Ganondagan State Historic Site

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Ganondagan State Historic Site is a Native American historical site in Ontario County, New York in the USA. The historic site is in the Town of Victor, southwest of the Village of Victor.

Ganondagan has a small museum, a reconstructed long house and many miles of trails at this location of a 17th Century Seneca village.

Ganondagan was a Seneca village in the Western gateway to the Iroqouis domain. It is the at the center of the legend that gave birth to the modern confederacy.

Seneca oral tradition tells of a Huron man who arrived among the Mohawks speaking of peace and an ordered society. This prophet is known today as the The Great Peacemaker. The Mohawk, Oneida, and Cayuga pledged to join his proposed confederation, and following a dramatic interlude, the Seneca agreed also. The discussion about how to bring in the Onondaga found its way into the house of a Seneca woman, Jikonsase, now known as the Mother of Nations. She proposed a solution which eventually brought the Onondaga into the fold. She lived in the vicinity of Ganondagan, and is buried nearby. The Seneca refer to Ganondagan as the "Town of Peace", and revere and protect the burial site of the Mother of Nations.

Ganondagan was attacked in 1687 by the French in an attempt to wipe out competition in New France.