Oneida
Americannoun
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a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
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the Iroquoian language spoken by the Oneida Indians.
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a city in central New York.
noun
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a lake in central New York State: part of the New York State Barge Canal system. Length: about 35 km (22 miles). Greatest width: 9 km (6 miles)
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(functioning as plural) a North American Indian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario; one of the Iroquois peoples
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a member of this people
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the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family
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Etymology
Origin of Oneida
From the Oneida word onę·yóteʔ erected stone, the name of the main Oneida settlement, at successive locations, near which, traditionally, a large syenite boulder always appeared
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So the author heads to the Oneida Nation’s spring festival, where Doris Wilkins-Wilt and Ron Patterson, historians at the Shako:wi Cultural Center, explain Oneida history to Mr. Baxter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
He was a member of the Oneida Nation, part of the Six Nations Reserve in southern Ontario.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
You begin with John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, a utopian religious group in the mid-19th century.
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
“He told me how they had been living. I said, ‘You go back to school and tell them what happened,’” said Oneida Williams, 85.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
Others in the Oneida commune regarded him as moody, swinging from spirited to sullen within minutes.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
Colgate University in November returned more than 1,500 items that the Oneidas had buried with their dead as far back as 400 years ago.
From Washington Times ● May 15, 2023
The items being returned to the Oneidas also include glass beads, ceramic pottery, knives, harpoons and a stone pipe.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
The Oneidas once held six million acres in New York, but agreed to a treaty ceding nearly all their land to the state.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2022
“The mistake the Oneidas made and everyone else made,” he said, “was they believed in the sanctimony of the movement.”
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2016
Brother," said I, "we white men and Oneidas have no quarrel with any Saguenay that I know about.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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