HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK IROQUOIS 379 



The Seneca treaties with New York, the United States, and 

 private companies are too numerous to describe and are compli- 

 cated by the Ogden claims. The Oneidas' sales have also been 

 many, disposing of all their land except that of a few private 

 persons. They now have a large tract in Wisconsin, where 

 most of them reside. 



The first land sale by the Onondagas was Sep. 12, 1788, and 

 took most of their land, but reserved a mile around Onondaga 

 lake for common use by them and the whites, with quite a tract 

 farther south. In 1793 they sold a tract east of Onondaga creek 

 and gave the State the right to lay out roads across their lands. 

 In 1795 they sold the Salt Springs reservation and some land west 

 of the creek. There were smaller sales in 1817 and 1822. 



The Cayugas sold most of their land in 1789, but reserved a 

 large tract on both sides of their lake at the north end and still 

 farther north. In 1795 they sold all but a tract of 2 miles square 

 and two others each a mile square. One of the latter, at Cayuga, 

 was given to the Fish Carrier, one of their chiefs, and the others 

 were sold in 1807, so that they have now no reservation. 



The Mohawks in Canada released all claims to New York 

 lands in 1798, and the St Regis Indians made land sales in 1795, 

 1813, 1824, 1825 and 1845. 



, The Iroquois on the Grand river in Canada did not altogether 

 •escape land troubles, and Brant even proposed to remove to the 

 United States. Some Iroquois from New York claimed that the 

 Grand river lands belonged to them as well as the Mohawks. 

 !A council at Buffalo, under Red Jacket and Farmer's Brother, 

 deposed Brant, but he was restored. According to Stone, the 

 icouncil was illegal, the council fire having been regularly 

 removed from Buffalo to the Onondaga village on Grand river. 

 It is certain, however, that legal councils were held at Buffalo, 

 Where the official Onondaga wampum keeper long resided. The 

 hvampum was restored to old Onondaga in 1847, but since 1812 

 here have been two confederacies of the Six Nations, respec- 

 ively in Canada and New York, and exactly corresponding. 



Prant went to the western treaty with the United States in 



