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#59 --- Pages 152-153 of Rev. William M. Beauchamp's book, "IROQUOIS FOLK LORE", contains the following explanation for the origin of the Five Iroquois Nations:

     "...I have not as yet given Cusick's ‘Origin of the Kingdom of the Five Nations, which was called a Long House.’ It is odd and interesting, but facts are against it. ‘By some inducement a body of people was concealed in the mountain at the falls named Kuskehsawkich, (now Oswego). When the people were released from the mountain they were visited by Tarenyawagon (i.e. the Holder of the Heavens), who had power to change himself into various shapes; he ordered the people to proceed towards the sunrise as he guided them, and came to a river named Yenonanatche (i.e. ‘going round a mountain’ - now ‘Mohawk’), and went down the bank of the river and came to where it discharges into a great river running towards the midday sun; and Shaw-nay-taw-ty (i.e. ‘beyond the Pineries’ - now ‘Hudson’), and went down the bank of the river and touched bank of a great water..." (The Five Iroquois Nations included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca tribes. After the Tuscaroras tribe was admitted in 1722, it became known as the ‘Six Nations’).

Page 28 of Hartley B. Alexanders' book "NORTH AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY" (also found in THE MYTHOLOGY OF ALL RACES vol X) contains the following account of a race of legendary beings existing beneath the territory of the Iroquois Nations:

     "...the Ohdowas, or underground people. The underworld where the Ohdowas live is a dim and sunless realm containing forests and plains, like the earth of man, peopled with many animals - all of which are ever desirous to ascend to the sunny realm above. It is the task of the Ohdowas to keep these underworld creatures in their proper place, especially since many of them