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BERSIAMITE BIBLE TRANSLATIONS 



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Bersiamite. One of the small Algoii- 

 quian tribes composing the eastern group 

 of the Montagnais, inhabiting the banks 

 of Bersimis r. , which enters St Lawrence 

 r. near the gulf. These Indians became 

 known to the French at an early date, 

 and being of a peaceable and tractable 

 disposition, were soon brought under the 

 influence of the missionaries. They were 

 accustomed to assemble once a year with 

 cognate tribes at Tadoussac for the pur- 

 pose of trade, but these have melted away 

 under the influence of civilization. A 

 trading post called Bersimis, at the mouth 

 of Bersimis r., had in 1902 some 4(j5 In- 

 dians attached to it, but whether any of 

 them were Bersiamite is not stated, (j. m. ) 

 Baisimetes. — MeKeiiney and Hall, Iiid. Tribes, 

 III, 79, ls'>4. Bersamisi — Stearns, Labrador, 263, 

 ISS-l. Bersiamites.— Jes. Rel. for 1640, 34, 1858. 

 Bersiamits.— Hind, Labrador Penin., I, 125, 1863. 

 Bersiamitts.— MfKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 

 in, 81, l.So4. Bertiamistes. — Iroquois treaty (1665) 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., Ill, 122, 1S53. Bertiam- 

 ites,— Memoir of 1706, ibid., ix, 786, 1855. Beth- 

 siamits.— Can. Ind. Aff. Rep., 38, 1880. Betsiam- 

 ites.— Le Clercq quoted by Champlain (1632), 

 (Euvres, iv, 105, 1870. Betsiamits.— Can. Ind. Art". 

 Rep. 1SS4, pt 1, 1S5, 18S5. Bussenmeus. — McKen- 

 ney and Hall, Ind. Trilies, in, 81, 1854. Notre Dame 

 de Betsiamits.— Boucher in Can. Ind. AtY. Rep. 

 for 1884, pt. 1, 36, 1885 (mi.ssion name). Oubestami- 

 ouek.— Jes. Rel. for 1643, 38, 1858. Oumamiois.— 

 Albanel (1670) quoted by Hind, Labrador Renin., 

 I, 126, 1863. Oumamioucks. — McKenney and Hall, 

 Ind. Tribes, in, 79, 1854. Oumamiwek.— Hind, 

 Labrador Renin., i, 224, 1863. 



Besheu {bljV 'lynx'). A gens of the 

 Chippewa. 



Be-sheu.— Warren in Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., v, 44, 

 1885. Pe-zhew.— Tanner, Narrative, 315, 1830 

 (trans. • wild cat'). Pishiu.— Gatschet, Ojibwa 

 MS., B. A. E., 1882. 



Beshow. The black candle-fish {Ano- 

 plopoma fimbria) of the Puget sd. region; 

 from hhiiowk. in the Makah dialect of the 

 Wakashan stock. (a. f. c. ) 



Bethel. An Eskimo mission, founded 

 in 1886 by Moravian brethren from Penn- 

 svlvania, on Kuskokwim r., close to 

 Mumtrelek, Alaska. Pop. 20 in 1890. 



Bethlehem. A Moravian settlement es- 

 tablished in 1740 at the present Bethle- 

 hem, Northampton co.. Pa. Although a 

 white settlement, the ^Moravians drew to- 

 ward it many of the Indians, and in 1746 

 the Mahican converts from Shecomeco 

 resided there for a short time before set- 

 tling at Friedenshuetten. (j. M. ) 



Betonukeengainubejig ( Pi'tona'kingknin- 

 uplclng, 'they who live in the neighbor- 

 hood of [L. Superior on the s.].' — \V. J.). 

 An important division of the Chippewa 

 living in n. Wisconsin, between L. Su- 

 perior and Mississippi r. The Munom- 

 inikasheenhug,Wahsuahgunewininewug, 

 and Lac Court Orel lies Chippewa are 

 incorporated with them. Their principal 

 villages were at Desert lake (Vieux Des- 

 ert), Flambeau lake. Pelican lake, Lac 

 Court ( )reilles, Lac Chetec, Pukwaawun, 

 and Mononiinikau lake. (j. m.) 



Be-ton-auk-an-ub-yig,— Ramsey in Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 8.5, 1850. Be-ton-uk-eeng-ain-ub-e-jig. — Warren in 

 Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., v, 38 1885. Pi'tona'king- 

 kainapitcig. — W. Jones, inf'n, 1905 (correct form^). 



Betty's Neck. A place in Middleboro, 

 Plymouth co., ]Mass., where 8 Indian 

 families lived in 1793, and took its name 

 from an Indian woman (Drake, Bk. Inds., 

 bk. 3, 10, 1848). The people seem to have 

 been Nemasket and subject to the Wam- 

 panoag. (j. m.) 



Biara. A subdivision or settlement of 

 the Tehueco, formerly on the lower Rio 

 Fuerte or the Fuerte-Mayo divide, n. w. 

 Sinaloa, Mexico. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 

 58, 1864. 



Biauswah {payaswa, 'dried,' as when 

 meat is hung over fire until smoked and 

 dried; it may also refer to meat hung on 

 a pole to dry in the sun. — W. J. ) . A Chip- 

 pewa chief, also known as Byianswa, son 

 of Biauswah, a leading man of the Loon 

 gens which resided on the s. shore of L. 

 Superior, 40 m. w. of La Pointe, n. w. Wis. 

 He was taken prisoner by the Fox In- 

 dians when a boy, but was saved from 

 torture and death by his father, who 

 became a voluntarj^ substitute. After the 

 death of his father he moved with his 

 people to Fond du Lac. Being made 

 chief he led the warriors of various bands 

 in an expedition against the Sioux of 

 Sandy lake and succeeded in driving the 

 latter from their village, and later the 

 Sioux were forced to abandon their vil- 

 lages on Cass and Winnipeg lakes and 

 their stronghold on Leech lake, whence 

 they moved westward to the headwaters 

 of Minnesota r. The Chippewa mider 

 Biauswah were those who settled in the 

 country of the upper Mississippi about 

 1768 (Minn. Hist. Coll., v, 222, 1885). 

 The date of his death is not recorded, but 

 it probably occurred not long after the 

 date named. (c. t. ) 



Bibiana. A former rancheria, probably 

 of the Papago, in x. w. Sonora, Mexico, 

 between Busanic and Sonoita, near (or 

 possibly identical with) Anamic. It was 

 visited by Kino in 1702. 

 Sta Bibiana.— Kino (1706) quoted bv Bancroft, No. 

 Mex. States, i, .502, 1886. 



Bible translations. The Bible has been 

 printed in part or in whole in 32 Indian 

 languages n. of Mexico. In 18 one or 

 more portions have been printed; in 9 

 others the New Testament or more has 

 appeared; andin5 languages, namely, the 

 Massachuset, Cree, Labrador Eskimo, 

 Santee Dakota, and Tukkuthkutchin, the 

 whole Bible is in print. 



The Norwegian missionaries, Hans and 

 Paul Egede, were the first to translate 

 any part of the Bible into Greenland 

 Eskimo, their version of the New Testa- 

 ment being printed in part in 1744, and 

 as a whole in 1766. A revision of this 



