﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  135 
  

  

  by 
  produced 
  a 
  pestilence. 
  The 
  story 
  seems 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  but 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  great 
  bands 
  of 
  the 
  Senecas. 
  The 
  spot 
  had 
  its 
  

   common 
  name 
  from 
  being 
  bare 
  of 
  trees 
  when 
  first 
  known 
  to 
  the 
  

   whites. 
  

  

  Aside 
  from 
  Cusick's 
  legend 
  all 
  that 
  we 
  know 
  of 
  the 
  Tuscaroras 
  

   falls 
  within 
  historic 
  times. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  nations 
  mentioned, 
  five 
  were 
  already 
  in 
  New 
  

   York 
  when 
  Champlain 
  and 
  Hudson 
  entered 
  it 
  in 
  1609. 
  The 
  

   Mohawks 
  had 
  come 
  by 
  way 
  of 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  from 
  the 
  north 
  ; 
  

   the 
  Oneidas 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  direction, 
  apparently 
  leaving 
  the 
  St 
  

   Lawrence 
  at 
  Oswegatchie 
  river 
  and 
  tarrying 
  in 
  that 
  region 
  for 
  a 
  

   time 
  ; 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  had 
  gradually 
  migrated 
  from 
  Jefferson 
  

   county 
  to 
  the 
  Oswego 
  and 
  Seneca 
  rivers, 
  hastening 
  their 
  move- 
  

   ments 
  and 
  seeking 
  the 
  hills 
  farther 
  south 
  when 
  the 
  great 
  war 
  

   broke 
  out 
  late 
  in 
  the 
  16th 
  century; 
  the 
  Cayugas 
  and 
  Senecas 
  

   had 
  come 
  by 
  way 
  of 
  Niagara 
  river 
  much 
  earlier 
  than 
  this, 
  moving 
  

   eastward 
  unmolested. 
  Thus 
  are 
  differences 
  of 
  dialects 
  recon- 
  

   ciled 
  with 
  other 
  facts. 
  

  

  Something 
  may 
  be 
  said 
  of 
  the 
  family 
  elsewhere 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  here. 
  

   The 
  Five 
  Nations 
  were 
  known 
  to 
  Champlain 
  as 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  

   and 
  Entouhonorons, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  Dutch 
  as 
  Maquas 
  and 
  Senecas 
  ; 
  

   both 
  indicating 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  by 
  the 
  first 
  name 
  and 
  classing 
  four 
  

   others 
  under 
  the 
  second. 
  Their 
  territory 
  included 
  Schoharie 
  val- 
  

   ley 
  on 
  the 
  east, 
  not 
  reaching 
  the 
  Hudson. 
  Westward 
  their 
  villages 
  

   then 
  almost 
  reached 
  Genesee 
  river, 
  and 
  they 
  probably 
  had 
  towns 
  

   farther 
  west 
  before 
  the 
  Huron 
  war. 
  West 
  of 
  them 
  was 
  the 
  

   Neutral 
  nation, 
  occupying 
  both 
  sides 
  of 
  Niagara 
  river 
  and 
  the 
  

   north 
  side 
  of 
  Lake 
  Erie, 
  permitting 
  the 
  passage 
  of 
  Huron 
  and 
  

   Iroquois 
  warriors, 
  but 
  forbidding 
  violence 
  in 
  this. 
  North 
  of 
  these 
  

   were 
  the 
  Hurons 
  or 
  Wyandots, 
  the 
  good 
  Iroquois 
  of 
  Champlain, 
  

   and 
  sometimes 
  the 
  Ochateguins, 
  from 
  one 
  of 
  their 
  chiefs. 
  They 
  

   termed 
  the 
  Neutrals 
  Attiwandaronks, 
  Those 
  of 
  a 
  Language 
  a 
  

   little 
  different, 
  and 
  had 
  the 
  same 
  name 
  in 
  turn. 
  North 
  of 
  these 
  

   were 
  the 
  Tionontaties, 
  People 
  beyond 
  the 
  Mountains, 
  so 
  called 
  

   from 
  the 
  hills 
  between 
  them 
  and 
  the 
  Hurons, 
  but 
  better 
  known 
  

   as 
  the 
  Petun 
  or 
  Tobacco 
  nation, 
  from 
  raising 
  and 
  trading 
  with 
  

  

  