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Seneca Indian Collections
Illustration from Extra Census Bulletin: Indians: The Six Nations of New York, p. 48.
Washington, D.C: U.S. Census Printing Office, 1892.
- Introduction
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The following works are sorted into categories, then listed in call number order in each category. We add links when we find these works online in full text.
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This bibliography was originally compiled by Abigail Cliff Shelton ca. 2010 and has been regularly updated by Library staff ever since.
- Table of Contents
Archaeology & Prehistoric Sites | |
- General Histories
Ann, Sister Saint
The relations between the Indians and the white citizens of Buffalo, 1790-1840
Thesis (B.A. History) -- D'Youville College, 1962
E78 .N7 S7
Snyder, Charles McCool
Red and white on the New York frontier: A struggle for survival : insights from the papers of Erastus Granger, Indian agent, 1807-1819
Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1978
Albany, NY: New York History, 1992
E99 .I7 B9
Brush, Edward Hale and Edward Dinwoodie Strickland
Baker, Jones, & Co., 1901
Includes Red Jacket, Cornplanter, and Mary Jemison
E99 .I7 H38 1999
Hauptman, Laurence M.
Conspiracy of interests: Iroquois dispossession and the rise of New York State
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999
E 99 .I7 H38 2008
Hauptman, Laurence M.
Seven generations of Iroquois leadership: The Six Nations since 1800
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008
E99 .I7 P25 1968
Parker, Arthur Caswell
Parker on the Iroquois
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1968
Includes Handsome Lake, Seneca prophet.
E99 .I7 W568 2023
Winters, John C.
"The amazing Iroquois" and the invention of the Empire State
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023
E99 .S3 C7
Conover, George Stillwell
Seneca Indian villages : Principal settlements between Canandaigua and Seneca Lake
1889
E99 .S3 D466 2010
Dennis, Matthew
Seneca possessed: Indians, witchcraft, and power in the early American republic
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010
"Examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations in western New York, Senecas occupied a significant if ambivalent place within the newly established United States. They found themselves the object of missionaries' conversion efforts while also confronting land speculators, poachers, squatters, timber-cutters, and officials from state and federal governments...In response, Seneca communities sought to preserve their territories and culture amid a maelstrom of economic, social, religious, and political change.”
E99 .S3 H33 1994
Hass, Marilyn L.
The Seneca and Tuscarora Indians: An Annotated Bibliography
Scarecrow Press, 1994
E99 .S3 H3868 2019
Hauptman, Laurence M.
History of the Seneca Nation of Indians: An instructional manual for the secondary schools
[Place of publication not identified] : [Lulu Press], [2019]
E99 .S3 H6
Houghton, Frederick
The Migrations of the Seneca People
American Anthropological Association, 1927
Reprinted from the American Anthropologist, Vol. 29, no. 2, April-June 1927
E99 .S3 N54 1984
Niemczycki, Mary Ann Palmer
The Origin and Development of the Seneca and Cayuga Tribes of New York State
Rochester, NY: Research Division of the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 1984
E99 .S3 P2 1967
Parker, Arthur Caswell
The History of the Seneca Indians
Port Washington, NY: I. J. Friedman, 1967
First published in 1926 with the title: An Analytical History of the Seneca Indians
E99 .S3 P37 1926
Parker, Arthur Caswell
An Analytical History of the Seneca Indians
Lewis H. Morgan Chapter, 1926
E99 .S3 R3
Hubbard, John Niles
An account of Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, or Red Jacket, and his people, 1750-1830
J. Munsell's Sons, 1886
E99 .S3 R6 1952
Robertson, Imogene C.
Once an Indian Village: Seneca Indian Park in Buffalo
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1952
From: Hobbies, Vol. 33, no. 2, Dec. 1952
E99 .S3 S36 1849
Medill, William
Seneca Nation of Indians, residing at Cattaraugus and Alleghany, in the State of New York
[Published by author?] 1849
E99. S3 V65 2012
Voices of the Senecas
[Irving, N.Y.? : Seneca Nation of Indians, 2012?]
E99 .S3 W3
Wallace, Anthony and Sheila Steen
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca
New York: Knopf, 1970
F127 .B8 K4
Ketchum, William
An authentic and comprehensive history of Buffalo : with some account of its early inhabitants, both savage and civilized : Comprising historic notices of the Six Nations or Iroquois Indians…
Rockwell, Baker, & Hill, 1864-1865
A two-volume set
F127 .G2 V18
Vanderhoof, Elisha Woodward
Historical Sketches of Western New York
Matthews-Northrup Works, 1907
Includes mention of the Seneca Indians
Babcock F127 .L7 D7
Doty, Lockwood Lyon and A.J.H. Duganne
A history of Livingston County, New York : from its earliest traditions, to its part in the war for our Union : with an account of the Seneca Nation of Indians…
Edward L. Doty, 1876
In the Babcock Collection
F127 .N6 M314
Marshall, Orsamus Holmes
[Buffalo, NY: J. Warren & Co., printers, 1865]
F129 .B8 B4
Becker, Sophie Cornelia
Sketches of early Buffalo and the Niagara Region
1904
Includes the people of the Long House, Red Jacket, the Seneca orator, Deh-he-wa-mis.
F1030 .M36
Marshall, Orsamus Holmes
The historical writings of the late Orsamus Holmes relating to the early history of the West
Munsell's Sons, 1887
Includes a sketch of some of the Indian tribes which formerly dwelt on the borders of the Great Lakes, narrative of the expedition of the Marquis de Nonville, against the Senecas in 1687, the first visit of De La Salle to the Senecas, made in 1669.
F1030.5 M37 1887
Marshall, Orsamus Holmes
De La Salle Among the Senecas, in 1669
1887
Mss. A00-8
Aigin, James
Reminiscences of early Buffalo, 1871-1875
Includes accounts of Buffalo during the War of 1812 and the role played by Seneca chief Farmer's Brother. Also, sketches about Seneca chief Tommy Jimmy's journey to England in 1816, Capt. Jedediah Rogers, who commanded the Walk-in-the-Water, and other early Great Lakes steamboats.
Mss. A68-129
Painter, Levinus K.
Indians in Western New York, past and present
[Written between 1956 and 1968]
Very brief paper highlighting the history of the Seneca Indians.
Mss. B00-3
Hawes, Lucy Williams
Buffalo, NY: The Courier Co., 1886
Hawes writes of Buffalo in the 1830s and 40s, and mentions the Seneca Nation.
- Archaeology & Pre-Historic Sites
E78 .N7 C64
Coates, Irving W.
Ontario County Times Printing House, 1893
Reprinted from the Ontario County Times
E78 .N7 H8
Houghton, Frederick
Characteristics of Iroquoian village sites of Western New York
American Anthropologist, v. 18, no. 4, October-December, 1916, pp. 508-520
E78 .N7 L63 n. 55
Lord, Philip, Jr.
Documenting prehistoric habitation in your community
Albany, NY: New York State Museum, 1990
E99 .I7 P27
Parker, Arthur Caswell
A Contact Period Seneca Site situated at Factory Hollow, Ontario County, NY
Rochester, NY: Lewis H. Morgan Chapter, 1919
Printed in the New York Archeological Association Lewis H. Morgan Chapter's Researches and Transactions, vol. 1, no. 2.
E99 .S3 C6
Coates, Irving W.
Onnaghee. A visit to the site of the ancient Seneca village, or castle of "Onnaghee" and its burial place, situated on Fall Brook, on lot no. 20, in western part of town of Hopewell, Ontario County, N.Y., August 8, 1882
1892
Reprinted from the Ontario County Times
E99 .S3 W7 1987
Wray, Charles F., Mary Lou Sempowski, Lorraine P. Saunders, and Gian Carlo Cervone
The Adams and Culbertson Sites
Rochester, NY: Research Division of the Rochester Museum and Science Center, 1987
E99. S3 W8 1991
Wray, Charles F., Mary Lou Sempowski, Lorraine P. Saunders, and Charles F. Hayes
Tram and Cameron: Two Early Contact Era Seneca Sites
Rochester, NY: Research Division of the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 1991
F127 .G2 H8
Houghton, Frederick
The Archaeology of Genesee County
Lewis H. Morgan Chapter, 1922
Mentions Seneca sites
Q11 .N82 no. 108
Beauchamp, William Martin
Aboriginal place names of New York
Albany, NY: New York State Education Department, 1907
QH1 .B94 H6 1909
Houghton, Frederick
Indian village, camp, and burial sites on the Niagara Frontier
Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, vol. IX, no. 3, 1909
Includes a town-by-town list of known archaeological sites
Mss. A00-34
Beauchamp, William Martin
Papers on Onondaga Antiquities, 1878, 1879
Includes Antiquities of Onondaga County, N.Y., as known in A.D. 1878: with recent personal observations on the Seneca River; and Onondaga antiquities, 1879: additional forms & sites. Papers include maps and plans of historic sites, and illustrations of Native American artifacts.
