1838; May 20, 1842; November 5, 1857 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
41September 15, 1797 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
45June 30, 1802; January 15, 1838; May 20, 1842 Seneka · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
89November 17, 1807; September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
90March 3, 1807; September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
91March 3, 1807; September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
87September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
88September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
498December 29, 1832; February 23, 1867; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
499December 29, 1832; February 23, 1867; March 2, 1889 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
500December 29, 1832; February 23, 1867; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
501December 29, 1832; February 23, 1867; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
504December 29, 1832; May 13, 1833; February 23, 1867; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
503May 13, 1833; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 9 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
505May 13, 1833; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
246January 15, 1838; February 3, 1838; May 12, 1854 The several tribes of New York Indians · with 6 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
247January 15, 1838; February 3, 1838 The several tribes of New York Indians · with 6 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
250January 15, 1838 The several tribes of New York Indians · with 6 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text

Lands proven before the Indian Claims Commission

Areas on the Commission’s 1978 map that this nation, or nations it is part of, proved they held when the United States took them:

Trails across these lands

Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands

Cession areas: “Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States” (USDA Forest Service, National NAGPRA Program, EPA and Claudio Saunt, 2018; CC BY 4.0), digitized from Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899). Outlines simplified to about 1 km. Part of Project Homeland v0.5.2 — how it was made.