Plural of Cayuga; members of an Indigenous people originally from what is now New York, or the language they spoke; also a breed of large black duck.
From the Cayuga nation's own name, likely meaning 'people of the marsh' or 'where the locust tree stands' in their Iroquoian language. The duck breed was named after the people.
Cayugas were one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy—a political alliance so influential that it may have inspired the U.S. Constitution's structure of balanced powers.
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