Onondagas


A tribe of the Iroquois confederacy. Their country lay west

of that of the Oneidas. They took the British side in the Revolutionary

War; and on its conclusion many of them settled on Canadian

reservations. Some are now on reservations in New York. =Index=: (Count Frontenac era)

Iroquois tribe, demand a French colony, 40; escape of, 41; a number

treacherously captured for king's galleys, 215; their orator,

Teganissorens, 338; campaign against, 250-253. (Samuel de Champlain era) Indian tribe, 50.

(Bishop Laval era) Frontenac marches against, 233. See also Iroquois. =Bib.=: See

Iroquois.



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