﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  159 
  

  

  to 
  in 
  early 
  writings. 
  These 
  persons 
  had 
  special 
  duties 
  and 
  privi- 
  

   leges, 
  and 
  one 
  dance 
  was 
  called 
  after 
  them. 
  The 
  false 
  faces 
  and 
  

   medicine 
  societies 
  do 
  not 
  correspond 
  to 
  them, 
  though 
  these 
  have 
  

   peculiar 
  functions 
  and 
  honors. 
  

  

  Two 
  of 
  their 
  national 
  names 
  were 
  foreign 
  to 
  their 
  language 
  

   and 
  came 
  from 
  their 
  enemies. 
  Mohawk 
  is 
  not 
  an 
  Iroquois 
  word, 
  

   nor 
  could 
  "a 
  Mohawk 
  once 
  pronounce 
  it. 
  For 
  some 
  time 
  the 
  

   Algonquin 
  family 
  lay 
  between 
  the 
  Dutch 
  and 
  that 
  nation, 
  and 
  

   both 
  they 
  and 
  the 
  English 
  accepted 
  the 
  names 
  known 
  to 
  those 
  

   living 
  near 
  them. 
  The 
  Dutch 
  called 
  them 
  Maquas 
  or 
  Bears, 
  

   that 
  clan 
  being 
  prominent. 
  Hence 
  Father 
  Bruyas 
  wrote 
  : 
  " 
  Gan- 
  

   niagwari, 
  A 
  she 
  bear; 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawks." 
  Their 
  

   accepted 
  name, 
  however, 
  was 
  Canienga, 
  At 
  the 
  Flint, 
  or 
  People 
  

   of 
  the 
  Flint 
  ; 
  commonly 
  given 
  as 
  Annies 
  or 
  Agniers 
  by 
  the 
  

   French. 
  This 
  was 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  idea 
  of 
  striking 
  fire 
  with 
  

   a 
  steel, 
  and 
  the 
  steel 
  became 
  their 
  national 
  symbol. 
  As 
  this 
  was 
  

   an 
  early 
  name 
  they 
  may 
  have 
  learned 
  to 
  use 
  the 
  steel 
  from 
  

   Cartier 
  or 
  others 
  in 
  Canada, 
  long 
  before 
  the 
  rest 
  had 
  any 
  contact 
  

   with 
  Europeans, 
  and 
  Sir 
  William 
  Johnson 
  derived 
  their 
  name 
  

   from 
  the 
  steel 
  itself. 
  Bruyas 
  gave 
  kannia 
  for 
  gunflint, 
  which 
  is 
  

   near 
  the 
  French 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  national 
  name. 
  As 
  for 
  our 
  horn- 
  

   stone, 
  usually 
  termed 
  flint, 
  it 
  was 
  as 
  abundant 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  other 
  

   Iroquois 
  territory 
  as 
  among 
  the 
  Mohawks. 
  The 
  use 
  of 
  this 
  with 
  

   the 
  steel 
  made 
  a 
  distinction. 
  

  

  The 
  Dutch 
  divided 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  into 
  Maquas 
  and 
  Senecas, 
  

   Champlain 
  into 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  Entouhonorons, 
  and 
  later 
  French 
  

   writers 
  into 
  lower 
  and 
  upper 
  Iroquois. 
  They 
  had 
  everywhere, 
  a 
  

   terrible 
  reputation, 
  which 
  others 
  should 
  have 
  shared. 
  Roger 
  

   Williams 
  said 
  : 
  ' 
  The 
  Maguauogs, 
  or 
  Men-eaters, 
  that 
  live 
  three 
  

   or 
  four 
  hundred 
  miles 
  west 
  from 
  us, 
  make 
  a 
  delicious 
  monstrous 
  

   dish 
  of 
  the 
  heads 
  and 
  brains 
  of 
  their 
  enemies." 
  Their 
  common 
  

   name 
  of 
  Mohawk 
  came 
  from 
  another 
  given 
  by 
  their 
  enemies, 
  

   Mohowaug, 
  They 
  eat 
  Living 
  Creatures. 
  

  

  Besides 
  the 
  national 
  title 
  each 
  nation 
  had 
  a 
  council 
  name 
  by 
  

   which 
  it 
  was 
  addressed 
  in 
  public 
  conferences. 
  David 
  Cusick 
  

   gave 
  this 
  for 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  as 
  Te-haw-re-ho-geh, 
  A 
  Speech 
  

  

  