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one at each end; Te-yo-we-yeii-don, drooping wings, and Ogh-re- 

 kyon-ny. 



The I5ear clan have De-ya-o-kenh, forks, usually of a river; Jo- 

 non-de-seh, it is a high hill; Ots-kwi-ra-ke-ron, dry branches fallen 

 to the ground; and Ogh-na-we-ron, the springs. Later villages are 

 mentioned as belonging to this clan. These are Kar-ha-wen-ra- 

 dough, taken over the woods; Ka-ra-ken, white; De-yoh-he-ro, place 

 of rushes or flags ; De-yo-swe-ken, outlet of the river; and Ox-den- 

 keh, to the old place. Some of these names are familiar in connec- 

 tion with recent places. 



The Iroquois country was Akanishionegy, land of the Konosioni, 

 as mentioned by the Seneca chief Canassatego, not the Onondaga 

 of that name. 



Ha-who-na-o is the Onondaga name for North America, which 

 they thought a great island. Schoolcraft called it A-o-na-o. 



Ka-noo'-no is fresh-water basin, according to Brant-Sero, who 

 called it Uie name of New York harbor in Mohawk, thence applied 

 to the city and State. Morgan gave Ga-no'-no as the Seneca form, 

 but said the meaning was lost. A. Cusick recognized a reference 

 to water, but gave no exact definition. Bruyas gave but two Mo- 

 hawk words approaching this, one of which was gannonna, to guard, 

 which might refer to soldiers on duty at the mouth of the Hudson. 

 The other is gannona, bottom of the water, like the Canadian defi- 

 nition. It might also be corrupted from the Mohawk gannhoha or 

 kanhoha, a door. This also would be appropriate to the port of 

 New York, and resembles the name now used. 



Before the Revolution the Iroquois called the American party 

 was'-to-heh'-no, people of Boston or Bostonians, and this is their 

 general name for our people still. The latter term was much used 

 by the loyalists and the Indians adopted it. As the Iroquois had no 

 labials Wasto was their nearest approach to the sound of Boston. 



After Sullivan's campaign the Senecas called George Washing- 

 ton Honandaganius, destroyer of towns, and this has been the Iro- 

 quois name for all the presidents since. The Oneida form is An-na- 

 ta-kau'-yes. Some French governors had the same name, and some 

 Seneca chiefs were also thus called. 



Zeisberger gave the Onondaga name of the Dutch in New York 

 as Sgach-nech-ta-tich-roh-ne, a people who came from cu:ross th,^ 



