BULLETIN 



of the 



Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 



VOLUME X. 



No. 2 



The Seneca Nation from 

 1655 to 1687. 



By Frederick Houghton, M. S. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The Seneca Nation of Indians belongs to the Iroqnoian lin- 

 guistic stock and during the 17th century it was the western can- 

 ton of the Iroquois Confederacy, called by the English of that 

 time the Five Nations of New York. Its kindred nations of the 

 Iroquoian family and of the Confederacy are as follows: 



Hurons 



Tionontati (Tobacco Nation) 



Attiwandaronks (Neutral Nation) 



Conkhandeenrhonon 



(SENECA 



. Cayuga 



Iroquois , r^, i 



r r i \ Unondasa 



Confederacy ■ 



| Oneida 

 [ Mohawk 



Tuscaroras (with Iroquois after 1 726.) 



Andastes (Andastogues, Conestogas, Susquehannocks) 



Eries (Cat Nation) 



Nottoway 



Meherrin 



Cherokee 



Iroquoian Family. \ 



