Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico

Hodge, Frederick Webb, Compiler. The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology, Government Printing Office. 1906.

C- Illinois Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Chicago (Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo: shĕkagua, ‘skunk’ , and shĕkakohĕgi ‘place of the skunk’ , an ancient name for the s. part of L. Michigan, due, it is said, to a large skunk that once lived along the s. shores and was killed in the lake by a party of fox hunters. W. J.) . A Miami village on the site of Chicago, Ill., at the period of the earliest explorations in that region, 1670-1700. A French document of 1695 … Read more

C- Delaware Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Chikohoki (from Chikelaki; chikeno ‘turkey’, aki ‘land’). The former principal seat of the Unalachtigo Delawares, situated on the w. bank of Delaware r. , near the present Wilmington, Del. Cuscarawaoc (place of making white beads. Tooker) . A division of the Nanticoke; mentioned by Capt. John Smith as a tribe or people living at the head of Nanticoke r., in Maryland and Delaware, and numbering perhaps 800 in 1608. Their language was different from that of the Powhatan, Conestoga, and … Read more

C- Connecticut Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Cosattuck. A Pequot village in 1667, probably near Stonington, New London co., Conn. Cupheag (a place shut in, from kuppi, closed). The Algonquian name of Stratford, Fairfield co., Conn. There was probably a village of the same name there before the English settlement in 1639. Benj. Trumbull, Hist. Conn., i, 109, 1818; J. H. Trumbull, Ind. Names Conn., 13, 1881. Cuppunaugunnit. Mentioned as if a Pequot village in 1637, probably in New London co., Conn.

C- Canadian Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Cabbasagunti. A small body of Indians dwelling in 1807 in the village of “Saint Francais,” on St Francis River, Quebec, in which they were named Cabbassaguntiac, i. e., people of Cabassaguntiquoke, signifying the place where sturgeon abound. The form Cobbisseconteag has been replaced by the modern Cobbosseecontee as the name of what formerly was Winthrop pond and outlet which flows into Kennebec River , in Kennebec County, Maine. These Indians, it is reported by Kendall, regarded themselves not only as … Read more

C- California Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Caacat. A Chumashan village between Goleta and Pt Concepcion, Cal., in 1542. Caamancijup (narrows of the arroyos). A rancheria, probably Cochimi, connected with Purisima (Cadegomo) mission, Lower California, in the 18th century. Doc. Hist, Mex., 4ths.,v, 189, 1857. Cachanegtac. A former village, presumably Costanoan, connected with Dolores mission, San Francisco, Cal. Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. Caddehi (head of the reedy place). A rancheria, probably Cochimi, connected with Purisima (Cadegomo) mission, Lower California, in the 18th century. Doc. … Read more

C- Arkansas Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Cachaymon. A village or tribe, possibly Caddoan, mentioned by Iberville (Margry, Dec., iv, 178, 1880), in the account of his voyage up the Mississippi in 1699, as being on or near Red r. of Louisiana. Possibly identical with Cahinnio. Casqui. An unidentified province and town, probably on lower St Francis r., E. Ark., visited by De Soto s army immediately after crossing the Mississippi in 1541. It is possibly cognate with Akanze, a name for the Quapaw. Catamaya. A town … Read more

C- Arizona Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico that start with the letter C and can be found in the present state of Arizona.

Bureau of American Ethnology

The Bureau of American Ethnology was organized in 1879 and was placed by Congress under the supervision of the Smithsonian Institution. It was directed that all the archives, records, and materials relating to the Indian tribes collected by the Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region under the auspices of the Interior Department should be transferred to the Institution for use by the Bureau.

Buena Vista Tribe

Buena Vista Indians (Spanish: pleasant view ). A descriptive name applied to one or more Shoshonean or Mariposan tribes living on Buena Vista lake, in the lower Kern River Drainage, California. By treaty of June 10, 1851, these tribes reserved a tract between Tejon Pass and Kern River, and ceded the remainder of their land to the United States.

Brule Sioux Tribe

Brulé Sioux Indians, Brulé One Nation, Brulé Tribes (‘burned,’ the French translation of, Sichángχu, ‘burnt thighs,’ their own name, of indefinite origin). A subtribe of the Teton division of the great Dakota tribe. They are mentioned by Lewis and Clark (1804) as the Tetons of the Burnt Woods, numbering about 300 men, “who rove on both sides of the Missouri, White, and Teton rivers.” In 1806 they were on the east side of the Missouri from the mouth of the White to Teton river. Hayden describes the country inhabited by them in 1850 as on the headwaters of the White and Niobrara, … Read more

Brotherton Tribe

Brotherton Indians. The name of two distinct bands, each formed of remnants of various Algonquian tribes. The best-known band was composed of individuals of the Mahican, Wappinger, Mohegan, Pequot, Narraganset, etc., of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and of the Montauk and others from Long Island, who settled in 1788 on land given them by the Oneida at the present Marshall, Oneida County, New York, near the settlement then occupied by the Stockbridge. Those of New England were mainly from Farmington, Stonington, Groton, Mohegan, and Niantic (Lyme), in Connecticut, and from Charlestown in Rhode Island. They all went under the leadership … Read more

British Columbia First Nations

The following are tribal addresses for First Nations in British Columbia Alexandria RR 2 Box 1 Quesnel, BC V2J 3H6 Nadleh Whut’en PO Box 36 Fort Fraser, BC V0J 1N0 Alexis Creek Box 69 Chilanko Forks, BC V0L 1H0 Namgis First Nation 49 Atli Street, or P.O. Box 210 Alert Bay, BC VoN 1Ao Burns Lake Bag 9000 Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 Nazko 3574 Hilborn Rd. Quesnel, BC V2J 3P7 Cheslatta Carrier Nation PO Box 909 Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 Nee Tahi-Buhn Band R.R. #2, Comp. 28 Burns Lake, B.C. V0J 1E0 Carrier Chilcotin Tribal Band 59 South … Read more

Boston Indian Citizen Committee

Boston Indian Citizenship Committee was an association for the protection of the rights of Indians; organized in 1879 on the occasion of the forcible removal of the Ponca. The tribe returned to their old home in South Dakota from the reservation in Indian Territory. Chief Standing Bear, released on a Writ of habeas corpus, went to Boston, and, on the plea that most of the signatures in favor of removal were fraudulent, enlisted the sympathy of Hon. John D. Long, then governor of Massachusetts, and other organizers of this committee, who finally secured the rescission of the edict and the … Read more

Bocootawwonauke Tribe

Bocootawwonauke Indians (fire people?). A tribe mentioned by Powhatan in 1607 as living north west of the falls of James River at Richmond, Virginia, in the highland country, and as being workers of copper and other metals