Onarga Township High School - Onarquois Yearbook (Onarga, IL)

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of princess ©narga The next morning, when the Sun God climbed above the mighty oaks, there was sadness in the camp of the Iroquois, for during the night the soul of Onarga, the Indian maiden, daughter of the great chief, had gone Northward in the Great Canoe to the Happy Hunting Grounds of the Iroquois, the land of Shawandossee, the home of the White Rabbit. Each year when the great fertile plains of the Iroquois are flooded with pale, shimmering light of the Harvest Moon, the Great Canoe floating on the billows of mist that overhang the rivers, and manned by the spirits of the Iroquois warriors, floats with the North Wind to the faraway hunting grounds from whence it came. There are some who claim to .have seen it passing in the night and in it the form of a beautiful Indian maiden, her left hand raised to Heaven with the Palm outward, the Indian sign of benediction and farewell. Each season the Harvest Moon shines between two mighty oaks where sleeps Onarga, the little Indian maiden, and on her grave in the still quiet of the night, the “Shadow things and all the moonlight things come out.' Under the great, great oaks, where twinkled the campfires of the Iroquois, there stands the Village of Onarga.