Cayugas


One of the tribes of the Iroquois confederacy. Parkman gives

four forms of the name: Cayugas, Caiyoquos, Goiogoens, Gweugwehonoh.

Their fighting strength is given in the Relation of 1660 as 300. At

this time, however, they had been weakened by continual warfare. The

Cayuga villages stood on the shore of Cayuga Lake, and their territory

extended from that lake to the Owasco, both included. The tribe lay

between the Senecas on the west and the Onondagas on the east. By the

beginning of the nineteenth century they had been crowded off their

ancestral lands, and scattered abroad. Some seven hundred are now on the

Six Nation reserve, in the Niagara peninsula. The remainder are for the

most part in the western United States. =Index=: (Samuel de Champlain era) Iroquois tribe,

50. See also Iroquois; Senecas; Onondagas; Mohawks; Tuscaroras.



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