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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 92 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] As already stated, the "best expert authority" of the Bureau of Ethnology reads _Onekagoncka_ as signifying, "At the junction of the waters," and _Osserueñon,_ in any of its forms, as signifying "At the beaver-dam." Possibly the names might be read differently by a less expert authority, but _Oneka_ certainly means "Water," and _Ossera_ means "Beaver-dam." Add the reading by the late Horatio Hale of _Oghracke,_ "At the beaver-dam," and the locative chain is complete at the mouth of Aurie's Creek (Oghracke). _Tribally,_ the