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Farmer, June 13, 1862) roaming, with 

 other bands from Texas, to the Rio Colo- 

 rado and N. of Gila r. in Ariz, and N. 

 Max. They were apparently a part of 

 the Chiricahua. 



Alacupusyuen. A former Chumashan 

 village near Purisima mission, Santa 

 Barbara co., Cal. — Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, 

 Oct. 18, 1861. 



Alafiers ( ala = ' buckeye tree ' ) . A Semi- 

 nole town near Alafia r., an affluent of 

 Tampa bay, Fla. Its inhabitants, few in 

 number, appear to have been led by Chief 

 Alligator, and the "Alligators" may 

 have been the same people. They took 

 part in the Seminole war of 1885-42. 



( H. \Y. H. ) 



Alafia.— Drake, Ind. Chron., 209, lS3(i. Alafiers.— 



Drake, Bk. of Inds., bk. 4, 77, 1S48. 



Alaganik. An Ahtenaand Ugalakmiut 

 village near the mouth of Copper r. , 

 Alaska. Pop. in 1880, with Eyak, 117; 

 in 1890, 48. Serebrenikof visited the vil- 

 lage in 1848, but Allen in 1885 found it 

 on what he supposed to be a new site. 



Alaganik.— Dall in Cont. N. A. Ethnol.. I, map, 

 1877. Alaganuk.— Petroff, 10th Census, .\laska, 29, 

 1884. Alagnak.— Serebrenikof quoted bv Baker, 

 Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1901. Anahanuk,— Alien, ibid. 

 Lookta-ek.— nth Census, .\laskii, Uil, 1893. 



Alaho-ateuna ('those of tlie southern- 

 most') . A phratry embracing the Tona- 

 shi (Badger) and Aiyaho (Red-topped- 

 shrub) clans of the Zufii. — Cushing, inf'n, 

 1891. 



Alahulapas. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage near Santa Inez ini.ssion, Santa Bar- 

 bara CO., Cal. — Gatschet in Chief Fng. 

 Rep., i)t. :!, 553, 1876. 



Ala-Lengya ('horn-flute'). A phra- 

 tral group of the Hopi, consisting of the 

 Ala (Horn) and Lengya (Flute) clans. 

 Ala-Lenya,— Fewkesin 19th Rep. B. A. E..583, 1901. 



Alali. A former Chumashan village on 

 Santa Cruz id., off the coast of California. 

 A-la'-li. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. voeab., 

 B. A. E., 1884. 



Alameda (Span. : ' cotton wood grove ' ). 

 A ruined pueblo on the e. side of the 

 Rio Grande, about 10 m. alxive Albu- 

 querque, Bernalillo co., N. Mex. It was 

 occupied bytheTigua until 1681, and was 

 formerly on the bank of the river, but is 

 now a mile from it, owing to changes in 

 the course of the stream (Bandelier in 

 Arch. Inst. Rep., v, 88, 1884). It was the 

 seat of a Spanish mission, with 300 inhab- 

 itants about 1660-68, and a church ded- 

 icated to Santa Ana which was doul)t- 

 less destroved in the Pueblo revolt of 1680- 

 96 (Vetancurt (1697), Teatro Mex., iii, 

 311, 1871 ). The settlement was afterwanl 

 reestablished as a mission visita of Albu- 

 querque. ( F. w. H. ) 



Alamada. - Aljert in Emory, Recon., map, 1848. 

 Alameda de Mora, — Villa Senor, Theatro Am., pt. 

 2,41.5,1748. Alemada. — Abert in EmorvReeon., 



464, 1848. Alemeda Gallegas (1844) miscjuoted, 



ibid.. 479. 



Alamillo. (Span. : ' little cotton wood ' ) . 

 A former pueblo of the Piros on the Rio 

 Grande about 12 m. n. of Socorro, N. Mex., 



the seat of a Franciscan mission, estab- 

 lished early in the 17th century, which 

 contained a church dedicated to Santa 

 Ana. The inhabitants did not participate 

 in the Pueblo revolt of 1680, and most of 

 them joined the Spaniards in their flight 

 to El Paso, Chihuahua. In the following 

 year, however, on the return of Gov. 

 Otermin, the remaining inhabitants of 

 the pueblo fled, whereupon the village 

 was destroyed by the Spaniards. The 

 population in 1680 was 300. See Vetan- 

 curt (1697), Teatro Mex., iii, 310, repr. 

 1871; Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 

 239, 1892. (f. w. h. ) 



Alamingo. A village of hostile Dela- 

 wares(?) in 1754, probably on Susque- 

 hanna r.. Pa.; possibly the people of Al- 

 lemoebi, the "king" of the Dela wares, 

 who lived at Shamokin about 1750 

 (Drake Trag. Wild., 153, 1841 ). 



Alamo. See San Antonio de Valera. 



Alamo Bonito (Span.: 'beautiful Cot- 

 tonwood'). A small settlement of Mis- 

 sion Indians on Torres res., 75 m. from 

 INlission Tule River agency, s. Cal. 



Alimo Bonita.— Ind. An. Rep., 170, 1904. Allmo 

 Bonito.— Ibid., 17.'i, 1902. 



Alamos (Span.: ' cottonwoods ' ) . A 

 pueblo of the Eudeve division of the 

 ( )j)ata, the seat of a Sjjanish mission estab- 

 lished in 1629; situated on a small tribu- 

 tary of the Rio Sonora, in Sonora, Mex- 

 ico. Pop. 165 in 1678, 45 in 1730 (Rivera 

 quoted bv Bancroft, Mex. No. States, i, 

 513, 1884). 



Asuncion Alamos. — Zapata (1678) quoted by Ban- 

 croft, op. cit.. 24(). Los Alamos, —Orozco y Berra, 

 Geog., 344, 1864. 



Alamos. A former rancheria, probably 

 of the Sobaipuri, on Rio Santa Cruz, s. 

 Ariz. ; visited and so named by Father 

 Kino about 1697. — Bernal (1697) quotecj 

 by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 356, 1889. 



Alamucha. A former Choctaw town in 

 Kemper co.. Miss., 10 m. from Succar- 

 nooche cr., an affluent of Tombigbee r. 



AUamutcha Old Town. — Gatscliet, Creek Migr 

 Leg., I, 109. 1884. 



Alapaha. A former Seminole town in 

 Hamilton co., Fla., on Allapaha r. It 

 was once under Chief Okmulgee, who 

 died before 1820. (h. w. h.) 

 A-la-pa-ha-tolafa. — Bell in Morse, Rep. to See. 

 War, :M6, 1822. 



Alaskaite. A mineral, according to 

 Dana (Text-book Mineral., 420, 1888), so 

 called from having lieen found in the 

 Alaska mine, Poughkeepsie gulch, Colo.; 

 primarily from Aloi^kd, the name of the 

 territory of the United States, and the 

 English suftix -ite. Alaska, according to 

 Dall, is derived from Alnk-Hhal-, or Ald- 

 yekm, signifying ' mainland,' the term by 

 which the Eskimo of Unalaska id. desig- 

 nated the continental land of n. w. Amer- 

 ica, (a. f. c. ) 



Alawahku. The Elk tdan of the Pecos 

 tribe of New Mexico. — Hewett in Am. 

 Anthrop., vi, 431, 1904. 



