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Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Colcene. One of the 3 bands into which the Twana of N. w. Washington are divided.
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Chanchampenau. The Lakmiut name of a Santiam band formerly living E. of Willamette r., Oregon. Chanchantu. The Lakmiut name of a former Santiam band in Oregon. Chantkaip. The Lakmiut name of a Santiam band formerly living below the junction of the Santiam forks, Oregon.
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Akanaquint (green river). A Ute division formerly living on Green r., Utah, belonging probably to the Yampa. Capote (mountain people. Hrdlicka). A division of the Ute, formerly living in the Tierra Amarilla and Rio Chama country, N. w. N. Mex. They are now under the jurisdiction of the Southern Ute school in s. w. Colo., and numbered 180 in 1904. Cobardes. Given by Dominguez and Escalante (Doc. Hist. … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Grigras. A French nickname and the only known name of a small tribe already incorporated with the Natchez confederacy in 1720; it was applied because of the frequent occurrence of grigra in their language. There is uncertainty in regard to the language and ethnic relations, but unless affiliated with the Tonica, the tribe was evidently distinct from every other, since, as indicated by the sound grigra, their language … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Akuninak (á‛kuni ‘bone’, -nawe ‘town, country’, -ki ‘place where’: ‘at the bone place’) . A group of Sauk and Foxes who lived together in a village near where some huge bones, probably of a mastodon, lay imbedded in the ground. Wm.. Tones, inf’n, 1905. British Band. A former band of the Sank and Foxes. See Sauk.
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Acquera. An Utina tribe or band in N. Florida. Laudonnière (1564) in French, Hist. Coll. La., N. S., I, 243, 1869.
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Blount Indians. A Seminole band, numbering 43, under John Blunt, or Blount, for whom a reserve, 2 by 4 m. on Apalachicola r., Fla., was established in 1823 by the Moultrie Creek treaty (U. S. Ind. Treaties, 307, 1837). They went to lower Chattahoochee r., Ala., before the Seminole war of 1835-42, and after it removed with the Alibamu to Polk co. , Tex. , where 28 of … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Caromanie (walking turtle). An un identified Winnebago gens. McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, i, 315; n, 289, 1854. Zuñi Indian Bands, Gens and Clans Chaikikarachada (those who call themselves the deer). A Winnebago gens. Cheikikarachada (they call themselves after a buffalo) . A Winnebago gens. Chonakera. The Black Bear gens of the Winnebago. Hichakhshepara (eagle). A subgens of the Waninkikikarachada, the Bird gens of the Winnebago. Huwanikikarachada (those … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Dhatada. One of the four gentes of the Hangashenu subdivision of the Omaha. The meaning is lost, although Dorsey translates it bird. Dtepaitazhi (touch no buffalo head). A subgens of the Dhatada gens of the Omaha. Dtesanhadtadhishan (pertaining to the sacred skin of an albino buffalo cow). Given as a subgens of the Hanga gens of the Omaha, but it is seemingly an error. Hadtuitazhi (touches no green … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Aigspaluma (Shahaptian: people of the chipmunks ). The Klamath, Modoc, Shoshoni, and Paiute living on Klamath res. and its vicinity in Oregon. Gatschet in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., II, pt. I, xxxiii, 1890. Akaitchis. A tribe said to have resided on Columbia r. not far from the mouth of the Umatilla, in Oregon (Nouv. Ann. des Voy., x, 78, 1821. Their location would indicate a Shahaptian division, but … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Chamiwi. The Lakmiut name of a Yamel band on Yamhill cr., a w. tributary of Willamette r., and near Independence, Oreg. Champikle. A Yamel band on Dallas (La Creole) cr., a w. tributary of Willamette r., Oreg. Chinchal. A Yamel band that formerly lived on Dallas or., a w. tributary of Willamette r., Oreg.
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. First Christian Party. A division of the Oneida at the period of the removal to Green bay, Wis., and afterward a Washington treaty (1828) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 621, 1873. First Christian Party Roll
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Boxelder Indians. A branch of the Shoshoni formerly in N. w. Utah. Lynde in Sen. Ex. Doc. 42, 36th Cong., 1st sess., 38, 1860. Bruneau Shoshoni. A band of Wihinasht Shoshoni formerly living on Bruneau cr., s. E. Idaho; pop. 300 in 1868. Powell in Ind. Aff. Rep., 201, 1868. Gabrieleno. A Shoshonean division and dialectic group which formerly occupied all of Los Angeles co., Cal., s. of … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Aguachacha. The Yavapai name of a tribe, evidently Yuman, living on the lower Colorado in Arizona or California in the 18th century. Garcés (1776). Diary, 404, 1900.
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Hanginihkashina (night people). A subdivision of the Tsishu division of the Osage. Its subdivisions in turn are Haninihkashina and Wasape. Hangka (leader). One of the three divisions of the Osage, the last to join the tribe, dividing with the Wazhazhe the right or war side of the camp circle. Hangkaahutun (Hangka having wings). A gens of the Hangka division of the Osage, in two sub-gentes, Husadtawanun and Husadta. … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Dyani (Dya′-ni). The Deer clans of Sia and San Felipe pueblos, N. Mex.; the latter clan is extinct. Hami. The Tobacco clans of Sia and San Felipe pueblos, N. Mex. Henuti. The extinct Cloud clan of the pueblo of Sia, N. Mex. Ishtowa. The extinct Arrow clans of Sia and San Felipe pueblos, N. Mex.
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Huchnom. A division of the Yuki of N. California, speaking a dialect divergent from that of the Round Valley Indians. They lived on South Eel r. above its confluence with the middle fork of Eel r., or in adjacent territories, and on the head waters of Russian r. in upper Potter valley. To the N. of them were the Witukomnom Yuki, to the E. the Wintun, and … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Alawahku. The Elk clan of the Pecos tribe of New Mexico. Hewett in Am. Anthrop., vi, 431, 1904. Amu (Arúۥ ). The Ant clan of the Pecos tribe of New Mexico. Hodge, field notes, B. A. E., 1895. Fwaha. The Fire Clan of the former pueblo of Pecos, N. Mex. Gyuungsh. The Oak clan of the former pueblo of Pecos, N. Mex. Hayah (Hä-yäh). The Snake clan of … Read more
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Devil’s Medicine-man Band. A Sihasapa band; not identified. Culbertson in Smithson. Rep. 1850, 141, 1851.
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Chanatya. The extinct “Pegwood” (?) clan of the Keresan pueblo of Sia, N. Mex.