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Oneida people

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The Oneida (Onyota'a:ka or Onayotekaonotyu, meaning the People of the Upright Stone, or standing stone, Thwahrù·nęʼ in Tuscarora) are a Native American tribe and First Nations band. [1]

75 relations: Aaliyah, Band government, Battle of Oriskany, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Canada, Carl J. Artman, Cayuga Nation of New York, Charlie Hill, Chester Poe Cornelius, Christianity, City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, Clan, Cody McCormick, Colorado Avalanche, Cornelius Hill, Daniel Bread, Dawes Act, Dennison Wheelock, Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, English language, First Nations, Fort Niagara, Fort Stanwix, Gino Odjick, Graham Greene (actor), Great Lakes, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Han Yerry, Handsome Lake, Hickory, Indian Claims Commission, Indian removal, Indian Reorganization Act, Indian reservation, Iroquoian languages, Iroquois, Joanne Shenandoah, Kinship, Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill, Longhouse, Longhouse Religion, Matrilineality, Menominee, Mohawk people, Native Americans in the United States, New York (state), Oneida Castle, New York, Oneida County, New York, Oneida Indian Nation, ..., Oneida Lake, Oneida language, Oneida Nation of the Thames, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Onondaga people, Ontario, Polly Cooper, Samuel Kirkland, Seneca Nation of New York, Six Nations of the Grand River, Skenandoa, Southwold, Ontario, Sovereignty, Supreme Court of the United States, Treaty of Canandaigua, Treaty of Fort Stanwix, Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784), Tribal sovereignty in the United States, Tuscarora language, Tuscarora people, Tyonajanegen, United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Upstate New York, Valley Forge, Wisconsin. Expand index (25 more) »

Aaliyah

Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001) was an American singer, actress, and model.

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Band government

In Canada, an Indian band or band, sometimes referred to as a First Nation band or simply a First Nation, is the basic unit of government for those peoples subject to the Indian Act (i.e. Status Indians or First Nations).

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Battle of Oriskany

The Battle of Oriskany, fought on August 6, 1777, was one of the bloodiest battles in the North American theater of the American Revolutionary War and a significant engagement of the Saratoga campaign.

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Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Carl J. Artman

Carl J. Artman served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs with jurisdiction over the Office of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education from 2007 to 2008, and he served as the Associate Solicitor for Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior from 2005 to 2007.

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Cayuga Nation of New York

The Cayuga Nation of New York is a federally recognized tribe of Cayuga people, based in New York, United States.

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Charlie Hill

Charles Allan Hill (July 6, 1951 – December 30, 2013) was an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer of Oneida-Mohawk-Cree heritage.

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Chester Poe Cornelius

Chester Poe Cornelius ("Geyna") (September 7, 1869 – November 30, 1933) was an Oneida lawyer, scholar, activist and visionary.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York

City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York,, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that repurchase of traditional tribal lands did not restore tribal sovereignty to that land.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Cody McCormick

Cody McCormick (born April 18, 1983) is a former Canadian ice hockey player.

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Colorado Avalanche

The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver, Colorado.

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Cornelius Hill

Cornelius Hill (November 13, 1834 – January 25, 1907) or Onangwatgo (“Big Medicine”) was the last hereditary chief of the Oneida Nation, and fought to preserve his people's lands and rights under various treaties with the United States government.

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Daniel Bread

Daniel Bread (1800-1873) was an important Oneida political and cultural leader who helped the Oneida preserve their culture while adapting to new realities during their transplantation from New York to Wisconsin (known then as Michigan Territory).

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Dawes Act

The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887), authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.

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Dennison Wheelock

Dennison Wheelock (June 14, 1871 – March 10, 1927) was an internationally renowned Oneida band conductor and cornet soloist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; he was also a composer.

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Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Eleventh Amendment (Amendment XI) to the United States Constitution, which was passed by Congress on March 4, 1794, and ratified by the states on February 7, 1795, deals with each state's sovereign immunity and was adopted to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Chisholm v. Georgia,.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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First Nations

In Canada, the First Nations (Premières Nations) are the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle.

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Fort Niagara

Fort Niagara is a fortification originally built to protect the interests of New France in North America.

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Fort Stanwix

Fort Stanwix was a colonial fort whose construction commenced on August 26, 1758, under the direction of British General John Stanwix, at the location of present-day Rome, New York, but was not completed until about 1762.

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Gino Odjick

Wayne Gino Odjick (born September 7, 1970) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1990–91 to 2001–02 for the Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders, Philadelphia Flyers and Montreal Canadiens.

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Graham Greene (actor)

Graham Greene, CM (born June 22, 1952) is a Canadian First Nations actor who has worked on stage, in film, and in TV productions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.

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Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River.

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Han Yerry

Han Yerry Tewahangarahken ("He Who Takes Up the Snow Shoe") (1724 – 1794) was also known as Honyery Doxtator.

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Handsome Lake

Handsome Lake (Cayuga language: Sganyadái:yo, Seneca language: Sganyodaiyo) (Θkanyatararí•yau• in Tuscarora) (1735 – 10 August 1815) was a Seneca religious leader of the Iroquois people.

