﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
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  gave 
  the 
  Snipe, 
  Beaver, 
  Ball, 
  Deer 
  and 
  Eel, 
  leaving 
  out 
  the 
  Hawk 
  

   clan. 
  Both 
  he 
  and 
  Horatio 
  Hale 
  mention 
  the 
  Ball 
  clan, 
  which 
  is 
  

   really 
  a 
  subdivision 
  of 
  the 
  Turtle, 
  commonly 
  known 
  as 
  the 
  Small 
  

   Turtle. 
  To 
  the 
  Tuscaroras 
  he 
  gave 
  in 
  full 
  the 
  Bear, 
  Great 
  and 
  

   Little 
  Turtle, 
  Gray 
  and 
  Yellow 
  Wolf, 
  Eel, 
  Beaver 
  and 
  Snipe. 
  

   There 
  are 
  Onondaga 
  Eels 
  on 
  that 
  reservation, 
  which 
  may 
  account 
  

   for 
  a 
  supposed 
  Tuscarora 
  clan. 
  He 
  allowed 
  them 
  no 
  Hawk 
  clan, 
  

   and 
  assigned 
  the 
  Heron 
  only 
  to 
  the 
  Senecas. 
  J. 
  V. 
  H. 
  Clark's 
  

   Onondaga 
  enumeration 
  is 
  the 
  Bear, 
  Wolf, 
  Turtle, 
  Eel, 
  Deer, 
  

   Beaver, 
  Eagle 
  and 
  Heron, 
  substituting 
  the 
  latter 
  for 
  the 
  Snipe, 
  

   which 
  is 
  an 
  Onondaga 
  clan, 
  and 
  the 
  Eagle 
  for 
  the 
  Hawk, 
  which 
  

   seems 
  proper. 
  The 
  writer 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  Eel 
  clan. 
  

  

  In 
  1666 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  different 
  enumeration 
  and 
  naming 
  by 
  a 
  

   French 
  writer. 
  Nine 
  Iroquois 
  clans 
  were 
  named 
  in 
  two 
  divisions, 
  

   the 
  first 
  being 
  called 
  Guey-niotiteshesgue, 
  meaning 
  four 
  tribes. 
  

   These 
  were 
  the 
  Turtle, 
  or 
  Atiniathin 
  ; 
  the 
  Wolf, 
  called 
  Enan- 
  

   thayonni 
  or 
  Cahenhisenhonon 
  ; 
  the 
  Bear, 
  or 
  Atinionguin 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  

   Beaver. 
  The 
  second 
  division 
  was 
  Ouiche-niotiteshesgue, 
  or 
  five 
  

   tribes. 
  Of 
  these 
  the 
  Deer 
  was 
  Canendeshe 
  ; 
  the 
  Potato, 
  Schones- 
  

   chioronon 
  ; 
  the 
  Great 
  Plover, 
  Otinanchahe 
  ; 
  the 
  Little 
  Plover, 
  

   Asco 
  or 
  Nicohes; 
  and 
  the 
  Eagle, 
  Canonchahonronon. 
  A 
  French- 
  

   man, 
  adopted 
  as 
  a 
  Seneca, 
  gave 
  another 
  account 
  in 
  1736, 
  naming 
  

   10 
  clans, 
  but 
  omitting 
  the 
  Wolf 
  and 
  Heron. 
  They 
  were 
  the 
  

   Bear, 
  Turtle, 
  Plover, 
  Eel, 
  Deer, 
  Beaver, 
  Potato, 
  Falcon, 
  Lark 
  

   and 
  Partridge*. 
  Variations 
  are 
  frequent. 
  

  

  The 
  Onondaga 
  clans 
  are 
  now 
  the 
  Turtle, 
  or 
  Ho-te-neah-te 
  ; 
  

   Wolf, 
  or 
  Ho-te-kwa-ho 
  ; 
  Bear, 
  or 
  Ho-te-ska-wak 
  ; 
  Beaver, 
  or 
  Ho- 
  

   te-hu-ne-wha-keh-ha-no, 
  People 
  of 
  the 
  Creek 
  ; 
  Snipe, 
  or 
  Ho-te-ne- 
  

   see-yuh, 
  People 
  of 
  the 
  Sand 
  ; 
  Eel, 
  or 
  Ho-te-teu-ha-kah, 
  People 
  

   of 
  the 
  Rushes 
  ; 
  Deer, 
  or 
  Da-hah-de-ge-nine, 
  People 
  of 
  Hoofs 
  ; 
  

   and 
  Hawk, 
  or 
  Ho-te-swe-gi-yu. 
  They 
  are 
  the 
  Boards, 
  alluding 
  

   to 
  the 
  large 
  sticks 
  in 
  hawks' 
  or 
  eagles' 
  nests. 
  

  

  No 
  one 
  marries 
  in 
  his 
  own 
  clan, 
  and 
  not 
  long 
  since 
  there 
  were 
  

   clan 
  burials. 
  When 
  traveling, 
  they 
  are 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  enter- 
  

   tained 
  by 
  those 
  of 
  their 
  own 
  clan. 
  How 
  five 
  of 
  the 
  clans 
  fared 
  

   in 
  visiting 
  the 
  Oneidas 
  and 
  Mohawks 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  explained. 
  

  

  