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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 638 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SENECA , a tribe of See also:

North See also:American See also:Indians of Iroquoian stock. They See also:call themselves Tshoti-nondawaga, " See also:people of the See also:mountain." The See also:French called them Tsonnontouan. Their former range was in western New See also:York See also:state between Seneca See also:lake and the Genesee See also:river. They were one of the Six Nations See also:League of the See also:Iroquois, and eventually became the most important tribe of the league. They were foremost in all the Iroquoian See also:wars, and were the See also:official guardians of the western frontier of the league. On the defeat of the See also:Erie and Neuter tribes they occupied the See also:county See also:west of Lake Erie and See also:south along the See also:Alleghany to See also:Pennsylvania. They fought on the See also:English See also:side in the See also:War of See also:Independence. About 2700 are now on reservations in New York State, while a few are in See also:Oklahoma and on See also:Grand River See also:reservation, See also:Ontario. For Seneca Cosmology see 21st See also:Ann. See also:Report See also:Bureau Amer. Ethnol. (1899-1900).

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