Organizations

Lcnaf uri	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85094815
Organization name	Onondaga indians
Other names	Onondagoe;Onondago;Gannentaha
Org type	Indian group
Bio notes	Also known as Onondagoe, Onondago, Gannentaha or “People of the Hills.” One of the five original members of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), the Onondaga’s location as the centermost member of the Confederacy enabled them to act as its exeutives and provided the setting for grand intertribal councils. Their historical territory is south of Lake Ontario near present-day Onondaga County, New York. After an American attack on their main village in 1779, the Onondaga shed their neutrality in favor of the British and fought up to the end of the Revolutionary War. Many then followed the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant to Upper Canada, partially inducing the US Government (fearful of a Pan-Indian alliance) to notarize the Treat of Canandaigua in 1794, which acknowledged Haudenosaunee rights to some portions of their homelands.
See also	Six Nations
Citations	Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onondaga_people ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Canandaigua