da-ga-no-we'-da

Updated: May 10, 2025

In his communications with the council he used a wise man of the Onondagas, Da-ga-no-we'-da, as an interpreter and speaker to expound the structure and principles of the proposed confederacy. The same tradition further declares that when the work was accomplished Ha-yo-went-ha miraculously disappeared in a white canoe, which arose with him in the air and bore him out of their sight.

Lewis H. Morgan - Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines