Alliances

= ** THE ALLIANCES OF THE CAYUGA TRIBE ** =

In New York State the alliances of the Cayuga, Seneca’s and Onondagas, and the Cayuga live together. But they still have their own council of clan chiefs distinct from the governments of the other tribes. Some of the alliances of the Cayuga tribe are the other Iroquois Nations, the Seneca, the Onondaga, the Oneida, and the Mohawk tribe. Sometimes before the confederacy of the Iroquois people the Cayuga would fight wars. After the alliance between the Iroquois tribes was created the loyalty between them was amazing. Most of the Cayuga warriors and the fought most of the other Eastern tribes, these tribes include mostly the Wabanaki tribe, the Algonquin and the Ojibway, and the Mohican bands. The different Iroquois groups traded, the Cayuga traded corn and woodcrafts for fur and quahog shells.