Native American

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

G- 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. Gamiskwakoka-wininiwak (Kamĭskwa-wa‛kuka-wĭnĭwag, men or people of the place of much red cedar. Jones). A Chippewa band about pass lake, near the head of the Mississippi, in Minnesota. Gawababiganikak (Kawapabikŭnĭ‛ kag, ‘place of much white earth’. W. J.). A Chippewa band about White Earth lake, N. w. Minn., officially reported to number 1,735 in 1905. Grail. The name of a chief and of a band of Sisseton and Yankton Sioux occupying a village of 627 people on Big Stone lake, 280 … Read more

G-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. Gweghkongh. A village in 1657, probably belonging to the Unami Delawares and apparently situated in N. New Jersey, near Staten id., or in the adjacent part of New York.

G-Massachusetts 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. Gay Head. A village, probably of the Wampanoag, formerly on the w. end of Marthas Vineyard, off the S. E. coast of Massachusetts. It contained 260 souls in 1698, and in 1809 there were still 240 Indian and negro mixed-bloods, who probably represented the entire Indian population of the island. (J. M.)

G – 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. Galilali (Galilali, ‘the houses’; i. e., ancient cave houses). A Tarahumare rancheria in the Sierra Madre, w. Chihuahua, Mexico. Lumholtz, inf’n, 1894. Guachochic (place of the blue herons). A rancheria of “civilized” Tarahumare on the headwaters of Rio Fuerte, about lat. 26° 50′, long. 106° 55′, in s. Chihuahua, Mexico; entire population 1,147 in 1900. The inhabitants gain a livelihood mainly as servants of the Mexicans. Lumholtz (l) in Scribner’s Mag., xvi, 32, 39, 1894; (2) Unknown Mexico, i, 194, … Read more

G-Michigan 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. Gatagetegauning (probably for Kǎ‛tǎgĭtganĭng the ancient field (W, J.) T A former Chippewa village on Lac (Vieux) Desert or Gatagetegauning, on the Michigan-Wisconsin state line. The present Vieux Desert Chippewa in Michigan numbered, with the L’Anse band, 668 in 1903. Grand Traverse. A former settlement of the Chippewa near the site of Flint, Genesee co., Mich.; so named by French traders because at this point was the great ford of Flint r. on the Indian trail from the Saginaw to … Read more

G- Kansas 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. Gakhulin (village on a stream). One of the 4 Kansa villages in 1820. Gakhulinulinbe. A former Kansas village near the head of a s. tributary of Kansas r., on which a trading post was established. Guaes. A people of whom Coronado learned in 1542. They evidently lived E. of Quivira, the Wichita country of E. central Kansas, of whose people they were enemies. The name bears a resemblance to Kaw, but as this is the French traders contraction of Kansa, … Read more

G- 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. Grand Bois. A former village, probably of the Potawatomi, about 6 m. s. e. of Geneva, Kane co., 111.; also known as Shaytee’s village. Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., pi. cxxv, 1899.

G- Indiana 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. Gros (Les). A Wea village on the Wabash in 1718 (Memoir of 1718 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ix, 891, 1855); perhaps in Tippecanoe co., Ind.

G- Florida 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. Guacata. An inland Calusa village on L. “Mayaimi,” or Okechobee, s. Fla., about 1570. Elsewhere in his memoir Fontaneda refers to it as a distinct but subordinate tribe. Guale. The Indian name by which the Spaniards knew the present Amelia id. N. coast of Florida, and a part of the adjacent Florida and Georgia coast, in the 16th century. There is strong probability that the tribe in occupancy was that known later as Yamasi. In 1597 the son of the … Read more

G- Georgia 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. Guale. The Indian name by which the Spaniards knew the present Amelia id. N. coast of Florida, and a part of the adjacent Florida and Georgia coast, in the 16th century. There is strong probability that the tribe in occupancy was that known later as Yamasi. In 1597 the son of the chief of Guale led a revolt against the missions that had been established by the Spanish Franciscans a few years before. There were then on the island at … Read more

G- 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. Gabacamanini. A rancheria, probably Cochimi, connected with Purisima (Cadegomo) mission, Lower California, in the 18th century. Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., v, 190, 1857. Gallinomero. A name more usually rendered Kainomero by the Indians to whom it is applied. It was given by the Spaniards of San Rafael mission to the Pomo from the vicinity of Healdsburg and Santa Rosa, Sonoma co., Cal., on the occasion of their being brought into the mission in the early part of the 19th … Read more

G- 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. Gachigundae (Gatc!igu′nda-i, ‘village always moving to and fro’) A Haida town on the N. E. shore of Alliford bay, Moresby id., Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. Col., occupied by a socially low branch of the Djahui-skwahladagai. Swanton, Cont. Haida, 279, 1905. Gado (Gadō‘). A Haida town said to have stood on the s. side of De la Beche inlet, Moresby id, Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. Col. Another town of the same name is said to have stood on the E. side … Read more

G-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. Groton. A former Mohegan village about the present Groton, New London, Conn. In 1825 the population was reduced to 50 souls (J. M.)

G- 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. Guachoya. A palisaded village, probably of the Quapaw, containing 300 houses in the 16th century, on the w. bank of the Mississippi, apparently a short distance below the mouth of the Arkansas. It was here De Soto died, May 21, 1542. Guahate. A fertile province, probably in the present s. w. Arkansas, heard of by De Soto in 1541 at Quipana as being 8 days s. of that place. Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in French, Hist. Coll. La., n, 182, … Read more

G- 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. Gaibanipitea. Apparently a former settlement of the Pima or of an allied tribe, possibly the Sobaipuri, described as situated on a hill on the w. bank of the Rio San Pedro. Visited by Father Kino in 1697. Probably identical with the ruins known as Santa Cruz, a few miles w. of Tombstone, s. Ariz. Gohate. A former Maricopa rancheria on the Rio Gila in s. Arizona; visited by Sedelmair in 1744 (Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 366, 1889). Apparently distinct … Read more

G- Alaska 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. Gapkaliptoua. A Malemiut Eskimo village on Norton bay, Alaska. Zagoskin in Nouv. Ann. Voy., 5th s., xxi, map, 1850. Gaudekan (bell town). The principal Huna town, now generally called Huna, in Port Frederick, on the N. shore of Chichagof id., Alaska. Pop. 800 in 1880; 447 [including whites) in 1900. Gash. The winter town of the Sanyakoan (q.v.), a Tlingit clan near C. Fox, s. Alaska. Most of the people have now moved to Ketchikan. (J. R. S.) Gilak. A … Read more

G – Maine 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. Gunasquamekook (long gravel bar joining the island). A former Passamaquoddy village on the site of St Andrews, New Brunswick, on Passamaquoddy bay. The Indians were dispossessed by the whites and were finally settled at Pleasant Point, Me. Vetromile, Abnakis, 55, 1866.

F- 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. Flechazos (Span: arrow or dart blows). A name applied by the Spaniards in the latter part of the 18th century to the upper village of the Tawakoni settlement on the w. side of Brazos r., near Waco, Tex. The one below it was called Quiscat. One or the other of these villages was the Waco village. (H. E. B.)