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ACHILLA ACOLAPISSA 



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Achilla. A Costanoan village of 8anta 

 Cruz missiion, Santa Cruz co., Cal., in 

 1819.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 5,1860. 



Achillimo. A Chumashan village for- 

 merly existing near Santa Inez mission, 

 Santa Barbara co., Cal. — Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Achois. A native place in Encina val- 

 ley, s. Cal., at which the mission of San 

 Fernando was established, Sept. 8, 1797. 

 Achoic Comihavit. — Coiie.'^, G!ir(»o.s Diary, 2(i6. 1900. 

 Achois. — Ilii(). 



Achomawi (from adzuina, or acJuhiui, 

 'river.' — Dixon). A division of the 

 Shastan family formerly occupying the 

 IMt r. country of n. k. Cal., except Burney, 

 Dixie, and Hat cr. valleys, which were 

 inhabited by the Atsugewi. A principal 

 village was near Fallriver Mills, Shasta 

 CO. The languages of the Achomawi and 

 the Atsugewi, while un<iuestionably re- 

 lated, are strikingly unlike. The term 

 Achomawi was also em[)loyed by Powers 

 to denote all the Indians of the Palaihni- 

 han family of Powell, popularly known 

 ag Pit Eiver Indians. See iShastan Fain ily. 

 Achomawes. — Power's in Overland Mo., xn. 412. 

 1.S74. A-cho-ma'-wi.— Powers in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., ni, 267, 1877. Adzumawi. — Curtin, Ilmawi 

 vocab., B. A. E., ISStt. Ko'm-maidiim, — Dixon, 

 inf'n. 1904 ('snow people': Maidu name). 

 Shawash, — Kroeber, inf'ii, 1903 (Yiilci name for 

 the Achomawi taken to Round Valley res.). 



Achougoula (probably 'pipe people,' 

 from Choctaw 'tfthnnga, 'pipe'). One of 

 •the 9 villages constituting the Natchez 

 confederacy in 1699. — Iberville in Mar- 

 gry, Dec, iv, 179, 1880. 



Achpoan. See Pone. 



Achsinnink (cognate with the Chij)- 

 }iewa iTluf<hii)H/, 'at the place of rough 

 rock,' meaning a place where many 

 l)Owlders lie scattered aljout, or a rocky 

 place hard to travel through. — Wm. 

 Jones). A village of the Unalachtigo 

 Delawares existing about 1770 on Hock- 

 ing r.,Ohio. — Heckewelder in Trans. Am. 

 Philos. Soc, IV, 390, 1884. 



Achusi. The port on the x. coast of 

 the Gulf of Mexico, within the Muskho- 

 gean area, in which the fleet of De Soto 

 wintered in 1539—40. It took its name 

 from a neighboring town and is com- 

 monly identified with Pensacola bav. 

 Achusi.— Gareilasso (ie la Vefja, Fla., 299* 1723. 

 Achusse,— Sliipp, De Soto and Fla., 682, note, 1881. 

 Achussi. — Ibid., ;iM. Acusy. — Margrv, Dec, iv, 

 310, 1880. Chuse.— Biednirt i l.=)40i in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., II, 102, ISoO. Ochus.— (ientleman of 

 Elvas (1,5.^7), ibid., 13ji. Ocus. — Ibid.. 145. 



Achyarachki (A<-li-i/i}-rf(rJ/-k'>; 'where 

 there is an old man,' in allusion to a 

 stone ])innacle resembling a human 

 form). A Tarahumare rancheria 16 m. 

 s. of Rekorichic, Chihuahua, ^lexico, 

 about lat. 27° 5', long. 106° 45'.— Lum- 

 holtz, inf'n, 1894. 



Ackia. A Chickasaw village in x. Mis- 

 sissippi, attacked by the French and 



Choctaw in 17.36. — Gavarrc, Louisiana, 



I, 480, 1851. 



Aclutoy. A village supposed to be of the 

 Patwin division of the Copehan family 

 which formerly lived in Napa and Yolo 

 COS., (^al. Its inhabitants concluded a 

 treat V with Gov. Vallejo in 1836.— Ban- 

 croft," Hist. Cal., IV, 71, 1886. 



Acnagis. A former village, jiresumably 

 Cost-anoan, connected with Dolores mis- 

 sion, San Francisco, Cal. — Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Acochis (eviilently from the Wichita 

 li(i-J:n:i-fJili^, 'metal,' interpreted 'gold' 

 by the Spaniards), (jiven by an Indian 

 nicknamed "Turk," (j. v., as the name 

 for gold in the language of the people of 

 Quivira or Harahey, identified as the 

 Wichita and Pawnee, respectively. By 

 misinterpretation the name has been 

 given to (Quivira itself. See Castaneda 

 and Jaramillo in 14th Rep. B. A. K., 493, 

 510, 1896; Davis, Span. Conq. N. Mex., 

 226, 1869; Hodge in Brower, Harahev, 

 70, 1899. (F. w. H.) 



Acolapissa. An indefinite group, of 

 Choctaw lineage, formerly living on L. 

 Ponchartrain, altout the coast lagoons, 

 and on the Mississippi, in Louisiana. 

 Early French writers derived the name 

 from the Choctaw Jiakio plsa, 'those who 

 listen and see.' Allen Wright, governor 

 of the Choctaw nation, suggests ukla pisa, 

 'those who lookout for people'; that is, 

 watchmen, guardians, spies, which prob- 

 ably refers to their jxisition, where they 

 could observe entrance into or departure 

 from the lake and river. The name 

 appears to have been made l)y early 

 authors to include several tribes, the 

 Bayogouia, Mugulasha, an<l others. Ac- 

 cording to Iberville the Acolapissa had 7 

 towns; but one of their villages was occu- 

 pied by the TaugiboM, who appear to have - 

 been a different tribe. The Acolapissa 

 are said to have suffered severely from an 

 epidemic about 1700, and Iberville says 

 they united with the Mugulasha; if so, 

 they must have been ini'lude<l in those 

 ma.ssacred by the Bayogouia, but this is 

 rendered doul)tful by the statement of 

 Penicaut (French, Hist. Coll. La., n. s., i, 

 144, 1869) that in 1718 the Colapissa, who 

 inha1)ited the n. shore of L. Ponchartrain, 

 removed to the ^Mississippi and settled 13 

 leagues above New Orleans, (c. t. ) 

 Aqueloa pissas, — .letTerys, French Doni. Am., i, 162, 

 1761. Aquelon Pissas. — Bossu (17.51), Travels. I, 34. 

 1771. Aquelou pissas. — Du Pratz, Hist. La., il. 

 219, 175s. Calopissas. — I'enicant (1713) in Mar- 

 gry, D^c, v, 507, 18S3. Cenepisa, — La Salle, ibid.. 

 I. .564, 1875. Colapessas. — Gravier in .Shea, Early 

 Voy., 1.59, 1861. Colapissas.— Penicaxit (1699) iii 

 French. Hist. Coll. La., n. s., i. 38. 1869. Coli- 

 pasa. — Drake, Bk. Inds., vi. 1848. GoUapissas. — 

 Bossu (1751), Travels, i. 34. 1771. Coulapissas.— 

 8auvole (1700) iu Margry, D^c. iv. 462, 1880. 

 Equihipichas. — Sauvolein French. Hist. Coll. La., 

 Ill, 225, 1851. Croulapissas. — B. des Lozicres. Voy. 



