The Seneca are a group of indigenous people native to North America. They were the nation located farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League in New York before the American Revolution. While exact population figures are unknown, approximately 15,000 to 25,000 Seneca live in Canada, near Brantford, Ontario. They are descendants of Seneca who were resettled there as allies of the British after the American Revolution. Nearly 30,...
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The Seneca are a group of indigenous people native to North America. They were the nation located farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League in New York before the American Revolution. While exact population figures are unknown, approximately 15,000 to 25,000 Seneca live in Canada, near Brantford, Ontario. They are descendants of Seneca who were resettled there as allies of the British after the American Revolution. Nearly 30,000 Seneca live in the United States, on and off reservations around Buffalo, New York and in Oklahoma.
The Seneca nation's own name is Onöndowága', meaning "People of the Great Hill". It is identical to the endonym used by the Onondagas. With the formation of the Haudenosaunee they settled and lived the farthest west of all the nations within the Haudenosaunee. Other nations called them "Seneca" after their principal village of Osininka. Since "Osininka" sounds like the Anishinaabe word Asinikaa(n), meaning "[Those at the Place] Full of...
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