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Onnontare (Mohawk: 'it mountain is 

 present' — Hewitt). A Cayuga town in 

 1670 (Jey. Rel. 1670, 63, 1858). From 

 remains found there it seems to have been 

 B. of Seneca r., and at Bluff point, near 

 Fox Ridge, Cayuga co., N. Y. It may 

 have derived its name froui the moderate 

 elevation above the marsh, or from Fort 

 hill, which is plainly in sight. In 1670 it 

 was the seat of the mission of Saint Rene 

 and adjoined the marshes by whose name 

 the river was often known, (w. m. b.) 



Onnontare.— Jes. Rel. 1670, 63, 1858. Saint Rene.— 

 Ibid, (mission name). 



Onnontioga ('people of Onontio,' i. e. 

 French Indians, Montreal Indians, Quebec 

 Indians). A people, conquered by the 

 Iroquois, living in 1670 among the Seneca 

 in the village of Kanagaro, which was 

 made up almost entirely of incorporated 

 remnants of the conquered Onnontioga, 

 Hurons, and Neutrals. Gen. J. S. Clark 

 placed them at Waverly, N. Y., at or 

 near Spanish hill, and this seems prob- 

 able, (j. X. B. II.) 

 Onnontioga.— Jes. Rel. 1670, 69, 1858. Onnon-Tio- 

 gas. — Shea in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iv, 208, 1854. 

 Onontiogas. — Conover, Kanadesaga and Geneva 

 MS., B. A. E. 



Onoalagona ('big head.' — Hewitt). A 

 Mohawk village, about 1620, on the site of 

 Schenectady, Schenectady co., N. Y. A 

 band, taking its name from the village, 

 occupied the immediate vicinity in more 

 modern times. It is said by Macauley, 

 with little foundation in fact, that the vil- 

 lage was builtou the site of a stillolder one, 

 which had been the principal village of the 

 tribe and was called Connoharriegoharrie 

 (Kano^'waro'ha^re' ?). (.i. M.) 



Con-no-harrie-go-harrie. — Sclioolcraft quoted by 

 Ruttenbor. Tribes Hudson R.. 398, 1872. Con-nugh- 

 harie-gugh-harie. — Macauley, N. Y., II, 96, 1829. 

 Ohno-wal-a-gantle. — Ibid. O-no-a-la-gone'-na. — 

 Morgan, League Iroq., 474, 1851 (Mohawk name). 

 Oron-nygh-wurrie-gughre. — Ruttenber.TribesHud- 

 son R., 398, 1872 (quoted form). 



Onockatin. An Esopus chief who signed 

 an agreement with Gov. NicoUs in 1665. 

 He was a chief in the preceding year and 

 one of the five Esopus sachems present at 

 the treaty of 1669. Ruttenber calls him 

 Onackatin or Oghgotacton. (w. m. b. ) 



Onomio { O-nr/ -mi-o) . A former Chu- 

 mashan village between Pt Concepcion 

 and Santa Barbara, Cal., at a locality 

 now called La Gaviota. — Henshaw, Bue- 

 naventura MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1884. 



Ononchataronon (Huron name). An 

 Algonkin tribe or band that occupied the 

 district near Montreal, Canada, between St 

 Lawrence and Ottawa rs., and wintered 

 near the Hurons. In 1642 they were but 

 a remnant. They claimed to have been 

 the original occupants of Montreal id. and 

 of a large territory on both sides of the St 

 Lawrence. They said they ha4 been con- 

 quered and dispersed by the Hurons, who 

 were then their enemies, and that the 

 survivors of the war had taken refuge 



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with the Al)naki or the Iroquois or had 

 joined the Hurons. Hochelaga, the vil- 

 lage found on the island by Cartier in 

 1535, was occupied by an Iro(juoian tribe, 

 but, according to Gatschet, the remains 

 of a second village about 2 m. from its 

 site have been discovered. This would 

 clear the confusion as to the stock of the 

 former occupants of the island. Shea 

 suggests that the names Huron and Iro- 

 quois have been transposed, which is 

 likely. Charlevoix says that there was 

 a tradition that the Ononchataronon were 

 atone time at war with the Algonkin, and 

 that they were drawn into an ambuscade 

 and entirely destroyed. He adds that 

 at the time of his vi.sit (1721 ) they had 

 ceased to exist. This tradition, however, 

 seems doubtful. According to the Jesuit 

 Relations, at the general peace of 1646 the 

 French induced the Ononchataronon to 

 settle again on the island, but they soon 

 scattered on account of the Iroquois. 

 It seems they were met with as early as 

 1609byCharaplain, as Iroquet, one of their 

 chiefs, was with him at this time. The 

 missionaries described them as arrogant, 

 given to superstition and debaucher}-, and 

 very cruel. (j. m.) 



Nation d'Iroquet. — Jes. Rel. 1633, 29, 1858. Onnon- 

 charonnons. — Jefferys, Fr. Dom. Am., pt. 1, 9, 1761. 

 Onnontcharonnons. — Charlevoix, Jour. Voy., 1, 174, 

 1761. Onontchataranons.— Jes. Rel. 1646, 34, 1858. 

 Onontchataronons. — Jes. Rel. 1641, 57, 1858. Onon- 

 tchateronons. — Jes. Rel. 1643, 61, 1858. Snatchatazo- 

 nons. — Jes. Piel. 1641, 29, 1858. Ounontcharonnous. — 

 McKeniiey and Hall, Ind. Tribes, iii, 81, 1854. 

 Ounountchatarounongak. — Jes. Rel. 16.58, 22, 1858. 

 Ountchatarounounga. — Jes. Rel. 1640, 34, 1858. 

 Yroquet.— Champlain (1615), CEuvres, iv,56, 18.58. 



Onondaga (Oiiont^V ^ ge' / on, or on top of, 

 the hill or mountain'). An important 

 tribe of the Iroquois confederation, 

 formerly living on the mountain, lake, 

 and creek bearing their name, in the 

 present Onondaga co., N. Y., and extend- 

 ing northward to L. Ontario and south- 

 ward perhaps to the waters of the Sus- 

 quehanna. In the Iroquois councils they 

 are known as JTodisennageta, 'they (are) 

 the name bearers.' Their principal vil- 

 lage, also the capital of the confederation, 

 was called Onondaga, later Onondaga 

 Castle; it was situated from before 1654 

 to 1681 on Indian hill, in the present town 

 of Pompey, and in 1677 contained 140 cab- 

 ins. It was removed to Butternut cr., 

 where the fort was burned in 1696. In 

 1720 it was again removed to Onondaga 

 cr., and their present reserve ia in that 

 valley, a few miles s. of the lake (Beau- 

 champ, inf'n, 1907). 



The Onondaga of Grand River res., 

 Canada, have 9 clans, namely: Wolf, 

 Tortoise (Turtle?), Bear, Deer, Eel, Bea- 

 ver, Ball, Plover (Snipe?), and Pigeon- 

 hawk. The Wolf, Bear, Plover, Ball, 

 and Pigeonhawk clans have each only one 

 federal chief ship; the Beaver, Tortoise, 



