The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-13
be glad to attend at any date that may be
named, and this is the way he says it:
Tonawands Ger-nouk- der-yea
Nisarh, End 1901


Tonawands er-nouk der-yea
Nisarh, End 1901
Capt Lawton
Dear Sir
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ouh-wah, gcr-nah der yauk, hl-ouh-wah de-
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sch, , o-nauGh, naugh, nau-der wen-u Ina
dah Ens. J>r-da-o
Nisher nyal-naut
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ya-E, nu-o-no-an-Jer-Ga
William G. Eoag, President of the Sen
eca Nation, who also lives on the Allie
gan Reservation, is one of those
who are interested in having the
these reservations in agriculture,
education, and civilization general
ly. fittingly shown in connection with the
Six Nations village Mr. Hoag is a pillar
in the Presbyterian Church on this reser-
walton. is man Of considerable property,
lives with his family in a well-furnished
home, whose appearance will do credit
to a street in any well-built city, has Il
good library, and is generally esteemed in
the community
The Allegany Reservation has an In
dian population of between 500 and 800
persons, and is about go goo acres in ex-
tent There are many well built houses
On this reservation. though the implanted
frame house, with two or three rooms and
a stovep;pe for chimney, predominant,
while here and there are still seen the
log cabins of earlier days.
l.
now living in one of the cabins which
have been erected on the portion of the
Pan American grounds devoted to the Six
Nations. They are already making bas-
kets and beadwork, in anticipation of the
Exposition, and celebrated the New Year
with their friends in Indian fashion. Their
guests, whose names were recorded in a
guest book, by Chief Miller, represented
several States of the Union.
1t is remarkable how much interest is
being taken in this Six Nations Village
1t is believed that here for the first time
an opportunity will be presented to por-
tray adequately the customs, history and
progress of the Indians of the Iroquois
League, from the earliest times of which
we have knowledge, down to the present
day. In the stockade, 500 feet in circum-
ference, built after the fashion with
which the Indians of the Six Nations sur
rounded their villages to protect them
against the sudden assaults of an enemy.
there will be houses of bark and poles,
built just as the Indians of these tribes
built them several centuries ago. Those
in charge of this exhibit have been study
ing to make the village within the stock
ade as correct historically, as possible.
The houses will be long houses made
to represent the long houses or council
houses of the different tribes composing
the Six Nations, with the Mohawks guard
ing TIC eastern door, the Senecas the
west n, and the central council or long
nous that of the Onondagas. There will
also 1e long houses representing the Ca
yugas, Oneidas, and Tuscaroras. Near
each council house viii be the totem OF
the nation and the scalp pole. Other in
situations of an ancient Indian village
will be represented also. Inside the
stockade, the Indians will live as their
ancestors did, carrying out the old GUS
toms and ceremonies. Outside the stock
ade viii be several cabins, some of which
have already been erected, which will
show the transition period in Six Nations
history, from the long house of bark to
homes such as the white man builds, and
civilized customs which the Indians are
now more and more adopting.
1t is the idea TO have the Indians COM
posing the population of the Six Nations
village on the grounds typical representa-
tiyes of these tribes. and so far as pos
sible, each one will be chosen for sore