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value, but even if this is admitted they do have the certain virtue of 

 stimulating inquiry. 



The older theory that the Iroquois originated or had their early 

 home along the St Lawrence, about Montreal, is not entirely without 

 serious flaws. I believe from archeological evidence that certain 

 Iroquoian tribes never came from the St Lawrence region; for 

 example, the Seneca. The Seneca and Erie divisions seem to have 

 been as closely allied in western New York as the Onondaga and 

 Mohawk were in northern and eastern New York. The Mohawk 

 (or Laurentian Iroquois) never agreed with the Senecan division 

 and there indeed seems to have been a long period of separation that 

 made these two dialects more unlike than all the others of the five. 

 It would seem that the early band of Iroquois had divided at the 

 Detroit or the Niagara rivers, one passing over and coursing the 

 northern shores and the other continuing on the southern shores of 

 Erie and Ontario; and that the northern branch became the 

 Huron and Mohawk-Onondaga ; that those who coursed south 

 of these lakes became the Seneca-Erie, the Conestoga (Andaste) 

 and the Susquehannock. It also appears that the Cherokee and 

 '^^r- , , .> -«parated earlier than the Seneca and Huron-Mohawk 

 'vrhaps absorbed other non-Iroquoian bands, still fur- 

 ■^(-r\v- lo |>res(-M f^h vocabnh<-ies. 



for ihe sake of '-n-n' v ^all briefly consider the material 



that a revolution uiv ""iscussion we have repeated 



Iroquois, whence did t; i . . the sake of emphasis 



ic:e? Traditions, agair., p. ini lo .. ^ame lac's, when differently 



Ethnologists are f ami tin r with th 



ire familiar with Iroquois rnigr, 



are few and those brief and diffic^^ Based on Archeologi- 



. . migration and their. 



I ' o or stocks, it is of 



, , , ' , icaDy Iroquoian; that is to sav, 



,'inn whv so learned an It ,r. , , , ,. . . 



,; ,1. . . :=*v be re?/arded as distmctive. 



e. we must cotv«»>» ',., %,,. 



, 04. ODiect which a held mvestig^ator learns to 



.^. . Iroquoian occupation, is the thm, triangular 



..ert. Nearly all Iroquois arrow points seem 



.n of this type. On village, on camp site, or 



*ves the delicately chipped triangle is found almost to the 



..elusion of all other forms. It mav not be rce:arded, therefore, 



