ONONDAGA MEANS ON THE TOP OF A MOUNTAIN. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT TRIBE OF THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERATION FORMERLY LIVING ON THE MOUNTAIN, LAKE, AND CREEK BEARING THEIR NAME. IN PRESENT ONONDAGA COUNTY AND TO LAKE ONTARIO THEY LIVE. THEIR MAIN VILLAGE WAS CALLED ONONDAGA CASTLE AND WAS ON INDIAN HILL BEFORE 1654 IN THE PRESENT TOWN OF POMPEY. THEY HAD 140 CABINS. THEY MOVED TO ONONDAGA CREEK IN 1720 JUST SOUTH OF THE LAKE.
THIS ONONDAGA RESERVATION HAS 9 CLANS. EACH CLAN HAS A CHIEFTAINSHIP. FIVE CLANS HAVE A FEDERAL CHIEFTAINSHIP WHILE OTHERS HAVE THREE AND TWO. IN THEIR CEREMONIAL AND SOCIAL ASSEMBLIES THE ONONDAGA HAVE "THREE BROTHERS", THE MOHAWK AND SENECA ARE THEIR TWO OTHER BROTHERS. EACH CHIEF DISCUSSES OR ARGUES THE ISSUE WITH THE COUNCIL. CHAMPLAIN RELATED THAT IN 1622 THE "HURONS HAD SOUGHT PEACE WITH THE IROQUOIS, BUT THEY ALSO HAD A DISTRUST BETWEEN THEM. THEY ASKED CHAMPLAIN TO HELP THEM MAKE PEACE WITH THE IROQUOIS. THEY WERE EXHAUSTED FROM THE WARS THEY HAD FOR 50 YEARS. BY 1605 THE ONONDAGA SENT DELEGATION WHO WENT TO QUEBEC TO CONFER WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ALGONQUIN AND HURONS. THE ONONDAGA PRESENTED24 WAMPUM BELTS TO THOSE OTHER CHIEFS. THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT PEACE CONFERENCE. THEY ASKED FOR PRIESTS TO DWELL AMONG THEM FOR FRENCH SOLDIERS TO AID THEM IN WAR AGAINST THE ERIE.
IN 1657 THE ONONDAGO ASKED THE HURONS TO FORM A SINGLE PEOPLE. FINALLY THE HURONS SUBMITTED TO THE DEMANDS OF THE IROQUOIS. IN 1682 THE ALBANY AND ONONDAGA, MOHAWK, ONEIDA, AND CAYUGA AND SENECA ENTERED A PEACE TREATY FROM THE COLONY OF MARYLAND, NOT ONLY FOR WHITE SETTLERS BUT FOR PISCATAWAY INDIANS.
THESE FOLKS WERE EXPERT CANOE MAKERS AND USED THEM TO CROSS LAKE ONTARIO. THEY WERE 1 OF 5 NATIONS OF THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY. THEY WERE KNOWN AS "KEEPERS OF THE FIRE." ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE CARBON DATED SOME OF THEIR SITE TO 1200 A.D. THEY ORIGINATED IN NEW YORK, FLED TO ONTARIO IN THE 1700'S. THIS NATION HAD A TRIBAL COUNCIL CHOSEN BY THE CLAN MOTHERS. THEY WERE SUBJECT TO THE IROQUOIS COUNCIL. 14 ONONDAGA, CHIEFS, REPRESENTED TRIBES, INTERESTS IN THE COUNCIL. TODAY SOME LIVE ON A RESERVATION IN NEW YOPRK, AND OTHERS LIVE IN ONTARIO. ON THE SIX NATIONS RESERVE, WHICH THEY SHARE WITH IROQUOIS.
TODAY MOST OF SPEAK ENGLISH. THEIR ORIGINAL LANGUAGE IS COMPLEX. WHEN PEOPLE START TO HAVE INTEREST IN MARRIAGE, THEY LOOK TO PEOPLE OF OTHER CLANS. OTHER CLANS ARE THEIR TO ARE THERE TO HELP YOU IN SICKNESS AND IN TOUGH TIMES.
THE ELDERS REMIND US THE CREATOR GAVE US ALL A GIFT- TO BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY. USING THAT GIFT MAKES THE CREATOR HAPPY. GIFT MAKES THE CREATOR HAPPY. GIFTS ARE IN FORMS OF LEADERS SPEAKERS, HUNTERS, SINGERS, DANCERS, FARMERS, FISHERMEN, HEALERS, COOKS, TEACHERS, ETC. THEY ARE THEY ARE THANKFUL FOR THOSE GIFTS.
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