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AKPAN ALACRANES 



[b. a. e. 



Akpan ('auks'). An Ita Eskimo set- 

 tlement on Saunders id., n. Greenland. 

 The name is applied to many bird cliffs 

 in E. Arctic America. 



Akbat.— Haves, Arct. Boat Journ., 241, 18.54. Akpa- 

 ni.— Peary, My Arct. Jour., 80, 1893. 



Aktayatsalgi. One of the 20 Creek 

 clans. — Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, 

 155, 1884. 



Aktese. A village of the Kyuquot on 

 Village id., Kyuquot sd., w. coast of 

 Vancouver id.— Can. Ind. Aff., 264, 1902. 



Akuch. The extinct Ivy clan of the 

 Sia. 



A'kiich-hano.— Hodge in Am. Anthrop., ix, 3.51, 

 1S96 (/((i«o='people'). 



Akuchiny. A former Pima village s. w. 

 of Maricopa static^n, s. Arizona. — Rus- 

 sell, Pima MS., B. A. E., 16, 1902. Cf. 

 Aquitun. 



Akudnirmiut ('people of the interven- 

 ing country'). An Eskimo tribe of e. 

 Baffin land, on the shore of Home bay 

 and northward. They migrate between 

 their various stations, in winter as well 

 as in summer, in search of deer, bear, 

 seal, walrus, and salmon, having ceased 

 to capture whales from the floe edge 

 since the advent of whaling ships; pop. 

 83 in 1883 (Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., 

 440, 1888) . Their winter settlements are 

 not permanent. Their village.'! and camp- 

 ing places are: Arbaktung, Avaudjelling, 

 Ekalualuin, Ijelirtung, Idiutelling, Idni- 

 teling, Karmakdjuin, Kaudjukdjuak, Ki- 

 vitung, Niakonaujang, Nudlung, Sirmil- 

 ing. 



Akugdlit. A village of the Aivilirmiut 

 at the s. end of the Gulf of Boothia, on 

 Committee bay. — Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 445, 1888. 



Akuli. An Iglulirmiut village on the 

 isthmus of Melville penin.sula; pop. 50. 

 Ac-cool-le. — Ross, .Sec. Voy., 31ti, 1835. Acculee. — 

 Ibid., map facing p. 262. Ackoolee. — Ibid., 254. 

 Akkoolee.— Parry, Sec. Voy., 449, 1824. _ 



Akuliak. An Akuliarmiut winter vil- 

 lage on the N. shore of Hudson str., where 

 there was an American whaling station; 

 pop. 200. 

 Akuliaq.— Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1888. 



Akuliarmiut ('people of the point be- 

 tween two large bays' ) . An Eskimo tribe 

 settled on the n. shore of Hudson strait 

 (Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., 421, 1888). 

 They go to Amakdjuak through White 

 Bear sd. to hunt, where they meet the 

 Nugnmiut. 



Akkolear.— Gilder, Schwatka's Search, 181, 1881. 

 Akudliarmiut.— Boas in Trans. Anthrop. Soc. 

 Wash., in, 96, 1885. Akuliak-Eskimos. — Boas in 

 Petermanns Mitt., 68, 1885. 



Akuliukpak ('many provisions'). A 

 Nushagagmiut Eskimo settlement on Pa- 

 miek lake, Alaska; pop. 83 in 1880. 

 Akuliakhpuk.— Petroff, Rep. on Alaska, 17., 1884. 



Akulivikchuk. A Nushagagmiut village 

 on Nushagak r., Alaska; pop. 72 in 1880. 

 Akulvikchuk,— Petroff, Rep. on Alaska, 17, 1884. 



Akun ( ' distant ' ) . A former Aleut vil- 

 lage on a small island of the same name 



between Unalaska and Unimak, Aleutian 

 group, Alaska; pop. 55 in 1880. The 

 inhabitants have deserted it for Akutan. • 

 Akoon.— Schwatka, Mil. Recon. in Alaska, 860, 



18S5. 



Akuninak(d"A;Mn« 'bone,' -naw« 'town,' 

 'country,' -A'* ' 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. Jones, 

 inf'n, 1905. 



Ah-kuh'-ne-nak.— Morgan, Ane. Soc, 170, 1877 

 (given as the Bone gens). 



Akutan. An Aleut village on a small 

 island of the same name adjacent to Un- 

 alaska, Alaska; pop. 65 in 1880, 80 in 

 1890. 

 Akutanskoe,— Veniaminoff, ZapLski, n, 203, 1840. 



Akvetskoe ('lake town'). A summer 

 village of the Huna division of the Kolu- 

 schan family, on Lituya bay, Alaska; 

 pop. 300 in i835.— Veniaminoff, Zapiski, 

 .II, pt. 3, 29, 1840. 



Ahkvaystkie.— Elliott, Cond. Aff. Alaska, 227, 

 1H75 (tidin Veniaminoff). Akwetz. — Holmberg, 

 Ethnol, Skizz., map, 18.55. 



Akwech. A Wichita subtribe. — J. 0. 

 Dorsey, inf'n, 1892. 



Ala ('horn'). A phratry of the Hopi, 

 consisting of the Horn, Deer, Antelope, 

 Elk, and probal)ly other clans. They 

 claim to have come from a place in s. 

 Utah called Tokonabi, and after their 

 arrival in Tusayan joined the Lengya 

 (Flute) jihratry, forming the Ala-Lengya 

 group. — Fewkes in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 

 583, 587, 1901. . 



Ala. The Horn clan of the Hopi. — 

 Fewkes in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 583, 1901. 

 Aaltu.— Voth, Trad, of the Hopi, 38, 1905.— Ala 

 winwu. — Fewkes, op. cit. (u'»7wM=clan). 



Alabaster. See Gypsum. 



Alachua. A former Seminole town in 

 what is now Alachua co., Fla. It was 

 settled by Creeks from Oconee, on Oco- 

 nee r., Ga., about 1710. The name was 

 subsequently extended so as to cover other 

 small villages in the district, which col- 

 lectively are frequently mentioned as a 

 tribe, whose principal town was Cus- 

 cowilla. The Alachua Indians offered 

 lively resistance to the encroachments of 

 the white colonists in 1812-18 and took a 

 prominent part in the Seminole war of 

 1835-42. (a. s. g. h. w. h.) 

 Alachees,— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, n, 32, 1852. 

 A-lack-a-way-talofa.— Bell in Morse, Rep. to Sec. 

 War, 306, 1S22. Alacua.— Romans, Florida, i, 280, 

 1776. Aulochawan Indians.— Hawkins (1812) in 

 Am. State Papers, Ind. Aff., i, 813, 1832. Au-lot- 

 che-wau.— Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 25, 1848. Laoh- 

 aways. -Seagrove (1793) in Am. State Pap., Ind. 

 Aff., I, 378, 1832. Laokaway,— Brown (1793), ibid., 

 374. latchione. -Brinton, Florida Renin., 145, 

 1859. Latchivue.— Peniere in Morse, Rep. to Sec. 

 War, 311, 1822. Lotchnoay.— Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, Vl, 360, 1857. lotchway towns.— Flint, Ind. 

 Wars, 173, 1833. Sotchaway.— Seagrove, op. cit., 

 380. 



Alacranes (Span. : 'scorpions'). Apart 

 of the Apache formerly living in Sonora, 

 Mexico, but according to Taylor (Cal. 



