Alphabetical Enumeration of Indian Tribes

Q

• Quabaogs, (Nipmuks,) at a place of the same name, now Brookfield, Mass.
• Quapaw, 700 in 1820, on Arkansas r., opp. Little Rock ; reduced by sm. pox in 1720.
• Quathlahpohtles, on S. W. side Columbia, above mouth Tahwahnahiook River.
• Quatoghie, (Wyandots,) once S. side L. Michigan; sold their lands to Eng. in 1707.
• Quesadas, See Coosadas.
• Quieetsos, on the Pacific; 250 in 1820; N. Columbia r. next N. of the Quiniilts.
• Quiniilts, on coast of the Pacific, N, of Columbia r.; 250 in 1820; next the Pailshs.
• Quinnechart, coast Pacific next N. Calasthocles N. Columbia r.; 2,000 in 1820.
• Quinnipissa, are those called Bayagoulas by the Chevalier Tonti.
• Quddies, See Passamaquoddie. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iii. 181.

R

• Rapids,  See Pawistucienemuks.
• Redground, (Seminoles,) 100 in 1820, on Chattahoochie r., 12 m. above Florida line.
• Redknife, so called from their copper knives; roam in the region of Slave Lake.
• Red-Stick, (Seminoles,) the Baton Rouge of the French.
• Red-Wing, (Sioux,) on Lake Pepin, under a chief of their name; 100 in 1820.
• Racaree (Paunees ) before 1805, 10 large Vill. on Missouri r.; reduced by small pox.
• River, (Mohegans,) S. of the Iroquois, down the N. side of Hudson r.
• Round-Heads, (Hurons,) E, side Lake Superior; 2,500 in 1764.
• Ryawas, on the Padouca fork of the Missouri; 900 in 1820.

S

• Sachdagughs, (Powhattans,) perhaps the true name of the Powhatans.
• Sankhikans, the Delawares knew the Mohawks by that name.
• Santees, a small tribe in N. Carolina in 1701, on a river perpetuating their name.
• Saponies, (Wanamies,) Sapona River, Carolina, in 1700;  joined Tuscaroras, 1720.
• Satanas, a name, it is said, given the Shawanees by the Iroquois.
• Sauk or Sac, united with Fox before 1805; then on Mississ., above Illinois.
• Sauteurs or Fall Indians, of the French, about the falls of St. Mary.
• Savannahs, so called from the river, or the river from them; perhaps Yamasees.
• Scattakooks, upper part of Troy, N. Y. ; went from New England about 1672.
• Seminoles, have been established in Florida a hundred years.
• Senecas, one of the Five Nations; “ranged many thousand miles” in 1700.
• Sepones, in Virginia in 1775, but a remnant. See Sapones.
• Serranna, (Savannahs ?) in Georgia; nearly destroyed by the Westoes about 1670.
• Sewees, a small tribe in N. Carolina, mentioned by Lawson in 1710.
• Shallalah, 1,200 in 1816, on the Pacific, S. Columbia r. next the Cookkoo-oosee.
• Shallattoos, on Columbia River, above the Skaddals; 100 in 1820.
• Shanwappone, 400 in 1820, on the heads of Cataract and Taptul Rivers.
• Shawane, once over Ohio; 1672, subdued by Iroquois; 1,383 near St. Louis in 1820.
• Sheastukle, 900 in 1820, on the Pacific, S. Columbia r., next beyond the Youitz.
• Shinikooks, a tribe of Long Island, about what is now South Hampton.
• Shoshonee, 30,000 in 1820, on plains N. Missouri; at war with the Blackfeet.
• Shoto, (Wappatoo,) 460 in 1820, on Columbia River, opposite mouth of Wallaumut.
• Sicaunies, 1,000 in 1820, among the spurs of the Rocky Mountains W.of the Rapids.
• Sioux, discovered by French, 1660; 33,000 in 1820, St. Peter’s, Mississ., and Misso.
• Sisatones, upper portions of Red r., of L. Winnipec and St. Peter’s, in 1820.
• Sitimacha, See Chitimicha.
• Sitka, on King George III. Islands, on the coast of the Pacific about lat. 57° N.
• Six Nations, (Iroquois,) Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Shawane.
• Skaddals, on Cataract River, 25 m. N. of the Big Narrows ; 200 in 1820.
• Skeetsomish, 2,600 in 1820, on a ricer of their name flowing into the Lastaw.
• Skilloot, on Columbia River, from Sturgeon Island upward; 2,500 in 1820.
• Skennemoke, or Tuckapas, on Vermilion River, La., 6 leagues W. of N Iberia.
• Smokshop, on Columbia r., at the mouth of the Labiche; 800 in 1820, in 24 clans.
• Snake, See Aliatans, or Shoshonees.
• Sokokie, on Saco River, Maine, until 1725, when they withdrew to Canada.
• Sokulk, on the Columbia, above mouth of Lewis’s River; 2,400 in 1820.
• Souriquois, (Mikmaks,) once so called by the early French.
• Souties, (Ottowas,) a band probably mistaken for a tribe by the French.
• Soyennom, (Chopummish,) on N. side E. fork of Lewis’s River; 400 in 1820, W. R.
• Spokain, on sources Lewis’s River, over a large tract of country, W. Rock Mts.
• Squannaroo, on Cataract r., below the Skaddals; 120 in 1820; W. Rock Mts.
• Staetans, on heads Chien r., with the Kanenavish; 400 in 1805; resemble Kiawas.
• Stockbridge, New, (Mohegans and Iroquois,) collected in N. Y, 1786; 400 in 1820.
• Stockbridge, Mass. (Mohegans ) settled there in 1734; went to Oneida in 1786.
• St. John’s, (Abenakies,) about 300 still remain on that river.
• Susquehannok, on W. shore of Md. in 1607 ; that river perpetuates their name.
• Sussees, near sources of a branch of the Saskashawan W. Rocky Mountains.
• Symerons, a numerous race, on the E. side of the Isthmus of Darien.