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	Cayuga nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cayuga nation (Guyohkohnyo or the People of the Great Swamp) was one of the five original constituents of the Iroquois, a confederacy of Indians in New York.
		On November 11, 1794, the Cayuga Nation (along with the other Haudenosaunee nations) signed the Treaty of Canandaigua with the United States.
		After the Mohawks, the Cayugas are the most numerous people at Six Nations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cayuga_nation (208 words)

	Cayuga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cayuga are also a nation of Native Americans within the Iroquois Confederacy.
		HMCS Cayuga was the name of a Tribal class destroyer with the Royal Canadian Navy.
		Cayuga is the name of a town in Canada and some places in the United States of America:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cayuga (165 words)

	Cayuga Nation's $500-million Catskill Casino Holds Great Economic Promise / June 2004
		A downside for the nation is the fact that land acquisition within the claim area, a horseshoe-shaped tract of land around the northern end of Cayuga Lake, is limited to less than one-sixth of the total 64,000-acre territory.
		"The Cayuga Nation is gratified that 24 years of litigation is drawing to a successful conclusion," said Timothy Twoguns, Cayuga Nation representative, in a press release.
		Another Cayuga concession involves its Class II gaming hall in Union Springs, which is to be shut down within two years of the Class III facility's opening, unless local officials agree to keep it open.
	www.hotel-online.com /News/PR2004_2nd/June04_Cayugas.html (1032 words)

	Onondaga - Indian Law Resource Center
		These lands, which comprise the aboriginal territory of the Onondaga Nation, are a strip of land between the Oneida Nation lands and the Cayuga Nation lands, roughly centered on the City of Syracuse.
		The Nation hopes to strengthen and develop relationships with supportive organizations and individuals that will increase the capacity of the communities in the area to address issues that are of regional concern, such as responsible, sustainable economic development and environmental protection.
		Re-establishing the Nation's title to lands illegally taken by the State of the New York is an important first step for the Nation not only in addressing issues of pollution, but in providing for the sustained and respectful use of those lands by future generations.
	www.indianlaw.org /onondaga.html (1661 words)

	The Six Nations of the Iroquois
		The Cayuga Nation is one of three ``younger brothers'' in the confederacy.
		However, since the Cayugas are geographically and socially near the Senecas, it is probable that the figures are the same, according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
		The council is a traditional meeting of all of the nations of the Confederacy.
	tuscaroras.com /pages/history/six_nations.html (1012 words)

	Gayogoho:no (The People of the Great Swamp)Cayuga
		If the man were a chief of the Gayogoho:no Nation, he would wear attached to his feathered hat deer antlers that symbolize his authority as one of the ten chiefs of the Cayuga Nation.
		The Cayuga are known as the Younger Brothers, which has significance when the Grand Council of Chiefs, composed of all fifty chiefs of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, meet to discuss matters of importance to the entire Confederacy.
		The joining together of the Five Nations is perhaps the oldest example of nations uniting under a single form of government and spirituality.
	www.peace4turtleisland.org /pages/Cayuga.htm (692 words)

	Union Springs bingo hall history
		April 2003: The Cayuga Nation spends more than $1.4 million to purchase a vacant NAPA Auto Parts store, a former Mobil gas station, a car wash and a convenience store on Route 90 in the village of Union Springs.
		December 2003: The village and the Cayuga Nation reach a compromise.
		April 2004: Hurd rules that the Cayuga Nation's property is sovereign and not subject to zoning laws.
	www.auburnpub.com /articles/2005/10/11/news/local_news/news03.txt (448 words)

	The Ithaca Journal - www.theithacajournal.com - Ithaca, NY
		There are two nations and at least two factions of Cayugas that have all had a hand in trying to reclaim lands in their aboriginal territory around Cayuga Lake.
		The Cayuga Nation of New York &; essentially landless for two centuries — has bought a 70-acre farm in Cayuga County to begin to create a new homeland.
		The Cayuga Nation of New York, once a fairly unified group despite having no central place to live for two centuries, filed the original land claim in 1980.
	www.theithacajournal.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051228/NEWS01/512280329/1002 (1145 words)

