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ONEKAGONCKA ONNIGHSIESANAIRONE 



[b. a. e. 



Onekagoncka. A former Mohawk town, 

 situated on the left bank of Mohawk r., 

 at its confluence with Sclioharie r., near 

 the site of the present Fort Hunter, 

 Montgomery co., N. Y. It was visited 

 in 1634 by Arent Van Curler (Corlaer), 

 who referred to it as the first castle, built 

 onahighhilland consisting of "36 houses, 

 in rows like streets. . . The houses were 

 made and covered with bark of trees, 

 and mostly are flat at the top. Some 

 are 100, 90, or 80 paces long and 22 and 

 23 ft. high. . . The houses were full of 

 corn that they lay in store, and we saw 

 maize; yes, in some of the houses more 

 than 300 bushels. . . We lived a quarter 

 of a mile from the fort in a small house, 

 because a good many savages in the castle 

 died of smallpox." Speaking of Adri- 

 ochten, the principal chief of the One- 

 kagoncka castle, Van Curler adds: "The 

 chief showed me his idol; it was a head, 

 with the teeth sticking out; it was dressed 

 in red cloth. Others have a snake, a 

 turtle, a swan, a crane, a pigeon, or the 

 like for their idols, to tell the fortune; 

 they think they will always have luck in 

 doing so." (j. N. B. H.) 



Oneniote ('projecting stone.' — Hewitt). 

 A former Cayuga village, on the site of 

 the present Oneida, on Cayuga lake, 

 N. Y. It became greatly reduced in the 

 war with the Hurons in the middle of 

 the 17tli century, and resorted to a com- 

 mon Iroquois expedient in perpetuating 

 its people by sending to the Mohawk, 

 their neighbors, "for some men to be 

 married to the girls and women who had 

 remained without husbands, in order 

 that the nation should not perish. This 

 is why the Iroquois ( Mohawk) name this 

 village their child." (w. m. b. ) 



Onneiote. -Jes. Rel. 1653, 18, 1858. Onneiout.— Ibid. 

 OnnieBte.— Jes. Rel. 1646, 4, 1858. Ononiiote.— Jes. 

 Rel. 1646, 51 , 1858. Ononiote.— Je.«. Rel. 1647,9, 1858. 

 Ononjete. — Jes. Rel. 1645, 32, 1858. Ononjote. — 

 Ibid.,. 33. 



Onentisati. A Huron village in Tiny 

 township, Ontario, first mentioned in 

 1635. (w. M. B.) 



Onentisati.— Jes. Rel. 1635, 39, 1858. Onnentissati.— 

 Ibid. 



Onepowesepewenenewak ( Onlpowlsibi- 

 v:1mnhru(/, 'people of death river'). A 

 former Chippewa band in Minnesota. Cf. 

 Nihoirisihiirhiiiiiinil-. 



Onepowe Sepe Wenenewok. — Long, Exped. St 

 Peter's R., li, 153, 1824. Onipowisibiwininiwag. — 

 Wm. Jones, inf n, 1905 (correct form). 



Oneronon. An unidentified tribe living 

 s. of St Lawrence r. in 1640. — Jes. Rel. 

 1640, 35, 1858. 



Onextaco. A former rancheria, presum- 

 ably Costanoan, connected with San Juan 

 Bautista mission, Cal.— Bancroft, Hist. 

 Cal., I, 557, note, 1886. 



Oneyana. Alias Beech Tree. An Oneida 

 chief at the treaty of 1788, and called Peter 

 Oneyana at the treaty of 1785. In 1792 



Beech Tree was the principal chief and 

 quite influential, witnessing the Cayuga 

 treaty of 1789 and the Onondaga treaty 

 of 1790, and signing the letters of 1786 

 and 1787. As Onyanta, or Beech Tree, 

 he signed Col. Harper's deed. He prob- 

 ably died before 1795. (w. m. b. ) 



Ongniaahra ( ' bisected bottomland ' ) . 

 A village of the Neutrals, situated in 1626- 

 50 on Niagara r., one day's journey from 

 the Seneca. This is the French spelling 

 of the ancient Huron pronunciation of the 

 name, which, written by English writers 

 from Iroquois utterance, has become 

 "Niagara." (.t. n. b. h.) 



Ongmarahronon. — Jes. Rel. 1640, 35,1858 (;;i misprint 

 for 7n: name of the people). Onguiaahra. — Jes. 

 Rel. 1641, 75,18.5s ( H/misprint forru). Ouaroronon. — 

 De la Roche Dallioii in Sagard, Hist, du Canada, 

 III, 804, 1866 (u misprint for «, and second o 

 for a). 



Ongovehenok. A Nuwukmiut Eskimo 

 settlement near Ft Barrow, Alaska. — 11th 

 Census, Alaska, 162, 1893. 



Onia. A former village of the Papago, 

 probably in Pima co., Ariz., containing 8 

 families in 1865. — Davidson in Ind. Aff. 

 Rep., 135, 1865. 



Onismah. A settlement in Port San 

 Juan, s. w. coast of Vancouver id., Brit. 

 Col., probal)ly inhabited by the Pa- 

 cheenaht. — Brit, and U. S. Survey Map, 

 1882. 



Onixaymas, A former village, presum- 

 ably Costanoan, connected with San Juan 

 Bautista mission, Cal. 



Onextaco.— Engelhardt, Franc, in Cal., 398, 1897. 

 Onixaymas.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Nov. 23, 1860. 



Onkot ( OiV-kof ) . A former Chumashan 

 village in Ventura co., Cal. — Henshaw, 

 Buenaventura MS. vocab., B. A. K, 1884. 



Onktokadan. A tribe, not identified, 

 said to have been exterminated by the 

 Foxes. Accordingto Sioux tradition they 

 lived on the St Croix r. in Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota (Neill, Minn., 144, 1858). 



Onkwe lyede ('a human being one is 

 standing'). A traditional Iroquois town 

 of -the Tortoise clan ; so enumerated in the 

 list of towns in the Chant of Welcome of 

 the Condolence Council of the League of 

 the Iroquois. Nothing is known defi- 

 nitely as to its situation. See Hale, Iroq. 

 Book of Rites, 118, 1883. (j. n. b. ii. ) 



Onnahee. A former Seneca town, placed 

 by Conover (Seneca Villages, 3, 1889) on 

 the E. side of Fall.brook, in the w. part of 

 lot20, town of Hopewell, Ontarioco.,N.Y. 

 In 1719 this was one of the "furtherest 

 castles of the Cenecas," i. e. farthest west- 

 ward. (J. N. B. H. ) 

 Onaghee.— Schuylerand Livingston (1719) in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., v. .542, 1855. Onahe.-Doc. of 1719, 

 ibid., .528. Onnachee, — Cammerhoff quoted by 

 Conover, Seneca Villages, 3, 1889. 



Onnighsiesanairone. One of the 6 "cas- 

 tles" of the Denighcariages (Amikway 

 near Michilimackinac, Mich., in 1723. — 

 Albanv Conf. (1723) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist.,V, 693, 1855. 