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Hickory

Hickory is a type of tree, comprising the genus Carya (κάρυον, káryon, meaning "nut").

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Indian Claims Commission

The Indian Claims Commission was a judicial relations arbiter between the United States federal government and Native American tribes.

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Indian removal

Indian removal was a forced migration in the 19th century whereby Native Americans were forced by the United States government to leave their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River, specifically to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, modern Oklahoma).

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Indian Reorganization Act

The Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler-Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of Native Americans (known in law as American Indians or Indians).

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Indian reservation

An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

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Iroquoian languages

The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy.

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Joanne Shenandoah

Joanne Shenandoah (born 1958) is a singer, composer and acoustic guitarist based in the United States.

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Kinship

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.

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Laura Cornelius Kellogg

Laura Cornelius Kellogg ("Minnie") ("Wynnogene") (September 10, 1880 – 1947), was an Oneida leader, author, orator, activist and visionary.

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Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill

Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill (1875–1952) was a Native American physician of Mohawk descent.

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Longhouse

A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.

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Longhouse Religion

The Longhouse Religion is the popular name of the religious movement known as The Code of Handsome Lake or Gaihwi:io (Good Message), founded in 1799 by the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake (Sganyodaiyoˀ).

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Matrilineality

Matrilineality is the tracing of descent through the female line.

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Menominee

The Menominee (also spelled Menomini, derived from the Ojibwe language word for "Wild Rice People;" known as Mamaceqtaw, "the people," in the Menominee language) are a federally recognized nation of Native Americans, with a reservation in Wisconsin.

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Mohawk people

The Mohawk people (who identify as Kanien'kehá:ka) are the most easterly tribe of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Oneida Castle, New York

Oneida Castle is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States.

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Oneida County, New York

Oneida County is a county located in the state of New York, in the United States.

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Oneida Indian Nation

The Oneida Nation or Oneida Indian Nation (OIN) is a federally recognized tribe of Oneida people in the United States.

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Oneida Lake

Oneida Lake is the largest lake entirely within New York State, with a surface area of.

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Oneida language

Oneida is an Iroquoian language spoken primarily by the Oneida people in the U.S. states of New York and Wisconsin, and the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Oneida Nation of the Thames

The Oneida Nation of the Thames is an Onyota'a:ka (Oneida) First Nations band government located in southwestern Ontario on what is commonly referred to as the "Oneida Settlement", located about a 30-minute drive from London, Ontario, Canada.

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Oneida Nation of Wisconsin

The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin is a federally recognized tribe of Oneida people, with a reservation located in parts of two counties on the west side of the Green Bay metropolitan area.

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Onondaga people

The Onondaga (Onöñda’gaga’ or "Hill Place") people are one of the original five constituent nations of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy in northeast North America.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Polly Cooper

Polly Cooper was an Oneida woman from the New York colony who took part in an expedition in 1777 to aid the Continental army during the American Revolution.

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Samuel Kirkland

Samuel Kirkland (December 1, 1741 – February 28, 1808) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora peoples of present-day central New York State.

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Seneca Nation of New York

The Seneca Nation of Indians is a federally recognized Seneca tribe based in western New York.

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Six Nations of the Grand River

Six Nations (or Six Nations of the Grand River, Réserve des Six Nations) is the largest First Nations reserve in Canada.

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Skenandoa

John Skenandoa (c. 1706 – March 11, 1816), also called Shenandoah among other forms, was an elected chief (a so-called "pine tree chief") of the Oneida.

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Southwold, Ontario

Southwold is a township in Elgin County, in Ontario, Canada, located on the north shore of Lake Erie.

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Sovereignty

Sovereignty is the full right and power of a governing body over itself, without any interference from outside sources or bodies.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Treaty of Canandaigua

The Treaty of Canandaigua (or Konondaigua, as spelled in the treaty itself) is a treaty signed after the American Revolutionary War between the Grand Council of the Six Nations and President George Washington representing the United States of America.

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Treaty of Fort Stanwix

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty between Native Americans and Great Britain, signed in 1768 at Fort Stanwix, in present-day Rome, New York.

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Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784)

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty finalized on October 22, 1784, between the United States and Native Americans from the six nations of the Iroquois League.

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Tribal sovereignty in the United States

Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the concept of the inherent authority of indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States.

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Tuscarora language

Tuscarora, sometimes called Skarò˙rə̨ˀ, is an Iroquoian language of the Tuscarora people, spoken in southern Ontario, Canada, North Carolina and northwestern New York around Niagara Falls, in the United States.

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Tuscarora people

The Tuscarora (in Tuscarora Skarù:ręˀ, "hemp gatherers" or "Shirt-Wearing People") are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government of the Iroquoian-language family, with members today in North Carolina, New York, and Ontario.

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Tyonajanegen

Tyonajanegen ("Two Kettles Together")Glatthaar and Martin, 149.

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United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (in case citations, N.D.N.Y.) serves one of the 94 judicial districts in the United States and one of four in the state of New York.

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Upstate New York

Upstate New York is the portion of the American state of New York lying north of the New York metropolitan area.

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Valley Forge

Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight military encampments for the Continental Army’s main body, commanded by General George Washington.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_people

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