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AMIHOUIS is probably meant for Amikoues, the Beaver Indians; but it is an error to make the French call the Tionontates by the name. They called them at firft Petun or Tobacco Indians, and after their great defeat and flight Hurons. They now go by the name of Wyandots, although they are a diftinct tribe from them.—(See Hiftorical Magazine, vol. v. p. 262.)

ANIEZ Colden here makes a kind of bull. The word Aniez, though given as the name which the Five Nations did not give the Mohawks, is really the name they did give-Gagnieguebaga or Gagniegueronon, the termination meaning people. Mohawk is from Maqua, the Mohegan name for bear, the name of the tribe as a body.

HURONS. The name Quatoghie occurs very rarely except in Colden. In the whole courfe of the Colonial Documents Dr. O'Callaghan gives but two references to this name in his index. The tribe called themselves Wendat (Relation de la Nouv. France, 1639, p. 50; 1640, p. 35), whence the more common English name Wyandot was formed. Huron was

merely a French nickname.

LOUPS is a French tranflation of the Algic word

Maikan or Mohegan, a wolf. The Mo

hawks called them, and ftill call the Stockbridge Indians, Agotfagenens.

MASCOUTENS, Odiftagheks. The Hurons called them Affiftague or Fire Indians.

ONNONTIO, YONNONDIO, means Great Mountain, and is fimply an Indian translation of the name of Montmagny (Mons

Magnus),

Magnus), the fecond Governor of
Canada, retained as a title, just as Arendt
Van Curler's name, reduced to Corlar,
was used by the Iroquois to mean the
Governor of the Dutch or English at
New York.

OUTAGAMI is the proper name of the Foxes, whom
Colden makes to be the Quakfies of the

Iroquois; the Scunkfiks being appa-
rently the Sacs.

OTTAWAS. The French give Ontwagannha and
Twakanna as the Iroquois name of
this tribe.

TATERAS, TODERIKS, are the Catawbas. TONGORIAS appears on one of De Lifle's maps as the name of a tribe on the Tennessee; I find no other French allufion to the name. The Toteros, who have given the name of Totteroy to Great Sandy Creek, may be the fame. (N. Y. Col. Doc. 111, 194, n.) Colden's Englifh feems to make them the Erié, e of the Hurons, the Eriégue, Erique of the Iroquois.

(9) This statement, fupported by later authorities, is omitted in the English edition. (See Morgan's League of the Iroquois, p. 96.)

(10) The whole queftion of the families or tribes is difcuffed in Morgan's League of the Iroquois (Rochester, 1851, 8vo), chapter iv. The Mohawks and Oneidas had but these three tribes, as all writers, French and English, declare, but the other nations, according to Morgan, had generally eight.

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(11) The Sachems, fifty in all, were the heads of the families, and ufed the mark of the animal whose. name they bore in figning treaties. The rank was not hereditary from father to fon-indeed, a Sachem's fon could scarcely be a Sachem. A man could not marry in his own family, and the children belonged to the mother's, not to the father's, family. When a Sachem died, the family chofe as his fucceffor, or tacitly admitted, the fucceffion of a uterine brother, or a fifter's fon, or fome more diftant relative of the fame family, and confequently related only in the female line to the deceased. This explains how fome have afferted it to be hereditary, while others denied it. Colden, in fuppofing the rank merely a tribute to worth, was in error.

(12) The war chiefs had no rank but what prestige of their own courage and ability gave them.

(13) English and French alike failed in endeavoring to induce them to remove the place of the great council fire.

(14) The Tufcaroras having risen on the people of Carolina in 1710, were finally defeated and retreated north. Lawfon, killed in the war, had preferved in his Carolina a vocabulary of the tribe. They fettled in New York from 1712 to 1717.

(15) The opening fentence here giving the Iroquois for the name of the league is replaced in the London edition by another falfely charging the Dutch with having preserved nothing relating to the Indians. The name Rodinunchfionni is given as Hotinnonchiendi

Hotinnonchiendi in the Rel. de la N. F., 1654 (Queb. ed.), p. II, and there faid to mean a complete cabin. This is, doubtlefs, a Huron form. Bruyas, in his Racines Agnières, gives the name in Mohawk Hotinnonfionni, and it is apparently the third perfon plural of Gennonfonnisk, "I make a cabin," composed of ganonfa, cabin, and konnis, I make. The modern Mohawk form is Rotinonfionni. Morgan gives the Seneca name as Hodenofaunee, "the people of the long cabin," but this is apparently fomewhat free, the term "people" not being in the word. The form Aquanushioni is only a corruption, and the tranflation "cabin builders" error arifing from ignorance of the Indian

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thought.

(16) De la Potherie (i. p. 288) took this account, as he did much more of his book, from the manufcript Moeurs, Couftumes et Relligion des Sauvages of Nicholas Perrot, just published in Paris. (See p. 9 of Tailhan's edition.) Perrot is more explicit than his copiers, and more correct. "The country of the Irroquois was formerly Montreal and Three Rivers. They had as neighbors the Algonquins dwelling along the Ottawà, at Nipiffing, French River, and between it and Toronto." Cartier certainly found an Iroquois tribe at Montreal, or Hochelaga. (Hift. Mag. ix. 144; Faillon, Hiftoire de la Colonie Française i. p. 524.)

(17) The French fettled at Three Rivers within the remains of a palifaded (and therefore Huron or Iroquois) town, the charred ends still remaining in the ground, and the cleared fields of the occupants difcernible. (Rel. 1635, p. 15.)

(18) Perrot does not name Montreal.

(19) Lake Ontario. The French for a time called it Lake Frontenac. Ontara means lake, Ontario, beautiful lake. Cadarackui, the name here given by Colden to Lake Ontario, was applied by the French to a fort where Kingfton now is, and called alfo Fort Frontenac. Cataraqui is faid to mean potter's clay in water.

(20) Corlar's Lake was the old New York name for Lake Champlain, and came from Arendt Van Curler, a Dutch agent high in repute with the Mohawks, who was loft here, while on his way to Canada on the invitation of the French Governor. The Indians gave his name not only to this Lake but to all Governors at New York.

(21) Champlain's battle with the Mohawks on Lake Champlain was fought in the fummer of 1609. (See Champlain's account in N. Y. Documentary History, iii. 9.)

(22) Colden here omits all account of the war with the Hurons, a more powerful nation than the Adirondacks, and of the fame race as the Five Nations. They refided in Upper Canada, near Lake Huron. Joining the Adirondacks, or Algonquins, against the Iroquois, they induced Champlain, in 1615, to accompany them on an expedition into Western New York against a canton called Entwohonoron, perhaps the Wenro, on whom the Senecas afterwards turned.

(23) Simon Piefcaret was chief of the "Algon

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