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Buffalo Creek Reservation

1797–1842 · 18th century

The Buffalo Creek Reservation was a Seneca reservation in western New York, along Buffalo Creek near present-day Buffalo, created after the American Revolutionary War. Displaced Iroquois, including many Cayuga and Onondaga, gathered there, and it became a centre of Haudenosaunee councils in the United States. Its land was sold under the disputed treaties of 1838 and 1842, and most residents moved to the Cattaraugus and Tonawanda reservations.

Buffalo Creek Reservation
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Cayuga Nation

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Buffalo Creek Reservation. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/buffalo-creek-reservation
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“Buffalo Creek Reservation.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/buffalo-creek-reservation. Accessed .
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The Epoch Institute. “Buffalo Creek Reservation.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/buffalo-creek-reservation.
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The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Buffalo Creek Reservation’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/buffalo-creek-reservation (Accessed: ).

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