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Onondagas

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On·on·da·ga  (nn-dôg, -dä-, -d-)
n. pl. Onondaga or On·on·da·gas
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the eastern Finger Lakes region of west-central New York, with present-day populations in this same area and in southeast Ontario. The Onondaga are one of the original members of the Iroquois confederacy.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Iroquoian language of the Onondaga.
[Onondaga onó·tà'ke, on the hill, a village name.]
Onon·dagan adj.
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They consisted of the tribes or, as their allies were fond of asserting, in order to raise their consequence, of the several nations of the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas; who ranked, in the confederation in the order in which they are named.
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