onondagas in English
noun
1
a member of an Iroquois people, one of the Five Nations, formerly inhabiting an area near Syracuse, New York.
Hofstra begins by recalling a violent skirmish in 1742 on the Virginia frontier between white settlers and a group of Oneidas and Onondagas traveling from their homelands in New York to the Carolinas.
2
the Iroquoian language of the Onondaga.
The Cherokee language belongs to the Iroquoian family of languages and is therefore related to Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga , Oneida, Cayuga, and Tuscarora, among others.
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