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Cayuga Lake , 38 mi (61 km) long and 1 to 3.5 mi (1.6-5.6 km) wide, W central N.Y.; longest of the Finger Lakes. It is connected by the Seneca-Cayuga Canal to the New York State Canal System . Cornell Univ. and Wells College overlook Cayuga's clifflike banks. Near the southern end of the lake are Taughannock Falls, 215 ft (66 m) high.

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Cayuga Major branch of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, originally living around Lake Cayuga, New York, and the Grand River in Ontario, Canada. The Cayuga joined the British during the American Revolution and afterwards became widely scattered into Ohio, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma, where they joined the Seneca. Today there are c. 550 in Oklahoma and 400 Cayuga in New York.

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