The clan mothers named the men representing the clans at village and tribal councils and appointed the 50 sachems who met here periodically as the ruling council for the confederated Five Nations.
In April 1779, the Onondaga of the settlement, mostly older men, women and children, fled as the army approached.
American troops methodically destroyed the abandoned settlement, razing about 50 houses along Onondaga Creek and burning winter stores.
[3] The present meeting place of the Iroquois Grand Council is on the Onondaga Reservation in New York.
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