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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Here 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  two 
  of 
  the 
  Huron 
  nations 
  came 
  into 
  their 
  

   land 
  rather 
  early 
  in 
  the 
  15th 
  century, 
  according 
  to 
  themselves, 
  

   but 
  probably 
  later; 
  that 
  they 
  received 
  another 
  nation 
  about 
  1590, 
  

   or 
  after 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  exodus; 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  fourth 
  nation 
  joined 
  

   them 
  about 
  1610. 
  

  

  Chapter 
  4 
  

  

  Origin 
  of 
  league. 
  Probable 
  date. 
  Allotment 
  of 
  sachems. 
  Hiawatha. 
  

   Names 
  of 
  sachems 
  and 
  their 
  meaning. 
  Other 
  chiefs. 
  Name 
  and 
  terri- 
  

   tory 
  of 
  each 
  nation. 
  Council 
  names. 
  Brotherhoods. 
  Name 
  of 
  league. 
  

   Iroquois 
  and 
  Algonquin 
  name. 
  Place 
  of 
  formative 
  council. 
  Influence 
  

   of 
  women. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  league 
  Pyrlaeus 
  received 
  an 
  

   account 
  in 
  1743, 
  which 
  differs 
  only 
  in 
  brevity 
  from 
  all 
  later 
  ones. 
  

   It 
  was 
  proposed 
  by 
  Thannawage, 
  an 
  aged 
  Mohawk, 
  and 
  Togana- 
  

   wita 
  appeared 
  for 
  the 
  Mohawks, 
  Otatschechta 
  for 
  the 
  Oneidas, 
  

   Tatoyarho 
  for 
  the 
  Onondagas, 
  Togarhayon 
  for 
  the 
  Cayugas, 
  and 
  

   Ganiatario 
  and 
  Satagarnyes 
  for 
  the 
  Senecas. 
  These 
  names 
  are 
  

   in 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  dialect 
  and 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  preserved 
  by 
  successive 
  

   chiefs. 
  This 
  has 
  been 
  done 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  the 
  first, 
  who 
  

   has 
  no 
  nominal 
  successor. 
  He 
  considered 
  himself 
  the 
  founder 
  

   of 
  the 
  league, 
  and 
  no 
  one 
  could 
  follow 
  him 
  in 
  this. 
  In 
  the 
  con- 
  

   doling 
  song 
  his 
  name 
  appears 
  with 
  the 
  five 
  other 
  founders, 
  but 
  

   is 
  not 
  in 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  50 
  principal 
  chiefs. 
  

  

  Mr 
  Hale 
  said, 
  adhering 
  to 
  an 
  early 
  date, 
  " 
  If 
  the 
  League 
  was 
  

   formed, 
  as 
  seems 
  probable, 
  about 
  the 
  year 
  1450, 
  the 
  speeches 
  and 
  

   hymn, 
  in 
  their 
  present 
  form, 
  may 
  reasonably 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  

   early 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  next 
  century." 
  The 
  song 
  treats 
  all 
  the 
  50 
  orig- 
  

   inal 
  chiefs 
  as 
  dead, 
  and 
  laments 
  the 
  good 
  old 
  times. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  no 
  real 
  discrepancy 
  in 
  referring 
  the 
  suggestion 
  of 
  the 
  

   league 
  to 
  a 
  Mohawk 
  chief. 
  Hi-a-wat-ha 
  was 
  an 
  Onondaga, 
  

   afterward 
  adopted 
  by 
  the 
  Mohawks, 
  and 
  his 
  name, 
  variously 
  

   translated, 
  is 
  second 
  in 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  their 
  9 
  principal 
  chiefs, 
  entitled 
  

   to 
  sit 
  in 
  the 
  Grand 
  Council. 
  The 
  Oneidas 
  had 
  9 
  of 
  these, 
  the 
  

   Onondagas 
  14, 
  the 
  Cayugas 
  10, 
  and 
  the 
  Senecas 
  8, 
  or 
  50 
  in 
  all. 
  

   When 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  dies, 
  another 
  is 
  raised 
  in 
  his 
  place 
  and 
  takes 
  

   his 
  name. 
  The 
  Senecas 
  may 
  always 
  have 
  formed 
  two 
  bands, 
  

   accounting 
  for 
  two 
  leading 
  chiefs. 
  In 
  the 
  Grand 
  Council 
  they 
  

  

  