D- Unknown Locations 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.

Destcaraguetaga. Named by La Salle (Margry, Dec., n, 149, 1877) with the Mahican, Manhattan, Minisink, and others as a New England tribe in 1681. Unidentified.

Distancia. One of the villages of the Opata. Hrdlicka in Am. Anthrop., vi, 72, 1904.

Dubois. Mentioned only by McKenney and Hall (Ind. Tribes, in, 79, 1854) in a list of tribes. Possibly intended for Gens des Bois (Hankutchin, Tschantoga, etc. ); otherwise unidentified.


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

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