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- At the beginning of the American Revolution a large part of the Cayuga tribe, which favoured the British, moved to Canada. After the Revolution, the Cayuga remaining in the United States sold their New York lands and scattered among other Iroquois peoples in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Ontario.
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After the Revolution, the Cayuga remaining in the United States sold their New York lands and scattered among other Iroquois peoples in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Ontario. Cayuga descendants numbered more than 3,500 in the early 21st century.
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The Cayuga, due to their alliance, allied with the British and tended to have conflicts with tribes such as the Algonquin, who were allied with the French. This naturally led to them siding with the British during the French and Indian War. After the British victory in Quebec, the Iroquois continued to remain a strong alliance and force against the...
After the American Revolutionary Warended, the Cayuga, along with their allies in the Iroquois nation, were given some land grants in Canada since they were British allies. Some Seneca and Cayuga had left the area earlier, even as Tuscarora were migrating north in the early decades of the 1700s, going west of the Alleghenies to the long depopulated...
After the Sullivan Campaign, more Cayuga joined them, as well as some other bands of Iroquois who left New York before the end of the Revolutionary War. As the American Revolution was nearing its end, settlers resumed trekking west of the Alleghenies in a trickle that by 1810, became a flood.
The Cayuga sided with the British during the American Revolution and, after many attacks on American colonists, the punitive Sullivan Expedition in 1779 devastated the Cayuga homeland, destroying major Cayuga villages such as Cayuga Castle (Goiogouen) and Chonodote (known as Peachtown).
As the American colonists and the British began to war against each other, Cayugas and other members of the Haudenosaunee were caught in the middle of the Revolutionary War. Some were said to be fighting with the British, some with the Colonists, and some abstained altogether.
Following the Revolution, the Cayuga who had remained in central New York state sold their land and joined the Iroquois diaspora in Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Ohio.
The Cayuga took into their tribe many people from the tribes they defeated, including the Erie and the Huron. Like most of the other Haudenosaunee, the Cayuga sided with the British in the American Revolution (1775–83). After the Americans won, settlers gradually took over the Cayuga homeland.
