The Honniasont (Oniasont, Oniassontke, Honniasontkeronon) were a little-known Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands originally from eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.[1] They appear to have inhabited the upper Ohio River valley, above Louisville, Kentucky.[2]
Language
The Honniasont language may have been considered an Iroquoian language. [3] Charles Hanna believed their name, first appearing as Oniasont on 17th-century French maps, to be a variation of the name of the tribe recorded in West Virginia and western Virginia at the same time period, as Nahyssan and Monahassanough, i.e. the Tutelo, a Siouan language speaking people.[2]
References
- ^ Hodge, Frederick Webb, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology, 1910, retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ a b Hanna, Charles A. (1911). The Wilderness Trail, Volume 2. G. P. Putnam's sons. pp. 117–119.
- ^ Swanton, John R., 'The Indian Tribes of North America' , Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 145 (1953): 55-57.
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