﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
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  was 
  abandoned, 
  and 
  a 
  new 
  village 
  grew 
  up, 
  ever 
  since 
  called 
  

   Caughnawaga 
  by 
  the 
  Indians 
  and 
  English. 
  The 
  French 
  knew 
  

   it 
  as 
  St 
  Francois 
  Xavier 
  du 
  Sault. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  converts 
  at 
  La 
  

   Prairie 
  was 
  an 
  Oneida 
  chief, 
  called 
  Ogeratarihen 
  or 
  Garon- 
  

   hiague', 
  who 
  had 
  witnessed 
  Brebeuf's 
  death. 
  There 
  were 
  many 
  

   Oneidas 
  in 
  the 
  newer 
  mission, 
  which 
  had 
  several 
  chiefs, 
  dividing 
  

   the 
  civil 
  and 
  religious 
  affairs. 
  

  

  In 
  1677 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  80 
  Mohawks 
  robbed 
  some 
  Mahicans 
  in 
  New 
  

   England, 
  and 
  others 
  routed 
  some 
  of 
  Uncas's 
  men. 
  They 
  were 
  

   ordered 
  not 
  to 
  send 
  parties 
  against 
  eastern 
  Indians, 
  but 
  did 
  

   not 
  comply. 
  

  

  Dekanissora, 
  the 
  great 
  Onondaga 
  orator, 
  began 
  to 
  be 
  promi- 
  

   nent 
  in 
  1678, 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  taking 
  his 
  grandfather's 
  name 
  of 
  

   Niregouentaron, 
  though 
  hardly 
  known 
  by 
  this. 
  He 
  was 
  speaker 
  

   at 
  Montreal 
  in 
  1682 
  and 
  spoke 
  last 
  at 
  Albany 
  in 
  1724. 
  His 
  

   appearance 
  and 
  abilities 
  have 
  been 
  often 
  eulogized. 
  Colden 
  

   said 
  of 
  him 
  : 
  

  

  He 
  was 
  grown 
  old 
  when 
  I 
  saw 
  him, 
  and 
  heard 
  him 
  speak; 
  he 
  

   had 
  a 
  great 
  Fluency 
  in 
  speaking, 
  and 
  a 
  graceful 
  Elocution, 
  that 
  

   would 
  have 
  pleased 
  in 
  any 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  World. 
  His 
  Person 
  was 
  

   tall 
  and 
  well 
  made, 
  and 
  his 
  Features, 
  to 
  my 
  thinking, 
  resembled 
  

   much 
  the 
  Busts 
  of 
  Cicero. 
  

  

  Though 
  long 
  faithful 
  to 
  the 
  English, 
  for 
  some 
  reason 
  Governor 
  

   Burnet 
  thought 
  him 
  in 
  the 
  French 
  interest 
  later 
  in 
  life. 
  He 
  

   ceased 
  to 
  be 
  speaker 
  and 
  died 
  in 
  Canada. 
  

  

  In 
  1678 
  the 
  adventurous 
  La 
  Salle 
  occupied 
  Niagara, 
  and 
  

   launched 
  the 
  Griffon 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1679 
  f° 
  r 
  the 
  navigation 
  of 
  

   Lake 
  Erie. 
  It 
  was 
  soon 
  wrecked. 
  

  

  Beside 
  complaints 
  about 
  the 
  Senecas 
  in 
  Maryland, 
  the 
  New 
  

   Englanders 
  complained 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  in 
  1678, 
  and 
  hoped 
  

   Andros 
  might 
  persuade 
  them 
  to 
  send 
  back 
  their 
  Indian 
  captives. 
  

   About 
  the 
  southern 
  troubles, 
  " 
  ye 
  oneides 
  deemed 
  ye 
  first 
  nation 
  

   of 
  sineques," 
  were 
  at 
  first 
  insolent, 
  but 
  at 
  last 
  they 
  and 
  the 
  Onon- 
  

   dagas 
  promised 
  to 
  send 
  no 
  more 
  parties. 
  

  

  The 
  Mohawks 
  were 
  quiet 
  in 
  1680, 
  but 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  and 
  

   Senecas 
  continued 
  to 
  send 
  bands 
  against 
  the 
  Illinois 
  in 
  spite 
  

   of 
  French 
  remonstrances. 
  They 
  had 
  burned 
  one 
  of 
  their 
  towns 
  

  

  