- Biographies
Sev. E87 .G54 1784
Walton, William
Joseph Crukshank, 1784
This link is to an edition from 1780
Sev. E87 .J4 S4 1840
Seaver, James Everett
A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison
Miller & Butterfield, 1840
Library also has the 3rd edition (1844), 4th edition (1856 and 1860), 5th edition (1877), 6th edition (1880 and 1898), 7th edition (1910), 22nd edition (1925), a new edition (1949), and a reprint of the Peter Smith edition (1990). This link is to a 1910 edition.
E87 .J45 M54 1924
Milliken, Charles F.
A biographical sketch of Mary Jemison, the white woman of the Genesee
Lewis H. Morgan Chapter, 1924
Sev. E87 .J475
Seaver, James Everett and Ebeneezer Mix
Deh-he-wa-mis; or, A narrative of the life of Mary Jemison : otherwise called the White woman, who was taken captive by the Indians in MDCCLV; and who continued with them seventy eight years. Containing an account of the murder of her father and his family; her marriages and sufferings; Indian barbarities, customs and traditions...
S. Thorne, 1847
We also have an 1877 edition in the Severance collection. This link is to an 1824 edition.
E90 .C8 S6 1867
Snowden, James Ross
Singerly & Myers, state printers, 1867
E90 .J4 C6
Coats, Irving W.
A true incident in the life of John Jemison: The noted son of De-he-wa-mis, the "White woman of the Genesee"
Repository-Messenger Print, 1892
E90 .R3 C7
Conover, George Stillwell
Waterloo Library and Historical Society, 1884
E99. I7 R43 2006
Red Jacket and Granville Ganter
The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha or Red Jacket
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006
E99 .I7 S86
Stone, William Leete
Life and times of Red-Jacket, or Sa-go-ye-wat-ha; being the sequel to the history of the Six Nations
Wiley and Putnam, 1841
We also have an 1866 edition
E99 .M8 B81
Eggleston, Edward and Elizabeth Seelye
Brant and Red Jacket. Including including [!] an account of the early wars of the Six Nations, and the border warfare of the revolution
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1879
E99 .S3 B534 2002
Blacksnake, Governor and Jeanne Winston Adler
Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution
Black Dome Press, 2002
E99 .S3 C3
Caswell, Harriet S.
Our Life among the Iroquois Indians
Congressional Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1892
Includes an account of the lives of Rev. Asher Wright and Mrs. Laura M. Wright, missionaries at the Buffalo Creek Reservation.
E99 .S3 C7
Conover, George Stillwell
Sayenqueraghta, King of the Senecas
Observer Steam Press, 1885
E99 .S3 J6
Johnson, James G
Governor Blacksnake, a Seneca Chief
Paper read before the Rochester Historical Society, ca, 1895
E99.S3 J6 2019
John, Randy
Who is Walter Kennedy?
Salamanca, NY: RAJ Publications, 2019
E99 .S3 J64 2017
John, Randy
Seneca People: Places and Names
Salamanca, NY: RAJ Publications, 2017
E99. S3 J64 2019
John, Randy
Seneca Women
Salamanca, NY: RAJ Publications, 2019
E99. S3 J64 2019
John, Randy
Who is Andrew John?
Salamanca, NY: RAJ Publications, 2021
E99 .S3 K373
Hosmer, H. P.
Kate Clayton, the Indian captive of Cherry Valley. Thrilling incidents in the early Indian border warfare in the state of New York. Containing an account of the massacre at Cherry Valley, and the captivity of Miss Clayton among the Seneca Indians
Dewey, 1855
E99 .S3 P3253
Armstrong, William Howard
Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General and Seneca Chief
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1978
E99 .S3 P3257 2001
Ritz, Karen and Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
Seneca Chief, Army General: A Story about Ely Parker
Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 2001
Juvenile biography
E99 .S3 P37 1927
Parker, Arthur Caswell
Notes on the Ancestry of Cornplanter
Lewis H. Morgan Chapter, 1927
E99 .S3 R3
Hubbard, John Niles
An account of Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, or Red Jacket, and his people, 1750-1830
J. Munsell's Sons, 1886
E99 .S3 R37
Parker, Arthur Caswell
Red Jacket, Last of the Seneca
McGraw Hill, 1952
E99 .S3 R4 1859
Cary, Alice
Methodist Episcopal Church, 1859
From: The Ladies' Repository, Vol. 19, no. 4 (April 1859).
E99 .S3 R4 1900
Gordon, H.R.
Red Jacket: The Last of the Senecas
E.P. Dutton & Company, 1900
E99 .S3 R4 1950
Manley, Henry Sackett
Red Jacket's last campaign : and an extended bibliographical and biographical note
New York Historical Association, 1950
Reprinted from New York History, April 1950
E99 .S3 R4 1999
Densmore, Christopher
Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999
E99. S3 R43 1981
Wood, Robert John, and Michael Soles
Red Jacket, the great orator of the Senecas: Sa Go Ye Wat Ha, "He who causes them to be awake"
Yates County Genealogical and Historical Society, 1981
E 241 .W9 B9
Bryant, William Clement
J.W. Clement, 1889
F127 .G2 M49
Merrill, Arch
The White Woman and Her Valley
American Book-Stratford Press, 1955
F153 .T65
Tome, Phillip and Monroe A. Aurand
Pioneer life; or, Thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome, fifteen years interpreter for Cornplanter and Gov. Blacksnake, chiefs on the Allegany river
1928
Mss. A64-223
Vail, Charles Delamater
Bibliography of the life of Mary Jemison: typescript, 1918
PZ3 .W5537 G65 1926
Whalen, William Wilfrid
The golden squaw; being the story of Mary Jemison, the Irish girl stolen by the Indians from Buchanan Valley, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in 1758
Dorrance and Company, 1926
- Censuses & Genealogy
E78. N7 K6 2018
Konig, Rhonda
Native Americans living on Western New York territories in the 1915 Census
Hamburg, NY: Journal of the Western New York Genealogical Society, 2018
An index of names of those living on reservations, published in installments
Ref. E97.9 .C66 R47 2007
Cook, Joyce H., Maureen R. Davis, and the New York State Council of Genealogical Organizations
Researching Native Americans in New York State
Crossroads Custom Printing, 2007
Ref. Oversize E99 .I7 S55 1995
Venables, Robert
The Six Nations of New York: the 1892 United States Extra Census Bulletin [reprint]
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995
Ref. E99 .S3 I76 2000
Potter, Aubrey, comp.
Iroquois Census Project
Fredonia, NY: Reed Library, 2000
Index to the 1852 Cattaraugus Reservation census, as found in the Maris B. Pierce Papers in the Buffalo History Museum Library.
Ref. E99 .S3 J64 2022
John, Randy A., 1958-
1933 Jonegano:h (Coldspring) census and genealogies
Salamanca, NY: RAJ Publications, 2022
Ref. E99 .S3 J66 1947
Cattaraugus Indian Reservation genealogical records, 1822-1947
3 items. Includes birth, death, marriage and other information from ledger owned by Selina Mabee Kennedy; from a dictionary owned by Florence Silverheels Wakolee; and from a family bible owned by Gertrude Pierce Maybee. Typewritten copy.
Ref. E99 .S3 S73 2000
Ericson, Jack T.
Seneca Voters, 1849
Reed Library, 2000
Names of those who voted at an annual election of officers on the Cattaraugus Reservation, May 1, 1849
- Customs, Traditions & Religion
BS345 .S37 Gospels, 1874
Wright, Asher
American Bible Society, 1874
BS345 .S37 Gospels, 1878
Wright, Asher
American Bible Society, 1878
BS345 .S4 K69 1823
Harris, Thompson S. and James Young
Koyewe oos tkau wen ea gweh Oo yad oas had o geh teeh gayh : good sayings from the Bible
Day, 1823
BT380 .A32 S4 1829
Harris, Thompson S. and James Young
Christ hagonthahninoh nonodagahyot : Christ's sermon on the mountain
D. Fanshaw, 1829
Printed for the American Tract Society, Seneca and English on opposite pages.
E51 .U6 no. 183
Chafe, Wallace L.
United States Government Printing Office, 1961
In: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin. 183:1–302. Includes music.
E51 .U6 no. 187
Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
Iroquois Music and Dance: Ceremonial Arts of Two Seneca Longhouses
United State Government Printing Office, 1964
In: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin. 187:1–268
E98 .F7 H37 1891
Harris, George H.
Root Foods of the Seneca Indians
Rochester, NY: Rochester Academy of Science, 1891
In: Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Science, vol I:106-117.
Sev. E98 .R4 S64 1810
Farmer's Brother and Red Jacket
Speeches delivered by several Indian chiefs. Also, an extract of a letter from an Indian chief
Samuel Wood, 1810
The two principal speeches are by Farmer's Son and Red Jacket, Seneca chiefs, rejecting the attempts of the white man to convert the Indians to Christianity.
