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Seneca Indians: Iroquois Confederacy
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The Seneca Indians about 1550 joined with the Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks to form the Five Nations, or Iroquois Confederacy. This was the lengendary "great peace" made by the Indian statesmen Hiawatha and Dekanawidah. In 1722, the Tuscororas became the sixth Iroquois Nation.
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What is now West Seneca was first occupied by Indians over 10,000 years ago. Some of these Indians are known today as Senecas, members of the Iroquois Confederacy. In the late 1790's, with the purchase of 2.6 million acres of land from local Indian tribes, the Buffalo Creek Indian Reservation was formed, the site of what is today the Town of West Seneca. In 1835, the Indians were persuaded to dispose of the Buffalo Creek Reservation and migrated to the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in Southwest Erie County.
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Like the Sioux, Seneca Indian people didn't wear long headdresses. Seneca Indian men wore traditional Iroquois headdresses that were feathered caps carrying insignia of their tribe. The headdress had one eagle feather standing straight on top. Seneca men, often during the war times, shaved their heads except for a scalp lock or a crest down the center of their head; the style known as a roach, or a “Mohawk.” Sometimes they used to augment this hairstyle with splayed feathers or artificial roaches made of brightly dyed porcupine and deer hair. Sometimes, the men had their faces and bodies decorated and painted with tribal tattoo designs.
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