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{E) Ontponi (meaning unknown). 

 {F) Tegniati (meaning unknown). 

 (G) Whonkenti (meaning unknown). 

 (H) Ilasinuiuga (meaning unknown). 



9. Catarvha or Ni-ya {'■^Feople''^) 



[A) Catawba (meaning unknown; they called themselves Ni-ya, 

 '^Meu" in tbe compreliensive sense), nearly extinct. 



(B) Woccou (meaning unknown), extinct. 



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



(D) ? Cape Fear (proper name unknown), extinct. 



[E) "? Warrennuucock (meaning unknown), extinct. 



[F) 1 Adshusheer (meaning unknown), extinct. 

 {G) ? Eno (meaning unknown), extinct. 



{H) % Shocco (meaning unknown), extinct, 



(J) ? Waxhaw (meaning unknown), extinct. 



[J) % Sugeri (meaning unknown), extinct. 



(/l) Santee (meaning unknown). 



(L) Wateree (derived from the Catawba word watrTfiu, -'to 



float in the water"). 

 (.1/) Sewee (meaning unknown). 

 {N) Congaree (meaning unknown). 



10. Sara [extinct) 



{A) Sara ("Tall grass"). 



(i>) Keyauwi (meaning unknown). 



11. ? Pedee {extinct) 



{A) Pedee (meaning unknown). 



[B) Waccamaw (meaning unknown). 



(C) Winyaw (meaning unknown). 

 (J>) "Hooks" and "Backhooks"( ?). 



The definition of the first six of these divisions is based on extended 

 researches among the tribes and in the literature representing the 

 work of earlier observers, and may be regarded as satisfactory. In some 

 cases, notably the Dakota confederacy, the constitution of the divi- 

 sions is also satisfactory, though in others, including the Asiniboin, 

 Mandan, and Winnebago, the tabulation represents little more than 

 superficial enumeration of villages and bands, generally by observers 

 l)0ssessiug little knowledge of Indian sociology or language. So far 

 as the survivors of the Biloxi are concerned the classification is satis- 

 factory; but there is doubt concerning the former limits of the 

 division, and also concerning the relations of the extinct tribes referred 

 to on slender, yet the best available, evidence. The classification of 



