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nized at Onondaga persons and families 

 from at least 7 different tribes. Accord- 

 ing to the same authority (Thwaites ed., 

 Lxvi, 203, 1900) the Jesuit missions to the 

 Onondaga and the Seneca were aban- 

 doned in 1709, and in 1711 a French ex- 

 pedition built a blockhouse at Onondaga, 

 24i ft long and 18 ft wide, which Peter 

 Schuyler ordered destroyed along with 

 other building material as "there was 

 other wood ready to build a chappell " 

 (N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., v, 249, 1855). 



Of the Onondaga of 1682, Father Jean 

 de Lamberville (Jes. Rel., Thwaites ed., 

 Lxii, 1900) wrote the following interesting 

 facts: " I found on my arrival the Iro- 

 quois of this town occupied in transport- 

 ing their corn, their effects, and their 

 lodges to a situation 2 leagues from their 

 former dwelling-place where they have 

 been for 19 years. They made this 

 change in order to have nearer to them the 

 convenience of firewood, and fields more 

 fertile than those which they abandoned. ' ' 

 This was probably the town visited by 

 Greenhalgh in 1677. (.i. n. b. h.) 



Arnoniogre. — Lamberville, letter, in N, Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., III. 488, 1853 (misprint for Onnontague). 

 Kanatago'wa. — Morgan, Leagne Iroq., ll, 87,1904. 

 Onendagah.— N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., Index, 1861. 

 Onnondage.— Jes. Rel., Thwaites ed., XLI, 245, 1899. 

 Onnondague. — Ibid.,xxx, 259,1898. Onnondaque. — 

 N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., Index, 1861. Onnontae.— 

 Jes. Rel., Thwaites ed., xl, 163, 1899.— Onnonta'e. — 

 Jes. Rel. 1653, Thwaites ed., xxxviii, 183, 1899. 

 Onnontaghe.— Jes. Rel. 16.57, 41, 1858. Onnon- 

 tagk.— N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., Index, 1861. Onnon- 

 tagu6.— Jes. Rel., Thwaites ed., xlii, 179, 1899. 

 Onontae.— N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., Index, 1861. 

 Onontague— De la Barre (16S4) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., IX, 263, 1855. Oynondage.— N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., Index, 1861. Saint Jean Baptiste. — Jes. -Rel., 

 Thwaites ed., Lii, 1-53, 1899. Tagochsanagechti.— 

 De Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger, 56, 1870 (name 

 of "lower town"). 



Onondaghara ('it-mountain top')- A 

 former Onondaga village which, accord- 

 ing to ]\Iacauley, was the largest of five 

 "in the extent of 8 miles." It was situ- 

 ated on Onondaga r. , 3 m. e. of Onondaga 

 Hollow, N. Y., and contained about 50 

 houses in 1829. (j. n. b. h. ) 



Onondagharie, — Macauley, Hist. N. Y., ii, 177, 

 1829. 



Onondahgegahgeh ( ' place of the Onon- 

 daga'). A former Onondaga village w. 

 of Lower Ebenezer, Erie co., N. Y. Part 

 of the Onondaga lived there after the 

 American Revolution until the Buffalo 

 Creek res. was sold in 18.38. (w. m. b.) 



Onondakai ('Destroy Town'). A Sen- 

 eca chief who signed the treaty of 1826. 

 His name is also given as (lonondagie, 

 and, more exactly, as Oshagonondagie. 

 'He Destroys the Town,' written "Straw 

 Town" in the treaty of 1815, Oosaukau- 

 nendauki in 1797. He was one of those 

 whose remains were reinterred at Buffalo 

 in 1884. The name was a favorite one, 

 but, as applied to George Washington and 

 some French governors, has a slightly 

 different form. (w. m. b. ) 



Onondarka ('on a hill'). A Seneca 

 town N. of Karaghyadirha, on Guy 

 Johnson's map of 1771 (Doc. Hist. N. Y., 

 IV, 1090, 1851). (w. M. B.) 



Onontatacet ( 'one goes around a hill or 

 mountain ' ). A former Onondaga village 

 located on the Charlevoix map of 1745 on 

 Seneca r., N. Y. It was not a Cayuga 

 village, as some assert. (j. n. b. ii. ) 



Onepa ( ' salt houses. ' — Och ) . A former 

 Nevome pueblo 9 leagues w. of Bacanora, 

 at the present Santa Rosalia, Sonora, 

 Mexico. It was the seat of a Spanish 

 mission dating from 1677. Pop. 171 in 

 1678, 76 in 1730. 



Santa Rosalia de Onopa. — Zapata (1678) in Doc. 

 Hist. Mex., 4th s., in, 346, 1857. Sta. Rosalia 

 Onapa.— Zapata (1678) cited by Bancroft. No. 

 Mex. States, i, 245, 1886. 



Onowaragon. An Onondaga who suc- 

 ceeded a chief of the same name. The 

 latter was a French partisan and was 

 condoled in 1728. The former attended 

 a council with Gov. Beauharnois in 1 742, 

 being the Onondaga speaker. Weiser, 

 who lodged in his house in 1743, calls 

 him Annawaraogon. He may have been 

 the Kayenwarygoa who attended the 

 Boston council of 1744, but this is doubt- 

 ful, (w. M. B. ) 



Ontarahronon ( ' lake people.' — Hewitt). 

 An unidentified sedentary tribe probably 

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

 Rel. 1640, 35, 1858. 



Ontariolite. A mineral; according to 

 Dana (Text-book Mineralogy, 435, 1888), 

 "a variety of scapolite occurring in 

 limestone at Galway, Ontario, Canada. 

 Formed with the suffix -lite, from Greek 

 Azdos, a stone, from Ontario, the name 

 of a lake and a Canadian province. The 

 word is of Iroquoian origin, signifying, 

 according to Hale (Iroq. Book of 

 Rites, 176, 1883) 'the great lake,' from 

 Huron ontara or the Iroquois oniat<(rn, 

 'lake,' and -16, a suffix meaning 'great,' 

 or later, 'beautiful,' hence perhaps 

 'beautiful lake.' (a. f. c. ) 



Ontianyadi ( 0"fi-a"yadi, ' grizzly-bear 

 people'). A Biloxi clan. — Dorsey in 

 15th Rep. B. A. E., 243, 1897. 



Ontikehomawck. An early village of the 

 Stockbridtje tribe in Rensselaer co., 

 N. Y. ^ (w. M. B.) 



Ontonagon. A Chippewa band formerly 

 living on Ontonagon r. in upper Michi- 

 gan. Regarding the origin of the name, 

 Baraga (Otchipwe Diet., 295, 1882) says: 

 "The proper meaning of this word is 

 ' my dish.' An Indian tradition says that 

 a squaw once came to the river, now 

 called 'Ondonagan,' to fetch water with 

 an Indian earti en dish, but the dish 

 escaped from her hand and went to the 

 bottom of the river, whereupon the poor 

 squaw began to lament: 7iid nhid omujan, 

 nind ondgan! Ah, my dish, my dish! 



