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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  The 
  Seneca 
  territory 
  had 
  included 
  both 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  Genesee 
  

   valley, 
  but, 
  when 
  the 
  Huron 
  war 
  broke 
  out, 
  they 
  withdrew 
  their 
  

   towns 
  to 
  the 
  east 
  side. 
  Most 
  writers 
  make 
  the 
  duration 
  of 
  a 
  

   town 
  from 
  10 
  to 
  15 
  years. 
  With 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  steel 
  axes 
  in 
  getting 
  

   fuel 
  the 
  time 
  increased 
  greatly. 
  

  

  The 
  French 
  at 
  first 
  called 
  the 
  Cayugas 
  Onioenronons, 
  and 
  their 
  

   principal 
  town 
  and 
  country 
  Onioen. 
  Afterward 
  they 
  termed 
  

   them 
  Goyoguins, 
  sometimes 
  omitting 
  the 
  first 
  letter. 
  The 
  

   Moravians 
  called 
  them 
  Gajukas, 
  equivalent 
  to 
  our 
  Cayugas. 
  

   Though 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  Cayuga 
  lake 
  belonged 
  to 
  them, 
  they 
  lived 
  

   mostly 
  at 
  the 
  lower 
  end 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  river 
  below. 
  In 
  early 
  days 
  

   they 
  were 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  lake, 
  but 
  afterward 
  had 
  several 
  villages 
  on 
  

   the 
  western 
  shore, 
  and 
  others 
  later 
  on 
  the 
  Susquehanna 
  and 
  its 
  

   branches. 
  

  

  David 
  Cusick's 
  name 
  is 
  much 
  like 
  the 
  later 
  French 
  form, 
  and 
  

   he 
  defines 
  Go-yo-goh 
  as 
  Mountain 
  rising 
  from 
  the 
  Water. 
  L. 
  H. 
  

   Morgan 
  gave 
  it 
  as 
  Gwe-u-gweh, 
  At 
  the 
  Mucky 
  Land; 
  and 
  

   Albert 
  Cusick, 
  in 
  accord 
  with 
  interpretations 
  elsewhere, 
  as 
  

   Kwe-u-kwe, 
  Where 
  they 
  drew 
  their 
  Boats 
  ashore. 
  In 
  every 
  

   case 
  there 
  may 
  be 
  a 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  high 
  and 
  firm 
  land 
  above 
  

   the 
  marshes. 
  Their 
  council 
  name 
  is 
  Soh-ne-na-we-too-na, 
  Great 
  

   Pipe, 
  and 
  this 
  is 
  their 
  symbol. 
  The 
  Delawares 
  called 
  them 
  after 
  

   the 
  lake. 
  

  

  That 
  Champlain, 
  when 
  he 
  came 
  from 
  the 
  Huron 
  country 
  in 
  

   1615, 
  meant 
  the 
  lake 
  of 
  the 
  Senecas 
  by 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Entouhonorons, 
  

   or 
  Lake 
  Ontario, 
  seems 
  very 
  plain. 
  Between 
  Entouhonorons 
  

   and 
  Sonnontouehronons 
  there 
  is 
  less 
  difference 
  than 
  often 
  occurs 
  

   in 
  early 
  writers. 
  Champlain 
  had' 
  noted 
  that 
  this 
  people 
  had 
  

   drawn 
  in 
  their 
  frontier 
  towns, 
  something 
  needful 
  to 
  the 
  Senecas 
  

   alone. 
  The 
  question 
  is 
  rather 
  whether 
  he 
  included 
  some 
  other 
  

   Iroquois 
  nations 
  with 
  them, 
  as 
  the 
  Dutch 
  did. 
  This 
  seems 
  the 
  

   case, 
  and 
  his 
  words 
  imply 
  a 
  loose 
  confederation, 
  such 
  as 
  might 
  

   be 
  expected 
  at 
  first. 
  In 
  describing 
  his 
  map 
  he 
  tells 
  of 
  the 
  fort 
  

   of 
  1615, 
  where 
  he 
  "went 
  to 
  war 
  against 
  the 
  Antouhonorons," 
  

   elsewhere 
  mentioned 
  as 
  an 
  Iroquois 
  fort. 
  In 
  another 
  place 
  he 
  

   said 
  this: 
  

  

  