150th Anniversary of the
Tonawanda Indian Reservation
June through October 2007
The Tonawanda Indian Reservation, home to the
Tonawanda Band of the Seneca Nation, is located at the 
northwest
corner of Genesee County, New York, and once encompassed 20,000 acres. Today,
the Reservation is 7,549 acres and still occupied by the Tonawanda Senecas.
2007 is sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) of the 1857 treaty when the Tonawanda Senecas purchased their own lands back and escaped removal to Indian Territory in what is now Kansas.
The exhibit is separated into six sections:
Handsome Lake and the Treaties of the 1820s
The Exhibit Closes October 27, 2007
The Holland Land Office would like to give special thanks to:
Genesee County Legislature
Holland Purchase Historical Society
Rochester Museum and Science Center
Ryota Hikima
Terry Abrams
Tonawanda Indian Reservation and Historical Society