Senecas
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Sen·e·ca
(sĕn′ĭ-kə)n. pl. Seneca or Sen·e·cas
1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting western New York from Seneca Lake to Lake Erie, with present-day populations in this same area and in southeast Ontario. The Seneca are the westernmost member of the original Iroquois confederacy.
2. The Iroquoian language of the Seneca.
[From Dutch Sennecaas, probably of Mahican origin.]
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