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NOTES ON THE IROQUOIS: OR, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATISTICS, ABORIGINAL HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES AND GENERAL ETHNOLOGY OF WESTERN NEW-YORK.
SENATE DOCUMENT, TWENTY-FOUR.
MEMORANDUM OF PAPERS.
APPENDIX.
STATE OF NEW-YORK. No. 24. IN SENATE, January 22 1846.
COMMUNICATION
REPORT
CENSUS OF THE IROQUOIS.
SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT. Of Henry R. Schoolcraft to the Secretary of State.
ANTIQUITIES—HISTORY—ETHNOLOGY.
I. HISTORICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL MINUTES. MADE ON TAKING THE CENSUS OF THE IROQUOIS OF NEW-YORK, IN CONFORMITY WITH AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE, IN 1845.
[a.] A Sketch of the Iroquois Groupe of Aboriginal Tribes.
[b.] Ethnological Suggestions.
[c.] Indian Cosmogony.
[d.] Gleams of their General Ancient History.
II. ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE IROQUOIS, AS A DISTINCT PEOPLE.
[a.] The Mohawks.
[b.] Origin and History of the Oneidas.
[c.] Onondagas.
[d.] Cayugas.
[e.] History and origin of the Senecas.
[f.] Tuscaroras.
[g.] Necariages.
[h.] St. Regis Colony, or Band.
III. EPOCH AND PRINCIPLES OF THE IROQUOIS LEAGUE.
[a.] Considerations.
[b.] Era of the Confederation.
[c.] Principles of the Iroquois Government.
[d.] Ancient Worship. SACRED FIRE.—THE SUN A SYMBOL OF DIVINE INTELLIGENCE.
[e.] Witchcraft.
[f.] Wife’s Right to Property.
IV. ARCHÆOLOGY.
[a.] Vestiges of an Ancient Fort or Place of Defence in Lenox, Madison county.
[b.] Ancient site of the Onondagas in the valley of the Kasonda, or Butternut creek of Jamesville.
[c.] Antiquities of Pompey and adjacent parts of Onondaga county.
[d.] Ancient fortification of Osco,64 at Auburn, Cayuga County.
[e.] Vestiges of an Ancient Elliptical Work at Canandaigua.
[c.] Ancient entrenchments on Fort Hill, near Le Roy, Genesee county.
[g.] Antique rock citadel of Kienuka, in Lewiston, Niagara county.
[h.] Site of an ancient battle-field, with vestiges of an entrenchment and fortification on the banks of the Deoseowa, or Buffalo creek.
V. ANCIENT STATE OF INDIAN ART.
NOTE.
VI. RELICS OF ABORIGINAL ART IN WESTERN NEW-YORK. [Antique insignia, amulets, implements and ornaments.]
Class First. NABIKOAGUNA.70
Class Second.—MEDÄEKA.
Class Third.—ATTAJEGUNA.71
Class Fourth.—OPOAGUNA.
Class Fifth.—MINACE.72
Class Sixth.—PEÄGA.73
Class Seventh.—MUDWÄMINA.
Class Eighth.—OTOAUGUNA.
Class Ninth.—ÆS.76
Class Tenth.—OCHALIS.77
VII. ORAL TRADITIONS OF THE IROQUOIS—HISTORICAL AND SYMBOLICAL.
[a.] Ancient Shipwreck of a vessel from the old world on the coast.
[b.] Forays into the country of the Cherokees and Catawbas.
[c.] Exploit of Hi-a-de-o-ni.
[d.] Embassy of Peace to the Cherokees, and Daring Feat of a Seneca.
[e.] The Graveyard Serpent and Corn Giant.
[f.] Allusion to the siege of Fort-Stanwix and the Battle of Oriskany.
[g.] Defeat of the Kah-Kwahs on Buffalo creek.
[h.] Era of the Confederation.
[i.] Some passages of the traditions of their wars with monsters, giants and supernatural phenomena.
VIII. TOPICAL INQUIRIES.
[a.] Who were the Eries?
[b.] Building of the first vessel on the upper lakes.
[c.] Who were the Alleghans?
[d.] War with the Kah Kwahs.
IX. MISCELLANEOUS TRAITS.
[a.] Infant Atotarho of the Onondaga.
[b.] Red Jacket and the Wyandot claim to supremacy.
[c.] Anecdote of Brant.
[d.] The County Clerk and the wolf-scalp.
X. MORAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION AND PROSPECTS.
RETURN
AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL STATISTICS.
DEAF AND DUMB, IDIOTS, LUNATICS AND BLIND.
APPENDIX.
(A.) Letter from the Secretary of State to Henry R. Schoolcraft, &c.
[a.] Fifteenth Section of an Act relative to the Census or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the State, passed May 7, 1845.
[b.] Attorneys or Agents of Indians appointed by the State.
[c.] Reservations
(B.) Extracts from a Rough Diary of Notes by the way.
MEMORANDA, NEW-YORK, JULY 1. ANTIQUITIES OF NEW-YORK.
Oneida Language.
Origin of the Oneidas.
Etymology.
Antique Corn Hills.
Onondaga Castle.
Onondaga. [Jackson’s.]
Kasonda.
Tradition.
Tonewanda Res. [Winsor & Richards.] NAME OF SENECAS.
Cherokees.
Tonewanda.
Osteological Remains.
Present Means of living on the Reservation.
Bones.
Opinion of a Chief of the Word Seneca.
Lewiston. [Frontier House.]
Niagara Falls.
Buffalo.
Eries.
Mission Station, Buffalo Reservation.
Kah-Kwahs, Eries, Alleghans,—who were they?
Irving, Cattaraugus Creek.
Indians in Canada.
Horts’ Corners, Catt.
Cold spring, Allegany river. [Sep. 3.]
Napoli Centre.
Lodi.
Irving, Mouth of Cattaraugus.
Eighteen-Mile Creek.
Buffalo.
Batavia.
Auburn.
Syracuse.
Utica.
Mouth of the Norman’s Kill, or Tawasentha, Albany.
New-York.
Indian Election.
Sketches of an Indian Council.
(C.) Letter from J. V. H. Clark to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
(D.) Letter from Mr. Cusick to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
Account of the Settlement of North America.
Origin of the Five Nations.
(E.) Letter from S. A. Goodwin to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
(F.) Letter from Frederick Follet to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
(G.) Letter from C. Dewey to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
(H.) Letter from Rev. Gilbert Rockwood to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
Vocabulary of the Tuscarora, from William Chew, written out and transmitted by the Rev. Gilbert Rockwood.
TUSCARORA.
Inquiries.
(I.) Letter from Rev. Asher Bliss to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
(K.) Letter from Rev. William Hall to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
(L.) Letter from Rev. Wm. McMurray to H. R. Schoolcraft.
Mohawk.
Cayuga.
(M.) Letter from Mr. Richard U. Shearman to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
Oneida.
(N.) Letter from Mr. D. E. Walker to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
(O.) Letter from H. C. Van Schaack, Esq. to Henry R. Schoolcraft.
(P.) Letter from L. T. Morgan, Esq., to H. R. Schoolcraft.
NOTE.
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