Hochelagans and Mohawks - A Link in Iroquois History by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
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attain the population they possessed in Cartier's time.
FOOTNOTES: [1] "Iroquois Book of Rites," p. 10. [2] _Ibid._, p. 13. [3] The latter I conjecture not to be the real name of the place but that the Stadacona people had referred to Hochelay as "Agojuda" or wicked. The chief of Hochelay on one occasion warned Cartier of plots at Stadacona, and there appears to have been some antagonism between the places. The Hochelay people seem to have been Hochelagans proper not Stadacona Hochelagans. Hochelay-aga could mean "people of Hochelay." [4] Relation of 1642. [5] Similar armour, though highly elaborated, is to be seen in the suits of Japanese warriors, made of cords and lacquered wood woven together. [6] Relation of 1642, p. 36. [7] Two of the Huron nations settled in Canada West about 1400; another about 1590; the fourth in 1610. See Relations,--W.M. Beauchamp. [8] Dr. Kellogg, whose collection is very large and his studies valuable, writes me as follows: "In 1886 Mr. Frey sent me a little box of Indian pottery from his vicinity (the Mohawk Valley). It contained chiefly edge pieces of jars, whose ornamentation outside near the top |
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