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"most lugubrious lamentations" in song (JB. 21: 199). The Neutral 

 also enacted the Eesurrections of the Dead (S 209-210). 



OTHER IROQUOIAN GROUPS 



The Huron knew of other Iroquoian-speaking groups. One was 

 the Nation of the Cat [Rhiierrhonons (JR 8 : 115), Erieehronons ( JR 

 21 : 191] " who had been forced to move inland to escape their enemies 

 who lived farther west. This nation had a number of stationary vil- 

 lages, as they, too, were agricultural (JR 33: 63). Sagard thought 

 that they were called the Cat tribe after the wildcats or leopards 

 ( tiron) found in their territory and from the skins of which were made 

 robes or blankets with a number of animals' tails around the edge and 

 at the top of the back (S 224) . 



Another Iroquoian-speaking group, the Andastoerrhonons ( JR 8 : 

 115) [Andastoerhonon (JR 14: 9), Andastoeronnons (JR 30: 85), 

 Andastoeronnons (JR 33: 123), people of Anastohe (JR 30: 253) 

 or Andastoe (JR 33: 129)] ^^ had been allies of the Huron (JR 30: 

 253; 33: 63, 73, 129) and, in fact, some resided in Huronia (JR 30: 

 253) . The Jesuits thought that they lived in or near Virginia where 

 the English traded (JR 14: 9; 30: 85, 253) or in New Sweden (JR 

 33: 63, 73) where various people, mostly Dutch and English, had 

 placed themselves mider the protection of the Kmg of Sweden ( JR 33 : 

 137) . Their comitry was 150 leagues distant and beyond the Neutrals 

 to the south and a little toward the east ( JR 33 : 63, 129) . In a single 

 village they had 1,300 men capable of bearing arms (JR 33: 129). 

 Champlain placed this group about 7 days' journey from where the 

 Dutch, who aided them, went to trade on the 40th degree (C 54). 



There were once Iroquoian-speaking groups along the St. Law- 

 rence (JR 9: 159).^^ The village of Ochelaga [Hochelaga] Cartier 

 found at Montreal was designated minitik outen entagougiban, 'the 

 island on which stood a town or village' [an Algonquian name] . War 

 led to its abandonment ( JR 22 : 205-207) . 



Two other Iroquoian-speaking groups are mentioned in the Rela- 

 tions, the Conkhandeenrhonons and Scahentoarrhonons (JR 8: 

 115), but no other information is given.^^ 



1* The Cat Nation also is referred to now as the Brie. 



^ The Andastoerrhonon now usually are called the Susquehanna or the Conestoga 

 (Hewitt 1907 a ; Fenton 1940 d : 232). 



^' These peoples were the Laurentian Iroquois (see note 1, p. 3). 



" Beauchamp's (JR 8: 302) suggestion that the Scahentoarrhonons may have been 

 the Skenchiohronons, and the Conkhandeenrhonons, the Carantouans or part of the Seneca 

 seems unlikely. The Scahentoarrhonons may have been part of the Andastoerrhonon or 

 a separate group living on the Susquehanna (Hewitt 1907 a: 336; 1910 d: 653-659; 

 Fenton 1940 d: 232-233). It does not seem impossible to suppose that the Conkhan- 

 deenrhonon was one of the tribes of the Neutral League ; as probably the Neutrals were 

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