West Seneca Careers in Tampa, FL

What is now West Seneca was first occupied by Indians over 10,000 years ago. Some of these Indians are known today as Senecas, members of the Iroquois Confederacy. In the late 1790's, with the purchase of 2.6 million acres of land from local Indian tribes represented by Chief Cornplanter of the Seneca tribe, the Buffalo Creek Indian Reservation was formed, the site of what is today the Town of West Seneca. In 1835, the Indians were persuaded to dispose of the Buffalo Creek Reservation and migrated to the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in Southwest Erie County.