Gayogohono

The Gayogohono, or Cayuga, were a Haudenosaunee nation whose longhouse towns lay around Cayuga Lake, between the Onondaga and Seneca. Their name meant People of the Great Swamp.

During the American Revolution Cayuga warriors fought on both sides. After frontier raids in 1778, Washington sent the Sullivan Expedition in 1779; it destroyed league villages, including Cayuga towns, and burned their crops and winter stores. Some survivors moved to the Grand River or Ohio; in 1831 the Ohio bands were removed to Indian Territory.