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Oneida

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O·nei·da 1  (-nd)
n. pl. Oneida or O·nei·das
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting central New York south of Oneida Lake, with present-day populations in Wisconsin, New York, and Ontario. The Oneida are one of the original members of the Iroquois confederacy.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Iroquoian language of the Oneida.
[Oneida on·yóte, erected stone, a village name.]
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Noun1.OneidaOneida - a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario
Iroquois - any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
2.Oneida - the Iroquoian language spoken by the Oneida
Iroquoian, Iroquoian language, Iroquois - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
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If Webb wants faith and honesty in an Indian, let him bring out the tribes of the Delawares, and send these greedy and lying Mohawks and Oneidas, with their six nations of varlets, where in nature they belong, among the French
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
“I had lost my bullet-mould in crossing the Oneida outlet, and had to make shift with the buckshot; but the rifle was true, and didn’t scatter like your two-legged thing there, Judge, which don’t do, I find, to hunt in company with.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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