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have thought. The Algonquins of New Jersey and Pennsyl- 

 vania termed the Andastes, or Siisquehannas, Minquas. These 

 were both the kindred and enemies of the Five Nations ; and, 

 after the Iroquois had subjugated them, the whole family was 

 termed Mingo in Pennsylvania, as speaking the same language. 

 Thus Logan the Cayuga is often called a Mingo. There were 

 other foreign names of less note. 



Their own name came from comparing their league to one of 

 their long houses, having a door at each end and separate fires 

 for each family through the length of the house. This title has 

 been variously spelled and translated. The Moravians called 

 them Aquanoschioni, prefixing a syllable, and rendering it 

 Covenant or United People. Hale gave the Mohawk name as 

 Rotinonsionni, They of the Extended House. Morgan gave the 

 Seneca as Ho-de-no-sau-nee, People of the Long House. Bruyas 

 interpreted Hotinnonsionni as Cabin -makers. The Onondaga 

 name is Kan-no-se-o'-ne, A Long House made of Several Houses 

 put together. David Cusick simply made the name Goo-nea- 

 seah-ne mean Long House. The Rev. Mr Dellius, in 1694, 

 thought Honontonchionni equivalent to " Konossioni, which is 

 the whole howse, or all the Indians together." The Relation of 

 1654 said that the Iroquois call themselves '' Hotinnonchiendi, 

 that is to say, the finished cabin, as if they were only one family." 



Charlevoix's fanciful account of the origin of the word, Iro- 

 quois, has been generally accepted till quite recently. He said, 

 '* The name of Iroquois is purely French, and has been formed 

 from the term hiro, ' I have spoken,' a word by which these 

 Indians close all their speeches, and koiie' , which when long 

 drawn out, is a cry of sorrow, and when briefly uttered, is an 

 exclamation of joy." 



The truth is that this was an early Algonquin name for this 

 people, which Champlain had from the Indians on the lower St 

 Lawrence in 1603, six years before he met the Iroquois on Lake 

 Champlain, and when he could have known nothing of their 

 speech. He seems to have found this in constant use east of 

 that place, and before he encountered any people speaking the 



