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Cayuga Indians,
One of the four nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (q. v.), calling themselves Goiogwen, or Men of the woods.
Tradition says that at the formation of the confederacy, Hi-a-wat-ha said to the Cayugas: You, Cayugas, a people whose habitation is the Dark Forest, and whose home is everywhere, shall be the fourth nation, because of your superior cunning in hunting.
They inhabited the country about Cayuga Lake in central New York, and numbered about 300 warriors when first discovered by the French at the middle of the seventeenth century.
The nation was composed of the families of the Turtle, Bear, and Wolf, like the other cantons, and also those of the Beaver, Snipe, Heron, and Hawk.
They were represented in the congress of the league by ten sachems.
Through Jesuit missionaries the French made fruitless attempts to Christianize the Cayugas and win them over to the French interest, but found them uniformly enemies.
During the Revolutionary War the Cayugas were aga