Kanentaweron

Kanentaweron lies near the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek on Lake Erie. The creek flows west through Seneca country to the lake, with land retained along its banks after the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797. That agreement ceded much of the Seneca homeland while reserving several tracts, including land near Cattaraugus. In 1802 the Seneca exchanged the earlier lakeshore tracts for a more compact reservation along the creek.