Canoga is a

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in the Town of Fayette, Seneca County,

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, United States, along

Cayuga Lake Cayuga Lake (,,) is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area (marginally smaller than Seneca Lake) and second largest in volume. It is just under long. Its average width is , and it is a ...

. It is located seven miles (11 km) southeast of the hamlet of Seneca Falls, at an elevation of 449 feet (137 m). The primary cross roads where the hamlet is located are N.Y. Route 89 and Canoga Road (CR 121). The word Canoga, or "Ga-no-geh" as called by native

Cayuga people The Cayuga ( Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes regi ...

, means "place of the sweet water".Canoga Creek Farm & Conservancy
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. Canoga and the immediate area is home to some members of the

Cayuga Nation The Cayuga Nation of New York is a federally recognized tribe of Cayuga people, based in New York (state), New York, United States. Other organized tribes with Cayuga members are the federally recognized Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma and the Can ...

.Cayuga Nation
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. Nearby at Canoga Cemetery is a historical monument marking the birthplace of

Seneca Indian The Seneca () ( see, Onödowáʼga:, "Great Hill People") are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the farthest to the west ...

Chief

Red Jacket Red Jacket (known as ''Otetiani'' in his youth and ''Sagoyewatha'' eeper Awake''Sa-go-ye-wa-tha'' as an adult because of his oratorical skills) (c. 1750–January 20, 1830) was a Seneca people, Seneca orator and Tribal chief, chief of the Wolf ...

, although it is currently unknown as to where he was actually born.Red Jacket Birthplace Monument
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. According to

Iroquois The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/ Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to ...

history and tradition, Chief Red Jacket was born in 1750 at the former Indian village of Skannayutenate along Canoga Creek which was later burned in 1779 by troops under the command of

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during the

Sullivan Expedition The 1779 Sullivan Expedition (also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, the Sullivan Campaign, and the Sullivan-Clinton Genocide) was a United States military campaign during the American Revolutionary War, lasting from June to October 1779 ...

of the

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.Access Genealogy, Red Jacket Monuments, July 19, 2013
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.
, Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. As orator of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, there are six stones at the base of the Chief Red Jacket birthplace monument mentioning each of the tribes belonging to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Cayuga Lake State Park Cayuga Lake State Park is a state park located on the north end of Cayuga Lake, east of the village of Seneca Falls in Seneca County, New York, United States. Park description Cayuga Lake State Park offers a beach, two playgrounds, playing f ...

and Seneca Falls Country Club are located 4 miles (6 km) north of Canoga on N.Y. Route 89.New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - Cayuga Lake State Park
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.Seneca Falls Country Club
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018.

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(official website)
Chief Red Jacket birthplace monumentNew York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - Cayuga Lake State ParkSeneca Falls Country ClubCanoga Creek Farm & Conservancy
Hamlets in Seneca County, New York Hamlets in New York (state) Populated places in Seneca County, New York {{SenecaCountyNY-geo-stub