Justin Sommers

Brad Ellsworth

Malachi Murphy

The Seneca Indians

• Relied on corn, squash, and beans

• Also hunted and fished

• Highly skilled at warfare

• Known as the keeper of the west

• One of the 6 tribes to make up the Iroquois

Culture

• Lived in longhouses• Could be 100 feet long, covered with bark, and could fit a clan up to

60 people

• Farmed

• Fished, hunted• Bows and arrows, spears

• Ate beaver, moose, raccoons, buffalo

Home Life

• Official language was Ogwehowen

• First occupied that part of west New York between Seneca lake and Geneva river

• Participated in ritual cannibalism

• Tortured their prisoners

• Had a constitution between 5 of the 6 tribes

• Mohawks and tattoos

History

• American revolution

• War of 1812

Wars

• Red Jacket (1758 - 1830)

• Cornplanter (1740 – 1836)

• Destroy Town

• Handsome Lake (1735 – 1815)• Brother to cornplanter

• Blacksnake (1760 – 1859)

• Ely Parker (1828 – 1895)

Leaders

• Furs

• Weapons

• Pipes

• Food

Trade

• Started in the 1980’s with bingo

• Now recognized as a casino

• Buffalo New York and Seneca Niagara

Gambling