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1S92 (Biloxi name). Tiik' hiti ishak, — Gatschet, 

 MS., B. A. E. (iiwii name: 'our people'). 



Attacapan Family. A linguistic family- 

 consisting solely of the Attacapa tribe, 

 although there is linguistic evidence of 

 at least two dialects. Under this name 

 were formerly comprised several bands 

 settled in s. La. and n. e. Tex. Although 

 this designation was given them by their 

 Choctaw neighbors on the e. , these bands, 

 with one or two exceptions, do not appear 

 in history under any other general name. 

 Formerly the Karankawa and several 

 other tribes were included with the Atta- 

 capa, but the vocabularies of Martin Du- 

 ralde and of Gatschet show that the At- 

 tacapa language is distinct from all oth- 

 ers. Investigations by Gatschet in Cal- 

 casieu parish. La., in 1885, show that 

 there were at least two dialects of this 

 family spoken at the beginning of the 

 19th century — an eastern dialect, repre- 

 sented in the vocabulary of Duralde, re- 

 corded in 1802, and a western dialect, 

 spoken on the 3 lakes forming the outlet 

 of Calcasieu r. See Powell in 7th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 56, 1891.^ 



AttakullacuUa {AW-gufkdW , from aid/ 

 'wood,' gntknW a verb implying that 

 something long is leaning, w"ithout suffi- 

 cient support, against some other ob- 

 ject; hence ' Leaningwood.' — Mooney). 

 A noted Cherokee chief, born about 1700, 

 known to the whites as Little Carpenter 

 (Little Cornplanter, by mistake, in Hay- 

 wood). The first notice of him is as one 

 of the delegation taken to England by Sir 

 Alexander Gumming in 1730. It is stated 

 that he was made second in authority un- 

 der Oconostota in 1738. He was present 

 at the conference with Gov. Glenn, of 

 South Carolina, in July, 1753, where he 

 was the chief speaker in behalf of the In- 

 dians, but asserted that he had not su- 

 preme authority, the consent of Oconos- 

 tota, the war chief, being necessary for 

 final action. Through his influence a 

 treaty of peace was arranged with Gov. 

 Glenn in 1755, by which a large cession 

 of territory was made to the King of Eng- 

 land; and it was also through his instru- 

 mentality that Ft Dobbs was built, in the 

 year following, al)out 20 m. w. of the pres- 

 ent Salisbury, N. C. When Ft Loudon, 

 on Little Tennes.see r., Tenn., was cap- 

 tured by the Indians in 1760, and most of 

 the garrison and refugees were massacred, 

 Capt. Stuart, who had escajied the toma- 

 hawk, was escorted safely to Virginia by 

 AttakullacuUa, who purchased him from 

 his Indian captor, giving to the latter, 

 as ransom, his rifle, clothes, and every- 

 thing he had with him. It was again 

 through the influence of AttakullacuUa 

 that the treaty of Charleston was signed 

 in 1761, and that Stuart, after peace had 



been restored, was received by the Chero- 

 kee as the British agent for the southern 

 tribes; yet notwithstanding his friend- 

 ship for Stuart, who remained a steadfast 

 loyalist in the Revolution, and the fact 

 that a large majority of the Cherokee es- 

 poused the British cause, AttakullacuUa 

 raised a force of 500 native warriors which 

 he offered to the Americans. He is de- 

 scribed by William Bartram (Travels, 482, 

 1792) , who visited him in 1776, as "a man of 

 remarkably small stature, slender and of a 

 delicate frame, the only instance I saw in 

 the nation, but he is a man of superior 

 abilities." Although he had become 

 sedate, dignified, and somewhat taciturn 

 in maturer years, Logan (Hist. Upper 

 So. Car., I, 490, 515, 1859) says that in 

 his younger days he was fond of the bot- 

 tle and often inebriate. The date of his 

 death has not been recorded, but it was 

 probablv about 1780. See Moonev in 19th 

 Rep. B."^A. E., 1900. 



Attamtuck. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, in 1608, situated between the 

 Chickahominy and Pamunkey rs., in New 

 Kent CO., Va. — Smith (1629), Virginia, 

 I, map, repr. 1819. 



Attamusco. See Atamasco. 



Attaock. A Conestoga village existing 

 in 1608 w. of Susquehanna r., probably in 

 what is now^ York co. , Pa. — Smith ( 1608 ) , 

 Virginia, i, map, repr. 1819. 



Attapulgas (Creek: atapliaJgi, 'dog- 

 wood grove ' ). A former Seminole town 

 on a branch of Oklokonee or Yellow- 

 water r., Fla. A town of the name is 

 now in Decatur co., Ga. 



Taphulgee.— Roberts, Florida, 1763. Top-hulga.— 

 Bell in Morse, Rep. to Sec War, 307, 1822. Top- 

 kegalga. — Ibid., 306. Topkelake. — Peniere, ibid. 

 Tuphulga,— H. R. Ex. Doe. 74 (1823), 19tli Cong., 

 27, 1826. 



Attenmiut. A division of the Malemiut 

 Eskimo whose chief village is Atteu, near 

 the source of Buckland r., Alaska. 



Attenmut.— Dall, Alaska, 284, 1870. At'tenmut.— 

 Dall in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., l, 16, 1877. 



Attenok. A Sidarumiut Eskimo village 

 on Seahorse ids., Alaska. 

 Attenokamiut. — 11th Census, Alaska, 162, 1893. 



Attignawantan (Huron: hail 'they,' 

 annionnie" 'bear': ' bear people'). One 

 of the largest tribes of the Huron confed- 

 erac}', comprising about half the Huron 

 population, formerly living on Nottawas- 

 aga bay, Ontario. In 1638 they were set- 

 tled in 14 towns and villages (Jes. Rel. 

 1638, 38, 1858). The Jesuit missions of 

 St Joseph and La Conception were es- 

 tablished among them. (j. n. b. h. ) / 



Atignaoiiantan,— .Jes. Rel. for 1642, 61,1858. Atin- 

 gyahointan.— Sagard (1632), Hist. Can., IV, 1866. 

 Atingyahoulan. — Coxe, Carolana, map, 1741 . Atin- 

 niaoenten.— Jes. Rel. for 1649, 12, 1858. Atin- 

 niaSenten. — Jes. Rel. for 1644, 77, 1858. Atinouaen- 

 tans.— Champlain (1618), CEuvres, IV, 140, 1870. 

 Attignaoouentan, — Kingsley, Stand. Nat. Hist., pt. 

 6, 154, 1883. AttignaSantani— Jes. Rel. for 1639, 50, 