E99 .D2 A58 2022
Anthony, Albert Seqaqkind
Delaware big house ceremony : performed at Six Nations reserve, Ontario, Canada
Transcribed from : Indian Collection, B00-2 Box 1, Folder 15.
E99 .I7 I74 1979
Hayes, Charles and others
Proceedings of the 1979 Iroquois Pottery Conference
Rochester Museum and Science Center, Research Division, 1980
Includes a paper entitled "An Overview of the Status of Seneca Ceramics" by Robert N. DeOrio
Sev. E99 .S3 A35
Alden, Timothy
J. Seymour, 1827
E99 .S3 C352
Carter, William Henry and Gerald B. Fenstermaker
Seneca Indians; Their Home, Life, and Culture
North American Indian Publications, 1974
E99 .S3 C66 1885
Conover, George Stillwell
Rites of adoption by the Seneca Indians on the Cattaraugus Reservation, June 15th, 1885
1885?
E99 .S3 C8328 1997
Crouse, Bill
Seneca clothing styles : Early woodland period/late colonial period
Salamanca, NY: B. Crouse, c1997
E99 .S3 F4
Fenton, William Nelson
The Seneca Society of Faces
American Association for the Advancement of the Seneca, 1937
Reprinted from The Scientific Monthly, vol. 44, March 1937
E99 .S3 J64 2013
John, Randy
Social integration of an elderly Native American population
[New York] : RAJ Publications, 2013
E99 .S3 M4
Merrill, Arch
American Book-Stratford Press, 1949
E99 .S3 N53 2006
Nicholas, Mark A.
University Park, Pa., 2006
In: Pennsylvania History, vol. 73, no. 1, January 2006
E99 .S3 P74 1982
Prisch, Betty Coit and Gene Mackay
Aspects of change in Seneca Iroquois ladles, A.D. 1600-1900
Rochester, NY: Research Division of the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 1982
E99 .S3 S16 1991
Sams, Jamie and Twylah Hurd Nitsch
Other council fires were here before ours: A classic Native American creation story as retold by a Seneca elder, Twylah Nitsch, and her granddaughter, Jamie Sams : the Medicine Stone speaks from the past to our future
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991
E99. S3 S2
Sanborn, John Wentworth
Legends, Customs, and Social Life of the Seneca Indians, of Western New York
New York: Horton & Deming, 1878
F1030.7 .D68 1902
Dougherty, James T.
Early Jesuit missions: among the Indians of western New York
Canandaigua, NY: Times Presses, [1902?]
GN2 .E77 .Y3 no. 9
Fenton, William N.
An Outline of Seneca Ceremonies at Coldspring Longhouse
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1936
M2009-02
State University of New York College at Fredonia. Daniel A. Reed Library
Missionaries among the Seneca [microfilm]
The Library, 2005
Consists of microfilmed records documenting missionary work among the Seneca Indians in western New York and Pennsylvania in the 19th and 20th centuries. Records gathered from multiple collections: Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society; Wright Memorial Presbyterian Church; Special Collections, Daniel A. Reed Library, SUNY Fredonia; Jimerstown Presbyterian Church, Allegany Territory
ML3557 .F32 S6 1992
Fenton, William N.
Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Recording Laboratory, 1992
We also have the LPs that accompany this guide
TX715 .B2534 2004
Bardeau, Phyllis E. Wms.
The standing pot : A collection of traditional and new recipes, stories, cultural insights, and Seneca language for enjoyment & learning. and good eats
Steamburg, NY: Signature Series Books, 2004
Mss. A64-237
Bryant, William Clement
Seneca Mission Church History and Engraving
1890
Mss. A97-21
Harris, Thompson S.
Journals of the Seneca Mission, 1821-1828
Describes daily activities as missionary to the Seneca Indians at Buffalo Creek and Cattaraugus reservations. Reprinted in the Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society in 1903.
PM2296. H96 H37 1823
Harris, Thompson S. and James Missionary Young
O en ad o geh teeh soah Koy a noh soah, na na Nonoandowoh gau Neuenooh dea: Hymns, in the Seneca language
David M. Day, 1823
Seneca and English on opposite pages, without music.
PM2296. H96 H93 1827
Hyde, Jabez (Jabez Backus)
Kau a nau so na na none do wau gau, ne u wen noo da: Hymns, in the Seneca language
H.A. Salisbury, 1827
Seneca and English on opposite pages.
PM2296. S35 1819
Hyde, Jabez Backus
Kianasa nana nonedowaga neuwenuda: Hymns in the Seneca language
Buffalo, NY: H.A. Salisbury, 1819
Contains various hymns and prayers, paraphrases of four Psalms, the third chapter of the Gospel of John, and other material, most in Seneca and English on facing pages
Rare PM2296 .S35 1843
Wright, Asher
Gaa nah shoh ne de o waahsa onyoh gwah nawenniyuh: ho nontgah deh ho diya donyoh
PM2296 .S35 1852
Wright, Asher
G|a||a n|ah sh|oh neh de |o w|a||ah's|ao'ny|oh gwah Na'w|enni'yuh. Honont'gah deh hodi'yado'ny|oh
American Tract Society, 1852
Seneca hymnal.
PM2296 .S35 1892
Sanborn, John Wentworth
Hymnal in the Seneca language: Also ten psalms of David, together with a choice collection of English hymns with tunes and an index
John Wentworth Sanborn, O-yo-ga-weh & Clear Sky, 1892
Q11 .N82 no. 163
Handsome Lake and Arthur Caswell Parker
The Code of Handsome Lake, Seneca Prophet
University of the State of New York, 1913
Field notes on the rites and ceremonies of the Ganio 'dal'lo' religion
SK325 .P53 F46 1943
Fenton, William Nelson and Merle H. Deardorff
The Last Passenger Pigeon Hunts of the Cornplanted Senecas
1943
Reprinted from Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. 33, no. 10, October 15, 1943.
- Fiction & Poetry
E87 .J45 S97 1955
Sutherland, Margaret Bradt
The Life of Mary Jemison: A Narrative Poem
Castilian Press, 1955
E99 .S3 S19
Sanborn, John Wentworth
J.W. Sanborn, 1905
Sev. PS1999 .H54 Y7
Hosmer, William Howe Cuyler
Yonnondio, or warriors of the Genesee : tale of the seventeenth century
Rochester, NY: Wiley & Putnam 1844
In verse, descriptive of events during the summer and autumn of 1687.
PS3509 .D564 I5
Edmonds, Walter Dumaux
Little, Brown and Company, 1947
PS3557 .A56 K4 1992
Gangi, Rayna M.
Keepers of the Western Door: a Novel
Maple Street Press, 1992
PZ3 .C1626 At
Canfield, William Walker and G. A. Harker
E.P. Dutton & Company, 1911
PZ3 .C1626W
Canfield, William Walker
E.P. Dutton & Company, 1911
- Language
BS345 .S37 Gospels, 1874
Wright, Asher and American Bible Society
Ho iwiy sdos hah neh cha gao hee dus, gee ih nigaya dosha gee, neh nando wahgaah heni adi wanoh daah: The four Gospels in the Seneca language
American Bible Society, 1874
BS345 .S4 K69 1823
Harris, Thompson S. and James Young
Koyewe oos tkau wen ea gweh Oo yad oas had o geh teeh gayh : good sayings from the Bible
D.M. Day, 1823
BS345 .S56 Luke, 1829
Harris, T.S.
D. Farnshaw, 1829
Translated into the Seneca language.
BT380 .A32 S4 1829
Harris, Thompson S. and James Young
Christ hagonthahninoh nonodagahyot : Christ's sermon on the mountain
D. Fanshaw, 1829
Printed for the American Tract Society, Seneca and English on opposite pages.
E99 .S3 S45 1979
Seneca coloring book = Onondowa' ga' yèohso:tha' gayadèoshèa'
Salamanca, NY: Salamanca City School District, 1979
PM501 .N7 W45 1832
White, Seneca
Ki noh shuh, nr wen ne un, na da wi sem nyo qurh : nas hr ne a nent ho yot dub, gr non, no noh ka : do shoo wl, da ku, skr a, noh da wen nyer a, seh ne use has he na, tik ne skr a
Republican Press, 1832
A Seneca hymnal, no English translation
PM2296 .B37 2011
Bardeau, Phyllis E. Wms.
Definitive Seneca : it's in the word
Salamanca, NY: Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, 2011
Oversize PM2296. C43 S5 1967
Chafe, Wallace L.
Seneca Morphology and Dictionary
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 1967
PM2296 .G38 A8 2013
Gautieri, Gina G.
Attitudes and opinions on the current Seneca language revitalization efforts
Fredonia, NY: State University of New York at Fredonia, M.S. Thesis, 2013
PM2296. H96 H37 1823
Harris, Thompson S. and James Missionary Young
O en ad o geh teeh soah Koy a noh soah, na na Nonoandowoh gau Neuenooh dea : Hymns, in the Seneca language
David M. Day, 1823
Seneca and English on opposite pages, without music.
PM2296 .H96 H93 1827
Hyde, Jabez (Jabez Backus)
Kau a nau so na na none do wau gau, ne u wen noo da: Hymns, in the Seneca language.
