104 DANIEL WILSON ON THE HURON-IEOQIJOIS Of 



ded by the composite prououn takwan. The word kanikonoha, " mind," is found in a number 

 of derivations and compounds, as in ionkldnikoni-aksafa, rendered freely "wherein any one 

 offends me," or " makes a bad mind." The aksata is from aksen, "bad;" as also iotaksens, " it 

 is evil," comes from the same root. Kasaslensera, " power," is from kesaste, " to be strong ; " 

 kanentonsera, " glory," is from kennonton, " to admire ; " the sera added to the root-word gives 

 it the value of an abstract noun, as, in the English, " strong " becomes " strength." 



Takwariwakioiten is a compound which puzzled me ; and on consulting Dr. Oronhya- 

 tekha he replied that he knew of no such word in the Mohawk language. It is, therefore, 

 an Oka holophrasm ; which, from its place in the context, must mean " lead from us," or 

 some such idea. Mr. Hale suggests that it is a compound of karhva, " thing," or "act," as in 

 kariwaneren, " wrong-doings," and khawitlia "to remove," or " put aside." If so, it expresses 

 in a word the entire petition, " deliver us from evil." 



The following version of the Lord's Prayer is from the Mohawk Prayer Book still in 

 use among the Six Nation Indians on the G-rand River, western Ontario ; but which, as a 

 translation, is fully one hundred and seventy years old. A comparison of it with the more 

 recent Iroquois translation is interesting in various ways. First there are the slight varia- 

 tions noticeable in the same, or nearly similar words. Shoegwaniha, "Our Father," of the 

 one, becomes in the other takwaienlia ; the karonhyakonh, "in heaven," of the older version, 

 has apparently acquired a slight change in pronunciation in the karonhiuke of the latter. 

 Again, the ne-cmgliweatsyake, "on," or " in the earth," becomes nonwentsiake ; and so with other 

 words. There are also interesting examples of different attempts at expressing the same 

 idea, as : ivaonkhiyalswatea,\iici2i\\Y "those who hinder us," or "get in our way," for which 

 the other substitutes ionkhinikonraksata, the composition of which has already been shown, 

 and which may be rendered here " any one (who) offends us." The complex holophrasms 

 are, on the whole, more numerous in the older version ; but it has also its abbreviations, 

 as in the tsioni-niti/onht, " as it is," which, when repeated, assumes the contracted form of 

 tsiniyonht. 



THE LORD'S PRAYER IN MOHAWK. 



Shoegwaniha karonhyakonh teghsideronh wagwaghseanadokeaghdisto Sayane.rtsherah 



Our Father in heaven sitting in, or liiing in, we make thy name hobj. Thy dominion 



aoedaweghte tsineagh.sere.h egh neayaweane ne-oiighweatsyake tsioni-nityonht 



may it come as thou desirest, so let it happen on earth as it is 



ne-karonhyakonh takyonh ne keagh \veglini.sorate ne-niyadeweghnlserake oegwanadarok 

 in hcaren, give us this day every day our bread, 



neoni toedagwarighwiyostea ne.-tsiniyoegwatswatoiigh tsiniyonht ne-oekyonhha tsitsyakhirighwiyosteanis 

 and forgive us our transgressions as it is v^itli. us we forgive them 



ne-Tvaonkhiyatswatea neoni toghsa tagwaghsharinet tewadadeanakeraghtoeke nok 



those u-ho hinder us, or get in our way ; and do not lead us temptation in, hut 



toodagT\'ayadakoh tsinoewe niyodaxheah ikea iese saweank ne-kayanertslierah- neoni 



redeem us, or save us, wltere it is evil ; because thou thy kingdom and 



ne.-kashatsteaghsera nooni nc-ceweseaghtsliera t.siniyeaheawe nooni tsiniyeaheawe. 

 power and glory, happiness, forever «ntZ forever. 



If any student of American ethnology to whom the foregoing remarks present features 

 of interest, will sjiread before him a map of the northern continent, and trace out the 

 wanderings of the Huron-Iroquois race as here indicated, he must revert in fancy to 



