onondaga (tribe)

The Onondaga (Onundagaono or the People of the Hills) are one of the original five constituent tribes of the League of the Iroquois (Hodenosaunee). Their traditional homeland is in and around Onondaga County, New York. Being centrally located, they were the keepers of the fire in the figurative longhouse, with the Cayuga and Seneca to their west and the Oneida and Mohawk to their east. For this reason, the League of the Iroquois historically met at Onondaga, as indeed the traditional chiefs do today. In the American Revolutionary War, the Onondaga sided with the majority of the League and fought against the United States in alliance with the British Crown. Many Onondaga therefore followed Joseph Brant to Six Nations, Ontario after the United States was accorded independence. Those remaining in New York are under the government of traditional chiefs nominated by matriarchs, rather than elected.

Onondaga bands today

Onondaga Nation in Nedrow, New York outside Syracuse
Onondaga Clear Sky and Bearfoot Onondaga, both at Six Nations of the Grand River

Other spellings encountered

Onoda'gega
Onontakeka
Onondagaono

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