H.A. Salisbury, 1827
Seneca and English on opposite pages
PM2296 .S35 1819
Hyde, Jabez Backus
Kianasa nana nonedowaga neuwenuda : Hymns in the Seneca language
Buffalo, NY: H.A. Salisbury, 1819.
Contains various hymns and prayers, paraphrases of four Psalms, the third chapter of the Gospel of John, and other material, most in Seneca and English on facing pages.
Rare PM2296 .S35 1843
Wright, Asher
Gaa nah shoh ne de o waahsa onyoh gwah nawenniyuh : ho nontgah deh ho diya donyoh
Seneca Mission Press, 1843
PM2296 .S35 1892
Sanborn, John Wentworth
John Wentworth Sanborn, O-yo-ga-weh & Clear Sky, 1892
PM2296 .S46 1818
Kilham, Hannah
A short vocabulary in the language of the Seneca nation, and in English
W. & S. Graves, 1818
Rare PM2296 .W74 D58
Wright, Asher, Abel Brown, and Sgaoyadih Dowanandenyo
Diuhsawahgwah gayadoshah
Nadige'hjihshohoh dodisdoagoh, 1836
Elementary reading book in the Seneca language
PM2296 .Z5 W8 1842
Wright, Asher
Mission Press, 1842
In Rare Book Collection
PM2296 .35 1852
Wright, Asher
G|a||a n|ah sh|oh neh de |o w|a||ah's|ao'ny|oh gwah Na'w|enni'yuh. Honont'gah deh hodi'yado'ny|oh
American Tract Society, 1852
Seneca hymnal.
Q11 .N82 no. 388
Chafe, Wallace L.
Handbook of the Seneca Language
University of the State of New York, State Education Department, 1963
- Legends & Folklore
E98 .F6 P15
Parker, Arthur Caswell
Skunny Wundy and other Indian Tales
George H. Doran Company, 1926
E99 .I7 C23
Canfield, William Walker and Cornplanter
The Legends of the Iroquois, as told by "the Cornplanter"
A. Wessels Co. ,1902
E99. S3 C76
Cornplanter, Jesse and N. Henricks
Legends of the Longhouse
J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938
E99 .S3 P27
Parker, Arthur Caswell
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1989
Reprinted from the 1923 edition published by the Buffalo Historical Society, originally issued as volume 27 of the Society's publications. Our link is to the 1923 edition.
E99 .S3 S16 1991
Sams, Jamie and Twylah Hurd Nitsch
Other council fires were here before ours : a classic Native American creation story as retold by a Seneca elder, Twylah Nitsch, and her granddaughter, Jamie Sams : the Medicine Stone speaks from the past to our future
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991
E99. S3 S2
Sanborn, John Wentworth
Legends, Customs, and Social Life of the Seneca Indians, of Western New York
New York: Horton & Deming, 1878
E99 .S3 S237 1923
Curtin, Jeremiah
E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923
We also have a 2001 reprint
- Letters, Diaries, Journals, Manuscripts, and Other Archival Material
If you wish to use manuscript (Mss.) material, anything with a hyphen in the call number (like A00-123), please submit a Scholar Pass application.
E78 .N7 D46 1848
Denonville, Jacques Rene de Brisay Marquis de and Orasmus Holmes Marshall
Narrative of the expedition of the Marquis De Nonville : against the Senecas, in 1687
Bartlett & Welford, 1848
Serials E97.6 .T4 A5
Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children
Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children
Thomas Asylum for the Orphan and Destitute Indian Children, 1887-1926
Native American school on the Cattaraugus Reservation. Title varies. Our link opens a page with 1899-1934 editions online.
E97.6 .T4 R46 1948
Renz, Lucia M.
A history of the Thomas Indian School 1855-1948 : thesis, 1948
Rare E99 .I7 T96
Tuttle, Sarah
T. R. Marvin, 1831
In Rare Book Collection
Sev. E99 .S3 A35
Alden, Timothy
J. Seymour, 1827
Rare E99 .S3 F69
Friends, Society of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for Sufferings
Some transactions between the Indians and Friends in Pennsylvania, in 1791 & 1792
J. Phillips, 1792
Includes the request of the Seneca chief, Corn Plant, and the answer of the Friends [of Philadelphia].
E99 .S3 R4 1892
Waterloo Library and Historical Society
Waterloo Library and Historical Society, 1892
E540 .I3 P37 1995
Parker, Isaac Newton and Laurence Hauptman
A Seneca Indian in the Union Army: The Civil War letters of Sergeant Isaac Newton Parker, 1861-1865
Burd Street Press, 1995
F1030. B26
Baugy, Louis Henry Chevalier de and Ernest Hubert Auguste Serrigny
Journal d'une expedition contre les Iroquois en 1687
E. Leroux, 1883
In French
F1030.5 .M36
Marshall, Orsamus Holmes and Rene Brehan de Galine
The first visit of De La Salle to the Senecas, made in 1669
Privately Printed, 1874
F116 .B83 P86 v.7
Dearborn, H.A.S.
Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Historical Society, 1904
Mss. A00-8
Aigin, James
Reminiscences of early Buffalo, 1871-1875
Includes accounts of Buffalo during the War of 1812 and the role played by Seneca chief Farmer's Brother. Also, sketches about Seneca chief Tommy Jimmy's journey to England in 1816, Capt. Jedediah Rogers, who commanded the Walk-in-the-Water and other early Great Lakes steamboats.
Mss. A00-30
Stryker, James
Cholera epidemic records, 1832 and 1880 (bulk 1832 July- Sept.)
Letters regarding the epidemic, including one concerning Seneca Indians from James Stryker.
Mss. A00-34
Beauchamp, William Martin
Papers on Onondaga Antiquities, 1878, 1879
Includes Antiquities of Onondaga County, N.Y., as known in A.D. 1878: with recent personal observations on the Seneca River; and Onondaga antiquities, 1879: additional forms & sites. Papers include maps and plans of historic sites, and illustrations of Native American artifacts.
Mss. A00-55
Bouck, William C. and Ely Samuel Parker
Letter : Albany, to E.S. Parker, Pembroke, Genesee County, 1844 Apr. 20
States his understanding of the issues between the Odgen Land Company and the Tonawanda Indians, and how a settlement can be achieved. Following the letter is an unsigned note, also addressed to Parker, explaining that Bouck's letter was read to the Tonawanda chiefs, and that the Indian agent had also read them a message from the War Dept.
Mss. A00-79
Berry, Jack, John Caldwell Calhoun, Cornplanter, and Red Jacket
Talk Given to Seneca Chiefs, 1823 Mar. 14
Talk given by John C. Calhoun, 14 Mar. 1823, to Seneca chiefs Red Jacket, Jack Berry, and Cornplanter. Talk includes discussion of annuities, continuation of the services of Jasper Parrish and Horatio Jones, the possible relocation of the Seneca, and the theft of lumber by white settlers , Photostatic copy.
Mss. A00-82
Cazenove, Theophile and Israel Chapin
Statement regarding gift of wampum, and correspondence with Israel Chapin, 1797, 1799
Includes statement accompanying string of wampum given by the sachems of the Seneca Nation to Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth on the occasion of the Treaty of Big Tree, 15 Sept. 1797.
Mss. A00-84
Chapin, Cyrenius, Ira G. Watson, John Watson, Sylvester Clark, Simeon R. Jones, and R.W. Stoddard
Papers, 1806-1816
Includes a receipt for medical treatment of Red Jacket in 1806
Mss. A00-130
Hall, Nathan Kelsey and Seneca Nations
Judicial opinion and agreement concerning the Ebenezer Society, 1844-1845
Opinion of Judge Nathan K. Hall in the case presented by the Erie County district attorney for a warrant to remove Charles L. Mayer from the Buffalo Creek Reservation, 18 June 1844; and an agreement between Seneca Nation chiefs and warriors and the Ebenezer Society, in which the Seneca promise not to trespass on Ebenezer Society lands, 9 July 1845.
Mss. A00-137
Ewing, William and Isaac Chapin
Letter : Geneceo [sic], to Israel Chapin, Esq., 1794 Sept. 17
Report to Chapin regarding his attempts to persuade the Indians of Buffalo Creek and Canada to attend the treaty at Canandaigua.
Mss. A00-194
Ferris, Martha H.
Letter: to the Buffalo Historical Society, 1888 Sept. 24
Letter presenting two paintings to the Buffalo Historical Society. Describes the beginnings of the Thomas Indian School on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, of which Philip E. Thomas, first president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was a major benefactor.
Mss. A00-256
King, William and Farmer's Brother
Notes on a Visit to Western New York in 1810, [between 1810 and 1830]
Description of New Amsterdam (now Buffalo), Batavia, and Canandaigua in October and November, 1810. Includes his questions on the remains of old forts in Western New York, and answers given by Seneca chief Farmers Brother.
