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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 87 (part 3)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Bruyas wrote in the Huron dialect, "_Okwari_, ourse (that is Bear); _Ganniagwari,_ grand ourse" (grand, glorious, superb, Bear), and in another connection, "It is the name of the Agniers," the characteristic type of the nation. They were divided in three ruling totemic tribes, the Tortoise (_Anowara_), the Bear (_Ochquari_), and the Wolf (_Okwaho_), and several sub-tribes, as the Beaver, the Elk, the Serpent, the Porcupine, and the Fox, as shown by deeds of record, of which the most frequently met is that of the Beaver. On Van der Donck's map of 1656, the names of four tribal castles are entered: _Carenay, Ganagero, Schanatisse,_ and _t' Jonnontego._ In the recently recovered Journal of