A Botanical and Economic Study. i2r 



Mohawk^ onusti i Journ. Antic). Soc, II). 

 Nottoway s ohnehahk (Journ. Antiq. Soc.) (Wood). 

 Oneida, ohnloto (Journ. Antiq. Soc.) (Jefferson). 

 Onondaga, onatschia (Journ. Antiq. Soc.) (Zeisberger). 

 Seneca, onaa (Journ. Antiq. Soc.) (Parish). 



onoohquaw. 

 Wyandot, nayliah (Journ. Antiq. Soc.) (Arcrueologia Americana). 



The Muskogean family consisted of three principal tribes, 

 the Chocta, between the Mobile and Mississippi rivers, 

 the Chicasa, at the head-waters of the Mobile River, and the 

 Maskoki, or Creek, between the Mobile and Savannah rivers. 

 The words in Maskoki, or Creek, are atchi (Gallatin), atshi 

 (Journ. Antiq. Soc), and adshi (A. S. Gatschet). 



The Creeks may have been the original mound-builders, or 

 closely allied to them. A curious similarity appears in the 

 Creek word atchi, adshi, the Algonquian aski (chasquem), 

 and the Iroquoian onatschia, which, if so joined, philologically 

 enforces the theory advanced that the Algonquins and Iro- 

 quois obtained corn from a powerful southern tribe. The 

 Chocta word is tanchi (Whipple, Ewbank, Turner), tandshi 

 (A. S. Gatschet), tonche (A. Wright). The Chicasa word is 

 tuncha (Gallatin). All these words are related to the terms 

 used by the Indians west of the Mississippi River. 



The Caddoan family had three principal tribes, the Pawnee, 

 Wichita, and Caddo. The Pawnee word for corn is task (W. 

 E. T.), the Wichita is tash (A. S. Gatschet), the Caddo word 

 is kish-ee-ee (G. Gray), showing a close relation between all 

 the words. A. S. Gatschet thinks that the Pawnee task, the 

 Wichita tash, and the Chocta tanchi, are related, which would 

 show that the Choctas borrowed their use of maize from 

 the Caddos to the west. The Siouan tribes, in all likelihood, 

 borrowed their words from the same source, for we have 

 Ponca, watanzi, Omaha, wattanza (Journ. Antiq. Soc), Osage, 

 watanshee (Journ. Antiq. Soc), Ottoe, watooja (Say), and 

 this carried farther in the Winnebago wachoa (Journ. Antiq. 

 Soc). The first half of the word is evidently wakan, mean- 

 ing superior, or supernatural. 1 The Tutelos had Algonquian 

 loan-words, mandaqei, mataqe. The Catabas (in South Car- 



1 Roehring, Language of the Dakotas, Washington, 1872, 14. 