Mss. A00-260
Kirkland, Samuel, Timothy Pickering, and Henry Knox
Samuel Kirkland letters and journals, 1764-1795
Includes handwritten transcription of Kirkland's journal, 16 Nov. 1764-2 May 1765, detailing his activities as a missionary to Native Americans, especially the Oneida, and his journal of a tour to the Seneca, 23 Sept.-25 November 1788.
Mss. A00-329
Parker, Ely Samuel, Caroline Parker, John E. Smith, John Fisk, and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Ely S. Parker correspondence and paper on the Iroquois, 1853-1895
Mss. A00-338
Hall, William
Recollection of an Indian Council held at Buffalo in 1818 or 1819, 1862
Reminiscence of the council held near the village of Buffalo in the summer of 1819, at which the Seneca, via Red Jacket, refused to cede their lands and move to the Alleghany Reservation or to lands in the U.S. territories. Includes Hall's memories of Red Jacket at the treaty held in Moscow, Livingston County, 1826.
Mss. A00-345
Pierce, Daniel Webster, Asher Wright, Otis Curtis, N.H. Pierce, and Iroquois Agricultural Society
Daniel W. Pierce papers, ca. 1857-1877
Sermons written by Pierce, apparently while studying in Cattaraugus County, N.Y., and while at the Twinsburgh Institute, Twinsburgh, Ohio; license to preach, issued to Pierce by missionaries N. H. Pierce, Otis F. Curtis, and Asher Wright, Cattaraugus Reservation, Mar. 1866; Pierce's "first attempt of delivering a written discourse, delivered at Newtown, July 1st, 1866"; sermons delivered on the Cattaraugus Reservation, 1877; and notes for sermons and letters referencing an unidentified trial. Also, the constitution of the Iroquois Agricultural Society, amended to 19 Dec. 1862; and a printed copy of the New York State Senate act to incorporate the Agricultural Society, 31 Mar. 1863.
Mss. A00-422
Converse, Harriet Maxwell, George L. Porter, and Andrew Langdon
Harriet Maxwell Converse note : Buffalo, to Mr. Langdon, ca. 1897
Note to Andrew Langdon, president of the Buffalo Historical Society, enclosing the statement of George L. Porter certifying that he was present when the casket containing the remains of Gen. Ely S. Parker was opened at the office of W. F. Bishop, 65 State Street, Bridgeport, Conn. on the afternoon of 19 Jan. 1897, and that he recognized the body and features of his friend of many years. Includes envelope addressed to Harriet Converse.
Mss. A00-444
Strong, Nathaniel T., Guy H. Salibury, William Ketchum, Nathan Kelsey Hall, and Lars Gustaf Sellstedt
Nathaniel T. Strong account, letters, and lecture, 1849, 1863, 1871
Includes Strong's account of his expenses while on the business of the Seneca Nation, 1849-1851; two letters written by Strong to G. H. Salisbury and William Ketchum in 1863, on the origin of Buffalo's name; Strong's lecture on Red Jacket, 29 Dec. 1863; and a letter written by Strong, 31 Oct. 1871, to N. K. Hall,president of the Buffalo Historical Society, about Blacksnake, a war chief of the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe of Indians. The letter was written just before W. H. Greene and N. K. Hall donated a portrait of Blacksnake by Lars G. Sellstedt to the Buffalo Historical Society. Attached to the Strong letter is Sellstedt's receipt, 27 Apr. 1871, for sale of the painting.
Mss. A00-448
Wright, Laura M, Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children Board of Managers
Memorandum of the contents of the corner stone box, 1902 Jan. 14
Included are transcriptions of several of the items, including a list of children received in the institution, a list of donors, officers of the Seneca government, and an historical sketch written by Laura M. Wright.
Mss. A00-497
Wright, Asher, William A. Thayer, Laura M. Wright, Caroline Park, and O.H. Marshall
Asher and Laura Wright Letters, 1850-1871
Letter to Asher Wright from William A. Thayer, Lancaster, 14 May 1850, responding to Wright's request for information on the construction of the Indian meeting house at Cattaraugus, and how funding was acquired; letter to Miss C. G. Parker from L. M. Wright, Cattaraugus Reservation, 30 Aug. 1852, thanking her for expressions of sympathy on the death of Mary Jimerson, and inviting her to accompany the Wrights to Troy for the annual meeting of the American Board of Missions;letter from Asher Wright to Spencer H. Cone, undated, asking for translations of the Baptist baptism formula for his printing of the New Testament in Seneca, the cost of which will be defrayed by the Bible Society providing that he uses the correct terms for the act of baptism.
Mss. A00-511
Williams, Benjamin and Governor Blacksnake
Memoir of Governor Blacksnake, 1874 May 8
Mss. A00-529
Potter, Herman, James Wadsworth, Thomas L. Ogden, David Ellicott Evans, Joseph Fellows, Joshua Waddington, William D. Waddington, John J. Vanderkemp, and James Stryker
Heman B. Potter letterbook, 1838 Oct. 26-1845 Nov. 5
Potter's letters to James Wadsworth, Thomas L. Ogden, David E. Evans, and others, regarding land sales, tax payments, and efforts to remove the Western New York Indians to the West.
Mss. A00-563
Day, David Fisher
Address delivered at the unveiling of the statue of Red Jacket at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y., 1892 June 22
Address credits those responsible for the statue, gives details of Red Jacket's life, and some history of the Seneca and Six Nations.
Mss. A00-573
Parker, Arthur Caswell, Ely Samuel Parker, Nicholson H. Parker, Samuel H. Beckwith
Appendix to last grand sachem of the Iroquois : typescript, 1919
Material apparently gathered (but not used) by Parker for his The Life of General Ely S. Parker, published as v. 23 of Buffalo Historical Society Publications, 1919. Includes one of Ely Parker's school essays, "National faith," written 25 Nov. 1847 at Cayuga Academy; diary entries from a trip to Washington, 1-14 Jan. 1847; military dispatches, 4 Aug. 1864-2 Feb. 1865; letters to his brother Nicholson Parker, 5 Sept. 1863-25 Mar. 1868; a view of Indian affairs, from his 1869 annual report as Commissioner of Indian Affairs; and Capt. Samuel H. Beckwith's address at the marking of Parker's grave on 30 May 1905.
Mss. A00-578
Howland, Henry R.
Henry R. Howland research papers, 1901-ca. 1924
Letters, notes, and drafts concerning the Seneca mission at Buffalo Creek, the British privateer Vengeance, William Pryor Letchworth and the Indian council at Glen Iris, and recollections of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Buffalo, N.Y
Mss. A64-69
Kelly, James Edward
Notebook, 1892
Notes of conversation with General Ely S. Parker, a Seneca and Union general, regarding Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Mss. A64-94
Parker, Caroline, Ely Samuel Parker, Nicholson Parker, Isaac Newton Parker, and M.B. Pierce
Papers, 1836-1903 (bulk 1841-1870)
Family correspondence and correspondence of Ely S. Parker concerning the Marine Hospital at Galena, Ill.; speeches and writings of Ely and Nicholson Parker and others; letters and petitions supporting claims of Seneca Indians to reservation lands; genealogies of the Parker family and other Senecas; Seneca census information; receipts, clippings, maps and a photograph of Parker family members.
Mss. A64-177
Parker, Arthur Caswell, Erasmus H. Simon, Charles Jempson, M.M Noah, and the Lewiston Investment Company of Niagara Falls, NY
Collection of historical papers, 1818-1952 (bulk 1818-1901)
Includes a copy of a letter from Seneca chiefs in London, Eng. to Seneca chiefs in Buffalo Creek, 24 Aug. 1818.
Mss. A64-201
New York State Indian Commission
Reports, 1920-1921
Reports of meetings with various Indian tribes concerning relations between whites and Indians. This link may be a match.
Mss. A64-214
Stevenson Family Genealogy [ca. 1862]
James Stevenson was a Seneca chief and longtime resident of Buffalo Creek Reservation.
Mss. A64-223
Vail, Charles Delamater
Bibliography of the life of Mary Jemison: typescript, 1918
Mss. A64-237
Bryant, William Clement
Seneca Mission Church history and engraving [ca. 1890]
Mss. A64-245
Seneca Nation
Constitution, 1833 July 29
Mss. A64-262
Sherman, Daniel and the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
Indian Agent Ledger, 1875-1880
Includes financial accounts of Daniel Sherman, U.S. Indian agent in New York State; summaries of Indian school reports; pension information; surveys of reservations; and incident reports.
Mss. A64-266
Red Jacket, Cornplanter, Young King, Farmer's Brother, Little Billey, Pollard, Jasper Parrish, John Edward, Oliver Forward, Cyrenius Chapin, Jack Berry, and the United States Department of War
Receipts for payments to Indians, 1805-1815
Six receipts for annuities paid to Indian chiefs and one receipt for payment for interpreter services.
Mss. A64-301
Granger, Erastus, Farmer's Brother, Little Billey, Cornplanter, and Red Jacket
Receipt for payment to Indians, 1812 May 27
Receipt for three-year annuity past due from estate of Oliver Phelps and others. Erastus Granger was the Indian agent involved.
