The Seneca or Onödowá’ga:’ (pronounced: Oh-n'own-dough-wahgah) or "Great Hill People" are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution. They were the largest ...
Shirt Wearing People The Tuscarora peoples are an Indigenous group in the Iroquoian language family. This nation had its origins in what is now the state of North Carolina, but they migrated north to New York and Pennsylvania in the 18th century. The word Tuscarora is derived from their extensive use of hemp for cloth, rope, and other materials, and it means "hemp gatherers." After a migration...
Cemeteries listed in this project are within the communities of the Six Nations Reserve, Brantford and Tuscarora Township as well those indigenous cemeteries in the surrounding areas of the reservation. Six Nations Communities: Beavers Corner, Longboat Corners, Medina Corners, Millers Corner, Ohsweken, St. Johns, Sixty-Nine Corners, Smith Corners, Smoothtown, Sour Spring, Stoneridge Beth...
Buffalo Cemetery resides in Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York. The earliest graves were dug in the first decade of the 1800s. Buffalo Cemetery is an active cemetery within the natural beauty that is Western New York. Find a Grave About Cheektowaga: "Cheektowaga comes from the Erie-Seneca Indian word, Ji-ik-do-wah-gah, or “place of the crabapple tree.” The earliest Indian dwellers were...
Ohsweken Baptist Cemetery resides on the Six Nation Reserve in Brant County Municipality, Ontario, Canada. Also known as Tuscarora Baptist Church Cemetery, this small cemetery has recorded burials from the 1880s. Ohsweken Baptist Cemetery is an active cemetery. Lot 88, Concession 115, Tuscarora Township During the mid 19th century, Baptist missionaries were granted permission from the Six Nati...
Christ Church Anglican Cemetery is located at Beavers Corner, Six Nations, Brant County Municipality, Ontario, Canada. The cemetery is also known as Christ Church Cemetery and it's church is one of five Anglican churches on the Six Nations of the Grand Rivers. The land for Christ Church Anglican was donated in 1873 by George Rokwaho Loft and his wife Ellen Konwajonhondyon (nee Smith) Loft,...