Six Nations tribe

Usage examples of onondaga.

With his aid the league was formed, and the solemn agreement, never broken, was made at the Onondaga Lake.

The chests of the Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca head chiefs were also bared to the glow.

The chiefs presently came forth from the Council House or, as it was more generally called, the Long House, and, despite the greatness of Thayendanegea, those of the Onondaga tribe, in virtue of their ancient and undisputed place as the political leaders and high priests of the Six Nations, led the way.

They were men of stature and fine countenance, proud of the titular primacy that belonged to them because it was the Onondaga, Hiawatha, who had formed the great confederacy more than four hundred years before our day, or just about the time Columbus was landing on the shores of the New World.

The role he was about to assume belonged to Atotarho, the Onondaga, but the old Onondaga assigned it for the occasion to Thayendanegea, and there was no objection.

Old Skanawati, the Onondaga, old Atotarho, Onondaga, too, Satekariwate, the Mohawk, Kanokarih, the Seneca, and others, head chiefs though they were of the three senior tribes, did not hesitate to eat as the rich Romans of the Empire ate, swallowing immense quantities of all kinds of meat, and drinking a sort of cider that the women made.

The Onondaga runners were still carrying the wampum belts of purple shells, sign of war, to distant villages of the tribes, and parties of warriors were still coming in.

That night an Onondaga runner arrived from one of the farthest villages of the Mohawks, far east toward Albany.

He was about to cry out, but the Onondaga turned and struck him such a violent blow with the butt of a pistol, snatched from under his deerskin tunic, that he fell senseless.

Say, Sol, how wuz it that you talked Onondaga when you played the part uv that Onondaga runner.

It was an Onondaga who fell this time, and he lay with his head on the window sill until another Indian pulled him inside.

Such at least was the opinion of Lamberville, Jesuit missionary at Onondaga, the Iroquois capital.

The site of Onondaga, like that of all the Iroquois towns, was changed from time to time, as the soil of the neighborhood became impoverished, and the supply of wood exhausted.

He was a famous Onondaga orator named Otreonati, and called also Big Mouth, whether by reason of the dimensions of that feature or the greatness of the wisdom that issued from it.

While these things were passing at Onondaga, La Barre had finished his preparations, and was now in full campaign.