A longtime friend of the minister Samuel Kirkland, a founder of Hamilton College, his request to be buried next to Kirkland was granted. Later, during the American Revolutionary War, he supported the colonials and led a force of 250 Oneida and Tuscarora warriors in western New York in their support. His tombstone bears the spelling Schenando ( / ˈ ʃ ɛ n ə n d oʊ, ˈ s k ɛ n-/).ĭuring the colonial years, Skenandoa supported the English against the French in the Seven Years' War. Based on a possible reconstruction of his name in its original Oneida, he is sometimes called "Oskanondonha" in modern scholarship. When he later accepted Christianity, he was baptized as "John", taking his Oneida name Skenandoa as his surname.
He was born into the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannocks, but was adopted into the Oneida of the Iroquois Confederacy. 1706 – March 11, 1816), also called Shenandoah ( / ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə/) among other forms, was an elected chief (a so-called "pine tree chief") of the Oneida. John Skenandoa ( / ˌ s k ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə/ c.
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