	Cayuga Language (Gayogohono)
		Chart of place names in Cayuga, Mohawk, and Wyandot.
		Cayuga history is interesting and important, but the Cayugas are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary art as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
		Cayuga is an Iroquoian language of the Northeast Woodlands.
	www.native-languages.org /cayuga.htm (318 words)

	CAYUGA NATION
		The Cayuga Nation government is the traditional Council of Chiefs and Clan Mothers.
		The Cayuga Nation participates in the annual Indian Nation leadership meeting with Region 2 senior management and the Director of the American Indian Environmental Office.
		Cayuga Nation leadership and HETF representatives attend the annual EPA/Indian Nation leaders meetings.
	www.epa.gov /region02/nations/cayug.htm (349 words)

	October 2003 > Cayuga Indian Nation Purchases Seneca Falls Gas Station NACS Online
		In a 1980 lawsuit filed by the Nation, a U.S. District Court ruled that the Nation and its successors, the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma, were the rightful owners of 64,000 acres in the counties of Cayuga and Seneca.
		"The purpose of using a dummy corporation is the fact that if people found out it was the Cayuga Nation, would they sell to us or would they refuse?
		The court said that the state violated the Non-Intercourse Act of 1790 because it did not get congressional approval on later treaties with the Cayuga Nation.
	www.nacsonline.com /NR/exeres/975B85DA-D011-496A-A597-65932DC46611.htm?NRMODE=Unpublished (502 words)

	USET Leader Testifies Before Assembly Hearing
		However, the Cayuga Nation was the original governmental signatory to the Treaty of Canandaigua, and the Cayugas have remained in New York since that time, recognized continuously as the political and tribal entity with which the United States treated with as the Cayuga Nation in the Treaty of Canandaigua.
		Two members of the Cayuga Nation Council from the Turtle Clan have challenged Halftown's authority to withdraw from the State settlement agreement and to let the Empire agreement expire, while the two other Cayuga clans, Heron and Bear, have expressed public opposition to the State and Empire resort agreements with the Cayuga Nation.
		The Cayuga Nation of New York has been a landless Indian nation since the illegal transactions took place which are the subject of their land claims litigation.
	oneidanews.net /assemblytestimony/raytestimony.html (10318 words)

	Cayuga Nation Bingo is Threatened
		The county wants to close the Cayuga Indian Nation's bingo hall.
		The Cayugas claim they are exempt from the laws, saying their facility is located on sovereign territory.
		Authorities add the only way the bingo hall can be shut down is through a criminal court prosecution under the state penal law.
	www.rnews.com /print.cfm?id=29715 (124 words)

	Cayuga Nation not game for Sullivan casino deal
		The Cayuga Nation of New York isn't coming to this casino-hungry county.
		In October, Catskill Development said it was teaming up with the Cayuga Nation of New York to build a casino at Monticello Raceway.
		A week after Catskill said the New York Cayugas were coming, a Rochester developer unveiled his casino plans for Mamakating — one high atop the wooded Shawangunk Ridge, just off Exit 114 on Route 17; another a few miles east, in the Wurtsboro Hills.
	www.recordonline.com /archive/2001/02/15/sinocayu.htm (378 words)

	ICT [2004/12/07] Let the games begin
		While the Cayuga Nation will, if this deal ultimately comes to fruition, be able to operate a Catskill casino and exercise sovereignty in the land claim territory, they still seem to be getting the short end of the stick.
		Pataki's previous attempt to force this down the nation's collective throat caused the collapse of the June 2004 Memorandum of Understanding that would have given the Cayuga Nation a more advantageous deal than this one.
		If, however, the land claim judgment goes against the tribe, Albany pays nothing and the Cayuga Nation would only be permitted to exercise sovereignty over 2,500 acres in no more than three tracts in which all land within each tract would be contiguous.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096409971 (1021 words)

