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Onondaga Indians,
The third nation of the Iroquois Confederacy; their name means men of the great mountain.
Tradition says that at the formation of the confederacy Hiawatha said to them: You, Onondagas, who have your habitation at the Great Mountain, and are overshadowed by its crags, shall be the third nation, because you are greatly gifted with speech, and are mighty in war.
Their seat of government, or castle, was in the hill country southward from Syracuse, where was the great councilfire of the confederacy, or meeting-place of their congress.
The Atatarho, or great sachem of the tribe, was chosen to be the first president of the confederacy.
They were divided into fourteen clans, with a sachem for each clan, and their domain extended from Deep Spring, near Manlius, Onondaga co., west to a line between Cross and Otter lakes.
This nation carried on war with the Indians in Canada, and also with the French, after their advent on the St. Lawrence;
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