and people think that niyaka is a muskogee word, but it is not. it is the sound that the muskogee delegates heard when they heard people say new yorker. when they heard people say, i am a new yorker. they heard -- and the people said "niyaka." that is what they heard. and that is the name they gave our. tribal town part of the evidence of the ongoing relationship between the united states and six nations iroquois confederacy peoples is found on every november 11, the day the treaty was signed, where the united states delivers cloth and treaty cloth and salt to the native nations. who signed that treaty of canandaigua in 1794. so, every, that's done every. november 11 and someone might ask, is that what it has come down to? a little bit of cloth and salt? it is a lot of cloth and salt, but that is not the point, either. the point is that those are the symbols of the validity of the treaty. a brightening of the covenant chain is the language that was used at the time. that the covenant chain has those three links of peace, friendship forever. from t