﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  165 
  

  

  have 
  thought. 
  The 
  Algonquins 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey 
  and 
  Pennsyl- 
  

   vania 
  termed 
  the 
  Andastes, 
  or 
  Susquehannas, 
  Minquas. 
  These 
  

   were 
  both 
  the 
  kindred 
  and 
  enemies 
  of 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations 
  ; 
  and, 
  

   after 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  had 
  subjugated 
  them, 
  the 
  whole 
  family 
  was 
  

   termed 
  Mingo 
  in 
  Pennsylvania, 
  as 
  speaking 
  the 
  same 
  language. 
  

   Thus 
  Logan 
  the 
  Cayuga 
  is 
  often 
  called 
  a 
  Mingo. 
  There 
  were 
  

   other 
  foreign 
  names 
  of 
  less 
  note. 
  

  

  Their 
  own 
  name 
  came 
  from 
  comparing 
  their 
  league 
  to 
  one 
  of 
  

   their 
  long 
  houses, 
  having 
  a 
  door 
  at 
  each 
  end 
  and 
  separate 
  fires 
  

   for 
  each 
  family 
  through 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  house. 
  This 
  title 
  has 
  

   been 
  variously 
  spelled 
  and 
  translated. 
  The 
  Moravians 
  called 
  

   them 
  Aquanoschioni, 
  prefixing 
  a 
  syllable, 
  and 
  rendering 
  it 
  

   Covenant 
  or 
  United 
  People. 
  Hale 
  gave 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  name 
  as 
  

   Rotinonsionni, 
  They 
  of 
  the 
  Extended 
  House. 
  Morgan 
  gave 
  the 
  

   Seneca 
  as 
  Ho-de-no-sau-nee, 
  People 
  of 
  the 
  Long 
  House. 
  Bruyas 
  

   interpreted 
  Hotinnonsionni 
  as 
  Cabin 
  -makers. 
  The 
  Onondaga 
  

   name 
  is 
  Kan-no-se-o'-ne, 
  A 
  Long 
  House 
  made 
  of 
  Several 
  Houses 
  

   put 
  together. 
  David 
  Cusick 
  simply 
  made 
  the 
  name 
  Goo-nea- 
  

   seah-ne 
  mean 
  Long 
  House. 
  The 
  Rev. 
  Mr 
  Dellius, 
  in 
  1694, 
  

   thought 
  Honontonchionni 
  equivalent 
  to 
  " 
  Konossioni, 
  which 
  is 
  

   the 
  whole 
  howse, 
  or 
  all 
  the 
  Indians 
  together." 
  The 
  Relation 
  of 
  

   1654 
  said 
  that 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  call 
  themselves 
  " 
  Hotinnonchiendi, 
  

   that 
  is 
  to 
  say, 
  the 
  finished 
  cabin, 
  as 
  if 
  they 
  were 
  only 
  one 
  family." 
  

  

  Charlevoix's 
  fanciful 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  word, 
  Iro- 
  

   quois, 
  has 
  been 
  generally 
  accepted 
  till 
  quite 
  recently. 
  He 
  said, 
  

   ' 
  The 
  name 
  of 
  Iroquois 
  is 
  purely 
  French, 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  formed 
  

   from 
  the 
  term 
  hiro, 
  ' 
  I 
  have 
  spoken,' 
  a 
  word 
  by 
  which 
  these 
  

   Indians 
  close 
  all 
  their 
  speeches, 
  and 
  kone' 
  ', 
  which 
  when 
  long 
  

   drawn 
  out, 
  is 
  a 
  cry 
  of 
  sorrow, 
  and 
  when 
  briefly 
  uttered, 
  is 
  an 
  

   exclamation 
  of 
  joy." 
  

  

  The 
  truth 
  is 
  that 
  this 
  was 
  an 
  early 
  Algonquin 
  name 
  for 
  this 
  

   people, 
  which 
  Champlain 
  had 
  from 
  the 
  Indians 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  St 
  

   Lawrence 
  in 
  1603, 
  six 
  years 
  before 
  he 
  met 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  on 
  Lake 
  

   Champlain, 
  and 
  when 
  he 
  could 
  have 
  known 
  nothing 
  of 
  their 
  

   speech. 
  He 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  found 
  this 
  in 
  constant 
  use 
  east 
  of 
  

   that 
  place, 
  and 
  before 
  he 
  encountered 
  any 
  people 
  speaking 
  the 
  

  

  