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CASITOA CATAHOULA 



[b. a. e. 



N. E. of Santa Barbara mission, Cal. It 

 was still inhabited in 1876, according to 

 Grinnell (inf'n, 1905). 



Cashwah.— Father Timeno (1850) quoted by Tay- 

 lor in Cal. Farmer, May 4, 1S60. Cieneguita. — 

 Gatschet in Chief Eng. Rep., 550, 1876. Kasua.— 

 Ibid. 



Casitoa. A Calusa village on the s. w. 

 coast of Florida, about 1570. — Fontaneda 

 Memoir {ca. 1575), Smith trans., 19, 1854. 

 Casnahacmo. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage at Santa Clara raneho, Ventura co., 

 Cal.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, May 4, 1860. 

 Casqui. An unidentified province and 

 town, probably on lower St Francis r., 

 E. Ark., visited by De Soto's army im- 

 mediately after crossing the Mississippi in 

 1541. It is possibly cognate with Aka°ze, 

 a name for the Quapaw. 

 Cascia.— La Salle (IfiSO), from De Soto Narr., in 

 Margry, D6c., Il, 96, 1877. Casein.— Hennepin, 

 New Discov., 311, 1698. Casque,— Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, iii, 48, 1853. Casqui.— Gentl. of Flvas 

 (1557) in French, Hist. Coll. La., 169, 1850. Cas- 

 quia. — Margry, Dt'C, I, 470, 1875. Casquin.— Gar- 

 cilasso de la Vega, Fla., 179, 1723. Icasque. — Bied- 

 ma in Smith, Col. Doc. Fla., i, 59, 1857. Ycas- 

 qui.— Biedma in Hakluyt Soc. Piibl., ix, 190, 1851. 

 Cassapecock. Mentioned by Strachey 

 (Va., 62, 1849) as a Powhatan tribe living 

 on York or Pamunkey r., about 1612, and 

 having 100 warriors. Not mentioned by 

 Smith under this name, but probably one 

 of the tribes alluded to by him under 

 another designation. (j. m.) 



Casse-tete. See Clubs. 

 Cassio berry. The fruit of Viburnu7n 

 o6ora<«Hi, a plant of the honeysuckle fam- 

 ily. The first part of this name is said to 

 be of Indian origin. (a. f. c. ) 



Cassotis. A "nation" living with the 

 Kakinonba in 1701 on an island in Ten- 

 nessee r. (Sauvole, 1701, in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., Ill, 238, 1851). Possibly a part 

 of the Koasati. 



Castahana. A hunting tribe of 5,000 

 souls in 500 lodges, mentioned by Clark 

 as a Snake band, and by Lewis and Clark 

 also as speaking the Minitari (Atsina) 

 language. They lived on Yellowstone 

 and Loup rs., and roamed also on the 

 Bighorn. Called also Gens des Vache, a 

 name given to the Arapaho, with whom 

 thev are seemingly identical. 

 Castabanas.— M'Vickar, Hist. Exped. Lewis and 

 Clark, I, map, 1842. Castahamas. — Warden, Ace. 

 U. S. A., in, .562, 1819. Cas-ta-ha'-na.— Lewis and 

 Clark, Discov., 23,40,1806. Castapanas.— Ibid.,36. 

 Pastannownas, — Sanford, U. S., cLxvi, 1819. Pasta- 

 now-na, — Brackenridge, Views of La., 86, 1814. 

 Castake. One of several tribes formerly 

 occupying "the country from Buena Vista 

 and Carises [Kern] lakes and Kern r. to 

 the Sierra Nevada and Coast range," Cal. 

 By treaty of June 10, 1851, these tribes 

 reserved a tract between Tejon pass and 

 Kern r. and ceded the remainder of their 

 lands to the United States. In 1862 they 

 were reported to number 162 on Ft Tejon 

 res. Probably Shoshonean, though pos- 

 sibly Mariposan or Chumashan. Castac 

 lake, in the Tejon pass region, derives its 



name from this tribe and affords a further 

 clue to its former habitat. 

 Cartaka.— Went worth in Ind. Aff. Rep., 325, 1862. 

 Cas-take.— Barbour (1852) In Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 32d 

 Cong., spec, sess., 2.56, 1853. Catagos.— Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, June 26, 1862 (mentioned as in e. Ne- 

 vada; same?). Curtakas. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 May 8, 1863. Surrillos.— Wentworth in Ind. Aff. 

 Rep., 325, 1862. 



Casti. A former Timuquanan settle- 

 ment on the w. bank of St Johns r., Fla., 

 not far from the mouth. — Laudonniere 

 (1564) in French, Hist. Coll. La., n. s., 306, 

 1869. 



Castildavid. An unidentified pueblo on 

 the Rio Grande in New Mexico in 1582; 

 situated s. of Sia (?), but definite locality 

 unknown. — Bustamente and Gallegos 

 (1582) in Doc. Ined., xv, 85, 1871. 



Casunalmo. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage at Rafael Gonzales raneho, Ventura 

 CO., Cal. — Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, May 4, 

 1860. 



Catahecassa ( Black Hoof, probably from 

 maka-tihvikasha — W. J.). A principal 

 chief of the Shawnee, l)orn about 1740. 

 He was one of the greatest captains of this 

 warlike tribe throughout the period when 

 they were dreaded as inveterate and mer- 

 ciless foes of the whites. He was present 

 at Braddock's great defeat in 1755, and 

 in the desperate battle with the Virginian 

 militia under Gen. Andrew Lewis at Point 

 Pleasant in 1 774 he bore a prominent part. 

 He was an active leader of the Shawnee 

 in their resistance to the advance of the 

 white settlements w. of the Allegheny 

 mts., and fought the troops of Harmar 

 and St Clair. When the victory of Gen. 

 Anthony Wayne broke the power of the 

 Indian confederation and peace was 

 signed on Aug. 3, 1795, Catahecassa's 

 fighting days came to an end, but not his 

 career as an orator and counselor. When 

 finally convinced of the hopelessness of 

 struggling against the encroachment of 

 the whites, he used his great influence to 

 preserve peace. He was a persuasive and 

 convincing speaker and was thoroughly 

 versed in the traditions of the tribe as 

 well as in the history of their relations 

 with the whites, in which he had himself 

 borne a conspicuous part. As head chief 

 of the Shawnee he kept the majority of 

 the tribe in restraint when British agents 

 endeavored to stir them into rebellion 

 against the American government and 

 succeeded in seducing Tecumseh and 

 some of the younger warriors. He died 

 at Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1831. 



Catahoula ('lake village,' from Choc- 

 taw ak^ hdtnx 'lake,' o((.goi(7rt, French form 

 of okla 'village'). A tribe of unknown 

 affinity formerly living on Catahoula cr. 

 in Catahoula parish, La. ; mentioned in 

 1805 by Sibley (Hist. Sketches, 121, 1806) 

 as extinct. Whether this tribe was a rem- 

 nant of the Taensa village of Couthaou- 

 goula is uncertain. (a. s. g. ) 



