Oneida
Six Nations member
Oneida refers to a Native American people originally from central New York, one of the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.
The word also names their Iroquoian language and their traditional homeland around Oneida Lake.
Oneida is additionally a brand of flatware and tableware, named for the utopian Oneida Community founded in New York in the 1840s: We registered for Oneida silverware.
Native American confederacy
- Six NationsIroquois tribal confederacy
- MohawkIroquoian nation from Northeast
- SenecaStoic moralist of Rome
- CayugaHaudenosaunee confederacy member
Onondaga · indigenous · reservation · sovereignty · treaties · clans · matrilineal · Longhouse
Eating implements collectively
- forksMulti-pronged eating implements
- spoonsShallow bowl utensils
- knivesEdged cutting instruments
- flatwareEating utensils collectively
stainless steel · sterling · place setting · teaspoons · serving pieces · patterns · heirloom · bridal registry
Impractically perfect in conception
- communalShared by a community
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- perfectionismCompulsive pursuit of flawlessness
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
free love · New York · experiment · communitarian · self-sufficiency · equality · socialist · religious
Native American language family
- endangeredAt risk of extinction
- MohawkIroquoian nation from Northeast
- SenecaStoic moralist of Rome
- OnondagaIroquois confederacy's central nation
Cayuga · revitalization · speakers · dialect · indigenous · oral tradition · immersion · fluency
Iroquois
Native American confederacy
- Six NationsIroquois tribal confederacy
- MohawkIroquoian nation from Northeast
- SenecaStoic moralist of Rome
Cayuga · Onondaga · indigenous · reservation · sovereignty · treaties · clans · matrilineal · Longhouse · wampum
cutlery
Eating implements collectively
flatware · stainless steel · sterling · place setting · teaspoons · serving pieces · patterns · heirloom · bridal registry · craftsmanship
utopian
Impractically perfect in conception
- communalShared by a community
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- perfectionismCompulsive pursuit of flawlessness
nineteenth century · free love · New York · experiment · communitarian · self-sufficiency · equality · socialist · religious · silversmith
Iroquoian
Native American language family
- endangeredAt risk of extinction
- MohawkIroquoian nation from Northeast
- SenecaStoic moralist of Rome
Onondaga · Cayuga · revitalization · speakers · dialect · indigenous · oral tradition · immersion · fluency
- Oneida Lake TownsBridgeport, Cleveland, Cicero, South Bay, Vienna
- Native AmericansCherokee, Apache, Navajo, Sioux, Mohawk
- Communescommunes, communal living, kibbutz, hippie commune, utopian communities
- Eastern TribesLenape, Iroquois, Delaware, Mohawk, Seneca
- First NationsCree, Ojibwe, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Inuit
- Indigenous American LanguagesNavajo, Cherokee, Nahuatl, Quechua, Ojibwe
OneidaEuropean settlers
Migrants from Europe establishing colonies