Mss. A64-318
Cornplanter, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Bonsall, Isaac Coates, John Shoemaker, and Thomas Stewardson
Letters : to Cornplanter, 1803 Feb. 11 and July 24
Thomas Jefferson, Washington, to the Cornplanter, the Stinking Fish and Gachgewashe, re: sale of Indian lands, 11 Feb. 1803; Genesinguhta, Isaac Coats, Isaac Bonsall, Tho. Stewardson, John Shoemaker, to Cornplanter and the other chiefs of the Seneca nation residing on the Allegany River, regarding settlers along the Allegany River. Our link provides the text of Jeffferson’s Feb. letter.
Mss. A65-22
Pickering, Timothy
Letters: to Rebecca Pickering, 1793 May-1794 Nov. 12
Letters to his wife relating experiences during expeditions to the Seneca Indians of Western New York and the Detroit area.
Mss. A66-17
Granger, Erastus and Red Jacket
Receipt for annuity, 1812 June 5
Receipt for 100 dollars signed by Red Jacket
Mss. A68-129
Painter, Levinus K.
Indians in Western New York, past and present
Very brief paper highlighting the history of the Seneca Indians, written between 1956 and 1968
Mss. A68-227
Carpenter, William Allison, James N. Granger,and Nathaniel Woodhull Howell
Collection of papers for a history of Buffalo, 1847
Mentions Red Jacket, the Senecas, and Erastus Granger
Mss. A70-43
Sherman, James S.
Letter Concerning Ely S. Parker, 1904 Sept. 31 and Sept. 14
Two TLS to Sherman from government officials concerning Parker's military career and appointment as Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Mss. A71-29
Depositions concerning property on the Tonawanda Reservation, 1849 Mar. 8-17
Depositions, 8-17 Mar. 1849, in the matter of Thomas L. Ogden and Joseph Fellows and the Seneca Indians residing on the Tonawanda Reservation, concerning ownership of and improvements to property.
Mss. A93-19
Granger, Erastus
Provision Return for Seventeen Indians, 1812 Oct. 17
Instruction to contractor, signed by Indian agent Erastus Granger, to issue thirty-four rations of bread, meat and salt on 17 and 18 Oct. 1812
Mss. A96-37
Hazard, George Starr
Speech: At Dedication of Red Jacket Monument, 1892 June 22
Discusses the interest of the Buffalo Historical Society in preserving Iroquois records and honoring Iroquois sachems, and tells how this monument to Red Jacket came to be erected in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Mss. A96-39
Howland, Henry Raymond
Address at dedication of Seneca Indian Park: typescript, 1912 June 29
History of attempts to evangelize the Seneca at Buffalo Creek, with emphasis on Asher and Laura Wright, and the Seneca Mission House on Buffum Street.
Mss. A97-10
Brideswell, Benjamin, Caleb Benton, John Bartle, Little Beard, Big Tree, Spruce Carrier, Seneca Nation, and Cayuga Nation
Indenture, 1787 Mar. 5
Indenture between Little Beard, Big Tree, Spruce Carrier and other chiefs of the Seneca and Cayuga Nations, and Benjamin Brideswell, Caleb Benton, John Bartle and others, for lands beginning above Newtown Creek on the Tioga, east down the Owego to the Susquehanna River, then along the Pennsylvania line seventy-nine miles, then north to the place of beginning.
Mss. A97-21
Harris, Thompson S.
Journals of the Seneca Mission, 1821-1828
Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Historical Society Publications, 1903
Describes daily activities as a missionary to the Seneca Indians at Buffalo Creek and Cattaraugus reservations
Mss. A2018-06
Snyder, Charles McCool
Red and white on the Niagara Frontier: Insights from the papers of Erastus Granger, Indian Agent from 1807-1819
Mss. A2019-53
[Anonymous]
Reminiscences of Seneca Indians, 1855
Reminiscences written on Western Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa. paper and dated June 7, 10, 1855. Includes accounts of growing up with Native Americans from the Seneca Nation including hunting, learning the language, and customs. Also mentions the British invasion during the War of 1812.
Mss. B00-2
Wright, Asher, Red Jacket, Ely Samuel Parker, and Nicholson H. Parker
Indian Collection, 1788-1955
Materials collected by the Buffalo Historical Society concerning Native Americans of Western New York, primarily the Seneca Nation. Includes speeches of Native American leaders (including Red Jacket) and U.S. representatives, treaties and letters concerning land sales, leases, and annuity grants; recollections and signatures of famous Native Americans; letters of Ely S. and Nicholson Parker; notes on Native American legends, customs and artifacts; and records of various mission schools and churches, including papers of Asher Wright of the Upper Mission Church of the Cattaraugus reservation, and a survey of Indian schools in New York State.
Mss. B00-3
Allen, Orlando
Reminiscences, 1871
Includes accounts of medical care provided on Seneca reservations
Mss. B00-3
Lovejoy, Henry
Reminiscence of Buffalo, 1864
Writes of the Indians who lived along Buffalo Creek, and of the Lake Erie shore from Buffalo to Black Rock
Mss. B00-9
Pierce, M.B.
Papers, 1787-1884 (bulk 1833-1874)
Fully digitized and online. Correspondence with government officials, census officials, Indians, Quakers, friends and relatives, 1834-1874; sermons, speeches and other writings; copies of New York State and federal laws and bills concerning Indians, 1850-1874; and papers concerning the Seneca Nation, including Council minutes, 1833-1865, treaties and agreements, 1787-1844, financial reports, letters, and mss. written by whites about the Senecas, 1807-1874. Subjects include Indian emigration, timber sales, schools, self-government and relations with the Ebenezers, Quakers, and the Ogden Land Company.
Mss. B00-13
Bryant, William Clement and others
Papers, 1778-1889 (bulk 1829-1889)
Includes Bryant's historical research, especially into Seneca Indian history and traditions, 1854-1889; correspondence and other papers of Asher Wright, 1820-1888, regarding the Seneca Nation; a treaty and a treaty amendment involving New York State and the Seneca, 1830 and 1837; Seneca, Cayuga and Onondaga Nations accounts, letters, power of attorney, petitions and statements to government officials, 1831-1839 and undated; addresses, reminiscences and papers presented to the Buffalo Historical Society on Native Americans
Mss. C69-01
Gansworth, Howard
Papers
Correspondence, 1897-1953, including two letters from Woodrow Wilson, 1910-1912; printed matter collected by Mr. Gansworth, mostly related to Indians, Princeton University and the Princeton Club of Buffalo; clippings, 1911-1952, and a scrapbook, ca. 1903-1913, related to the Princeton Club of Buffalo; clippings, 1911-1949, related to Iroquois Indian affairs, including the trial of Lila Jimerson for murder, 1930; notebooks on Indian history and constitutional law; and catalog cards comprising a bibliography of Iroquois Indian tribes and Mr. Gansworth's personal book collection. Includes several issues of the newspaper The Daily Princetonian, 1897-1902.
Mss. W-11
Lamberton, John
Tonnewanta and Buffalo Reservations survey field notes, 1827 Aug.-Sept
Mss. W-12
Cook, Elias R.
Survey of Lots in the Tonnewanta Reservation in the counties of Genesee and Erie, 1840 June-July
Mss. W-14
Sperry, James
Buffalo Creek and Tuscarora Reservations survey field notes, 1843, 1845
Mss. W-15
Carskaddau, Harvey, and Ogden Land Company
Field Notes of Lots Surveyed on the Buffalo Creek Reservation, 1840
Mss. W-16
Ogden Land Company
Schedule of payments for improvements to lots on the Buffalo Creek Reservation, 1842-1843
Includes name of lot owner, improved acreage, number of orchards, houses, and barns, value, and remarks.
Mss. W-17
Love, Thomas C., Ira Cook, Odgen Land Company, and the United States War Department
Appraisal Reports of Seneca reservations and improvements, 1844 May 26
Mss. W-24
Hyde, Jabez Backus
Account of the Seneca Indians & Mission, 1820 Aug. 20
Memoir of his years on the Buffalo Creek Reservation, Hyde was sent to the Buffalo Creek Reservation by the New York Missionary Society in 1811, He established a school and taught the Seneca Indians for almost ten years.
- Maps & Atlases
Oversize G 1254 .C4 R44 1955
Boyer-Reinstein, Julia
Town of Cheektowaga Historical Atlas
1953
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 5.5, 5.7, 5.8, 5.13, 5.19, 5.22, 5.30, 5.33, 5.35, 5.42, 5.47, 5.52, 5.52, 5.55, 5.60, 5.64, 5.67, 5.68, 5.71, 5.72, 5.109.
Double Oversize G1250 .B87 1829
Burr, David H.
An Atlas of the State of New York, A Map of the State and of the Several Counties Projected and Drawn up by a Uniform Scale from documents deposited in the Public Offices of the States and other original and authentic information-under the superintendence and direction of Simeon DeWitt Surveyor General...
