[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 The appellation, Iroquois, was first a Co/den's History of the Six Nations; applied to them by the French, because Schooler affs Notes on the Iroquois; Dun-they usually began and finished their dis-lap's Hist. Neiv York • fates & Monitor? s courses or palaver with the word hiro, History New York; O'Callaghan's Neiv which means either "I say," or "I have Netherlands BrodheacTs Neiv York, etc. said," combined as an affix with the word 3 The Iroquois tribes are classed by kong, an exclamation expressing joy or Gallatin in three divisions : eastern, sorrow according as it was pronounced western, and southern. The eastern con-long or short." — Garncaus History of sisted of the confederation known as the Canada. Five Nations, the western of the Wy-36 THE INDIAN TRIBES 1 or Oswego river, whence they were released by Tharonhyjagon^ the Holder of the Heavens. Bidding them go forth to the east, he guided them to the valley of the Mohawk, and follow ing its stream they reached the Hudson, which some of them descended to the sea. Retracing their steps towards the west, they originated, in their order and position, the Mohawks^ Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras, six nations; but the Tuscaroras wandered away to the south and settled on the Cautano, or Neuse river, in North Carolina, reducing the