Cayuga nation

The Cayuga Nation (Guyohkohnyo or the People of the Great Swamp) was one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of American Indians in New York. The Cayuga homeland lay in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west. One current spelling of the Cayuga name is Gayogohó:no’.  Political relations between the Cayuga, the Britis... more

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