CAYUGA INDIANS
\ke͡ɪˈuːɡəɹ ˈɪndi͡ənz], \keɪˈuːɡəɹ ˈɪndiənz], \k_eɪ_ˈuː_ɡ_ə_ɹ ˈɪ_n_d_iə_n_z]\
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One of the Six Nations, originally inhabited a district on Cayuga Lake. Though visited by French missionaries, they allied themselves with the English. During the Revolution the Cayugas joined the British, being already in arms against the colonists at Point Pleasant. They annoyed General Clinton on his march to join Sullivan in 1779. Their villages were then destroyed. After the war they ceded nearly all their lands to the State of New York. They later became scattered and almost totally disappeared.
By John Franklin Jameson
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