The Cayuga - Ithaca, NY - Human Migration Monuments on Waymarking.com

text "The Cayuga, one of the Haudenosaunee Confederation Tribes, cultivated the area where Ithaca now stands before the 1779 Sullivan Campaign drove them from their homes around Cayuga Lake."

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"The people of the Cayuga Nation have called the land surrounding Cayuga Lake their homeland for hundreds of years. Cayuga land lays between that of the Seneca Nation to the west and the Onondaga Nation to the east. Archeologists have found evidence of Cayuga settlements in many areas surrounding the lake including the present day villages of Union Springs, Aurora, Cayuga, Seneca Falls, Ithaca and Canoga...All was stable until the Revolutionary War. Although the Cayuga Nation remained neutral, it became the target of U.S. military attacks. Cayuga villages were destroyed and its orchards burned during the campaigns of General Sullivan and Colonel Butler. The Cayugas were forced from their homeland and the land was dispersed in parcels to American soldiers.
In November of 1794 it appeared that the wrongful taking of Cayuga land would be made right. The Treaty of Canandaigua was signed between the Sachems of the Confederacy Nations and the United States of America. This Treaty affirmed the Cayuga Nation’s rightful reservation as 64,000 acres of sovereign land. Unfortunately, the Treaty was ignored by New York. The Cayuga homeland was not returned to its owners."

Who placed it?: unknown When was it placed?: unknown Who is honored?: The Cayuga Tribe Website about the Monument: Not listed

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