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CATALPA— CATAWBA 



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Cataoulou, — Rafinesque, introd. Marshall, Ky., i, 

 43, 182-1. 



Catalpa. Any tree of the genus Catalpa 

 belonging to the family Bignoniacepe. 

 The two species native in the United 

 States are the common catalpa, bean- 

 tree, Indian bean, or candle-tree {Ca- 

 talpa catalpa); and the western catalpa, 

 larger Indian bean, or Shawnee w'ood 

 (C. speciosa). Both species are exten- 

 sively planted as ornamental and shade 

 trees. The second species is also called 

 catawba tree, which name was a])plied 

 earlier to the first. Britton and Brown 

 (Flora of North. U. S., 201, 1896) say that 

 catalpa is the American Indian name of 

 the first species. In Chambers' Ency- 

 clopedia (ii, 826, 1888) it is stated that 

 " the genus was named by Catesby, prob- 

 ably from the Catawba r., where he first 

 found them in 1726." It is generally 

 thought to be identical with the tribal and 

 river name Catawba, but W. R. Gerard 

 (Gard. and For., ix, 262, 1896) says that 

 catalpa is derived from kutxihlpa, signi- 

 fying 'winged head,' in reference to its 

 flowers, in the Creek language, (a. f. c.) 



Catalte. The first province reached by 

 Moscoso after the death of De Soto in 

 1542. It lay w. of the Mississippi, prob- 

 ably in E. Arkansas, s. of Arkansas r. — 

 Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., II, 193, 1850. 



Catamaya. A town w. of the Mississippi 

 r., visited by the De Soto expedition in 

 1542 and mentioned as two days' journey 

 from Anoixi, perhaps ins. w. Arkansas. — 

 Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., II, 182, 1850. 



Catatoga (corruption of Gatw'gitse^i/t, 

 ' new settlement place ' ) . A former Cher- 

 okee settlement on Cartoogaja cr., to 

 which it gave its name, a tributary of 

 Little Tennessee r., above Franklin, in 

 Macon co., N. C— Mooney in 19th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 519, 1900. 



Cartoogaja. — Mooney, ibid. Gatu'gitse'.^Ibid. 

 (abbreviation of Indian term). 



Cataumut. A village formerly in Fal- 

 mouth township, Barnstable co., Mass., 

 probably near Canaumut neck. In 1674 

 there were some Praying Indians in it, 

 and there were still a few mixed bloods 

 there in 1792. It was in the territory of 

 the Nauset. (.i. m. ) 



Cataumut, — Freeman (1792) in Mass. Hist. Soe. 

 Coll., 1st s., I, 230, 1806. Codtanmut,— Bourne 

 (1674), ibid., 197. 



Catawatabeta. See Broken Tooth. 



Catawaweshink. A former village, 

 probably of the Delawares, on or near 

 Susquehanna r., near Big Island, Pa. — 

 Post ( 1758) in Kauffman, West. Pa., app., 

 96, 1851. 



Catawba (probably from Choctaw ka- 

 tdpa, 'divided,' 'separated,' 'a divi- 

 sion.' — Gatschet). The most important 

 of the eastern Siouan tribes. It is said 

 that Lynche cr., S. C, e. of the Catawba 



territory, was anciently known as Kada- 

 pau; and from the fact that Lawson ap- 

 plies this name to a small band met by 

 him s. E. of the main body, which he 

 calls Esaw, it is possible that it was 

 originally given to this people by some 

 tribe living in e. South Carolina, from 

 whom the first colonists obtained it. 

 The Cherokee, having no b in their lan- 

 guage, changed the name to Atakwa, 

 plural Anitakwa. The Shawnee and 

 other tribes of the Ohio valley made the 

 word Cuttawa. From the earliest period 

 the Catawba have also been known as 



D. A. HARRIS, A CATAWBA 



Esaw, or Issa (Catawba mwV, 'river'), 

 from their residence on the principal 

 stream of the region, Iswa being their 

 only name for the Catawba and Wa- 

 teree rs. They were fre<juently included 

 by the Iroquois under the general term 

 Totiri, or Toderichroone, another form of 

 which is Tutelo, applied to all the south- 

 ern Siouan tribes collectively. They were 

 classed by Gallatin (1836) as a distinct 

 stock, and were so regarded mitil Gat- 

 schet visited them in 1881 and obtained 

 a large vocabulary showing numerous 

 Siouan correspondences. Further inves- 

 tigations by Hale, Gatschet, Mooney, 

 and Dorsey proved that several other 

 tribes of the same region were also of 

 Siouan stock, while the linguistic forms 

 and traditional evidence all jjoint to this 

 E. region as the original home of the 

 Siouan tribes. The alleged tradition 

 which brings the Catawba from the N., 

 as refugees from the French and their 



