ONEIDA


Meaning of ONEIDA in English

North American Indian people living mainly in what is now central New York and Wisconsin, U.S., and Canada.

They constitute one of the original five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy . Their language is Longhouse s sheltered families related through maternal descent and belonging to one of three clans, Bear, Turtle, or Wolf. Each community had a local council that guided the chief or chiefs. The Oneida supported the colonist cause in the American Revolution and were attacked by the pro-British Iroquois under {{link=Brant, Joseph">Joseph Brant . By the mid-19th century most Oneida had dispersed. They number some 12,000.

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