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AM ALGUA^ AMEBIC AN HORSE 



[b. a. e. 



(Hist. Inds., 35-1, 1775), stood at some dis- 

 tance from the (jther Chickasaw towns. 

 They met the French there in a sanguin- 

 ary battle during the first ("hickasaw war 

 of 1736. (a. s. G ) 

 Melattaw.— Komans, East and West Fla.,63, 1775. 



Amalgua ( 'island of the mists'). An 

 island off the w. coast of Lower California, 

 about lat. 30°, on which was a Cochimi 

 rancheria. — Venegas, Hist. Cal., ii, 437, 

 1757. 



Euamalgua, — Clavigero quoted by Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, ,Ian. 17, 1862. 



Amani-ini ( 'mescal corner') . A ranch- 

 eria, probaltly Cochimi, connected with 

 Pun'sima mission. Lower California, in 

 the 18th century. 

 Amani inf.— Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., V, 189, 1857. 



Amaseconti ('abundance of small lish' 

 [herring]). A small division of the Ab- 

 naki formerly residing in part at Farm- 

 ington falls, on Sandy r., Franklin co., 

 Me., and partly near the present New 

 Sharon, a few miles distant. They took 

 part with the other Abnaki in the early 

 Indian wars against the English and 

 joined in the treaty made at Portsmouth,, 

 N. H., in 1713. Some of them lingered 

 in their old homes until about 1797, when 

 the last family removed to St Francis, 

 lower Canada, where they retained their 

 distinctive name until 1809. (.i. m. ) 

 Amasaconticook. — Billiard in U. S. Coast Snrv. 

 Rep., 251, 1S71 (ffiveii .-istliccorrert naiiieof Sumly 

 r). Amasacontoog.— FortsuKinlli Irt'aty (17l:i) in 

 Me. Hist. 8oc. Coll.. v[,25(i, ISn'.t. Amasaguanteg.— 

 Gyles (1726), iljid., iii, 357, 1853. Amasconly.— 

 Niles (17til?) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3<1 s., vi, 247. 

 1837. Amascontie.— Niles (1761?), i):)i(l.. 4th s., v, 

 335, 1861. Amasconty.— Peiihallow ( 1726) in N. H. 

 Hist. Soc. (U)!]., I, 21, 1.S24. Amasecontee, — Ibid., 

 82. Amassacanty. — Niles (17f.r.') in Mass. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., 3d s., VI, 246, 1.S37. Amassaconty.— Pen- 

 hallow, op. cit. Amosequonty.— Map of 17UVcited 

 by Ballard in U. S. Coast Survey Rep., 251, 1871. 

 Aiimesoukkanti. — Rasles quoted by Ballard, iliid. 

 Anmessukkantti. — Rasles (1722) qiiotiMi by Vetro- 

 niiie, Abiiakis, 23-27. 1866. AnmissS'kanti.— 

 Abnaki letter (1721) in Mas-;. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d 

 s., VIII, 262-3, 1819. Aumesoukkantti.— Rasles in 

 Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., iv, 102, 18.56. Meesee Contee.— 

 Allen, ibid.. 31 (trans. ' herring place'). Meesu- 

 contu, — Willis, ibid., 105. 



Amatidatahi. A former Hidatsa village 

 on or near Knife r., N. Dak. 

 Amati data hi, —Matthews, Ethnog. Hidatsa, 133, 

 1877, A ma ti natahi. — Ibid. 



Amatiha. A former Hidatsa village on 

 the s. bank of Knife r., half a mile above 

 its mouth, in N. Dak. 



AmatiKa,— Matthews, Ethnog. and Philol., 35, 38, 

 1877. Awatichai-Echpou. — Maximilian, Vov. dans 

 I'Int. de I'Am., iii, 2, 1843. Awatichay.— Maxi- 

 milian, Trav., 178, 1843. 



Amatpan. A former Chitimacha vil- 

 lage on Bayou Gris, in St Marys parish. 

 La., 3 m. e. of Charenton, on the shore of 

 (irand lake. 



Amatpan namu. — Gatschet in Trans. Anthrop. 

 Soc. Wash., II, 151,1883 (?!('(?«?t = ' village '). 



Amaxa. A pueblo of New Mexico in 

 1598, doul)tle.?s situated in the Salinas in 

 the vicinity of Abo, and evidently occu- 

 pied by Tigua or Piros. — Onate (1598) in 

 Doc. Ined., XVI, 114, 187L 



Amber Beads, Alaska (l-2 



Amaye. A tow'n and province visited 

 by the De Soto expedition in 1542; situ- 

 ated probably in extreme s. w. Arkan- 

 sas. — Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in French, 

 Hist. Coll. La.. II, 195, 1850. 



Amay.— Harris, Voy. and Trav., I, 810, 1705. 



Amber. A fossilized vegetable resin 

 occurring in small quantities in the more 

 recent geological formations in many 

 parts of the continent. So far as known 

 it was little used by the aborigines, ex- 

 cepting the Elskimo of 

 Alaska, who valued it 

 for beads and other 

 small ornaments. 

 These people obtained 

 it from the alluvium of 

 the Yukon delta and 

 from the Tertiary for- 

 mations of the Fox ids. Murdoch (9th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 1892) illustrates a string of 

 four small aml)er beads obtained from the 

 Pt Barrow Eskimo. See also Kunz, Gems 

 and Precious Stones, 1890. (w. h. h.) 



Amdowapuskiyapi ( 'those who lay meat 

 on their shoulders to dry it during the 

 hunt'). A Sisseton baml or subtribe. — 

 Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 217, 1897. 

 Amediche. A tril)e, ])robably Caddoan, 

 that lived aljout (58 leagues w. of Natchi- 

 toches, in E. Texas. La Harpe stated that 

 in 1714-1(5 they were at war with the 

 Natchitoches, and that the Spaniards had 

 established a settlement among them a 

 few years previously, but soon aban- 

 doned it. (a. c. f. ) 



Amedichez. — La Harpe (1719) in Margry, Dec, VI, 

 266, 1,SS6. 



Amen {A'mi'n). A village or a group of 

 3 adjacent villages of the Yurok on the 

 coast 6 m. n. of the mouth of Klamath 

 r., Cal., their northernmost 'hal)itation. 



(A. L. K.) 



Amerdlok ('the smaller one,' referring 

 generally to a bay near a larger one). An 

 Eskimo village in w. Greenland, lat. 67°. — 

 Nansen, First Crossing, map, 1890. 



American Horse. An Oglala Sioux chief, 

 known in his tribe as Wasechun-tashunka. 

 He was prol)ably the son or nephew of 

 the American Horse who went out with 

 Sitting Bull in the Sioux war and was 

 killed at Slim buttes, S. Dak., Sept. 29, 

 1875. As speaker for the tribe he signed 

 the treaty secured by the Crook commis- 

 sion in 1887, by which the Sioux reserva- 

 tion in Dakota was reduced liy one-half. 

 Nearly half the tribe objected to the ces- 

 sion, alleging that the promises of the 

 commissioners could not l)e depended on, 

 and the malcontents, excited l)y the mes- 

 sianic craze that had recently reached the 

 Sioux and by the killing of Sitting Bull, 

 its chief exponent miiong them, in 1890, 

 withdrew from the council and prepared 

 to tight the Government. The exjiected 

 benefit^ of the treaty proved illusory. 



