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BANTAM BARK 



[B. A. E. 



appropriation amounting to 21 cents per 

 capita per diem. During the summer a 

 drunken Indian of the tribe shot and 

 wounded two teamsters; the excitement 

 and bitter feehng caused by his arrest, Nov. 

 23, 1877, resulted in the killing of an 

 agency employee. Troops were called for, 

 and the murderer was pursued, captured, 

 tried, and executed. This episode so in- 

 creased the excitement of the Indians 

 that, fearing what was assumed to be 

 threatening demonstrations, the troops 

 surrounded and captured two Bannock 

 camps in Jan., 1878; but most of the In- 

 dians were afterward released. On ac- 

 count of insufficient food the Bannock 

 left the reservation in the spring and went 

 to Camas prairie, where they killed sev- 

 eral settlers. A vigorous campaign under 

 Gen. Howard resulted in the capture of 

 about 1,000 of them in August, and the 

 outbreak came to an end after a tight on 

 Sept. 5, at Clark's ford, where 20 Bannock 

 lodges were attacked and all the women 

 and children killed. 



Bridger states that when he first knew 

 them (about 1829) the southern Bannock 

 numbered 1,200 lodges, indicating a popu- 

 lation of about 8,000. In 1869 they were 

 estimated as not exceeding 500, and this 

 number was proliably an overestimate as 

 their lodges numbered but 50, indicating a 

 population of about 350. In 1901 the tribe 

 numbered 513, so intermixed, however, 

 with the Shoshoni that no attempt is made 

 to enumerate them separately. All the 

 Bannock except 92 under Lemhi agency 

 are gathered on Ft Hall res. , Idaho. Prac- 

 tically nothing is known of the former 

 organization of the Bannock or of their 

 divisions. The names of four divisions 

 were obtained by Hoffman, and a fifth is 

 given by Schoolcraft. These are Kut- 

 shundika, or Buffalo -eaters; Penointi- 

 kara, or Honey-eaters; Shohopanaiti, or 

 Cottonwood Bannock; Yambadika, or 

 Root -eaters; Waradika, or Rye -grass- 

 seed-eaters, (h. w. h. c. t. ) 

 Banac— Smet, Lettera, 129, 1843. Ban-acks,— For- 

 ney in Ind. Aff. Rep., 213, 1858. Banai'ti,— Hoff- 

 man in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, xxiii, 298, 1886 

 (Shoshoni name). Banani.— Gatschet, Chippewa 

 MS., B. A. E. (Chippewa name). Ban-at-tees. — 

 Ross, Fur Hunters, l, 249, 1855. Banax.— Mulhm 

 in Pac. R. R. Rep., l, 329, 1855. Bannach Snakes.— 

 Wallen in H. R. Ex. Doe. 65, 36th Cong., 1st sess., 

 223, 1860. Bannacks.— Irving, Rocliy Mts., I, 71, 

 1837. Banneck.— Ibid., 159. Ban'-ni-ta,— Stuart, 

 Montana, 25, 1805. Bonaeks.— Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, vi, 697, 1857. Bonak.— Farnham, Travels, 

 76, 1843. Bonarch Diggers.— Meek in H. R. Ex. 

 Doc. 76, 30th Cong., 1st sess., 10, 1848. Bonarcbs.— 

 Ibid. Bonarks.- Sen. Ex. Doc. 1, 31st Cong., 2d 

 sess., 198, 18.50. Bonnacks. — Dennison in Ind. Aff. 

 Rep., 371, 1857. Bonnaks.— Hale, Ethnog. and Phi- 

 lol., 218, 1846. Bonnax,— Parker, Jour., map, 1842. 

 Bonochs.— Prichard, Phj-s. Hist., v, 430, 1847. Boo- 

 nacks. — Irving, Astoria, map, 1849. Broken-Moc- 

 casin.— Lewis and Clark, Exped., i, 330, 1842 (prob- 

 ably the Baiiniick). Diggers. — Many authors. 

 Moccasin-with-Holes. — Lewis and Clark, op. cit. 

 Ogoize.— Giorda, Calispel Diet., I, 439, 1877 (Calis- 

 pelname). Panack.— Townsend, Nar., 75, 1839. 



