A Little History
SENECA-CAYUGA TRIBE
1895 Maps of Indian Nations
The Seneca of the Quapaw Agency were formerly called the Seneca of Sandusky,� In reality, the tribe was an affiliated group of Indian bands (of Iroquoian origin) known as Mingoes, living on the upper Ohio River and consisting of survivors of the Conestoga Tribe and a few Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, and Onondage that became united as a result of the Indian and colonial wars of the 18th Century, No records have been found to prove they were part of the Seneca Tribe of New York State.
Under treaty provision with United States in 1817, the Seneca of Sandusky were granted 40,000 acres on the east side of the Sandusky River in Ohio.� By 1830, they had improved farms, had schools for their children, and were well advanced in modern civilization.� Following the policy of removing the eastern Indians to the West, the Government induced the, to sell their Ohio lands and accept a new reserve north of the Cherokee Nation.
A band of the Seneca of Sandusky joined the Shawnee of Ohio, who had settled near Louistown in the latter part of the 18th Century.� At that time they were known as the mixed band of Seneca and Shawnee.� By a treaty of 1831, the Government induced them to sell theit Ohio lands and accept a new reserve joining the Seneca of Sandusky in Indian Territory.� Bothe the Seneca of Sandusky and the mixed Seneca and Shawnee moved to their new county in 1832 and, like the other eastern tribes, suffered many hardships during the journey.� Protesting that the lands first assigned them were unfit for cultivation, they entered into a new treaty a short time after their arrival at the Seneca Agency.� By the terms of the treaty, they were assigned a permanent reservation, beginning at the northwest corner of the Cherokee cession of 1828 and situated between the Neosho River and the Missouri boundary south of the Quapaw country.� In 1881, a band of over 100 Cayuga from Canada and New York came to join their kin in Oklahoma.