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Onondaga

noun

A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the Saint Lawrence River.

The Iroquoian language spoken by the Onondaga.

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"Onondaga" Quotes from Famous Books

... known it; the traditionary history of the Romans of the West, of those six Indian Nations, bears the records of it, out of an older time than your ancestors settled in this land; the wise man of the Onondaga Nation has exercised it long before your country's legislators built upon that basis your independent home. And still it proved in itself alone no security to all those nations who have known it before you. ...

— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth

... Saybrook, Connecticut, where the Congregational Churches framed the Saybrook platform. His mother's people, the Pardees, came from Norfork, Connecticut. The Pardees were said to have been descendants of the French Huguenots. Ebenezer Pardee emigrated to Marcellus, now known as Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., New York. There he died in 1811, leaving his wife Ann Pardee, (known for many years as grandmother Pardee) a widow, with nine sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter, Sarah Pardee, was there married in 1813, to Phineas ...

— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler

... This story is ascribed to Abraham le Fort, an Onondaga chief, a graduate of Geneva College. The poem of Longfellow has given it general interest. Hiawatha is an example of the intellectual capacity of one of that race of whom it has been said "Take these Indians in their owne trimme and naturall ...

— Legends That Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... Dakotas, who have all taken the cross as their token. Marquette has passed down the river of the West to preach among the Illinois, and Jesuits have carried the Gospel to the warriors of the Long House in their wigwams at Onondaga." ...

— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle

Words linked to "Onondaga" : Hiawatha, Iroquoian language, Iroquois, Iroquoian