Panai'ti. — Hoffman in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, 

 XXIII, 299 1886 (own name). Panak, — Gebow, 

 Snake Vocab., B. A. E. (Shoshoni name). Pan- 

 asht, — Hale, op. cit. Pannacks. — Lander in Sen. 

 Ex. Doc. 42, 36th Cong., 1st sess., 121, 1860. Pannah.— 

 Ibid. Pannakees. — Ibi<l. Paunaques. — Wveth 

 (1848) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, I, 206, 1851. 

 Pohas.— Robertson (1846) in H. R. Ex. Doc. 76,30th 

 Cong., 1st sess., 9, 1848. Ponacks,— Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, vi, 697, 1857. Ponashita.— Ibid., I, .521, 

 1853. Ponashta.— Lane (1849) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 52. 

 SlstCong., 1st sess., 169,1850. Ponishta Bonacks. — 

 Schoolcraft, op. cit., Vl, 701, 18.57. Pftn-ush.- 

 Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., ii, Ixxix, 1823 (Sho- 

 shoni name). Punashly. — Fremont, Geog. Mem. 

 Upper Cal., map, 1848. Pun-naks. — Bonner, Life 

 of Beckwourth, 93, 1856. Robber Indians. — Ross, 

 Fur Hunters, 1, 249, 18,55. Tannockes, — Audouard, 

 Far West, 182, 1869. Ush-ke-we-ah,— Crow MS. 

 vocab., B. A. E. (Crow name). 



Bantam, According to Trumbull, a for- 

 mer village at Litchfield, Litchfield co.. 

 Conn. Part of the Indians there were 

 converted by the Moravian missionaries 

 about 1742^5, and followed them to Beth- 

 lehem, Pa., where many died, and the 

 remnant returned to Scaticook, in Kent 

 CO., Conn. 

 Bantom.— Trumbull, Conn., II, 82, 1818. 



Bantas. A village of the Cholovone 

 E. of the San Joaquin and n. of the Tuol- 

 umne r., Cal. — Pinart, Cholovone MS., 

 B. A. E., 1880. 



Baqueachic {bdkd 'bamboo reed,' chik 

 'place of.' — Lumholtz). A Tarahumare 

 settlement on or near the Rio Conchos, 

 lat. 27° 40^ long. 106° 50^ Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. 



Baqueachic— Lumlioltz, Unknown Mex., i, 320. 

 1902. Baquiacbic— Orozco y Berra, Geog., 323, 1864. 



Baquiarichic. A Tarahumare settle- 

 ment on or near a ]:)ranch of the s. tribu- 

 tary of the Rio Conchos, lat. 26° 55^, long. 

 106° 30^ Chihuahua, Mexico.— Orozco v 

 Berra, Geog., 322, 1864. 



Baquigopa(6ar/u/-(7o 'cane'; Buelnasays 

 the name means 'plain of the canes'). 

 A former Opata village on the upper 

 Yaqui, locally known as the Rio Babispe, 

 E. of Guachinera, n. e. Sonora, Mexico. 

 Its abandonment was the result of attacks 

 by Indians of w. Chihuahua, the inhab- 

 itants finally settling at Guachinera. 

 See Batexopa. ( f. w. h. ) 

 Bacayopa.— Buelna, Pereg. Aztecas, 123, 1892. 

 Baquigopa, — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Pap., ill, 59, 

 64, 1890; IV, 518, 1892. 



Bar-du-de-clenny. See Nakaidoklini. 



Bark. Among the resources of nature 

 utilized by the tribes of North America 

 bark was of jarime importance. It was 

 stripped from trees at the right season by 

 hacking all around and taking it off in 

 sheets of desired length. The inner bark 

 of cedar, elm, and other trees was in some 

 localities torn into strips, shredded, 

 twisted, and spun or woven. The bark of 

 wild flax (Apoeynum) and the Asclepias 

 were made into soft textiles. Bark had 

 a multitude of functions. In connection 

 with the most important of wants, the 

 nece.ssity for food, it supplied many tribes 

 with an article of diet in the spring, their 



