Robert Morris By: C. W. Peale Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Merely three years later however, most of the Seneca lands were sold Robert Morris in the Treaty of Big Tree (1797). The remaining lands became reservations, so-called because they were lands the Indians reserved for themselves. Eleven reservations were created, including the Tonawanda Reservation, which at that time was 20,000 acres.

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