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  • Onondagas File Huge Land Claim (Tribe claims 10% of NY State with 875,000 residents)

    03/11/2005 3:36:44 AM PST · by jalisco555 · 118 replies · 2,543+ views
    Syracuse Post-Standard ^ | 3/11/05 | Mike McAndrewStaff writer
    The Onondaga Nation will claim ownership of a 40-mile-wide swath of land stretching from the Thousand Islands to Pennsylvania in a historic lawsuit it will file today against New York, Onondaga County and Syracuse. The Onondagas will ask a federal court to declare that New York illegally acquired the land in five treaties between 1788 and 1822, and they will ask for title to that land. The disputed territory includes roughly 4,000 square miles - including nearly all of Syracuse, plus Oswego, Fulton, Watertown, Cortland and Binghamton. About 875,000 people live in the claim area. Syracuse is the biggest U.S....