368 • INDIAN NAMES OF LOCALITIES 



Seneca village and is probably the one referred to. Another 

 "oblique ford" was on South Park Avenue where it crossed 

 Cazenovia Creek. 



De-yoli-ho-gah, "forks of the river", the old junction of Buffalo 

 and Cazenovia Creeks, at the bridge, on South Park Avenue, 

 near Seneca Street. This has been changed by the digging 

 of an artificial channel. 



De-o-steh-ga-a, "rocky shore", Morgan's name for Black Rock, 

 a part of Buffalo. Marshall's name is 



Dyos-daah-ga-eh, "rocky bank". 



Dyu-ne-ga-nooh, "cold water". Cold Spring, a part of Buffalo. 

 This may have been the name for the spring which gave this 

 one-time suburb its name. 



Dyos-da-o-doh, "rocky island" . Bird Island. 



Go-nah-gwaht-geh, Indian name for a grass. 



Jo-nya-dih, "the other side of the flats", Tifft farm on the lake 

 shore, foot of Tifft Street. 



Scajaquada (Creek) — A form of the Seneca personal name, 

 "Sga-dynh-gua-dih" (Marshall) or "Sken-dyongh-gwat-ti" 

 (Wright). This was the name of a Neuter (?) captive who 

 lived on this creek. Anglicized, his name became John 

 Kenjockety. His Seneca name meant "beyond the multi- 

 tude' ' . 



Ni-dyio-nyah-a-ah, "narrow point" was a Seneca name for the 

 parcel of land in a loop of Buffalo River, west of the 

 L,ake Shore Railway. I,ocally it was known as "Farmer's 

 Brother's Point", from the chief of that name. (Marshall). 



O-gah-gwaah-geh, "residence of the sun-fish". At the mouth 

 of Cornelius Creek lived a negro, known to the Indians as 

 O-gah-gwaah, "the sun-fish". 



Tga-non-da-ga-yoo-hah, "old village". This was the name given 

 to a Seneca village of 1780, on the land owned by Henry 

 Twichell, between Abbott Road and Cazenovia Creek, and 

 west of Cazenovia Street. 



Tga-is-da-no-yont, "place of the suspended bell" (Marshall) was 

 the Seneca name for their mission house. This house was 



