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While the tribe were gathered at tiie 

 agency to treat with the commissioners, 

 their great herds of cattle destroyed their 

 growing crops and were subsequently 

 stolen. The signers , expected that the 

 rations of beef that had been cut off by 

 the Government would be restored, and 

 the agent began to issue the extra rations. 

 In the following year, when drought had 

 luined the new croj), authority to increase 

 the rations having l)een withheld, they 

 were reduced at the most unseasonal)le 

 time. The Sioux were actually starving 

 when the malcontents took their arms 

 and went out to the bad-lands to dance 

 themselves into the exalted state neces- 

 sary for the final struggle with the whites. 

 American Horse and other friendlies in- 

 dulged them to suljmit, and the episode 

 would have been concluded without fur- 

 ther bloo<lshed had not acollision occurred 

 between some raw troops and Big Foot's 

 band after its surrender. In 1891 Ameri- 

 can Horse headed the delegation from 

 Pine Ridge to Washington, composed of. 

 leaders of both the friendly and tlie lately 

 hostile party, and the conferences resulted 

 in the issue of living rations and in fairer 

 treatment of the Sioux, (v. h.) 



Amerind. A word composed of the 

 first syllables of "American Indian," 

 suggested in 1899 by an American lexi- 

 cogra[)her as a substitute for the inap- 

 propriate terms used to designate the 

 race of man inhabiting the New World 

 before its occupancy by Europeans. 

 The convenience of such derivatives as 

 Amerindic, Amerindize, Amerindian, 

 proto-Amerind, pre-Amerindic, pseudo- 

 Amerind, etc., argues in favor of the new 

 word. The introduction of "Amerind" 

 was urged by the late Maj. J. W. Powell, 

 and it has the support of several anthro- 

 pologists. A plea by Dr W J jMcCiee for 

 its general adoption appeared in 1900 in 

 the Journal of the Anthropological In- 

 stitute of (ireat Britain. The use of 

 "Amerind" at the International Con- 

 gress of Americanists in New York, Oct., 

 1902, occasioned a discussion (Science, 

 n. s., XVI, 892, 1902) in which it was sup- 

 ported by some and attacked by others. 

 The name, nevertheless, has found its 

 way into both scientific and popular litera- 

 ture, (a. f. c. ) 



Ametzilhacaamanc ( 'mouth of the sandy 

 arroyo'). A rancheria, probably Coch- 

 imi, connected with Purisima mission, 

 Lower ('alifornia, in the 18tli century. — 

 Doc. Hist. Mex., 4ths.,v, 190, 1857. 



Amicoa. Mentioned by Coxe ( Carolana, 

 14, 1741) as a tribe on the Honabanoy, 

 an imaginary river entering the Missis- 

 sippi from the w., 15 leagues above the 

 month of the Ohio. It is probably an 

 imaginary tribe. 



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Amikwa (from amik, 'beaver'). An 

 Algonquian tribe found by the French on 

 the N. shore of L. Huron, opposite Mani- 

 toulin id., where they were located in the 

 Jesuit Relations at various dates up to 

 1672. Bacqueville de la Potherie (Hist. 

 Am. Sept., 1753) says that they and the 

 Nipissing once inhabited the shores of 

 L. Nipissing, and that they rendered 

 themselves masters of all the other na- 

 tions in those quarters until disease made 

 great havoc among them and the Iroquois' 

 compelled the remainder of the tribe to 

 betake them-selves, some to the French 

 settlements, others to L. Superior and to 

 Green bay of L. Michigan. In 1740 a 

 remnant had retired to Manitoulin id. 

 Chauvignerie, writing in 173(i, says of the 

 Nipissing: "The armorial l)earings of this 

 nation aye, the heron for the Achaguc or 

 Heron tribe, the beaver for the Ame- 

 ko8es [Amikwa], the birch for the Bark 

 tribe. ' ' The reference may possibly 1 )e to 

 a gens only of the Nipissing and not to the 

 Amikwa tribe, yet the evidently close re- 

 lation between the latter and the Nipis- 

 sing justifies the belief that the writer 

 alluded to the Amikwa as known to his- 

 tory. They claimed in 1673 to be allies 

 of the Nij^issing. (.j. m. c. t. ) 

 Amehouest.— Heriot, Travels, 197, 1807. Ame- 

 ko8es.— Chauvignerie (1736) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., IX, 1053, 1855. Amicawaes.—Bovd,Ind. Local 

 Names, 3, 1885. Amicois.— Doc. of 1(>93 in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., IX, 56B, 1855. Amicoues.— ,Jes. Rel. 1671, 

 ■25, 1858. Amicoures,— .Tes. Rel. 1670, 79, 1858. Ami- 

 cours. — Heriot, Trav.. 194, 1S07. Amic-ways. — Boyd, 

 Ind. Local Names, 3, l.ssf). Amihouis. — Golden 

 (1727) , Five Nations, sti, 1717. Amikois.— N.Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., IX, 722, 1855. Amikones, — McKenne.v and 

 Hall, Ind. Trilies, iii, 81, 1S54. Amikoiiai.— Jes. 

 Rel. 1640, 34, I8-18. Amikoiias.— Perrot (m. 1700), 

 Mem., 20, isill, Amikouek.— ,Tes. Rel. 1<;48, 62, 1858. 

 Amikoues.— liallinee (1669-70) in Margry, D^c, I, 

 162, 1875. a Mikouest. — La Potherie, Hist. 1' Am^r., 



II, 48, 17.53 (misprint). Amikouest,— Ibid., 58. 

 Amikouets,— Neill in Minn. Hist, Soc. Coll., V,403, 

 1S85. Amikouis.— .lefferys, Fr. Doms., pt, 1, 47,1761. 

 Amikouys. — Charlevoix (1743), Voy.. II, 47, 1761. 

 Beaver (Indians). — Shea, Catholic Missions, 366, 

 18,55, Castor. — McKennev and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 



III, SI, is.nl. Naiz Percez.— .les. Rel, 1636, 92, 1858. 

 Nation du Castor. — Ibid, Nation of the Beaver. — 

 .lefferys, French Doms, Am., pt, 1, 47, 1761, Neds- 

 percez. — .Tes. Rel, 1657, 11, 18.58. Nez-Perces. — 

 Charlevoix, Hist, New France, Shea ed., iii, 130, 

 1872, Nez Percez.— Ibid., 119. Omikoues.— Rasles 

 (CO. 1723) in Mass. Hi.st. Soc. Coll., 2d s., viii, 251, 

 1819. Ounikanes. — Chauvignerie (1736>quoted by 

 Schoolcraft, Ind, Tribes, iii, 654, 18.53 (misprint,) 



Amilcou. Mentioned by Iberville in 

 connection with the Biloxi, Moctobi, 

 Huma, Paskagula, etc., as a small tribe 

 E. of the lower Mississippi in 1699 (Mar- 

 gry, Dec, iv, 1-55, 1880) ; not identified. 



Aminoya. A province or village, possi- 

 bly Siouan, situated in 1542 on the w. 

 bank of the Mississippi, probably a short 

 distance below the mouth of Arkansas r. 

 It was here the remnant of De Soto's fol- 

 lowers, under the leadership of Moscoso, 

 embarked for Mexico ((uircilasso de la 

 Vega, Florida, 222, 1723). The people 



