Word: cayuga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kingdom of Belgium, and the Right Honorable Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, who represented the English. During the session before Christmas many important points of controversy were settled, and since then the Board has been chiefly concerned with a peculiar claim set forth by the British in behalf of the Cayuga Indians...
...United States made a treaty with the Cayuga Indians, agreeing to pay the "Cayuga Nation" $500 a year for land which had previously been purchased. By the treaty a reservation was provided for them near Cayuga Lake in New York State. The Indians claimed that they had been represented by "women and boys" in the diplomatic action which took place. Two more treaties were formulated in 1790 and 1795. By the second treaty the Government agreed to pay the Indians $2300 a year "forever...
...Divided Cayuga Tribe...
...Cayuga Nation divided, half of them fighting on each side in the war. Since half the Indians fought against the United States, they could not come over and claim their share of the annual payments...
...Treaty of Ghent in 1814 the United States agreed to restore to the Indians all the rights which they had enjoyed in 1811. Great Britain claimed that the Canadian Cayugas had kept up the tribal organization, and were entitled to the whole amount since 1810 and in the future. They claimed $1,000,000 with interest. The United States claimed that it was for New York to determine what the "Cayuga Nation" was, and that the Treaty of Ghent did not enter into the case...