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The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape to Europeans during the late 17th and 18th centuries. They ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and their own ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States. The land ceded covered, partially or in the entire, the U.S. states of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and North Carolina.
The land cessions were accomplished through a series of purchases and treaties negotiated between the Haudenosaunee and the Province of New York (and after the American Revolution, the United States government) between 1682 and 1797. In the Nanfan Treaty of 1701, the Haudenosaunee ceded their lands north and west of the Ohio River to the Thirteen Colonies; they had obtained this territory in part during the Beaver Wars with other tribes in the late 17th century.
Following the American Revolution, many of the Haudenosaunee allied with the British migrated to Ontario, where they received some land in compensation for their losses in the independent colonies. Mohawk and related peoples were officially recognized in historic settlements (now reserves) in Quebec.
During the early 19th century, the US and state government and settlers put revived energy into Indian removal from the former colonies. A majority of the Oneida, one of the tribes which made up the Haudenosaunee, migrated from New York to the state of Wisconsin. Other Haudenosaunee migrated to Indian Territory (later the state of Oklahoma in the 20th century.)
As of the 21st century, the six nations of the Haudenosaunee live in 20 settlements and 8 reservations in New York, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma in the United States; and Ontario and Quebec in Canada.