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Ashkanena ('Blackfoot lodges'). A 

 band of the C'rowi?. 

 Ash-kane'-na. — Morgan, Ane. Soc. 169, 1877. 



Ashkum. A Potawatomi village, named 

 from its chief, on the n. side of Eel r., 

 abont Denver, Miami CO., Ind. The res- 

 ervation, including the village, was sold in 



1836. (,T. M.) 



Ashnola. A body of Okinagan in s. w. 

 British Cnlumbia; pop. 54 in 1901. — Can. 

 Ind. Aff. for 1901, pt. 2, 166. 



Ashukhnma ( ' red grass ' ) . A Chickasaw 

 town mentioned by Romans (East and 

 West Fla., 63, 1775) . It was probably in 

 Pontotoc or Dallas co. , Miss. 



Asidahech. A Wichita subtrihe.^ — J. O. 

 Dorsey, inf'n, 1881; Mooney, inf'n, 1902. 

 Ci-da'-hetc. — Doraey, op. cit. (pron. Shi-da'-hetch, 

 or She-dar'haiteh). 



Asilao. A Helatl town on lower Eraser 

 r., above Yale, British Columbia. 

 Asila'o,— Boas in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 4.i4, 1«I4. 



Asimina. The American pai)aw {Asiiii- 

 iua triloba ) . In Louisianian and Canadian 

 French the word as.'iiminier or asiminier, 

 papaw tree, first occurs in the latter part 

 of the 17th century, and it is through this 

 source that the term has entered English. 

 The origin is from the Illinois or some 

 closely related dialect of Algonquian. 

 Trumbull (Am. Philol. Assoc, 25, 1872) 

 considers thatthe ' ' older form, ' ' racemina, 

 used in 1712 by Father Marest, is etymo- 

 logically more correct, representing the 

 Illinois rassimina, from rassi, 'divided 

 lengthwise in equal parts'; mina, plural 

 oi min, 'seed,' 'fruit,' 'berry.' (a. p. c.) 



Asimu. A Chumashan village w. of 

 Pueblo de las Canoas (San Buenaventura ) , 

 Ventura co. , Cal. , in 1542.— Cabrillo ( 1 542) 

 in Smith, Colec. Doc, 181, 1857. 



Asisufuunuk. A Karok village on Kla- 

 math r. at Happy Camp, at the mouth of 

 Indian cr., x. w. Cal. (a. l. k.) 

 As-sif-soof-tish-e-ram. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 Mar. 23, 18(i0. 



Asiuhuil. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage near Santa Inez mission, Santa Bar- 

 bara CO., Cal. — Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, 

 Oct. 18, 1861. 



Askakep. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy in 1608, near Pamunkey r., 

 in New Kent co., Va. — Smith (1629), Va., 

 I, map, repr. 1819. 



Askimimkansen. A village, perhaps con- 

 nected with the Nanticoke, formerly on 

 an upper e. branch of Pocomoke r., prob- 

 ably in Worcester co., INId. — Herrman, 

 map (1670) in Rep. on Boundary Line 

 between Va. and ]\ld., 1873. 



Askinuk. A Kaialigmiut p]skimo vil- 

 lage on Hooper bav, near C. Romanzoff, 

 Alaska; pop. 175 in 1880, 138 in 1890. 

 Askeenac. — Hooper, Cruise of Corwin, ti, 1880. 

 Askinaghamiut. — 11th Census Rep. on Alaska, lt)4, 

 1893. Askinak.— Petroff, 10th Census, Alaska, 54, 

 1884. Askinuk.— Nelson in 18th Rep. B. A. E., map, 

 1899. 



Asko. An Ikogmiut village on the 

 right bank of the Yukon, below Anvik, 

 Alaska; pop. 30 in 1880. 



Askhomute. — Nelson in 18th Rep. B.nA. E., map, 

 1899 (the people). 



Asnela. A small island in Penobscot 

 r.. Me., occupied by the Penobscot. The 

 name is derived from that of an Indian 

 called Assen or Ossen. — Gatschet, Pe- 

 nobscot MS., B. A. E., 1887. 



Asomoches. A division of the New 

 Jersey Delawares formerly living on the e. 

 bank of Delaware r., between Salem and 

 Camden. In 1648 they were estihiated. 

 at 100 warriors. 



Asomoches.— Evelin (1648) in Proud, Pa., I, 113, 

 1797. Asoomaches. — Sanford, U. S., cxlvi, 1819. 



Asopo. A former village, perhaps on 

 Amelia id., n. e. Florida, the site of a 

 Spanish Franciscan mission destroyed in 

 the Indian revolt of 1597. 



Aspasniagan. A former village of the 

 Chalones, of the Costanoan family, near 

 Soledad mission, Monterey co., Cal. 



Aspasniaga,— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860. 

 Aspasniagan. — Ibid. Aspasniaquan. — Ibid. Aspas- 

 niaques. — Galiano, Relae. del Sutil v Mexieana, 

 164, 1SU2. 



Aspenquid. An Abnaki of Agamenti- 

 cus. Me., forming a curious figure in New 

 England tradition. He is said to have 

 been born toward the end of the 16th 

 century and converted to Christianity, to 

 have preached it to the Indians, traveled 

 much, and died among his own people 

 at the age of about 100 years. Up to 

 1775-76 Aspenquid's day was celebrated 

 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by a clam din- 

 ner. He is said to be buried on 

 the slope of Mt Agamenticus, where he 

 is reported to have appeared in 1682. 

 He is thought by some to be identical 

 with Passaconaway. In Drake's New 

 England Legends there is a poem, "St 

 Aspenquid," by John Albee. See Am. 

 Notes and Queries, ir, 1889. (a. f. c.) 



Asphaltum. See Cemetit. 



Aspinet. A sachem of Nauset on C. Cod, 

 Mass. He was known to the Plymouth 

 colonists as early as 1621, and is noted 

 chiefly for his unwavering friendship for 

 the English. He kindly treated and re- 

 turned to his iiarents a white boy who 

 had lost his way in the woods and was 

 found by some of Aspinet's people. In 

 the winter of 1622, when Thomas Wes- 

 ton's men saw famine staring them in the 

 face, and the Plymouth people were but 

 little better off, Aspinet and his people 

 came to their relief with corn and beans. 

 It was his firm stand in favor of peace 

 with the colonists, and his self-restraint 

 when provoked almost beyond forbear- 

 ance by Standish's hasty temper, that pre- 

 served the friendly relations of the sur- 

 rounding Indians with the Plymouth 

 colony during its early years. He was, 

 however, finally driven into the awamps 



