The flag of the
Seneca-Cayuga Tribe
P.O. Box 1283
Miami, OK 74355
Voice: (918) 542-6609
Fax: (918) 542-3684
E-mail: Seneca-Cayuga Tribe
The Tribal Seal at Inter-
Tribal Council , Miami
Chief Jerry Dilliner with tribal members and employees.
Indian Health Services Seneca-Cayuga Health Clinic. Seneca-Cayuga Bingo Hall located east of Grove, OK Cayuga Mission Church, east of Grove, OK Seneca-Cayuga Creation Painting The Seneca-Cayauga Tribe The name Seneca is from the Iroquoian term which means "people of the standing or protecting rock or stone" derived from Onenuile 'ron 'no. Belonging to the Iroquoian linguistic family, the largest division of the Five Nations (or League of the Iroquois) who were first found living in New York. There was a well-known confederation of Iroquois Indian bands drawn from throughout the Northwest that included the Mingo (from the upper Ohio River), Conestoga, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, and Onondaga (driven into Ohio by early colonists) and the Seneca of Sandusky (who had lived in New York at the outset of the American Revolution). After the war, the Cayuga moved to Ohio, where they were granted a reservation along the Sandusky River. They were joined there by the Shawnee of Ohio and the rest of the confederacy. In 1831, the tribe sold their land in Ohio and accepted a reservation in the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory. They were a prosperous people who, preparing to leave Ohio, heavily loaded their baggage (clothing, household goods, tools, seed) onto a steamboat to sail to St. Louis. The trip to their new home took eight months plagued by delays, blizzards, disease, and death. Upon their arrival in Indian Territory, they found their lands overlapped those of the Cherokee. Another band (the Mixed Band of Seneca and Shawnee) also traded their Ohio lands for a tract in Indian Territory which was wholly within the Cherokee Nation. An 1832 treaty- the first made by the U.S. with the immigrant Indians within the boundaries of Oklahoma- adjusted the boundaries and created the "United Nation of Seneca and Shawnee." | |
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