Native American

The list of items below have been tagged as part of the Native American historical collection here at AccessGenealogy.

I- 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. Iguanes. A tribe of whom Father Kino heard, in 1699, while near the mouth of the Rio Gila in s. w. Arizona. As they are mentioned in connection with the Alchedoma and Yuma, they were probably a Yuman tribe. Imiak. A Togiagmiut village at the out let of Aleknagik lake, Alaska. Tebenkof (1849) quoted by Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1902.

H Virginia 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. Hassinunga A tribe of the Manahoac confederacy living about 1610 on the headwaters of Rappahannock River, Virginia.

H Unknown Location 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. Haeser. A former tribe near the lower Rio Grande, living with the Gueiquesales, Manos Prietas, Bocores, Pinanaca, Escaba, Cacastes, Cocobipta, Cocomaque, Codame, Contotores, Colorados, Babiamares, and Taimamares. Probably Coahuiltecan. Haglli. A Yuman tribe or division which in 1604-05 occupied 5 rancherias on the lower Rio Colorado, between the Cohuanas (Yuma) and the Halliguamayas, of which latter (identifiable with the Quigyuma) they apparently formed a part. High Tower Forks. A former Cherokee settlement mentioned in a document of 1799 (Royce in … Read more

H Texas 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. Hacanac. Mentioned by the Gentleman of Elvas in 1557 (Hakluyt Soc. Publ., ix, 132, 1851) as a province of which Moscoso was informed in 1542; apparently on the N. E. Texan border. Unidentified. Han. An unidentified tribe living on a part of the island of Malhado (Galveston id.), Texas, on which Cabeza de Vaca suffered shipwreck in 1528. The language of the Han differed from that of their neighbors, the Capoque (probably Coaque), but they had customs in common. They … Read more

H Tennessee 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. Halfway Town. A former Cherokee settlement on Little Tennessee r., about halfway between Sitiku and Chilhowee, about the boundary of the present Monroe and London cos., E. Term. Timber-lake, Mem., map, 1765. Hiwassee (Ayuhwa′sĭ, ‘savanna’, ‘meadow’). The name of several former Cherokee settlements. The most important, commonly distinguished by the Cherokee as Ayuhwa′sĭ  Egwâ′hĭ, or Great Hiwassee, was on the N. bank of Hiwassee r., at the present Savannah ford, above Columbus, Polk co., Tenn. Another was farther up the … Read more

H Oklahoma 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. Huhliwahli. A town in the Creek Nation, on North fork of Canadian r., above Hillabi, Okla.

H Pennsylvania 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. Hickory Indians. A small band formerly occupying a village near Lancaster, Pa. (Day, Penn., 397, 1843). Probably a part of the Delawares. Hickorytown. A former Munsee and Delaware village, probably about East Hickory or West Hickory, Forest co., Pa. On account of the hostility of the western tribes the Indians here removed in 1791 to the Seneca and were by them settled near Cattaraugus, N. Y. (J. M.) Hogstown. Described as an old (Delaware) village between Venango and Buffalo cr., … Read more

H Oregon 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. Hakkyaiwal (Hăk-kyäi′wăl). A Yaquina village on the s. side of Yaquina r., Oreg. Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 229, 1890. Hashkushtun (Ha′-ckûc-tûn). A former Takelma village on the s. side of Rogue r. , Oreg. Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 235, 1890. Hathletukhish (Haçl′­t’û­qĭc′). A former Yaquina village on the s. side of Yaquina r., Oreg. Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 229, 1890. Hauwiyat (Hau-wī-yät’). A former Siuslaw village on or near Siuslaw r., Oreg. Dorsey in … Read more

H North Dakota 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. Hidatsati (from Hidatsa and ati: ‘dwelling of the Hidatsa Indians’). The Hidatsa village formerly at Ft Berthold, N. Dak. In 1872 it contained 71 Arikara and 104 Hidatsa and Mandan dwellings. See Elahsa.

H North Carolina 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. Harpaha. A former Timucua village near the mouth of St Johns r., Fla. Laudonnière (1565) in French, Hist. Coll. La., n. s.,,349, 1869. Harutawaqui (Haroñtawǎ′kon’, He holds the tree. Hewitt). A Tuscarora village in North Carolina in 1701. Lawson (1709), Carolina, 383, 860.

H New Mexico 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. Haatze (Queres: ‘earth’). A prehistoric pueblo of the Cochiti near the foot of the Sierra San Miguel, above Cochiti pueblo, N. Mex. It is claimed to have been occupied after the abandonment of the Potrero de las Vacas. Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papery, iv, 157, 1892. Hachos (prob. Span.: a fagot or bundle of straw or grass covered with resin) Mentioned as a wild tribe of New Mexico in the 18th century. Villa-Señor, Theatre Am., pt, 2, 412, 1748. Halona … Read more

H Nevada 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. Humboldt Indians. The Paviotso living around Humboldt lake, Nev. Simpson, Rep. of Explor. Across Utah, 38, 1876.

H New Jersey 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. Hespatingh. A village in 1657, probably belonging to the Unami Delawares, and apparently in N. New Jersey (Deed of 1657 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiv, 393, 1883). A clue to the locality is given by Nelson (Inds. N. J., 124, 1894), who records Espatingh, or Ispatingh, as the name of a hill back of Bergen, or about Union Hill, in 1650.

H Mississippi 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. Haanka Ullah (Hankha aiola, ‘wild goose there cries’). A former Choctaw town situated on a long flat-topped ridge between Petickfa cr. and Blackwater cr., Kemper co., Miss. It received its name from a pond of water about 7 acres in extent which was much frequented by wild fowl. Romans, Florida, 310, 1775; Halbert in Miss. Hist. Soc. Publ., vi, 420, 1902. Hoolatassa. A former Choctaw town 4 m. from Abihka, probably in the present Kemper co., Miss. Romans, Fla., 310, … Read more

H Mexican 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. Hecatari. A former Nevome pueblo of Sonora, Mexico, with 127 inhabitants in 1730; situated probably at or near the junction of the w. branch of the Rio Yaqui with the main stream, about lat. 28 30 . Orozco y Berra classes it as a pueblo of the upper Pima. Hichucio. A subdivision or settlement of the Tehueco, probably inhabiting the lower Rio Fuerte or the Fuerte-Mayo divide, in N. w. Sinaloa, Mex. Orozco y Berra, Geog., 58, 1864. Hihames. A … Read more

H Minnesota 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. Hahatonwanna (small village at the falls). A former Sioux village or division at the Falls of St Anthony, Minn.; mentioned doubtfully by Dorsey (1880). Given by Lewis and Clark in 1804 as a subdivision of the Yankton of the north, of which Mahpeondotak was chief. The name may refer to an incorporated Chippewa a band.

H Maryland 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. Highahwixon. One of several tribes displaced by the whites in 1651 from their homes in Charles and St Mary cos., Md., and given a tract at the head of the Wicomoco. They were probably Conoy. Bozman, Maryland, ii, 421, 1837.