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Cayugas Seek Reservation Of Own on Lake ShoreCAYUGA FAMILY living 021 the Onomlasm Kcscrvation-Ml own above are Barney Jacobs, his wife'Elizabeth, and their children, Muriel, 3 months; Louise, 7, and Marshal], 4.Without a reservation of their own since soon afLer the .American Revolution, the remnant of the CayugaNation or the Iroquois Indian League urc seeking to establish themselves near the :flures of Cayuga Lake, where their ancestors lived centuries ago.Tribe members will gather Sunday at Levanna to formulate a. plan for purchase of land for the reservation near the lake which bears th*)r name.During the Revolution many Cayugas, loyal to the British, went to Canada and their descendants now live there. iJter the Revolution, the remainder of the nation was induced 10 migrate to Kansas.Finding the land there hansuitable, they returned, only to learn their lands were sold by the State, They sought shelter witii the Senecas and have been with them since.There are now 133 Cayugas, aome with the Senecas on the Cattaraugus reservation, others with the Onon-ilagas near Syracuse, end still others with the Allegany Senecas, near Salamanca.A few years ago the State awarded the Cayugas £247.500 for lands taken Irom their ancestors a century ago. The Cayuena propose to add to this iund and, \£ permission is granted and land can be purchased for r* rwe. : enable price, to reestablish their1 tribe on a new' reservation near the lake.Judge l?! chard Drummond, pres id en of the Cayuga County Historical En city, ar.U the principal speaker will I* Dr. Erl Rates of Cornell University prominent ethnologist and India* authority. Chief Isaac Lyon end ; group of Onondaga Indians will glvi war dances in taclr native costume and Ulysses Fierce, also of the Onondaga Reservation, will spcah for \ht Cayugaa,Highway Employes To Meet SaturdayA -business meeting or the Asst* elation of New* York. Stine High we; Employes of District;3 will be halt Saturday at 8 j\ if. In the Cllntox Hotel at Waterloo, c. H. Kcfrernan president, announced today.Presiding over tlie meeting will be8C:: ; i' Av.S3
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Syracuse, New York, US

Thu, Aug 17, 1939

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