﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
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  one 
  at 
  each 
  end; 
  Te-yo-we-yen-don, 
  drooping 
  wings, 
  and 
  Ogh-re- 
  

   kyon-ny. 
  

  

  The 
  Dear 
  clan 
  have 
  De-ya-o-kenh, 
  forks, 
  usually 
  of 
  a 
  river 
  ; 
  Jo- 
  

   non-de-seh, 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  high 
  hill; 
  Ots-kwi-ra-ke-ron, 
  dry 
  branches 
  fallen 
  

   to 
  the 
  ground; 
  and 
  Ogh-na-we-ron, 
  the 
  springs. 
  Later 
  villages 
  are 
  

   mentioned 
  as 
  belonging 
  to 
  this 
  clan. 
  These 
  are 
  Kar-ha-wen-ra- 
  

   dough, 
  taken 
  over 
  the 
  woods; 
  Ka-ra-ken, 
  white; 
  De-yoh-he-ro, 
  place 
  

   of 
  rushes 
  or 
  flags 
  ; 
  De-yo-swe-ken, 
  outlet 
  of 
  the 
  river; 
  and 
  Ox-den- 
  

   keh, 
  to 
  the 
  old 
  place. 
  Some 
  of 
  these 
  names 
  are 
  familiar 
  in 
  connec- 
  

   tion 
  with 
  recent 
  places. 
  

  

  The 
  Iroquois 
  country 
  was 
  Akanishionegy, 
  land 
  of 
  the 
  Konosioni, 
  

   as 
  mentioned 
  by 
  the 
  Seneca 
  chief 
  Canassatego, 
  not 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  

   of 
  that 
  name. 
  

  

  Ha-who-na-o 
  is 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  name 
  for 
  North 
  America, 
  which 
  

   they 
  thought 
  a 
  great 
  island. 
  Schoolcraft 
  called 
  it 
  A-o-na-o. 
  

  

  Ka-noo'-no 
  is 
  fresh-water 
  basin, 
  according 
  to 
  Brant-Sero, 
  who 
  

   called 
  it 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  harbor 
  in 
  Mohawk, 
  thence 
  applied 
  

   to 
  the 
  city 
  and 
  State. 
  Morgan 
  gave 
  Ga-no'-no 
  as 
  the 
  Seneca 
  form, 
  

   but 
  said 
  the 
  meaning 
  was 
  lost. 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  recognized 
  a 
  reference 
  

   to 
  water, 
  but 
  gave 
  no 
  exact 
  definition. 
  Bruyas 
  gave 
  but 
  two 
  Mo- 
  

   hawk 
  words 
  approaching 
  this, 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  gannonna, 
  to 
  guard, 
  

   which 
  might 
  refer 
  to 
  soldiers 
  on 
  duty 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Hudson. 
  

   The 
  other 
  is 
  gannona, 
  bottom 
  of 
  the 
  water, 
  like 
  the 
  Canadian 
  defi- 
  

   nition. 
  It 
  might 
  also 
  be 
  corrupted 
  from 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  gannhoha 
  or 
  

   kanhoha, 
  a 
  door. 
  This 
  also 
  would 
  be 
  appropriate 
  to 
  the 
  port 
  of 
  

   New 
  York, 
  and 
  resembles 
  the 
  name 
  now 
  used. 
  

  

  Before 
  the 
  Revolution 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  called 
  the 
  American 
  party 
  

   was'-to-heh'-no, 
  people 
  of 
  Boston 
  or 
  Bostonians, 
  and 
  this 
  is 
  their 
  

   general 
  name 
  for 
  our 
  people 
  still. 
  The 
  latter 
  term 
  was 
  much 
  used 
  

   by 
  the 
  loyalists 
  and 
  the 
  Indians 
  adopted 
  it. 
  ,As 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  had 
  no 
  

   labials 
  Wasto 
  was 
  their 
  nearest 
  approach 
  to 
  the 
  sound 
  of 
  Boston. 
  

  

  After 
  Sullivan's 
  campaign 
  the 
  Senecas 
  called 
  George 
  Washing- 
  

   ton 
  Honandaganirs, 
  destroyer 
  of 
  towns, 
  and 
  this 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  name 
  for 
  all 
  the 
  presidents 
  since. 
  The 
  Oneida 
  form 
  is 
  An-na- 
  

   ta-kau'-yes. 
  Some 
  French 
  governors 
  had 
  the 
  same 
  name, 
  and 
  some 
  

   Seneca 
  chiefs 
  were 
  also 
  thus 
  called. 
  

  

  Zeisberger 
  gave 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Dutch 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  

   as 
  Sgach-nech-ta-tich-roh-ne, 
  a 
  people 
  who 
  came 
  from 
  across 
  the 
  

  

  