According to the Ganondagan State Historic Site, people of the Six Nations who live within Haudenosaunee lands today live in sixteen communities in lands known colonially as "New York State", "Oklahoma", "Wisconsin", "Ontario", and "Canada". We are providing the following geographical descriptions from the Ganondagan site so that people may get some sense of where communities are located. The use of colonial descriptions is in no way intended to validate colonial assertion of jurisdiction in any of these areas; the use of quotation marks around colonial names is to indicate that these are colonial misnomers, not real names denoting areas of jurisdiction.
In "New York", there are communities of the following nations:
Mohawk Nation
Akwesasne: a few miles east of Massena
Ganlengeh: near Altona, north of Plattsburgh
Oneida Nation
Near Oneida, Madison County, on Route 46
Onondaga Nation
Onondaga: just south of Syracuse, on Route 11A
Seneca Nation
Tonawanda: southeast of Lockport
Allegany: at Salamanca, between Jamestown and Olean
Cattaragus: northwest of Gowanda, southwest of Buffalo
Tuscarora Nation
Tuscarora: near Lewiston, north of Niagara Falls
In "Wisconsin", there is a community of the Oneida Nation at Oneida, near
Green Bay.
In "Oklahoma", there is a community of the Cayuga Nation near Turkey Ford, northeast "Oklahoma".
In "Canada", there are communities of the following nations:
Mohawk Nation
Kahnawake: just across the St. Lawrence River, south of Montreal
Kanehsatà:ke: on the Ottawa River, about 20 miles northwest of Montreal (named "Oka" by settlers)
Akwesasne: south of Cornwall, "Ontario"
Tyendinaga (Deseronto): at Deseronto, east of Belleville, "Ontario"
Gibson: southeast of Georgian Bay, near Bala, "Ontario"
Oneida Nation
Oneida: southwest of London, "Ontario"
All Nations represented
Six Nations Reserve: near Brantford, "Ontario"
* The Great Law of Peace - GAYANASHAGOWA, the Constitution of the Haudenosaunee Nations
* Gus-Wen-Tah (Two Row Wampum) - This treaty was made between the Rotinonson:ni and the Dutch, and the British in North America, and was intended to establish "a great peace" between the sovereign nations.
Nov 01/98: Six Nations election chaos
Jun 16/98: What is Crown's responsibility
to Six Nations?
May 25/98: Justice for Iroquois through
Canada's mistake?
Sep / 95: March for Haudenosaunee women's
rights
Nov 19/97: Onondaga people assert their rights
Jan 06/98: Tuscarora position on Project OK