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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Sagard, 
  who 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  Huron 
  country 
  as 
  a 
  missionary 
  in 
  1623, 
  

   in 
  his 
  interesting 
  Histoire 
  du 
  Canada, 
  1636, 
  has 
  also 
  some 
  notes 
  

   bearing 
  on 
  the 
  Eries. 
  

  

  Relation 
  of 
  the 
  Eries 
  to 
  other 
  Iroquoian 
  tribes. 
  The 
  Eries 
  be- 
  

   longed 
  to 
  the 
  Huron-Iroquois 
  linguistic 
  stock 
  as 
  is 
  patent 
  from 
  a 
  

   review 
  of 
  the 
  records. 
  William 
  M. 
  Beauchamp, 
  the 
  distinguished 
  

   authority 
  on 
  New 
  York 
  archeology, 
  suggests 
  that 
  the 
  Eries 
  were 
  

   the 
  parent 
  stock 
  of 
  the 
  Huron-Iroquois 
  family 
  and 
  further 
  suggests 
  

   that 
  the 
  Senecas 
  were 
  derived 
  from 
  them, 
  possibly 
  within 
  historic 
  

   times. 
  There 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  some 
  good 
  base 
  in 
  history 
  for 
  this 
  opinion 
  

   and 
  the 
  argument 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  better 
  stated 
  than 
  in 
  Dr 
  Beauchamp's 
  

   own 
  words, 
  quoted 
  from 
  his 
  address 
  on 
  The 
  Origin 
  and 
  Early 
  Life 
  

   of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Iroquois, 
  delivered 
  before 
  the 
  Oneida 
  Historical 
  

   "Society 
  in 
  1886. 
  

  

  The 
  Senecas 
  had 
  a 
  conspicuous 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  league, 
  

   though 
  the 
  last 
  to 
  enter 
  it, 
  forming 
  the 
  west 
  door, 
  as 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  

   were 
  the 
  east. 
  On 
  the 
  Dutch 
  maps 
  of 
  1614 
  and 
  1616, 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  

   and 
  the 
  Senecas 
  are 
  alone 
  designated, 
  and 
  for 
  50 
  years 
  more 
  the 
  

   Dutch 
  hardly 
  mentioned 
  any 
  but 
  these. 
  That 
  they 
  were 
  kindred 
  to 
  

   the 
  Eries 
  is 
  conceded. 
  In 
  161 
  5 
  Champlain 
  spoke 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  

   and 
  the 
  Entouhonoronons, 
  whom 
  some 
  have 
  thought 
  the 
  Senecas. 
  

   In 
  the 
  explanation 
  of 
  his 
  map 
  it 
  is 
  said 
  that 
  " 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  the 
  

   Antouhonorons 
  make 
  war 
  together 
  against 
  other 
  nations 
  except 
  

   the 
  Neutral 
  nation." 
  They 
  had 
  15 
  strong 
  villages, 
  too 
  many 
  for 
  

   the 
  Senecas, 
  unless 
  the 
  Eries 
  were 
  included. 
  That 
  the 
  Senecas 
  

   differed 
  from 
  the 
  other 
  Iroquois 
  in 
  religious 
  observances, 
  totems 
  and 
  

   clans, 
  habits 
  of 
  life 
  and 
  other 
  things 
  is 
  very 
  clear. 
  A 
  marked 
  dis- 
  

   tinction 
  appears 
  in 
  their 
  language 
  and 
  they 
  were 
  not 
  very 
  brotherly 
  

   to 
  the 
  rest. 
  Long 
  after 
  the 
  League 
  was 
  formed 
  they 
  were 
  some- 
  

   times 
  at 
  swords 
  points 
  with 
  the 
  Mohawks, 
  and 
  the 
  French 
  Mohawks 
  

   did 
  not 
  hesitate 
  to 
  go 
  against 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  when 
  they 
  refused 
  to 
  

   fight 
  against 
  the 
  other 
  nations. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  good 
  reason 
  for 
  thinking 
  them 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Massawo- 
  

   mekes 
  of 
  Captain 
  John 
  Smith's 
  narrative. 
  Early 
  writers 
  made 
  these 
  

   any 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations, 
  but 
  later 
  students, 
  to 
  identify 
  them, 
  

   as 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  the 
  Entouhonorons, 
  with 
  both 
  Eries 
  and 
  Senecas, 
  

   these 
  being 
  firm 
  friends 
  until 
  1653. 
  Captain 
  John 
  Smith 
  met 
  these 
  

   fierce 
  enemies 
  of 
  Powhatan 
  in 
  their 
  bark 
  canoes 
  on 
  Chesapeake 
  Bay 
  

   in 
  1608. 
  The 
  general 
  description 
  is 
  that 
  of 
  an 
  Iroquois 
  war 
  party, 
  

   though 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  course 
  is 
  Algonquin. 
  That 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  under- 
  

   stand 
  their 
  language 
  makes 
  this 
  almost 
  certain. 
  He 
  bought 
  some 
  

   of 
  their 
  weaoons 
  and 
  increased 
  his 
  reputation 
  by 
  showing 
  these, 
  the 
  

   Virginia 
  tribes 
  supposing 
  he 
  had 
  taken 
  them 
  by 
  force. 
  But 
  a 
  Mary- 
  

   land 
  trader 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  Massawomekes 
  in 
  1632, 
  and 
  there 
  remains 
  

   no 
  doubt 
  that 
  this 
  name 
  included 
  the 
  Eries 
  and 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  then 
  

   or 
  previously 
  allied. 
  They 
  had 
  palisades 
  of 
  great 
  trees 
  about 
  their 
  

   villages 
  with 
  galleries 
  at 
  the 
  top. 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  