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CALUSAHATCHEE CAMITEIA 



[b. a. e. 



finity of the Caliisa or their immediate 

 neighbors, as no vocabulary or other speci- 

 men of the language is known to exist 

 beyond the town names and one or two 

 other words given by Fontaneda, none of 

 which affords basis for serious interpreta- 

 tion. Gatschet, the best authority on the 

 Florida languages, says: "The languages 

 spoken by the Calusa and by the people 

 next in order, the Tequesta, are unknown 

 to us. . . . They were regarded as peo- 

 ple distinct from the Timucua and the 

 tribes of Maskoki origin" (Creek Migr. 

 Leg., I, 13, 1884). There is a possibility 

 that some fragments of the language may 

 yet come to light, as boys of this tribe 

 were among the pupils at the mission 

 school in Havana in the 16th century, 

 and the Jesuit Rogel and an assistant 

 spent a winter in studying the language 

 and recording it in vocabulary form. 



Fontaneda names the following among 

 about 50 Calusa villages existing about 

 1570: Calaobe, Casitoa, Cayovea, Coma- 

 chica, Cuchiyaga, Cutespa, Enempa, 

 Estame, Guarungunve, Guevu, Jutun, 

 Metamapo, Muspa, 'So (explained as 

 meaning 'town beloved'), Quisiyove, 

 Sacaspada, Sinaesta, Sinapa, Soco, Tampa 

 ( distinguished as ' a large town ' ) , Tatesta, 

 Tavaguemue, Tequemapo, Tomo, Tom- 

 sobe, Tuchi, Yagua. Of these, Cuchi- 

 yaga and Guarungunve were upon the 

 keys. (j. M. ) 



Calloosas,— Bartram, Trav., 378, 1792. Callos.— 

 Briiiton, Floridian Peniii., 112, 1859 (given as one 

 of the French forms). Caloosa. — Romans, Fla., 

 291, 1775. Calos.— De Bry, Brevis Narratio, ii, 

 Le Moyne map, 1591 ("province" and "chief": 

 early "French form as used by Le Moyne and 

 Laudonniere). Calusas. — Ralinesque, introd. 

 Marshall, Ky., l, 25, 1824. Cape Florida Indians.— 

 Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., 152, 1775. Carlin.— Davies, 

 Caribby Ids., 332, 1666 (" chief "). Carlos.— Barcia, 

 Ensayo, 95, 1723 ("province" and "chief"; oldest 

 Spanish form as used in Leon narrative, 1513, Fon- 

 taneda, 1575, etc ). Coloosas. — Romans, Fla., app., 

 xxxiv,1775. Kaloosas, — IMorse, Rep. to Sec. War, 

 364, 1822. Kalusa. — Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., 

 1, map, 1884. 



Calusahatcliee. A former Seminole town 

 on Calusahatchee r., s. w. Fla. 



Caloosahatche,— Bartram, Travels, 462, 1791. Co- 

 looshatchie.— Drake, Bk. Inds., iv, 149, 1848. Cull- 

 oo-sau hat-che.— Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 25, 1848. 



Calusi. An unidentified province ap- 

 parently in E. Ark., N. of Arkansas r. and 

 w. of the St Francis, visited by De Soto in 

 1541. 



Caluf.-BiedmainSmith, Coll. Doc. Fla., 1, 60,18.57. 

 Calupa.— Gentl. of Elvas (1.557) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., II, 17.5, 1850. Calusi.— Biedma, ibid., 106. 



Camajal. A Diegueno rancheria repre- 

 sented in the treaty of 1852 at Santa Isa- 

 bel, Cal.— H. R. Ex. Doc. 76,34th Cong., 

 132, 1857. 



Camanc-nac-cooya (probably 'round 

 field of cactus'). A rancheria, probably 

 Cochimi, connected with Purisima (Cade- 

 gomo) mission, Lower California, in the 

 18th century.— Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., v, 

 189, 1857. 



Camani. A rancheria, probably of the 

 Sobaipuri, on the Rio Gila not far from 

 Casa Grande, s. Ariz. ; visited by Anza 

 and Font in 1775. — Bancroft, Ariz, and 

 N. Mex., 392, 1889. 



Laguna del Hospital. — Ibid. La Laguna. — Ibid. 



Camano-ca-caamano (probably 'arroyoof 

 the great cord ' ). A rancheria, probably 

 Cochimi, connected with Purisima mis- 

 sion. Lower California, in the 18th cen- 

 tury.— Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s.,v, 188, 1857. 



Camas. Any species of plant belonging 

 to the genus Quamasia ( Camassia of some 

 later authors), especially Quamasia qua- 

 tuash; also the edible bulb of these plants. 

 Camas is usually blue-flowered and in 

 other respects also much resembles the 

 hyacinth, to which it is botanically re- 

 lated. It is sometimes called wild hya- 

 cinth, and in Canadian French, but im- 

 properly, pomme blanche and pomme 

 des prairies. The bulbs, which were a 

 staple food of several N. W. coast tribes, 

 and are still much used, are prepared for 

 food by prolonged steaming. Camas is 

 found from w. Washington and Oregon 

 to N. California and British Columbia, and 

 eastward to the northern Rocky mts. It 

 was most extensively utihzed in the val- 

 leys of the upper Columbia r. watershed. 

 The word, spelled also camass, quamash, 

 kamass, quamish, and in other ways, came 

 into English through the Chinook jargon. 

 Its ultimate source is chamas, signifying 

 ' sweet ' in the Nootka language of Van- 

 couver id. The camas prairies of the 

 w. slopes of the Rocky mts. were long fa- 

 mous. From its habit of feeding on this 

 root the camas rat received its name. 

 From camas have also been named vil- 

 lages in Fremont co., Idaho; Missoula 

 CO., Mont.; and Clarke co.. Wash.; like- 

 wise a Camas valley in Douglas co., 

 Oreg., and a town, Kamas, in Summit co., 

 Utah. The Latin name of the plant also 

 preserves the Indian appellation. See 

 Roots. , (a. f. c. f. v. c.) 



Cambujos. An imaginary Indian "prov- 

 ince" E. of Quivira, which the abbess 

 Maria de Jesus, of Agreda, Spain, claimed 

 to have miraculously visited in the 17th 

 century. 



Aburcos. — Zarate-Salmeron (ca. 1629), Relacion, 

 in Land of Sunshine, 187, Feb.. 1900. Caburcos, — 

 Mariade Jesus (1631) in Palou, Relacion Hist., 337, 

 1787. Cambujos.— Benavides (1631) in Palou, op. 

 cit., 336. Jambujos,— Vetancurt (1693), Teatro 

 Am., Ill, 303, 1871. 



Camiltpaw ( ' people of Kamilt ' ; so 

 named from their chief). A band of the 

 Pisquows, formerly living on the e. side 

 of Columbia r. One of the original treaty 

 tribes of 1855, classed with the Yakima 

 but really Salishan. They are now on 

 Yakima res.. Wash. 



Kah -milt-pah.— Treaty of 1855 in U. S. Stat., 951, 

 ist;:j. Kamilt-pah.—Ind.Aff. Rep., 302, 1877. Qamil- 

 'lema.— Mooneyin 14th Rep. B. A. E., 736, 1896. 



Camitria. A ruined pueblo of the Tewa, 



