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Oneida Indians,
The second of the five nations that composed the original Iroquois Confederacy (q. v.). Their domain extended from a point east of Utica to Deep Spring, near Manlius, south of Syracuse, in Onondaga county, N. Y. Divided into three clans—the Wolf, Bear, and Turtle—their tribal totem was a stone in a forked stick, and their name meant tribe of the granite rock.
Tradition says that when the great confederacy was formed, Hiawatha said to them: You, Oneidas, a people who recline your bodies against the Everlasting Stone, that cannot be moved, shall be the second nation, because you give wise counsel.
Very soon after the settlement of Canada they became involved in wars with the French and their Huron and Montagnais allies.
In 1653 they joined their neighbors, the Onondagas, in a treaty of peace with the French, and received missionaries from the latter.
At that time they had been so reduced by war with southern tribes that they had only 150 warriors.
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