Oriskany

Village in Whitestown, Oneida County, central New York State, USA, on the Mohawk River, 11 km/7 mi northwest of downtown Utica; population (1990) 1,500. It was originally the American Indian village of Oriska. To the northwest lies the site of a bloody battle during the Saratoga Campaign of the American War of Independence, when Tories (British sympathizers) and American Indians ambushed Revolutionary forces as they headed towards Fort Stanwix on 6 August 1777.