	Feds snub Cayuga election
		The federal government will not recognize an election organized by pro-casino Cayuga Indian Nation members to change their tribe's form of government, according to a letter sent from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Cayuga Nation.
		We believe the Cayuga Nation of New York can bridge these matters and, in doing so, move toward development of a Cayuga casino in the Catskills," said David Hanlon, chief executive officer and president of Empire Resorts.
		"It is our determination that the level of support for changing the form of government of the Cayuga Nation is insufficient for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to alter its recognition of the Cayuga Nation's form of government," Keel wrote.
	www.auburnpub.com /articles/2005/07/29/news/local_news/news03.txt (339 words)

	Penn Museum NAGPRA
		These consultations were conducted with the Seneca-Cayuga Tibe of Oklahoma and the Cayuga Nation of New York.
		The Museum has repatriated three human remains to the Cayuga Nation of Versailles, New York.
		The second individual was excavated from a burial of a "young Cayuga Iroquois Chief" near Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York in 1894 by William W. Adams.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/exhibits/nagpra/cayuga.shtml (154 words)

	Cayuga Nation Submits Election Results - RGT Online
		Then council members can begin to confront the challenges facing the Nation, including protecting Nation businesses, completing the land claim settlement with the State of New York and advancing the Nation's development agreement with Empire Resorts {NASDAQ:NYNY}, which allows for construction of the Cayuga
		The purpose of the election was to resolve the Nation's long-standing struggle to establish legitimate representatives who can conduct the Nation's business with authority and with the support of Nation members.
		The election was managed by TrueBallot, Inc., an experienced and highly reputable national firm that has helped many of the country's major organizations and groups, including the American Bar Association and the AFL-CIO, elect their leadership.
	rgtonline.com /Article.cfm?ArticleId=57203&CategoryName=Headline&... (756 words)

	UNOFFICIAL SENECA-CAYUGA
		Its local council was composed of 4 clan phratries, and this form became the pattern, tradition says; of that of the confederation of the Five Nations of the Iroquois, in which the Cayuga had 10 delegates.
		The Cayuga Nation is one of the "younger brothers" of the Iroquois Confederacy and are known as the "People of the Pipe" or "People of the Great Swamp"
		This was a well known confederation of Iroquois Indian bands drawn from throughout the Northwest that included the Mingo (from the upper Ohio River), Conestoga, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora and Onondaga (driven into Ohio by early colonists) and the Seneca of Sandusky (who had lived in New York at the outset of the American Revolution).
	users.adelphia.net /~seneca-cayuga (1383 words)

	Indianz.Com > News > Cayuga Nation, county reach deal on inspections
		The Cayuga Nation and Seneca County, New York, have reached an agreement to allow inspections of the tribe's gas stations.
		The Cayuga Nation has asked for its properties to be taken into trust.
		Cayuga Nation seeks BIA protection for lands (4/15)
	www.indianz.com /News/2005/008136.asp (642 words)

	Welcome Members of the Cayuga Nation
		The Cayuga Nation Council is the first elected government ever for the Cayuga people and ushers in a new era of solidarity for the Cayuga Nation.
		The Cayuga Nation of New York made history by electing a provisional governing council.
		They have voted overwhelmingly for this new government, by a 2 to 1 margin.
	www.cayugafuture.com (90 words)

	globeandmail.com : globeinvestor.com : Empire Resorts, Inc. Confirms Plan To Develop Two Catskill N.Y. Casinos After Announcement of Land Claim Settlement Agreement By New York State and Cayuga Nation of New York
		The Cayuga Nation has agreed to contribute 25% (20% during the first four years) of the net revenue from the operation of slot machines to the State of New York.
		The settlement agreement provides for the State and Cayuga Nation to enter into a class III gaming compact for a tribal casino to be located on a site in the Town of Thompson in Sullivan County, New York.
		Empire CEO Robert Berman said, "Importantly, during the past week, both the Cayuga Nation of New York and Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma have agreed to settle their land claims with New York on amicable terms.
	www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/WireFeedRedirect?cf=GlobeInvestor/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20041118&archive=bwire&slug=20041118005549 (694 words)

