Onondaga
noun
- pl. Onondagas or Onondaga a member of a North American Indian people formerly living near Onondaga Lake in New York and now also living in Ontario
- the Iroquoian language of this people
See Onondaga in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ŏnˌən-dôˈgə, -däˈ-, -dāˈ-)
noun pl. Onondaga Onondaga or
On·on·da·gas a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the eastern Finger Lakes region of west-central New York, with present-day populations in this same area and in southeast Ontario. The Onondaga are one of the original members of the Iroquois confederacy.
b. A member of this people.
- The Iroquoian language of the Onondaga.
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