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C AE ANTOU AT^ C ARISES 



[b. a. e. 



ture and Escape, or Life among the Sioux, 

 1870; Lee, Three Years among the Ca- 

 manches, 1859; Mooney in 17th Rep. B. 

 A. E., 1898; Relacion of Alvar Nmlez 

 Cabe^a de Vaca, B. Smith transL, 1871; 

 Severance (ed.), Captivity of BenJ. Gil- 

 bert, 1904; Spears (ed. ), Dangers and 

 Sufferings of Robert Eastburn, 1904; 

 Spencer, Indian Captivity, 1834; Strat- 

 ton. Captivity of tlie the Oatman Girls, 

 1857; Tanner, Narr. of Captivity, 1830. 

 See Adoption, Cannibalism, Genizaros, 

 Ordeals, Slavery, War and War discipline. 



(j. E. s.) 



Carantouan ('it is a large tree'). One 

 of the chief paUsaded towns of the Cones- 

 toga, whicli in 1615 was situated 3 short 

 days' journey from the fort of the Iro- 

 quois attacked by Cham plain in that year. 

 It was probably on the site of the present 

 Waverly, N. Y., and the pahsade attacked 

 was perhaps near the present Liverpool, 

 on the E.side of Onondaga lake, (j.n.b.h. ) 



Carapoa (possibly a contraction of cara- 

 pohoua, from carami 'raft,' po 'in,' houa 

 'house' = ' house on rafts'; or carapolmeye 

 'to go into rafts.' — Buelna). An ancient 

 settlement, apparently of the Tehueco or 

 the Cahita, situated near El Fuerte, 

 which is on the e. bank of the Rio Fuerte, 

 N. Sinaloa, Mexico. — Orozco y Berra, 

 Geog., 332, 1864. 



Carascan. A former village, presum- 

 ably Costanoan, connected with Dolores 

 mission, San Francisco, Cal. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Carcajou. The Canadian French form 

 of the Algonquian (Montagnais kar-ka-joo) 

 namefor the wolverene ( (tuZo luscus). The 

 Chippewa gwingwaage (Baraga), givin- 

 gwaiv-ah-ga (Tanner) ,theCree quiquakatch 

 (Mackenzie), kikkwdhdkes (Lacombe), 

 queequehatch (Dobbs) , the Algonkin qwin- 

 givaage{Cuoq ) , and quickhatch, quiquihaich, 

 etc. , of various authors, are parallels. By 

 a freak of popular etymology this animal 

 received the name of ' ' glutton. ' ' Its Fin- 

 nish name is fiai-frass, ' dweller among 

 rocks,' corrupted by the Germans into 

 vielfrass, 'glutton.' The name carcajou 

 has been incorrectly applied to several 

 animals. For instance, Charlevoix, in 

 describing one of the enemies of the deer, 

 says the most cruel is "the carcajou or 

 quincajou, a kind of cat, with a tail so 

 long that it twists it several times around 

 his body," a description taken evidently 

 not from nature, but from the Algonquian 

 myth of the fire-dragon. Among the 

 Canadian French diable des hois is also a 

 name of this little beast. (j. n. b. h. ) 



Cardinal points. See Color symbolism, 

 Cross, Orientation. 



Carfaray. An ancient pueblo of the 

 Tigua, reference to which is made in the 

 folk-tales of that people. Supposed to 



have been situated e. of the Rio Grande 

 in New Mexico, beyond the saline 

 lakes. — Bandelier (after Lummis) in 

 Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 255, 1892. 

 Car-far-ay. — Ibid. 



Carhagouha ('in the forest.' — Hewitt). 

 A Huron village in Tiny tp., about 2 m. 

 N. w. of La Fontaine, Ontario, about 1640. 

 Carhagoua,— Champlain(1615),CEuvres,iv,28,1870. 

 Carragouha.— Shea, Cath. Miss., 166, 18.55. Carta- 

 goua, — Due. of 1637 in Margry, I)6c., l, 3, 1878. 



Caribou. The common name of the 

 American reindeer, of which there are 

 two chief species, the woodland caribou 

 {Rangifer caribou) and the barren-ground 

 caribou {R. arcticus). The word came 

 into English from the French of Canada, 

 in which it is old, Sagard-Theodat using 

 it in 1632. Josselyn has the Quinnipiac 

 form maccarib and the synonym pohano. 

 The origin of the word is seen in the cog- 

 nate Micmac X'^'fibu and the Passama- 

 quoddy megal'ip, the name of this animal 

 in these eastern Algonquian dialects. 

 According to Gatschet (Bull. Free Mus. 

 Sci. and Art, Phila., ii, 191, 1900) these 

 words signify 'pawer' or 'scratcher,' the 

 animal being so called from its habit of 

 shoveling the snow with its forelegs to 

 find the food covered by snow. In 

 Micmac ^aZifttt' mul-xadeget means ' the 

 caribou is scratching or shoveling.' 

 Formerly the word was often spelled 

 cariboo, which gave name to the Cariboo 

 district in British Columbia, famous for 

 its gold mines, and other places in Canada 

 and the United States. (a. f. c. ) 



Caribous. Wood, in 1769 (Hawkins, 

 Missions, 361, 1845), speaks of the "Mic- 

 macs, Marashites [Malecite], and Carri- 

 bous, the three tribes of New Bruns- 

 wick," as all understanding the Micmac 

 language. Probably the Abnaki or a 

 part of them, as one of their gentes is 

 the ^Iagu°leboo, or Caribou. 



Carichic {garichic, 'where there are 

 houses.' — Lumholtz). A former Tara- 

 humare settlement e. of Rio Nonoava, 

 the upper fork of Rio Conchos, lat. 27° 

 50^ long. 107°, about 72 m. s. of Chihua- 

 hua, Mexico. Although often visited by 

 the Tarahumare, the place is now thor- 

 oughly Mexicanized. In the neighbor- 

 hood are numerous Tarahumare burial 

 caves. (a. h.) 



Carichic— Orozco y Berra, Geog., 323, 1864. Guani- 

 carichic— Zapata (1678) in Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., 

 Ill, 329, 1857. Jesus Caricliic,— Ibid., 324. 



Carises (probably Span, carrizo, 'reed 

 grass'). One of a number of tribes for- 

 merly occupying the country from Buena 

 Vista and Carises lakes and Kern r. to 

 the Sierra Nevada and Coast range, Cal. 

 By treaty of June 10, 1851, they reserved 

 a tract between Tejon pass and Kern r., 

 and ceded the remainder of their lands 

 to the United States. Native name un- 

 known. Judging by locality and associa- 



