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The Cayuga ( Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west.
De Onondaga (Onoñda’gega’, vertaald: mensen van de heuvels) zijn een inheems Amerikaans volk die deel uitmaken van de Irokezen . Hun huidige territorium is ongeveer 73 hectare groot en bevindt zich in het zuiden van Syracuse in de staat New York. Tussen 1788 en 1822 nam die staat ongeveer 95% van het gebied van de Onondaga in.
Onondaga is a rarity in the United States, a Native nation that has never surrendered its traditional government, never given up its identity nor compromised its status as a sovereign nation. Federal laws were ignored by their own authors, but the Onondaga people still live by the precepts of the Great Law.
The Onondaga Nation sees the environmental protection of Onondaga Lake as inextricably tied to fights for Haudenosaunee sovereignty and justice for nonhuman actors: “The Onondaga people still live by the precepts of the Great Law and still believe that, in return for the gifts of Mother Earth, human people have responsibility for caring for the nonhuman people, for stewardship of the land.
The Onondaga people are one of the five original nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy in the Northeastern Woodlands. Their historical homelands are in and around present-day Onondaga County, New York, south of Lake Ontario.
Their Algonquian -speaking neighbors (and competitors), the people of Muh-heck Haeek Ing ("food area place"), the Mohicans, referred to the people of Ka-nee-en Ka as Maw Unk Lin, meaning "bear people". The Dutch heard and wrote this term as Mohawk, and also referred to the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka as Egil or Maqua .
Onondaga, parc provincial situé à Leasburg, Missouri ; Onondaga, formation géologique du nord de l'État de New York et du sud de l'Ontario, Canada ; Chutes Onondaga Falls, situées dans le parc provincial Ricketts Glen, en Pennsylvanie. Culture. Onondagas, peuple amérindien ; Onondaga, langue des Onondagas ;
