Consolidated Docket No. 317, Defendant Exhibits 61-171

Dft. Ex. 62

From Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico

·  Part 1, pp.

 

419, 684.

 


Hodge, Frederick, ed.
Handbook of American Indians
North of Mexico
Part 1

BULL. 30]

EEL RIVER INDIANS-EKALUIN

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    Eel River Indians.  A part of the Miami, formerly living in Indiana. Their village was at Thorntown, Boone co., where they had a reservation, which was sold in 1828, the band removing to the Miami res. between the Wabash and Eel rs., in Miami co. They afterward shared the general fortunes of the tribe.

(J. M.)   

Eel River Indians.-Knox (1792) in Am. St. Papers, I, 235, 1832. Eelrivers.-Brown, West. Gaz., 72, 1817. Elk river tribe.-Ibid., 349 (misprint). Isle-River Indians.-Imlay, West. Ter., 371, 1792 (Eel r., through a corruption of l'Anguille into 'Long-isle'). l'Anguille.-French name of the band and settlement ('The eel'). Long-isle.-Imlay, op. cit. (misrendering of French l'Anguille). Thornton party.-Gale, Upper Miss., 178, 1867. Thorntown party.-Wyandot Vil. treaty (proclaimed 1828) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 520, 1873.

    Eesteytoch.  Given as a tribe on Cascade inlet, Brit. Col.; probably a village group of the Bellacoola.
    Ees-tey-toch.-Kane, Wand. in N. Am., app., 1859.

    Efaca.  A Timucua clan belonging to the Acheha phratry.-Pareja (1612-14) quoted by Gatschet in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., XVII, 492, 1878.

    Egan.  An Algonquian settlement in Maniwaki township, Ottawa co., Quebec containing 225 Indians in 1884.

    Egedesminde  A missionary station on Davis str., w. Greenland.-Crantz, Hist. Greenland, I, 14, 1767.

    Eguianna-cahel  ('water-hole of the mountain'). A rancheria, probably Cochimi connected with Purísima (Cadegomo) mission, Lower California, in the 18th century.-Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., v, 189, 1857.
Egusanna cahel.-Ibid.

    Ehartsar.  A band of the Crows, one of the four into which Lewis divided the tribe.
E-hârt´-sâr.-Lewis, Trav., 175, 1809. -Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., II, lxxxiv, 1823 (Hidatsa name: 'leaf people').

    Ehatisaht.  A Nootka tribe on Esperanza inlet, w. coast of Vancouver id., Brit. Col.; pop. 101 in 1902, 95 in 1904. Their principal village is Oke. From their waters came the larger part of the supply of dentalium shells extensively used on the Pacific coast as media of exchange.
Ai-tiz-zarts.-Jewitt, Nar., 36, 1849. Aitzarts.-Armstrong, Oregon, 136, 1857. Ayhuttisaht.-Sproat, Sav. Life, 308, 1868. Eh-aht-tis-aht.-Can. Ind. Aff., 52, 1875. Ehateset.-Mayne, Brit. Col., 251, 1862. Ehatisaht.-Can. Ind. Aff. 1901, pt. 2, 158. -Boas, 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 31, 1890. Ehatt-is-aht.-Can. Ind. Aff. 1897, 357.

    Ehouae  ('one battered it.'-Hewitt). A village of the Tionontati existing in 1640.
Eh8ae.-Jes. Rel. 1641, 69, 1858.-Ehwae.-Shea, note in Charlevoix, New France, II, 153, 1866. Sainct Pierre et sainct Paul.-Jes. Rel. 1640, 95, 1858.

    Ehressaronon.  The Huron name of a tribe mentioned by Ragueneau in 1640 as living s. of St Lawrence r. (Jes. Rel. 1640, 35, 1858). It can not now be identified with any tribe s. of the St. Lawrence. Perhaps Iroquoian, as are some of the tribes mentioned in the same list.

    Ehutewa. A Luiseño village formerly in the neighborhood of San Luis Rey mission, s. Cal. (Taylor in Cal. Farmer, May 11, 1860). Possibly the same as Hatawa.

    Eidenu  (perhaps an Eskimo rendering of 'I don't know'). A Kinugumiut coast settlement at C. Prince of Wales.
Ei-dan-noo.-Beechy (1836) quoted by Baker, Geog. Dict. Alaska, 1901. Iden-noo.-Ibid. Wales.-Post-route map, 1903.

    Eider  (trans. of Igognak, 'eider duck'). An Aleut village on Captain bay, Unalaska, Alaska, at a point of the same name. Pop. 39 in 1830, according to Veniaminoff.
Igognak.-Kotzebue (1816) quoted by Baker, Geog. Dict. Alaska, 1901 ('eider duck'). Igonok.-Coxe, Russ. Discov., 166, 1787/ Paystravskoi.-Elliott, Cond. Aff. Alaska, 225, 1875. Pestriakof.-Baker, Geog. Dict. Alaska, 1901 (Russian: 'eider duck'). Pestriakovo.-Sarichef (1792) quoted by Baker, ibid. Pestriakowskoje.-Holmber, Ethnol. Skizz., map, 1855. Pestryakovskoe.-Veniaminoff, Zapiski, II, 202, 1840.

