Five Nations.' It
is told in a somewhat different form by David { 'tisick. the Tnscarora historian, in his
'Sketchesof Ancient History of the Six .Nations,' and it is repeated by Mr. L. H.
Morgan in his now classical work. 'The League of the Iroquois,' for which he- pro-
cured his information chiefly among the Senecas. Finally, as we learn from the
narrative of the Wyandot Indian, Peter Clarke, in his 1 k entitled 'Origin ami Tra-
ditional History of the Wyandotts." the belief of the Hurons accords in this respect
with that of the Iroquois. Both point alike to the country immediately north of the
St. Lawrence, and especially to that portion of it lying east of Lake Ontario, as the
early home of the Huron-Iroquois nations." Nothing is known of the tradition- oi
the ( lonestogaor the Nottoway, hut the trail it inn of the Tnscarora. as given by Cusick
and other authorities, makes them a direct offsl ( from the northern [roquois, with
whom they afterward reunited. The traditions of the Cherokee also, as we have
seen, bring them from the north, thus npleting the cycle. "The striking fact has
become evident that the course of migration of the Huron-Cherokee family has been
from the northeast to the southwest — that is. from eastern Canada, on the Lower St.
Lawrence, to the mountains of northern Alabama. " — Hale, Indian Migrations, p. 11.
The retirement of the northern Iroquoian tribes from the St. Lawrence region was
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due to the hostility of their Algonquian neighbors, by whom the Huronsand their
allies were forced to take refuge about