Seneca
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Senecas,
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Seneca
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a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
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an Iroquoian language of the Seneca, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes.
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly living south of Lake Ontario; one of the Iroquois peoples
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the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family
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Lucius Annaeus (əˈniːəs), called the Younger. ?4 bc –65 ad , Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist; tutor and adviser to Nero. He was implicated in a plot to murder Nero and committed suicide. His works include Stoical essays on ethical subjects and tragedies that had a considerable influence on Elizabethan drama
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his father, Marcus (ˈmɑːkəs) or Lucius Annaeus, called the Elder or the Rhetorician. ?55 bc –?39 ad , Roman writer on oratory and history
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Origin of Seneca
From the New York Dutch word Sennecaas, etc., originally applied to the Oneida and, more generally, to all the Upper Iroquois (as opposed to the Mohawk), probably < an unattested Mahican name
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Ruby had been at the zoo since May 2025 after she traveled from Seneca Park Zoo in New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
A professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Wilson has also translated Seneca and Euripides, as well as Homer’s “Iliad.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
At Lawrence’s urging, George steeps himself in the classics, such as Plutarch and Seneca.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The twins, Lucien and Lorenzo, would make Seneca, a tutor to Nero, reconsider his chosen field of endeavor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The beginning of this struggle can be traced to the famous Seneca Falls Convention, which was held from July 19 to July 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Ranged across what is now upstate New York, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas had recently forged a “covenant chain” of alliance with several English colonies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Calvert’s Fred Fabrizio rushed for 115 yards and three touchdowns and Austin Jones added 156 yards and two TDs as the Senecas rolled to a 77-14 victory.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2016
One of the districts, Akron, serves the Tonawanda Reservation, home to the Tonawanda Band of Senecas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2015
At the same time, Senecas, Shawnees, and Delawares laid siege to Fort Pitt.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
None of the party had escaped without injury; and it was not until the door was closed, and the air rang with triumphant yells from the Senecas, that it was discovered that Ichabod was missing.
From The Frontiersmen by Gustave Aimard
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