Native American

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

C- 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. Caborca. A rancheria of the Soba division of the Papago and the seat of a mission established by Kino about 1687; situated on the s. bank of the Rio Asuncion, lat. 30º 30′, long. 112º, Sonora, Mexico. It had 4 subordinate villages in 1721 (Venegas, II, 177, 285, 1759) and a population of 223 in 1730, but it was totally destroyed in the Pima rebellion of 1751. It is now a white Mexican village. (F. W. H.) Cacaria. A former … Read more

C- 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. Crow-wing. Mentioned by Neill (Hist. Minn., 386, 1858) as one of the Chippewa bands that took part in the treaty of 1826. There was a village of the same name at the mouth of Crow Wing r. , in N. central Minnesota, which was the home of Hole-in-the-Day in 1838.

C- 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. Cabea Hoola. Given by Romans as a former Choctaw village on the headwaters of Chickasawhay cr., probably in Lauderdale co., Miss. Cabusto (possibly from oka ‘water’, ish-to ‘great’. Halbert). A town, probably of the Chickasaw, in N. E. Mississippi, visited by De Soto in 1540; situated between Taliepatava and Chicaça, and 5 days march from the latter, near a great river, possibly the Tombigbee. Gentleman of Elvas (1557) in French, Hist. Coll. La., II, 160, 1850; Halbert in Trans. Ala. … Read more

C- 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. Capahnakes. Possibly a misprint in tended for the inhabitants of Capawac, or Marthas Vineyard, off the s. coast of Massachusetts. The form occurs in Boudinot, Star in the West, 129, 1816. Cataumut. A village formerly in Falmouth township, Barnstable co., Mass., probably near Canaumut neck. In 1674 there were some Praying Indians in it, and there were still a few mixed bloods there in 1792. It was in the territory of the Nauset. (J. M.) Chabanakongkomun ( boundary fishing place. … Read more

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- Indian Territory 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. Chakihlako. A Creek town near the junction of Deep and North forks of Canadian r. , Ind. Ter. Chiaha. A town of the Creek Nation, Ind. T., on Verdigris r., N. E. of Wealaka. Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., n, 186, 1888. Conchanty. A town of the Creek Nation about the junction of Conchanti cr. with Arkansas r., Ind. Ter.

C- 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. Cheghulin (village on the open prairie). A former Kansa village on the s. side of Kansas r. , Kans. Cheghulin. A Kansa village, evidently named after the earlier settlement of that name; situated on a tributary of Kansas r., on the N. side, E. of Blue r., Kans. Cona. A settlement of a semi-sedentary tribe called Teyas by the Spaniards, regarded as probably the Hainai, a Caddoan tribe. The place was visited by Coronado and his army in 1541, 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- 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- 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- 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- 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.

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