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.