Brothertown Indian Nation: Difference between revisions

1838: On January 15, 1838 many of the Brothertown traditionalists and their Iroquois allies, signed a treaty with the United States in which many of the New York Reservations which had been set aside years earlier, were eradicated. Several of the Reservations were located within Algonquin (Chippewa) territory. That be in the Niagara Falls region. One is known as the Buffalo Creek Reservation. The Niagara County Reservation was also eradicated, as was the Tuscarora Reservation. Another was the Cattaraugus Reservation. And also the Allegany Reservation and Tonawanda Reservation, to the south, were eradicated. However, the strong Chippewa presence kept the Reservations in place with, however, much of the Reservations lands being lost to the whites. The United States did not want anymore Indians migrating to the west. They knew future trouble would occur. Only the Buffalo Creek Reservation was lost except 9 acres. The 1838 treaty also included the Brothertown Indians and Iroquois of Wisconsin. Many of the New York State and Wisconsin Brothertown Indians, joined with the Chippewa's and Iroquois and migrated to Kansas and Oklahoma, in 1838-1839. Their descendants still live in Kansas and Oklahoma.  

Allegany Reservation of New York.