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or'tSit,heIdressedlid;erlerat-m-le-headee,r,»iUTnt-May Purchase Own ReservationRN•ay jr-; atbted14,He'OX*enfcofgti-byhepe-up-jonint-imewor-ofon-inggh-rhe18:en-8at-otaltie-54,-Ithaca, Nov. 20 {/P)—The Cayuga Indians, who have no reservation they can call their own, aim to purchase 4^000 acres of land on. the east shore of Cayuga lake —but native tradition causes complications.The Cayugas;- -who- have- been living on the Seneca's reservation for .more than eighty years, have been-granted $300,000 by the U.S. government.Dr. Erl Bates, advisor to the Indians in this area, said the Cayuga tribe was a matriarchy with the line of descent traced through female members.In order to perpetuate the Cayuga ownership, of any purchase, the majority of land must go to Cayuga women, he said.Dr. Bates said the Cayuga tribe would consider this and other issues at a meeting to be held in the Seneca’s council house at Four Corners, near Gowanda, at the beginning of the next full moon,” Dr. Bates said the session would be held between sunset, Nov. 2'7, and sunrise, Nov. 28.Then, during the next full moon, the six-nation Iroquois confederacy will meet to consider establishment of the reservation. After that scsseion, the Cayugas will confer with Dr. Bates to arrange for purchase of a site. No definite site has been, selected.The Cayugas have'’ had land trouble for generations, Dr. Bates indicated. He gave this version: After the American revolution they owned land at the head of Cayuga lake, but they traded on a bargain offer of ten acres in the west for every one acre of their New York state land.They found their western land to bo unfruitful and many died in the swamps of Missouri.Some of the survivors trecked across the country to the Cattaraugus reservation whore the Senecas invited them to remain overnight. They are still there,(The 1945 census showed 161 Cayugas living on the Cattaraugus reservation and live on the Allegany reservation, the Indian office in Salamanca said today.)Itlt;alquewit'senrail.'1hocBrlt;me:SwnoibaiaftOificersorch£errosEanejcaiap;tinteihathianwlPith'ticoildrANp.W £qujumithFiyefahihiW'111th
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Salamanca Republican Press
Salamanca, New York, US
Thu, Nov 20, 1947
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