New York: David H. Burr, 1829
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 47, 49, 50, 51, 52. Same in 1839 and 1841 reprints.
Double Oversize G1253 .E6 1859 E4 pt. 1
Emslie, Peter
A Deed Atlas of the County of Erie N.Y. Showing the Dimensions of Lots and Subdivisions of Lots as they were originally conveyed by the Holland Land Company, the Farmers Loan & Trust Company, and the State of New York together with the Village of New Amsterdam, now City of Buffalo Showing the Plan of each Lot and Subdivision of Lot. With the name of each Grantee, and the date of each, carefully compiled from the Holland Land Company's Deed Books
1859
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 11, 15, 18.
Double Oversize G1253 .E6 1859 E4 pt. 2
A Deed Atlas of the County of Erie N.Y. Showing the Dimensions of Lots and Subdivisions of Lots as they were originally conveyed by the Holland Land Company, the Farmers Loan & Trust Company, and the State of New York together with the Village of New Amsterdam, now City of Buffalo Showing the Plan of each Lot and Subdivision of Lot. With the name of each Grantee, and the date of each, carefully compiled from the Holland Land Company's Deed Books
1859
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 23, 31, 44.
Double Oversize G1253 .E6 B43 1880
Illustrated Historical Atlas of Erie Co. New York From Actual Surveys and Records
New York: F.W. Beers & Co., 1880
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 40, 76, 144, 145, 168. Our set has been rebound and separated into 2 volumes.
Double Oversize G1254 .B8 1866 E4 v.1 pt. 1
R. J. Emslie
Atlas of the City of Buffalo Showing Original Lots & Subdivisions, Also the Names of the Present Ownership, vol. 1, part 1
1866
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 17, 18, 19, 21.
Double Oversize G1254 .B8 1866 E4 v.1 pt. 2
R. J. Emslie
Atlas of the City of Buffalo Showing Original Lots & Subdivisions, Also the Names of the Present Ownership, vol. 1, part 2
1866
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 45, 47, 69, 71, 73, 75.
Double Oversize G1254 .B8 1866 E4 v. 2 pt. 2
R. J. Emslie
Atlas of the City of Buffalo Showing Original Lots & Subdivisions, Also the Names of the Present Ownership, vol. 2, part 2
1866
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 52,53,73.
Double Oversize G1254 .B8 1866 E4 v.3, pt. 1
R. J. Emslie
Atlas of the City of Buffalo Showing Original Lots & Subdivisions, Also the Names of the Present Ownership, vol. 3, part 1
1866
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 20, 36, 38.
Double Oversize G1254 .B8 1866 E4 v. 3, pt. 2
R. J. Emslie
Atlas of the City of Buffalo Showing Original Lots & Subdivisions, Also the Names of the Present Ownership, vol. 3, part 2
1866
Buffalo Creek reservation appears on pp. 45, 47, 48, 61, 62, 63, 64, 68, 69, 73
- Military Involvement
E99 .I7 B35 1998
Benn, Carl
The Iroquois in the War of 1812
Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1998
E99 .I7 H385 1993
Hauptman, Laurence M.
The Iroquois in the Civil War: From battlefield to reservation
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993
E99 .M8 B81
Eggleston, Edward and Elizabeth Seelye
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1879
E99 .S3 B534 2002
Blacksnake, Governor and Jeanne Winston Adler
Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution
Black Dome Press, 2002
E99 .S3 P3253
Armstrong, William Howard
Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General and Seneca Chief
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1978
E99 .S3 P3257 2001
Ritz, Karen and Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
Seneca Chief, Army General: A Story about Ely Parker
Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 2001
Biography of the Seneca Indian who helped save his people's land, was elected a sachem, served in the Union Army, became a general, and was named commissioner of Indian affairs.
- Newspapers & Periodicals
M66-7
Wright, Asher
Ne jagutn'bugi'ages'gwathah: The mental elevator
Seneca Mission House, 1841-50
On microfilm. We also have an incomplete set in hard copy in our Rare Book collection.
- Politics & Treaties
E78. N7 P7 1889
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Buffalo Presbytery
Report to the Presbytery of Buffalo : of a committee appointed to investigate charges made against the Indians of western New York
Salamanca, NY: Cattaraugus Republican Print. House, 1889
E78. N7 P7
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Buffalo Presbytery
Buffalo, NY: The Courier Co., 1890
E78 .O3 H35
Hall, Richard B., United States Department of Justice Lands Division, and United States Indian Claims Commission
Historical-miscellaneous basic data for appraisal, volume one: Lands of the Senecas of Sandusky, Royce area 163 : and the mixed bands of Senecas and Shawnees of Lewistown, Royce area 164 in northwestern Ohio
R.B. Hall, between 1960-1973
E78 .O45 H35
Hall, Richard B., United States Department of Justice Lands Division and United States Indian Claims Commission
Appraisal, United Senecas and Shawnees : 138,140 acres in northeastern Oklahoma, Royce areas 498-499-500-501-502
R.B. Hall, between 1960-1974
Rare E89 .R4
Red Jacket and Farmer's Brother
Native eloquence : being public speeches delivered by two distinguished chiefs of the Seneca tribe of Indians, known among the white people by the names of Red Jacket and Farmers's Brother
[Canandaigua, NY] J.D. Bemis, 1811
In Rare Book Collection
Sev. E98 .R4 S64 1810
Farmer's Brother and Red Jacket
Speeches delivered by several Indian chiefs. Also, an extract of a letter from an Indian chief
Samuel Wood, 1810
The two principal speeches are by Farmer's Son and Red Jacket, Seneca chiefs, rejecting the attempts of white settlers to convert Indians to Christianity.
E99 .I7 G7 1812
Granger, Erastus and Red Jacket
Public speeches : delivered at the village of Buffalo, on the 6th and 8th days of July, 1812
Buffalo, NY: S.H. & H.A. Salisbury, 1812
Our link opens a reprint from 1896
E99 .I7 K36 1973
Kent, Donald H. and the United States Indian Claims Commission
Historical Report on the Niagara River and the Niagara River Strip to 1759
Clearwater Publishing Company, 1973
Includes some Seneca history.
E99 .I7 R3
Red Jacket, Elkanah Holmes, and John Wentworth Sanborn
J.W. Sanborn, 1912
E99 .S3 B32 1874
Babcock, George R.
To the Senate of the United States
1874
"... remarks upon House Bill no. 3258, which was passed May 5, 1874, to authorize the Seneca Nation of New York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and Allegany Reservations and to confirm existing leases."
Sev. E99 .S3 C37 1840
Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia
Merrihew and Thompson, 1841
In Severance Collection.
Sev. E99 .S3 C37 1840
Seneca Nation and Society of Friends Baltimore Yearly Meeting
William Wooddy & Son, 1850
In Severance Collection
E99 .S3 D42 1845
Seneca Nation, Society of Friends Baltimore Yearly Meeting and Standing Committee on the Indian Concerns
Declaration of the Seneca Nation of Indians in general council assembled : with the accompanying documents. Also an address to the chiefs and people, of that nation.
William Wooddy & Son, 1845
E99 .S3 F81a
Strong, Nathaniel T.
Thomas & Company, 1841
E99 .S3 F82
Seneca Nation
William Wooddy & Son, 1842
E99 .S3 F824
Friends Joint Committee on Indian Affairs and Seneca Nation
Report of the proceedings of an Indian council, held at Cattaraugus, in the state of New York, 7th month, 1845
William Wooddy & Son, 1845
E99 .S3 F825
Seneca Nation Council
Report of the proceedings at an Indian Council, held at Cattaraugus in the state of New York, 6th March, 1846
William Wooddy & Son, 1846
E99 .S3 G65
Conover, George Stillwell
Reasons why the state should acquire the famous burial mound of the Seneca Indians : adjacent to the State Agricultural Experiment Station
1888
E99 .S3 H38 2011
Hauptman, Laurence M.
The Tonawanda Senecas' heroic battle against removal
Albany, NY: Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press, c2011
E99 .S3 J65 1842
Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia
Baltimore, MD: William Wooddy & Son, 1842
E99 .S3 M2
Massachusetts Council
Dutton and Wentworth, 1840
Regarding the purchase of Seneca reservations in New York.
E99 .S3 P54
Pierce, Maris .B.
