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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ONONDAGA , a tribe of See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Iroquoian stock, forming one of the Six Nations. The tribal headquarters was about the See also:

lake and See also:

creek of the same name in New See also:

York See also:

state. Their territory extended northward to Lake See also:

Ontario and southward to the Susquehanna See also:

RIVER

river. They were the See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official guardians of the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council-See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire of the See also:

IROQUOIS

Iroquois. Their See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

TOWN

town, near the site of the See also:

PRESENT

present Onondaga, consisted of some 140 houses in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, when the tribe was estimated as numbering between 1500 and 1700. During the 18th century the tribe divided, See also:

PART

part loyally supporting the Iroquois See also:

LEAGUE

league, while part, having come under the See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

French missionaries, migrated to the See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic Iroquois settlements in See also:

CANADA

Canada. Of those who supported the league, the See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority, after the See also:

War of See also:

Independence, settled on a See also:

RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

reservation on See also:

GRAND

Grand river, Ontario, where their descendants still are. About 500 are upon the Onondaga reservation in New York state. For Onondaga cosmology see 21st See also:

ANN

Ann. See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

Report See also:

BUREAU (a Fr. word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)

Bureau Amer. Ethnol. (1899-1900).

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