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For the First Time, Seneca Nation Elects a Woman as Its President • Nov. 3, 2026, 8:34 PM ET (New York Times)
New Hamilton public art bearing moccasin designs unveiled for Treaties Recognition Week • Nov. 3, 2026, 2:50 PM ET (CBC)

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Ki-on-twog-ky, or Corn Plant[er], a Seneca Chief, lithograph from The History of the Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1836–44.
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Map showing the distribution of Indigenous peoples of the Northeast Woodlands region in North America, with tribal names such as Algonquin, Ojibwa (Chippewa), Iroquois, Shawnee, and Powhatan labeled across present-day northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Major lakes and rivers are marked, and a red boundary outlines the general region inhabited by these groups.
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Ely S. Parker
United States government official
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Laura Maria Sheldon Wright
American missionary
Red Jacket
Red Jacket
Seneca chief
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Ganioda’yo
Seneca chief
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Cornplanter
Seneca leader
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David Brainerd
American missionary
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
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Theodore Baker
American music scholar and lexicographer