J. Richards, 1839
We also have an 1838 edition
E99 .S3 S24
Seneca Nation
Documents relative to Indian Affairs
Clayton & Kingsland, 1817
E99 .S3 S252
Seneca Nation and Society of Friends Baltimore Yearly Meeting
Memorial of the Seneca Indians, to the President of the United States : also an address from the Committee of Friends, who have extended care to these Indians, and an extract from the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
William Wooddy & Son, 1845
E99 .S3 S46 1907
Appleby, Charles; Seneca Nation; New York (State) Appellate Division, 4th Department
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department : the Seneca Nation of Indians, plaintiff-appellant, vs. Charles E. Appleby, defendant-respondent : case on appeal
Rochester, NY: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Press, 1907
E99 .S3 S62 1862
Society of Friends
W. H. Pile, 1872
E99 .S3 U54 1848
United States Department of War
1848
Sev. E99 .S3 U6
United States Congress House Committee on Indian Affairs
Hearings ... in favor of the bill (H.R. 12270) for the allotment of lands in severalty among Seneca nation of New York Indians, and for other purposes
Government Printing Office, 1902
Sev. E99 .S3 U6a
Vreeland, Edward Butterfield & United States Congress House Committee on Indian Affairs
Remarks of the Hon. E. B. Vreeland before the Committee on Indian Affairs in favor of the bill (H.R. 12270) for the allotment of lands in severalty among Seneca nation of New York Indians, and for other purposes
Government Printing Office, 1902
E99 .S3 W36 1848
Wilson, Peter
1848
E99 .S33 D62 1857
Society of Friends
William Wooddy & Son, 1857
F127 .H7 L58 1897
Livingston County Historical Society
Bunnell, 1897
Library has 2 copies.
HD1694 .A2 1914
Decker, George Palmer and the United States Congress House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Government Printing Office, 1914
Rare KFN 5940 .S46 1848
Seneca Nation of New York
Constitution of the Seneca Nation of Indians
William Wooddy & Son, 1848
In Rare Book Collection
PZ3 .K2983 B
Kelly, Thomas
The Big Tree Treaty; or, the Last Council on the Genesee
Published at Mount Pleasant Farm, 1916
Z6616 .D285
Homes, Harry Augustus
Weed, Parson & Co., 1881
Mss. A00-79
Berry, Jack, John Caldwell Calhoun, Cornplanter, and Red Jacket
Talk Given to Seneca Chiefs, 1823 Mar. 14
Talk given by John C. Calhoun, 14 Mar. 1823, to Seneca chiefs Red Jacket, Jack Berry, and Cornplanter. Talk includes discussion of annuities, continuation of the services of Jasper Parrish and Horatio Jones, the possible relocation of the Seneca, and the theft of lumber by white settlers. Photostatic copy.
Mss. A64-245
Seneca Nation
Constitution, 1833 July 29
Mss. W-16
Ogden Land Company
Schedule of payments for improvements to lots on the Buffalo Creek Reservation, 1842-1843
Includes name of lot owner, improved acreage, number of orchards, houses, and barns, value, and remarks.
Microfilm M74-1
Abler, Thomas S.
Factional dispute and party conflict in the political system of the Seneca Nation (1845-1895)
Thesis--University of Toronto, 1969
On microfilm
- Reservations
E78 .N7 M87 2007A
Mt. Pleasant, Alyssa
After the whirlwind : Maintaining a Haudenosaunee place at Buffalo Creek, 1780-1825
Ph. D.,Cornell University, ©2007
E99 .S3 A32 1854
Ferris, Benjamin and Society of Friends Executive Committee of the Yearly Meetings
Address to the Seneca Nation of Indians on the Alleghany and Cattaraugus Reservations in the state of New York
1854
E99 .S3 A4 2013
Along the Ohi:Yo' Ha'deyoya:ya'kdoh: Quaker Bridge/Tunesassa, A look at Quaker Bridge
Salamanca, NY: Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, 2013
E99 .S3 B32 1874
Babcock, George R.
To the Senate of the United States
1874
"... remarks upon House Bill no. 3258, which was passed May 5, 1874, to authorize the Seneca Nation of New York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and Allegany Reservations and to confirm existing leases."
E99 .S3 B45 1998
Bilharz, Joy Ann
The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1998
E99 .S3 C6 2013
Along the Ohi:Yo' Joneganoh : Coldspring, a look at Snow Street
Salamanca, NY :Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, c2009
E99 .S3 C65 2012
Along the Ohi:Yo' Jonegano:h / Ha'deyoya:ya'kdoh : Cold Spring / Quaker Bridge, a look at old Route 280
Salamanca, NY: Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, c2012
E99 .S3 F34
Fenton, William Nelson
Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 100, No. 6, December, 1956.
E99 .S3 L28 1966
Lankes, Frank James
Reservation supplement; a collection of memorabilia related to Buffalo Creek Reservation
West Seneca Historical Society, 1966
E99 .S3 L3
Lankes, Frank James
The Senecas on the Buffalo Creek Reservation
West Seneca Historical Society, 1964
E99 .S3 M2
Massachusetts Council
Dutton and Wentworth, 1840
Regarding the purchase of Seneca reservations in New York
E99 .S3 R4 2014
Along the Ohi:Yo' Joe'hesta' : Red House / Shongo, a look at Red House
Salamanca, NY: Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, c2010
E99 .S3 S17
Samson, William Holland
The Claim of the Ogden Land Company
1896?
Account of the company who dispossessed the Senecas of the Buffalo Creek Reservation
E99 .S3 S45 1980
Seivert, Lisa
The role of the Quakers in the Seneca Nation's struggle to retain their reservations in Western New York
State University College of Buffalo, M.A. Thesis, Spring 1980
E99 .S3 S73 2000
Ericson, Jack T.
Seneca Voters, 1849
Fredonia, NY: eed Library, 2000
Names of those who voted at an annual election of officers on the Cattaraugus Reservation, May 1st 1849.
F129 .B8 M36 1947
Manley, Henry S.
Buying Buffalo from the Indians
New York History, July 1947
About the machinations of the Ogden Land Company
Mss. A00-130
Hall, Nathan Kelsey and the Seneca Nation
Judicial Opinion and agreement concerning the Ebenezer Society, 1844-1845
Opinion of Judge Nathan K. Hall in the case presented by the Erie County district attorney for a warrant to remove Charles L. Mayer from the Buffalo Creek Reservation, 18 June 1844; and an agreement between Seneca Nation chiefs and warriors and the Ebenezer Society, in which the Seneca promise not to trespass on Ebenezer Society lands, 9 July 1845.
Mss. A2016-35
Ogden Land Company
Transactions between the Ogden Land Company and the Seneca Indians
Most of the correspondence pertains to land sales, payments, and business regarding land acquisition addressed to Heman Potter from members of the Ogden Land Company and the War Department. Frequent correspondents include Joseph Fellows and Thomas L. Ogden. The third folder contains correspondence from George R. Babcock to W.D. Waddington regarding continued legal efforts to relocate and dissolve remaining reservations in Cattaraugus and Allegheny counties. Letters of correspondence number around 100. Agreements/Treaties series consist of formal legal agreements between the Ogden Land Company and individual or multiple chiefs pertaining to removal, confiscation, and payment for land. Treaties are written in English by H.B. Potter and in lieu of signatures, x marks are made by chiefs next to their anglicized names. Each treaty contains multiple signatures including a witness. Since no documentation exists to mention any attempt of translating the terms of the treaty they seem of dubious legality. The majority of the treaties agree on land transfers regarding the entire reservation with fewer in number pertaining to specific plots of land. Payments series consists of bills of sale and receipts of land sold to prospective owners. Dates range from the 1830s-1850s. Each receipt typical consists of the name of the buyer, date of sale, and amount paid. Some of the records present themselves as ledger style records. A separate folder is set aside for bonds and checks issued by the Ogden Land Company. Also includes a ledger of various accounts of Ogden Land Company contractors and Seneca Indians.
Mss. A71-29
Depositions concerning property on the Tonawanda Reservation, 1849 Mar. 8-17
Depositions, 8-17 Mar. 1849, in the matter of Thomas L. Ogden and Joseph Fellows and the Seneca Indians residing on the Tonawanda Reservation, concerning ownership of and improvements to property.
Mss . W-11
Lamberton, John
Tonnewanta and Buffalo Reservations survey field notes, 1827 Aug.-Sept
Mss. W-14
Sperry, James
Buffalo Creek and Tuscarora Reservations survey field notes, 1843, 1845
Mss. W-15
Carskaddau, Harvey, and Ogden Land Company
Field Notes of Lots Surveyed on the Buffalo Creek Reservation, 1840
Mss. W-16
Ogden Land Company
Schedule of payments for improvements to lots on the Buffalo Creek Reservation, 1842-1843
Includes name of lot owner, improved acreage, number of orchards, houses, and barns, value, and remarks
Mss. W-17
Love, Thomas C. and Ira Cook
Appraisal report of Seneca reservations and improvements, 1844 May 26
Addressed to the U.S. Secretary of War, the report includes acreage, number and value of houses, barns, orchards, and wells for property owners on the Buffalo Creek, Cattaraugus, and Allegheny Reservations, and the amount to be awarded to each by the Ogden Land Company, under the treaty of 20 May 1842. Since the surveyors were not allowed to survey the Tonawanda Reservation, the figures for that tract are estimates only.
Mss. W-24
Hyde, Jabez Backus
Account of the Seneca Indians & Mission, 1820 Aug. 20
Hyde was sent to the Buffalo Creek Reservation by the New York Missionary Society in 1811. He established a school and taught the Seneca Indians for almost ten years.