HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK IROQUOIS 269 



as the Five Nations and paid them tribute. After this they no 

 longer had their old names of Andastes or Minquas. 



In this treaty the Iroquois addressed ''Brother Assarigoe, the 

 name of the governors of Virginia, which signifies a Simeter or 

 Cutlas which was given to the Lord Howard, anno 1684, from 

 the dutch word Hower, a Cutlas." Hence and from their cavalry 

 the Virginians were termed Long Knives. The Potomac was 

 called Kahongoronton by the Iroquois, and the Roanoke the 

 Konentcheneke. The five nations controlled by the Iroquois on 

 the Susquehanna were the Tuscaroras, Conestogas, Shawnees, 

 Oquagas, who were partly Mohawks, and the Ostanghaes, who 

 were Delawares. Some southern Indians afterward came to 

 New York. 



This Albany council was the first in which the Tuscaroras 

 shared as part of the Iroquois league ; and at the end, '' the 

 speaker of the Five Nations, holding up the coronet, they gave 

 six shouts, five for the Five Nations, and one for a castle of 

 Tuscaroras, lately seated between Oneida and Onondaga." 



The Conestogas said the Five Nations, as a body, had no title 

 to the Susquehanna lands, and that four of them claimed none, 

 but that the Cayugas made a continual claim, and the matter 

 should be settled. Some Cayugas went to Pennsylvania in 1723 

 to hold a council on this matter, but this had usually been done 

 by the Onondagas, '' their best gentlemen." The Five Nations 

 had placed the Shawnees on the Susquehanna, and now told them 

 they did not w^ell to settle at Shallyschoking. 



Some chiefs of the Six Nations and Schaghticokes went to 

 Boston in 1723, and were well received. A piece of engraved 

 plate was given each one, and £100 were promised for scalps. 



Aug. 29 a conference was held at Albany with 80 Far Indians 

 called Nicariages, who came there to open trade. They spoke 

 by their chief Sakena and desired to be the seventh nation of the 

 Iroquois, but this never took effect. They gave a calumet, which 

 " is esteemed very valuable, and is the greatest token of peace 

 and friendship." Some more came in 1724, whom the French 

 tried to turn aside on Lake Ontario, but they said they were free 

 and would go where they pleased. 



