164 THE SIOUAN INDIANS [ETii.A!ra.l5 



G. llidatsa 



(A) llidatsa (their own iiaiiu', the meaning of which is unwrtain, 

 )»ut appears to refer to a traditional buffalo i)anncli c.on- 

 nectefl with the division of tlie group, tliough supposed by- 

 some to refer to " willows") ; formerly called Miuitari (''Cross 

 the water," or, objectionally, Gros Ventres); on Fort Berth- 

 old reservation, North Dakota, comprising in ITflfi (according 

 to information gained by Matthews') three villages — 



(«) Hidatsa. 



\h) Amafilia ("Earth-lodge [village]"?), 

 (c) Anialiami ("^Mountain-country [people]"?). 

 {B) Crow or Ab-sa'-ru-ke, on the Crow reservation, Montana. 



7. Biloxi 



{A) Biloxi ("Trifling" or "Worthless" in Choctaw) or Ta-neks' 

 Ha^-yadi' ("Original people" in their own language) ; partly 

 in Eapides parish, Louisiana ; partly in Indian Territory, with 

 the Choctaw and Caddo. 



(JS) Paskagula ("Bread people" in Choctaw), probably extinct. 



(C) ?Moctobi (meaning unknown), extinct. 



[D) ?Chozetta (meaning unknown), extinct. 



8. Monakan 



Monakan confederacy. 



(A) Monakan ("Country [people of ?]"),! extinct. 

 (JS) Meipontsky (meaning unknown), extinct. 

 {C) '?Mahoc (meaning unknown), extinct. 



(D) Niintaneuck or Nuntaly (meaning unknown), extinct. 



{E) Mohetan ("People of the earth"?), extinct. 

 Tutelo. 



{A) Tutelo or Yesa'" (meaning unknown), probably extinct. 



(A') Saponi (meaning unknown), probably extinct. (According 

 to Mooney,the Tutelo and Saponi tribes were intimately con- 

 nected or identical, and the names were used interchange- 

 ably, the former becoming more prominent after the removal 

 of the tribal remnant fiom the Carolinas to iSTew York.^) 



(B) Occanichi (meaning unknown), probably extinct. 

 ? Manahoac confederacy, extinct. 



{A) Manahoac (meaning unknown). 

 {B) Stegarake (meaning unknown). 



(C) Shackakoni (meaning unknown). 



(D) Tauxitania (meaning unknown). 



' Etlmo^jrapby .iinl Philology of tlie llidatsa Indians; Miscel. Publ. No. 7, U. S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Survey. 187T. p. 38. 



'Si^maii Tribes of the East, p. 37. Local uantes derived from the Saponi dialect were recognized and 

 inlerpruled by a Kwapa when pronounced by Dorsey. 



