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The Seneca Tribe, or Onodowohgah (People of the Hill Top), traditionally lived in New York State between the Genesee River and Canandaigua Lake. After the prehistoric formation of the League of the Iroquois (Hodenosaunee), they became the Keepers of the Western Door. Today many members of this tribe live on several reservations in Western New York, including one that contains the city of Salamanca NY.

Traditionally, the economy was based on cultivation of corn, beans, and squash (the three sisters), primarily by the women, and hunting and fishing by the men. During the colonial period they became involved in the fur trade, first with the Dutch and then with the British. This served to increase hostility with other native groups, especially their traditional enemy, the Huron, an Iroquoian tribe in French Canada near Lake Simcoe. During the 17th century, attacks on Huron villages caused the destruction and dispersal of the Huron. Captives who were not tortured to death were adopted into the tribe.

Today some Seneca are involved in the sale of (untaxed) low-priced gasoline and cigarettes and high stakes bingo. They are debating their involvement in legalized gambling on reservation lands. Others are employed in the local economy of the region. The three reservations of the Seneca are the Allegheny at Jamestown, NY, the Cattaraugus near Gowanda, NY, and the Oil Springs, near Cuba, NY. Few, if any, Seneca reside at Oil Springs. An independent group live on the Tonawanda Reservation near Akron, N.Y. Other Seneca live in association with the Cayuga in Miami, Oklahoma or on the Six Nations Reservation near Brantford, Ontario in Canada. ***
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Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours: A Classic Native American Creation Story as Retold by a Seneca Elder, Twylah Nitsch, and Her Granddaughter, Jamie Sams
by: Jamie Sams, Twylah Nitsch
27 September, 1991

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A FRIEND AMONG THE SENECAS: The Quaker Mission to Cornplanter's People
by: David Swatzler, Henry Simmons
October, 2000

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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors)
by: James E. Seaver, George Abrams
May, 1990

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Turtle's Race With Beaver: A Traditional Seneca Story
by: Joseph Bruchac, James Bruchac, Jose Aruego, Ariane Dewey
September, 2003

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A Seneca Indian in the Union Army: The Civil War Letters of Sergeant Isaac Newton Parker, 1861-1865 (Civil War Heritage, Vol 5)
by: Laurence M. Hauptman, Isaac Newton Parker
April, 1995

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The Peace Chief (Robert J. Conley's Real People Series)
by: Robert J. Conley
November, 2001

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Ely S. Parker: Spokesman for the Senecas
by: Harold W. Felton
February, 1973

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Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution
by: Blacksnake, Jeanne Winston Adler, Jeanne Winston
June, 2002

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To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker
by: Joy Porter, William N. Fenton
December, 2001

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Red Jacket, Seneca Chief
by: Arthur Caswell Parker, Thomas S. Abler
September, 1998

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