These were probably the massasauga Indians, then inhabiting the north shore of Lake Ontario, but who were rather intruders here, the country being claimed by the Oneidas.
"A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 87-204"
H. C. Yarrow
The view barely cognizant, the prospect of the massasauga rattler and an occasional broken tin sharp at the edges was like water's drift audible, not yet seen.
"Eyeshine"
Paul Cameron Brown