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Approximately 7,300 acres
- The present-day territory of the Onondaga Nation (“People of the Hills”) is approximately 7,300 acres just south of Syracuse near Nedrow, New York.
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The present-day territory of the Onondaga Nation (“People of the Hills”) is approximately 7,300 acres just south of Syracuse near Nedrow, New York. Between 1788 and 1822, the Onondaga Nation lost possession of approximately 95% of its land through a series of illegal “takings” by the State of New York. Onondaga (the keepers of the ...
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Jan 6, 2023 · The Onondaga Nation was reduced to about 200 square miles, but subsequent treaties and lands ceded to homesteaders eventually shrunk it to the current reservation of a small fraction.
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On March 11, 2005, the Onondaga Nation in the town of Onondaga, New York, filed a land rights action in federal court, seeking acknowledgment of title to over 3,000 square miles (7,800 km 2) of ancestral lands centering in Syracuse, New York.
Jul 2, 2022 · CNN — The Onondaga Nation is set to regain over 1,000 acres of ancestral land in central New York in what the Department of Interior calls “one of the largest returns of land to an Indigenous...
Onondaga, tribe of Iroquoian-speaking North American Indians who lived in what is now the U.S. state of New York. The Onondaga traditionally inhabited villages of wood and bark longhouses occupied by related families.
