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ONAHELI ONDOUTAOUAKA 



[b. a. e. 



Onachee.— Cammerhoff (1750) quoted by Conover, 

 Kan. and Geneva MS. Onaghee.— Schuyler 

 (1720) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., V, 548, 1855. Onahe.— 

 Doc. of 1719, ibid., 528. Onahee.— Doc. of 1726, ibid., 

 797. Onahie. — Evans, Map, 1755. Onnachee. — 

 Cammerhoff quoted by Conover, op. cit. Onna- 

 ghee. — Conover, ibid. Onnahee. — Riggs (1720) in 

 N. Y. Doc. Col. Hi.st.. v, 570, 18.55. 



Onaheli. One of five hamlets compos- 

 ing the former Choctaw town of Imon- 

 galasha in Neshoba co., Miss. — Halbert 

 in Pub. Miss. Hist. Soc, vi, 432, 1902. 



Onancock. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederac}^ in 1608, about the site of the 

 present Onancock, in Accomack co., Va. 

 Four or five families were still there in 

 1722. 



Oanancock. — Beverley, Va., 199, 1722. Onancock. — 

 Fozman, Md., I, 149, 1837. Onancoke.— Ibid., 148. 

 Onankok.— Herrman (1670), Maps to accompany 

 Rep. on the Line between Va. and Md., 1873. 

 Onaucoke.— Porv in Smith (1629), Va., ll, 61, repr. 

 1819. 



Onapiem. A village or tribe mentioned 

 by Joutel in 1687 as being n. or n. w. of 

 Maligne (Colorado) r., Tex. The region 

 was occupied and controlled largely by 

 Caddoan tribes, and the name seems to 

 have been given to Joutel by Ebahamo 

 Indians, who were probably Karanka wan. 

 See Gatschet, Karankawa Indians, 35, 

 1891. (A. c. F.) 



Onapiem.— .Tontel (1687) in Margry, Dec, in, 289, 

 1878. Onapien. — Joutel (1687) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., 1, 137, 1846. Onapienes.— Barcia, En.sayo, 

 271, 1723. 



Onasakenrat ( ' White Feather ' ) , Joseph, 

 A Mohawk chief, noted for his transla- 

 tions of religious works into his native 

 language. He was born on his father's 

 farm, near Oka, Canada, Sept. 4, 1845; at 

 14 years of age he was sent to Montreal 

 College to be educated for the priest- 

 hood, remaining thereabout 4 years. He 

 was afterward converted to Protestantism 

 and became an evangelical preacher. On 

 June 15, 1877, the Catholic church of 

 Oka was burned, and Chief Joseph was 

 tried for the offense, but was not con- 

 victed. He died suddenly, Feb. 8, 1881, 

 at Caughnawaga. Among his transla- 

 tions into the Mohawk dialect are the 

 Gospels (1880) and a volume of hymns. 

 At the time of his death he was engaged 

 in translating the remainder of the Bible, 

 having reached in the work the Epistles 

 to the Hebrews. 



Onathaqua ( possibly intended for Oua- 

 thaqiia). A tribe or village about C. 

 Canaveral, e. coast of Florida, in con- 

 stant alliance with the Calusa (q. v.) 

 in 1564 (Laudonniere). Probably iden- 

 tical in whole or in part with the Ais 

 tribe. Not to be confounded with Ona- 

 theaqua, q. v. (.i. m.) 



Oathkaqua.— De Bry map (1591) in Le Moyne, 

 Narr., Appleton trans., 1875. Onathaqua. — Lau- 

 donniere (1.564) in French, Hist. Coll. La., n. s., 

 282, 1869 (possibly for Ouathaqua). Onothaca. — 

 Brackenridge, La., 84, 1814. Otchaqua. — De I'lsle, 

 map, 1700. 



Onatheaqua. A principal tribe in 1564, 

 described as living near the high moun- 



tains, apparently in upper Georgia, and 

 equal in power and importance to the 

 Timucua, Potano, Yustaga, and Saturiba, 

 according to Laudonniere. Not to be 

 -confounded with Onathaqua (q. v.), near 

 C. Canaveral, Fla. (j. m. ) 



Onatheaqua. — Laudonniere (1.564) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., n. s., 244, 1869; De Bry, map (1591) in 

 Le Moyne, Narr., Appleton trans., 1875 (indicated 

 w. of St John r. and beyond Oustaca= Yustaga). 



Onava. A former Nevome pueblo and 

 seat of a Spanish mission founded in 1622; 

 situated in lat. 28° 40', Ion. 109°, on the 

 Rio Yaqui, Sonora, Mexico. Pop. 875 in 

 1678, 457 in 1730. The inhabitants prob- 

 ably spoke a dialect slightly different 

 from the Nevome proper. The town is 

 now completely Mexicanized. 

 Hare-eaters. — ten Kate in Jour. Am. Eth. and 

 Arch., 142, 1,892 (Tchoofkwatam, or: Pima name). 

 Ohavas. — E.scudero quoted bv Bancroft, No. Mex. 

 States, I, 101, 18,84. Onabas.— Kino map (1702) in 

 Stocklein, NeueWelt-Bott, 74, 1726. Onava.— Bal- 

 bi (1826) quoted by Orozco y Berra, Geog., 352, 

 1864. San Ignacio Onabas. — Zapata (167,S) in Doc. 

 Hist. Mex., 4th s., iii, 3.59, 1.8.57. Tchoofkwatam.— 

 ten Kate, op. cit. ('hare-eaters': Pima name). 



Onaweron (prob. ' [there] are springs of 

 water'). A traditional Iroquois town of 

 the Bear clan; so enumerated in the list 

 of towns in the Chant of Welcome of the 

 Condolence Council of the League of the 

 Iroquois. Nothing definite is known of 

 its situation or of the particular tribe to 

 which it belonged. See Hale, Iroq. Book 

 of Rites, 120, 1883. (j. n. b. h. ) 



Onawmanient. A tribe of the Powhatan 

 confederacy on the s. bank of the Poto- 

 mac in the present Westmoreland co., 

 Va. , numbering about 400 in 1608. Their 

 principal village, of the same name, was 

 probably on Nominy bay. 

 Anawmanient. — Bozman, Md., I, 138, 1837. Nomi- 

 nies.— Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 4, 9, 1848. Onauma- 

 nient.— Smith (1612), Works, Arber ed., 52, 1884 

 (the village). 



Onbi. A Costanoan village situated in 

 1815 within 10 m. of Santa Cruz mission, 

 Cal. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 5, 

 1860. 



Onchomo {Ontcomo). A former Maidu 

 village at Mud Springs, about 5 m. dues, 

 of Placerville, Eldorado t'o., Cal. — Dixon 

 in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, xvii, pi. 38, 

 1905. 



Ondachoe. A Cayuga village mentioned 

 by Cammerhoff, the Moravian, in 1750, 

 as situated on the w. shore of Cayuga 

 lake, N. Y., apparently opposite Aurora. 

 He said it was larger than Cayuga. Gen. 

 Clark placed it at Sheldrake point, but 

 this is too far s. (w. m. b. ) 



Ondatra. A name for the muskrat 

 {Fiber zibethiciis), derived from one of the 

 Huron dialects of the Iroquoian language 

 early current in the Hochelaga region of 

 Canada. A more common name is mus- 

 qitasJi, of Algonquian origin, (a. f. c. ) 



Ondoutaouaka. An Algonquian tribe 

 or division, probably a part of the Mon- 



