Seneca Indians
One of the tribes of the Iroquois confederacy. They
dwelt chiefly in the region of the Seneca and Canandaigua lakes, and
extended westwards to Genesee River. During the American Revolution they
espoused the British cause. There are now some hundreds living in Grand
River Reservation, Ontario. =Index=: (Count Frontenac era) Show quarrelsome temper, 143;
attack Illinois, 144; enraged by murder of a chieftain on territory of
Ottawas, 145; accept terms of peace, 146; attack canoes of French
traders, 181; Denonville's expedition against, 207-214. (Samuel de Champlain era) One of the
five tribes or nations, 50; murder four delegates sent to Five Nations,
164. See also Iroquois. =Bib.=: Charlevoix, History of New France;
Hodge, Handbook of American Indians.