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BIDAMAREK BIG KETTLE 



[b. a. k. 



Philol. Soc. Lond., 103, isr^e. Guasmigdo.— Ker, 

 Trav., 122, 1816 (given as their own name). 

 Redais. — F'oote, Texas, 1,299,1841. Spring Creeks. — 

 Ibid. Vidaes.— Mezieres (1778) quoted bv Ban- 

 croft, No. Mex. States, I, 661, 1886. Vidais,— 

 French, Hist. Coll. La., ii, ll,187.=i. Vidays.— D(ic. 

 503 (1791-92) in Texas State archives. Vivais.— 

 Doc. of Aug. 26, 1756, ibid. 



Bidamarek. An indefinite division of 

 the Pomo of California, the name being 

 aj)plied by the Pomo of iii>per Clear lake 

 to the inhabitants of the region w. of them 

 on Russian r., as distinguished from the 

 Danomarek, or hill people, of the same 

 region. Gibbs, in 1851, mentioned the 

 Bedahmarek as living with the Shanel- 

 kaya in a val ley apparent 1 y at the sou rce of 

 the E. fork of Russian r. ; and MeKee, in 

 the same year, gave the Medamarec, said 

 to number 150, as inhabiting with the 

 Chanetkai the hills dividing the waters 

 of Clear lake from Eel {sic) r. (a. l. k. ) 

 Bedah-marek. — Gibbs (1851) in Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, ni, 109, 1853. Me-dama-rec— McKee (1851) 

 in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 32d Cong., spec, sess., 136, 1853. 



Big Bill. A Paiute chief. He led the 

 Indians who aided the notorious Mormon 

 John D. Lee in the Mountain Meadow 

 massacre in s. w. Utah on Sept. 11, 1857. 



Big Canoe. A Kalispel war chief who 

 acquired considerable notoriety as a 

 leader in battle. He was born in 1799 

 and died in 1882 at the Flathead agency, 

 Mont. (c. T.) 



Big Chief. An Osage village 4 m. from 

 the .Mission in Ind. T. in 1850; pop. 300. 

 Big-chief.— Sniet. West. Missions, 355, 1863. 



Big Cypress Swamp. A Seminole set- 

 tlement, with 73 inhabitants in 1880, sit- 

 uated in the "Devil's Garden" on the n. 

 edge of Big Cypress swamji, 15 to 20 m. 

 s. w. of L. Okeechobee, Monroe co. , 

 Fla.— MacCauley in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 

 478, 1887. 



Big Foot (Si-tanka). A Hunkpapa 

 Sioux chief, of the Cheyenne River res., 

 S. Dak., leader of the band of about 300 

 men, women, and children who fled from 

 the reservation after the killing of Sitting 

 Bull in the autumn of 1890, intending to 

 join the hostiles in the Bad-lands. They 

 were intercepted by troops on Wounded 

 Knee cr. and surrendered, but in at- 

 tempting to disarm the Indians a conflict 

 was precipitated, resulting in an engage- 

 ment in which almost the entire band, 

 including Big Foot, was exterminated, 

 Dec. 29, 1890. See Moonev in 14th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 1896. 



Big Hammock. The most populous 

 Seminole settlement in central Florida in 

 1821; situated n. of Tampa bay, probably 

 in Hillsboro co. — Bell in Morse, Rep. to 

 Sec. War, .307, 1822. 



Big-island (translation of the native 

 name Atnaije'l-c^gwa) . A former Chero- 

 kee settlement on Little Tennessee r., at 

 Big island, a short distance below the 

 mouth of the Tellico, in Monroe co., 



Tenn. ; not to be confounded with Long- 

 island town below Chattanooga. — Mooney 

 in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 508, 1900. 



Amaye'l-e'gwa. — Moonev, op. cit. Big Island. — 

 Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1887. Miala- 

 quo. — Timberlake, Memoir, map, 1762. Nila- 

 que. — Bartram, Travels, 372, 1792. 



Big Jim. The popular name of a noted 

 full-blood Shawnee leader, known among 

 his people as AVapameepto, 'Gives light 

 as he walks.' His English name was 

 originally Dick Jim, corrupted into Big 

 Jim. He was born on the Sabine res., 

 Texas, in 1834, and in 1872 became chief 

 of theKispicothaband, commonly known 

 as Big Jim's l)and of Absentee Shawnee. 

 Big Jim was of illustrious lineage, his 

 grandfather being Tecumseh and his 

 father one of the signers of the "Sam 



BIQ JIM (sHAWNEE) 



Houston treaty" between the Cherokee 

 and affiliated tribes and the Republic of 

 Texas, Feb. 23, 1836. He was probably 

 the most conservative member of his 

 tribe. In the full aboriginal l^elief that 

 the earth was his mother and that she 

 must not be wounded l)y tilling of the 

 soil, he refused until the last to receive 

 the allotments of land that had been 

 forced upon his band in Oklahoma, and 

 used every means to overcome the en- 

 croachments of civilization. For the 

 purpose of finding a place where his peo- 

 ple would be free from molestation, he 

 went to Mexico in 1900, and while there 

 was stricken with smallpox in August, 

 and died. He was succeeded by his only 

 son, Tonomo, who is now (1905) about 

 30 years of age. 

 Big Kettle. See Sonojoivauga. 



