﻿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 
  

   council 
  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 
  

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

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

   tively 
  in 
  Canada 
  and 
  New 
  York, 
  and 
  exactly 
  corresponding. 
  

  

  Brant 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  western 
  treaty 
  with 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  in 
  

  

  