﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
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  pounds. 
  Another 
  is 
  in 
  Forest 
  Hill 
  cemetery, 
  Utica 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Aug 
  

   was 
  often 
  added 
  to 
  Oneida 
  to 
  signify 
  locality, 
  or 
  ronon 
  for 
  people. 
  

   Their 
  council 
  name 
  is 
  Ne-haw-re-tah-go-wah, 
  or 
  Big 
  Tree, 
  refer- 
  

   ring 
  to 
  Hiawatha's 
  finding 
  them 
  by 
  a 
  large 
  tree 
  which 
  they 
  had 
  

   just 
  cut 
  down. 
  

  

  The 
  French 
  usually 
  termed 
  their 
  town 
  Onneiout, 
  and 
  their 
  

   name 
  was 
  first 
  mentioned 
  and 
  castle 
  described 
  from 
  within 
  by 
  

   Arent 
  Van 
  Curler 
  in 
  1634. 
  He 
  thought 
  them 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Sen- 
  

   ecas. 
  The 
  next 
  year 
  they 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  Iroquois 
  nations 
  

   in 
  the 
  Jesuit 
  Relation. 
  The 
  Delawares 
  termed 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  

   Sankhicani, 
  or 
  Fire-striking 
  People, 
  a 
  translation 
  of 
  their 
  own 
  

   name. 
  The 
  Oneidas 
  were 
  WTassone, 
  Stone 
  Pipe-makers, 
  from 
  

   their 
  excellence 
  in 
  this 
  art. 
  

  

  Ononta, 
  said 
  an 
  early 
  French 
  writer, 
  means 
  a 
  hill 
  or 
  moun- 
  

   tain. 
  The 
  present 
  terminal 
  in 
  Onondaga 
  is 
  locative, 
  and 
  the 
  

   word 
  ronon 
  was 
  for 
  a 
  time 
  added 
  to 
  signify 
  people. 
  Their 
  Dela- 
  

   ware 
  name 
  also 
  referred 
  to 
  their 
  situation. 
  For 
  a 
  century 
  they 
  

   were 
  on 
  the 
  hills 
  near 
  Limestone 
  creek, 
  in 
  various 
  places, 
  leaving 
  

   that 
  valley 
  in 
  1681, 
  and 
  making 
  their 
  home 
  on 
  Butternut 
  creek 
  

   for 
  about 
  40 
  years 
  more. 
  Their 
  removal 
  to 
  Onondaga 
  creek 
  is 
  

   not 
  so 
  exactly 
  known, 
  but 
  was 
  not 
  far 
  from 
  1720. 
  In 
  that 
  valley 
  

   they 
  have 
  moved 
  several 
  times. 
  The 
  French 
  found 
  them 
  on 
  

   Indian 
  hill, 
  Pompey, 
  in 
  1654, 
  and 
  first 
  mentioned 
  them 
  in 
  1635. 
  

   Van 
  Curler 
  came 
  in 
  contact 
  with 
  them 
  early 
  that 
  year. 
  The 
  

   league 
  was 
  formed 
  by 
  Onondaga 
  lake, 
  and 
  the 
  Grand 
  Council 
  

   met 
  in 
  their 
  town. 
  Their 
  council 
  name 
  is 
  Seuh-no-keh-te, 
  Bear- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  Names, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  the 
  principal 
  chief 
  and 
  town 
  were 
  

   called 
  by 
  this. 
  As 
  with 
  all 
  Indian 
  names 
  it 
  is 
  variously 
  spelled. 
  

  

  The 
  gradual 
  increase 
  in 
  power 
  or 
  security 
  is 
  well 
  illustrated 
  by 
  

   the 
  nation's 
  progressive 
  removals 
  from 
  secluded 
  to 
  exposed 
  

   situations. 
  Champlain 
  noticed 
  this 
  practice 
  in 
  speaking 
  of 
  the 
  

   Hurons 
  and 
  Senecas 
  in 
  1616: 
  "Sometimes 
  they 
  change 
  their 
  

   Village 
  of 
  ten, 
  of 
  twenty, 
  or 
  thirty 
  years, 
  and 
  transport 
  it 
  from 
  

   one, 
  two, 
  or 
  three 
  leagues 
  from 
  the 
  preceding 
  place, 
  unless 
  they 
  

   are 
  constrained 
  by 
  their 
  enemies 
  to 
  dislodge 
  and 
  to 
  go 
  far 
  away, 
  

   as 
  the 
  Antouhonorons 
  had 
  done 
  from 
  some 
  40 
  to 
  50 
  leagues." 
  

  

  