Onondaga Nation Territory collection, [ca. 1845-1900].

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Onondaga Nation Territory collection, [ca. 1845-1900].

Photographs of Sam George, first war chief (1850), Joseph Reuben, principal chief (1845), and Tahtotah, hereditary chief officer of the Confederacy and grandson of Ephraim Webster (1850); a photograph of Aunt Dina, "squaw," (109 years old); a lease to the Commissioners of the highway of the Town of Lafayette (1844); also Gai hwa na ge, a newsletter (1993-1995).

.3 cubic ft. (1-5 in. letter box).

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John, Dina

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Reuben, Joseph.

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Webster, Ephraim.

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Ephraim Webster was one of the earliest white settlers of Onondaga County. He served as an interpreter for the men who laid out the military tract after the Revolutionary War. From the description of Ephraim Webster papers 1793-1824. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155418543 ...

Six Nations

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Moses Cleaveland was a Connecticut lawyer, legislator, and army officer who became the Director and agent for the Connecticut Land Company. Prior to leading its first surveying and exploring party into the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1795 and founding the City of Cleveland, Ohio in 1796, Cleaveland sought permission from the Six Nations to survey and settle the land that they traditionally controlled. From the description of Chiefs of the Six Nations letter to Moses Cleaveland, 17...

Tahtotah.

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Iroquois Confederacy.

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George, Sam.

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