Oneida Nation of New York

The Oneida Indian Nation of New York, Onyota'a:ka “People of the Standing Stone,” are known as the Wolf Clan, one of three distinct bands that make up the Oneida; the other two are the Turtle Clan and the Bear Clan. Historically, the Oneida lived around Oneida Lake, from Lake Ontario in the north to the Delaware River in the South. The Oneida were also part of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, Confederacy, consisting of the Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Tuscarora, which governed much of the northeastern section of what is now the United States, they split apart after the U.S. Revolution (1776-1783), and reformed in the late nineteenth century to combat assimilation policies. In the early and mid-nineteenth century, land dispossessions and removal policies further separated the Oneida clans. In the 1820s roughly six hundred Oneida left New York to settle in what is now Green Bay Wisconsin, and during the 1840s roughly four hundred more members settled in what is now London, Ontario. The New York Oneida remained on a 32-acre reservation. Their tribal population currently exceeds 1,000 tribal members with 13,000 acres of land secured in trust, which was purchased and acquired from revenues gained from their Turning Stone Casino.

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