The Cayuga nation (Guyohkohnyo or the People of the Great Swamp) was one of the five original constituents of the Iroquois, a confederacy of Indians in New York. The Cayuga homeland lay in the Finger Lakes region between their league neighbors, the Onondaga and the Seneca.
Due to many attacks on American colonists during the American Revolution, the punitive Sullivan Expedition devastated the Cayuga homeland. Survivors fled to other Iroquois tribes or to Canada. Today, there are three Cayuga bands. The two largest are the Lower Cayuga and Upper Cayuga, both at Six Nations of the Grand River. Only a small number remain in New York with the Cayuga Nation in Versailles. After the Mohawks, the Cayugas are the most numerous people at Six Nations.
One current spelling of the Cayuga name for "Cayuga" is Gayogohó:no’. [1] (http://www.ohwejagehka.com/)
Yes, the Cayugatribe was one of the original members of the Iroquois Confederacy.
In times of war, Cayuga men often shaved their heads except for a scalplock or a crest down the center of their head (the style known as a roach, or a "Mohawk.") Sometimes they would augment this hairstyle with splayed feathers or artificial roaches made of brightly dyed porcupine and deer hair.
The Cayugatribe was known for their mask carving, which is considered such a sacred art form that non-Iroquois are still not permitted to view many of these masks.
The Cayuga nation (Guyohkohnyo or the People of the Great Swamp) was one of the five original constituents of the Iroquois, a confederacy of Indians in New York.
The Cayuga homeland lay in the Finger Lakes region between their league neighbors, the Onondaga and the Seneca.
The two largest are the Lower Cayuga and Upper Cayuga, both at Six Nations of the Grand River.
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