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ONONDAGA , a tribe of See also: North See also:American See also:Indians of Iroquoian stock, forming one of the Six Nations. The tribal headquarters was about the See also:lake and See also:creek of the same name in New See also:York See also:state. Their territory extended northward to Lake See also:Ontario and southward to the Susquehanna See also:river. They were the See also:official guardians of the See also:council-See also:fire of the See also:Iroquois. Their See also:chief See also:town, near the site of the See also:present Onondaga, consisted of some 140 houses in the See also:middle of the 17th See also:century, when the tribe
was estimated as numbering between 1500 and 1700. During the 18th century the tribe divided, See also:part loyally supporting the Iroquois See also:league, while part, having come under the See also:influence of See also:French missionaries, migrated to the See also:Catholic Iroquois settlements in See also:Canada. Of those who supported the league, the See also:majority, after the See also:War of See also:Independence, settled on a See also:reservation on See also:Grand river, Ontario, where their descendants still are. About 500 are upon the Onondaga reservation in New York state.
For Onondaga cosmology see 21st See also:Ann. See also:Report See also:Bureau Amer.
Ethnol. (1899-1900).
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