| Corey Village and the Cayuga World: Implications from Archaeology and Beyond Subjects: Cayuga Indians -- Antiquities; Cayuga Indians -- History; Cayuga Indians -- Religion; Excavations (Archaeology) -- New York (State) -- Cayuga County; Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- Cayuga County -- Antiquities; Cayuga County (N.Y.) -- Ant; The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their nation was destroyed in the Sullivan-Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga endured 200 years of displacement. As a result, relatively little is known about the location, organization, or ambience of their ancestral villages. Perched on a triangular finger of land against steep cliffs, the sixteenth-century village of Corey represents a rare source of knowledge about the Cayuga past, transforming our understanding of how this nation lived. Jack Rossen is professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ithaca College. |