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Onondaga   /ˌɑnəndˈɔgə/   Listen
Onondaga

noun
1.
A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the Saint Lawrence River.
2.
The Iroquoian language spoken by the Onondaga.





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"Onondaga" Quotes from Famous Books



... ambition was to be a journalist, and, after a year of seafaring life, he found his niche in the office of a small weekly newspaper, the Lynx, published at Onondaga ...
— Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life • Orison Swett Marden
... Tarenyawagon, and Hiawatha. Mr. Schoolcraft gives an account of him in his Algic Researches, Vol. I. p. 134; and in his History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Part III. p. 314, may be found the Iroquois form of the tradition, derived from the verbal narrations of an Onondaga chief. ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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


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