Onondaga Nation

The Onondaga Nation's territory covers about 7,300 acres just south of Syracuse, New York, a small remnant of a homeland that once spanned more than 2 million acres of central New York. The Onondaga are the Firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Six Nations alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora, and the Confederacy's Grand Council meets at Onondaga. Their name, Onoñdaʼgegáʼ, means 'People of the Hills.'

The Nation keeps its traditional government, a Council of Chiefs chosen by clan mothers, and has never adopted an elected system. Its relationship with the United States rests on the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794. In 2005 it filed a federal 'land rights action' over territory taken by New York between 1788 and 1822. U.S. courts rejected it, and the Nation took the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2024, about 1,000 acres of the Tully Valley at the headwaters of Onondaga Creek were returned to the Nation.

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