go-ne-o-di'-yo

Updated: May 14, 2025

For example, upon the demise of Go-ne-o-di'-yo, one of the eight Seneca sachems, his successor would be elected by the Turtle gens in which this sachemship was hereditary, and when raised up by the general council he would receive this name, in place of his own, as a part of the ceremony.

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