	CAYUGA NATION
		The Cayuga Nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
		Seen both in Canada and the United States, the blue flag bearing the symbol of the unity of the five nations has become a rallying symbol for Iroquois of all tribes.
		In the last thirty years or so, the unity of the Iroquois nations has grown increasingly stronger.
	www.tuscaroras.com /cayuganation (397 words)

	Democrat and Chronicle
		The Cayuga Nation also could acquire and exercise sovereignty on up to a maximum of 10,000 acres in the land claim area, which involves about 64,000 acres around the northern end of Cayuga Lake.
		Thursday’s memorandum of understanding with the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York signals the state’s interest in settling a longstanding land claim of the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma.
		Attorneys for the New York Cayugas have filed research that says fewer than 2 percent of the Oklahoma tribe’s members have any Cayuga heritage, and that 2 percent come from Cayugas who left New York before the 1794 treaty on which the land claim is based.
	www.democratandchronicle.com /news/forprint/0611154IG1B_news.shtml (597 words)

	Cayuga Nation Catskill Casino Plans Moves Forward
		The decision reversed a lower court decision finding in favor of the Cayuga Nation against the State of New York and followed a recent decision adverse to the Oneida Nation by the United States Supreme Court.
		Citing the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sherrill vs. Oneida Indian Nation, the court found that the Cayugas' claim was barred.
		Hanlon added, noting that the project had already received key environmental and local impact determinations by the BIA's Area Office.
	www.casinocitytimes.com /news/article.cfm?contentID=151737 (464 words)

	Cayuga Nation
		Tammy Rahr Nilsen is an enrolled member of the Cayuga Nation of Indians of New York State and is a 1987 graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts.
		After graduation she became one of fourteen folk artists selected for the Artist-in-Residence Program and practiced in over thirty residencies in New Mexico and throughout the United States from 1987 until 1991.
	www.msstate.edu /fineart_online/Gallery/Trophies/tamnilsen.htm (61 words)

	BIA Clarifies New York Tribal Agreement - RGT Online
		Halftown should not be interpreted to affect the Cayuga Nation's land claim settlement with the State of New York.
		Although their role is necessarily limited, they are making it clear that the Cayuga Nation Council has authority to move forward and properly implement the best interests of the Nation."
		Empire presently has individual agreements with two different tribes -- the Cayuga Nation and the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma -- for development and management by Empire of two, separate Native American gaming facilities in the Catskill Mountains.
	www.rgtonline.com /Article.cfm?ArticleId=55680&CategoryName=Business (387 words)

	Native American
		In Canada the term First Nations is used to refer to Native Canadians, except for the Inuit and the Métis.
		The Canadian First Nations specifically exclude the Inuit in the north, though they are included in the terms "First Peoples" and "Native Canadian".
		The two allied nations were rewarded, at least temporarily, by keeping title to their lands after the Revolution.
	native-american.ask.dyndns.dk (4764 words)

	Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP - Cayuga Wins Broad Right
		In a 41-page decision, the court also issued a broad permanent injunction against the local county and municipalities preventing them from interfering in any way with the Cayuga Nation's development, ownership and possession of its property.
		Judge Rules in Favor of Cayuga Indian Nation
		Lead lawyer on the case, Ray Heslin, a partner in the New York office of Sonnenschein, is quoted in the article, "Tribe Wins Broad Right to Add, Control Land," in the April 28 New York Law Journal.
	www.sonnenschein.com /news/2004/Cayuga_Indian_Nation.html (103 words)

	R News: As It Happens, Where It Happens
		The Cayuga nation of New York announced the purchase of a 70-acre organic farm in Cayuga county.
		A national study shows more people are having a tough time and are in need.
		The property is located in town of Springport, on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake.
	www.rnews.com /Story_2004.cfm?ID=33277&rnews_story_type=18 (1964 words)

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