where are the seneca indians now?
New York
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 The Seneca brought suit in the Circuit Court of Erie County , New York on October 13 , 1885 . The Seneca requested the ejectment of Harrison B. Christy from 100 acres of land in the town of Brant , New York ( purchased from the Ogden Land Company ) , known as the " mile strip . " These lands were formerly part of the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation , as established by the New York Treaty of Big Tree ( 1797 ) . 

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 The Seneca allowed very few travelers to pass through the area and kept non @-@ native settlement to a minimum . The French and Indian War ( 1754 – 1763 ) led to the migration of many Native Americans westward to the Ohio River basin , and more departed after the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) . The United States acquired the Last Purchase , including what is now Cherry Springs State Park , from the Iroquois in the second Treaty of Fort Stanwix in October 1784 . In the years that followed , Native Americans almost entirely left Pennsylvania . 

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 The Seneca , members of the Iroquois Confederacy , were inhabitants in the area of Black Moshannon Lake , which was a series of beaver ponds at the time . They and other Native Americans , including the Lenape , hunted , fished , and traded in the region . The Great Shamokin Path , the major native east – west path connecting the Susquehanna and Allegheny River basins , crossed Black Moshannon Creek at a ford a few miles downstream from the park ; however , no trails of the indigenous peoples are recorded as having passed through the park itself . The park 's 1 @-@ mile ( 1 @.@ 6 km ) Indian Trail for hiking and cross @-@ country skiing recalls such native paths as it runs through an open forest of oak and pine trees , with occasional clearings and a grove of hawthorns . 

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 The Mutsun ( of Hollister and Watsonville ) and the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe ( of the San Francisco Bay Area ) are among the surviving groups of Ohlone today petitioning for tribal recognition . The Esselen Nation also describes itself as Ohlone / Costanoan , although they historically spoke both the southern Costanoan ( Rumsien ) and an entirely different Hokan language Esselen . 

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 The Seneca Nation could not have brought the lawsuit until 1845 , when the New York legislature granted the nation the right to bring suits in courts of law and equity . The Seneca filed a petition with the Bureau of Indian Affairs on January 5 , 1881 , requesting restoration and possession of certain lands related to the Phelps and Gorham Purchase . This petition was ignored by the BIA . 
