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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Huron 
  tongue. 
  This 
  fact 
  invalidates 
  Mr 
  Hale's 
  idea 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  

   of 
  Huron 
  origin, 
  deriving 
  it 
  primarily 
  from 
  garokwa, 
  a 
  pipe, 
  and 
  

   thence 
  from 
  the 
  indeterminate 
  verb 
  ierokwa, 
  they 
  who 
  smoke. 
  

   As 
  all 
  Indians 
  smoked, 
  this 
  has 
  no 
  force. 
  He 
  hazarded 
  another 
  

   supposition, 
  that, 
  as 
  Maquas 
  were 
  sometimes 
  termed 
  Bears, 
  for 
  

   which 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  name 
  was 
  Ohkwari, 
  and 
  the 
  Cayuga 
  Iakwai 
  

   (Yekwai 
  in 
  Schoolcraft), 
  the 
  term 
  Iroquois 
  might 
  have 
  come 
  from 
  

   this. 
  Mr 
  Brant-sero 
  would 
  derive 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  I-ih 
  rongwe, 
  

   I 
  am 
  the 
  Real 
  Man; 
  Mr 
  David 
  Boyle 
  from 
  karakwa, 
  the 
  sun. 
  

   All 
  these 
  conjectures 
  are 
  plausible, 
  but 
  we 
  must 
  remember 
  that 
  

   the 
  name 
  was 
  Algonquin, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  termination 
  was 
  in 
  com- 
  

   mon 
  use 
  by 
  that 
  family 
  at 
  that 
  time, 
  as 
  applied 
  to 
  nations 
  and 
  

   tribes, 
  having 
  the 
  force 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  ronon 
  or 
  people. 
  One 
  has 
  

   but 
  to 
  remember 
  the 
  Abenaquois, 
  Soriquois, 
  Almouchiquois, 
  

   Charioquois 
  or 
  Hurons, 
  and 
  many 
  others, 
  to 
  see 
  what 
  the 
  ter- 
  

   minal 
  means. 
  

  

  Recognizing 
  its 
  Algonquin 
  origin, 
  Mr 
  J. 
  N. 
  B. 
  Hewitt 
  says 
  it 
  

   " 
  suggests 
  the 
  Algonquin 
  words 
  irin, 
  true 
  or 
  real 
  ; 
  ako, 
  snake 
  ; 
  

   with 
  the 
  French 
  termination 
  ois, 
  the 
  word 
  becomes 
  Irinakois." 
  

   This 
  is 
  much 
  better, 
  if 
  not 
  quite 
  satisfactory, 
  but 
  qtiois 
  is 
  still 
  

   the 
  terminal 
  of 
  many 
  tribal 
  names. 
  It 
  may 
  have 
  come 
  from 
  ahki, 
  

   a 
  place. 
  Iroquet, 
  a 
  chief 
  whose 
  people 
  were 
  called 
  after 
  him, 
  

   was 
  also 
  an 
  Algonquin. 
  The 
  latest 
  Algonquin 
  dictionaries 
  of 
  

   the 
  eastern 
  nations 
  do 
  not 
  contain 
  Mr 
  Hewitt's 
  words. 
  The 
  

   nearest 
  approach 
  to 
  ako 
  is 
  achgook. 
  

  

  Generally 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  the 
  formative 
  council 
  has 
  been 
  placed 
  on 
  

   the 
  northeastern 
  shore 
  of 
  Onondaga 
  lake, 
  a 
  very 
  suitable 
  spot, 
  

   but 
  some 
  later 
  Onondagas 
  have 
  assigned 
  it 
  to 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  Syra- 
  

   cuse, 
  equally 
  unsuitable 
  in 
  early 
  days. 
  Some 
  wampum 
  belts 
  

   have 
  been 
  made 
  coeval 
  with 
  the 
  league, 
  a 
  date 
  much 
  too 
  early. 
  

   Hiawatha's 
  white 
  canoe 
  is 
  prominent 
  in 
  the 
  story, 
  bringing 
  him 
  

   to 
  his 
  first 
  labors 
  and 
  bearing 
  him 
  aloft 
  when 
  all 
  was 
  done. 
  The 
  

   latter 
  suggests 
  Christian 
  teaching 
  but 
  was 
  not 
  foreign 
  to 
  abo- 
  

   riginal 
  thought. 
  Historically, 
  as 
  he 
  left 
  the 
  lake 
  for 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  

   country, 
  his 
  white 
  birch 
  canoe 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  a 
  strong 
  contrast 
  

   to 
  the 
  dark 
  elm 
  bark 
  canoes 
  of 
  the 
  rest. 
  

  

  