    Einake  ( 'catcher,' or 'soldiers').
A society of the Ikunuhkatsi, or All Comrades, in the Piegan tribe; it has been obsolete since about 1860, and perhaps earlier.-Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales, 221, 1892.

    Eiwhuelit.  A division of the Yuit Eskimo on St. Lawrence id., Bering sea. Bogoras says "they are plainly a colony from the nearest [Siberian] shore, probably from Indian point." The villages are Chibukak, Chitnak, Kialegak, Kukuliak, Puguviliak, and Punuk.
Eiwhue´lIt.-Bogoras, Chukchee, 20, 1904 (Chukchi name). -Dall in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., I, 15, 1877 ('islanders'). Oomoojeks.-Kelly, Arctic Eskimo in Alaska, 11, 1890. - Dall in Proc. A. A. A. S., XXXIV, 377, 1885. Umudjek.-Woolfe in 11th Census, Alaska, 130, 1893.

    Ekaentoton.  The Huron name of Manitoulin id. and of the Indians (Amikwa) living on it in 1649. It was the ancient home of the Ottawa.
Ekaentoton.-Jes. Rel. 1649, II, 6, 1858. l'Isle de Saincte Marie.-Ibid.

    Ekaloaping.  A Padlimiut Eskimo settlement in Padli fjord, Baffin land.
EXaloaping.-Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E. 441, 1888.

    Ekaluakdjuin.  A summer settlement of the Saumingmiut subtribe of the Okomiut Eskimo, N. of Cumberland sd.
EXaluaqdjuin.-Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., 439, 1888.

    Ekalualuin.  A summer settlement of the Akudnirmiut Eskimo on Home bay, Baffin land.
EXalualuin.-Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., 441, 1888.

    Ekaluin.  A summer settlement of the Nugumiut Eskimo of baffin land at the head of Frobisher bay.
EXaluin.-Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1888.

    Ekaluin.  A summer settlement of Talirpingmiut Eskimo on the s. shore of Cumberland sd.
EXoluin.-Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1888.


Hodge, Frederick, ed.
Handbook of American Indians
North of Mexico
Part 1

684

KICKAPOO

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Kickapoo (from , 'he stands about' or he moves about, standing now here, now there'). A tribe of the central Algonquian group, forming a division with the Sauk and Foxes, with whom they have close ethnic and linguistic connection. The relation of this division is rather with the Miami, Shawnee, Menominee, and Peoria than with the Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Ottawa.

History.-The people of this tribe, unless they are hidden under a name not yet known to be synonymous, first appear in history about 1667-70 At this

KICKAPOO MAN

time they were found by Allouez near the portage between Fox and Wisconsin rs. Verwyst (Missionary Labors, 1886) suggests Alloa, Columbia col, Wis., as the probably locality, about 12 m. s. of the mixed village of the Mascouten, Miami, and Wea. No tradition of their former home or previous wanderings has been recorded; but if the name Outitchakouk mentioned by Druillettes (Jes. Rel. 1658, 21, 1858) refers to the Kickapoo, which seems probable, the first mention of them is carried back a few years, but they were then in the same locality. Le Sueur (1699) mentions, in his voyage up the Mississippi, the river of the Quincapous (Kickapoo), above the mouth of the Wisconsin, which he says was "so called from the name of a nation which formerly dwelt on its banks." This probably refers to Kickapoo r., Crawford co., Wis., though it empties into the Wisconsin and not into the Mississippi. Rock r., Ill., was for a time denominated the "River of the Kickapoos," but this is much too far s. to agree with the stream mentioned by Le Sueur. A few years later a part at least of the tribe appears to have moved s. and settled somewhere about Milwaukee r. They entered into the plot of the Foxes in 1712 to burn the fort at Detroit. On the destruction of the Illinois confederacy, about 1765, by the combined forces of the tribes N. of them, the conquered country was partitioned among the victors, the Sauk and Foxes moving down to the Rock r. country, while the Kickapoo went farther s., fixing their headquarters for a time at Peoria. They appear to have gradually extended their range, a portion centering about Sangamon r., while another part pressed toward the E., establishing themselves on the waters of the Wabash, despite the opposition of the Miami and Piankashaw. The western band became known as the Prairie band, while the others were denominated the Vermilion band, from their residence on Vermilion r., a branch of the Wabash. They played a prominent part in the history of this region up to the close of the War of 1812, aiding Tecumseh in his efforts against the United States, while many Kickapoo fought with Black Hawk in 1832. In 1837 Kickapoo warriors to the number of 100 were engaged by the United States to go, in connection with other western Indians, to fight the Seminole of Florida. In 1809 they ceded to the United States their lands on Wabash and Vermilion rs., and in 1819 all their claims to the central portion of Illinois. Of this land, as stated in the treaty, they "claim a large portion by descent from their ancestors, and the balance by conquest from the Illinois nation, and uninterrupted possession for more than half a century." They afterward removed to Missouri and thence to Kansas. About the year 1852 a large party left the main body, together with some Potawatomi, and went to Texas and thence to Mexico, where they became known as "Mexican Kickapoo." In 1863 they were joined by another dissatisfied party from the tribe. The Mexican band proved a constant source of annoyance to the border settlements, and efforts were made to induce them to return, which were so far successful that in 1873 a number were brought back and settled

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