They call the Cherokees O-YAU-DAH, which means a people who
live in caves. Their enmity against this people, the tradition of which
is so strong and clear, is stated to have originated from the contact
of war and hunting parties, in the plains of the southwest. The Senecas
affirm that the Cherokees robbed and plundered a Seneca party and took
away their skins. Retaliation ensued. Tragic scenes of treachery and
surprise followed. The Five Nations took up the matter in all their
strength, and raised large and strong war parties, who marched through
the country to the Cherokee borders, and fought and plundered the
villages, and brought away scalps and prisoners. There are now, (1845)
descendants of Cherokees in the third degree, living on the Tonewanda
reservation. [Ho-ho-ee-yuh.] Some years ago, a chief of this blood,
pure by father and mother, lived among them, who had been carried
off captive when a boy. The fact being revealed to him, after he had
obtained the chieftaincy, he went south to seek his relations and live
and die among them, but he was unable to find them. He came back to the
Senecas, and died among them. [Le Fort.]