Constitution of the Seneca Nation of Indians

Constitution of the Seneca Nation of Indians

The creation of the 1848 Seneca Constitution was born from a crisis of survival. It was triggered by decades of aggressive land theft by the U.S. federal government, the Ogden Land Company, and internal political instability that forced a revolutionary change in tribal government. Not all members of the Seneca Nation adopted this Constitution, however. The Tonawanda Seneca Nation maintains the traditional hereditary chief structure to the present.

1848

William Wooddy & son

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RBR U.S.1848.s36