The Senecas (it means "Place of the Stone", but they were also known as "the People of the Mountain"), they are a tribe of Indians of America, facente departs some League of the Six Nations of the Irochesis, in which they had the role of "custodians of the big black door". Originally the Senecas lived to west of the lakes Erie and Ontario and along the river Allegheny. The big prophet and head religious irochese Loga Bello was a Seneca, that the traditional religion irochese with some concepts of the white, teaching to his/her people to build houses similar to those of the white agriculturists, to work very hard, to instruct his/her children and to abstain from the drinks intossicanti of the white man. The code of Beautiful Lake has still followed from a lot of people of the people irochese. Believing that English them protected avrabbero from the avid farmers always of earths, they were united to the Mohawks commanded by Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) to fight to side of English during the war of independence. Today they live in varied places of the North-east, included the Reserves Allegheny, Cattaraugus and Tonawanda of the State in New York. In the years 50 the Army Corps of Engineers built the dike of Kinzua, that flooded a big part of the Reserve Seneca of the same George Washington.
