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Chelialis. A collective name for several 

 Salishan tril)es on Chehalis r. and its 

 affluents, and on Grays harl)or, Wash. 

 Giljbs states that it l)elongs strictly to a 

 village at the entrance of Grays harbor, 

 and signifies ' sand.' There were 5 princi- 

 pal villages on the river, and 7 on the x. 

 and 8 on the s. side of the l)ay ; there were 

 also a few villages on the x. end of Shoal- 

 water bay. By many writers they are 

 divided into Upper Chehalis or Kwaiailk 

 (q. v.), dwelling above Satsop r., and the 

 Lower Chehalis from that point down. 

 The following sul)di visions are men- 

 tioned, some of which were single villages, 

 while others proljal)ly embraced people 

 living in several: Chiklisilkh, Cloqnal- 

 lum, Hoquiam, Hooshkal, Humptuli]>s, 

 Kishkallen, Klimmim, Klumaitnmsh, 

 Nickomin, Nooachhummilh, Noohoo- 

 ultch, Nookalthn, Noosiatsks, Nooskoh, 

 Satsop, Wynooche, Whiskah. TheSatsop 

 speak a dialect distinct from the others. 

 In 1806 Lewis and Clark assigned to them 

 a population of 700 in 3S lodges. In 1904 

 there were 147 Chehalis and 21 Hump- 

 tulips under the Puyallup school super- 

 intendent, Wash. (h. w. H. J. R. s. ) 

 Atchixe'lish. — Gatschet, Calapooya MS. vocab., 31, 

 B. A. E. (Calapooya name). Chachelis. — Fram- 

 boise quoted by Gairdner in Jour. Geog. Soc. 

 Lond., XI, 255, "1841. Chealis,— Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, June 12,1863. Chebaylis. — Lane in Ind. 

 Aflf. Rep., 162, 1850. Checaldish.— Lee and Fro.st, 

 Ten Years in Oregon, 99, 1814. Checalish, — Ibid., 

 103. Chechili.— Latham in Trans. Philol. Soe. 

 Lond.. 71,1856. Cheehales.— Dartin Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 215,1851. Cheenales.— .'^ehoolcraft, lad. Tribes, in, 

 map, 200, 1853. Chehalis.— Mo( mev in 14th Rep. B. 



A. E., pi. Ixxxviii, 1896. Chehaylis.— Lane (1849) 

 in Sen. Ex. Doc. 52, 31st Cong., Istsess., 174, 1850. 

 Chekalis.— Townsend, Narr., 175. 1839. Chekilis.— 

 Duflot de Mofras, Expl. de I'Oreg., ii, 335, 1844. 

 Chick-a-lees.— Starling in Ind. AiT. Rep., 172, 1852. 

 Chickeeles.— Wilkes, West. Am., 88, 1849. Chic- 

 kelis.— Ross, Adventures, 87, 1849. Chihales,— 

 Starling in Ind. Aff. Rep., 447, 1854. Chihalis.— 

 Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 435, ia55. Chihee- 

 lees. — Sconler (1846) in Jour. Ethuol. Soc. Lond., 

 I, 249, 184.S. Chiheeleesh— Drake, Book Ind.s., 

 vii, 1848. Chihelish.— Morse, Rep. to See. War, 

 368, 1S22. Chikailish.— Hale in U. S. Expl.Exped., 

 VI, 211, 1846. Chikalish.— Gallatin in Trans. Am. 

 Ethnol.Soc,ii,20, 1S48. Chikeelis.— Scouler(1846) 

 in Jour. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., i, 235, 1848. Chike- 

 lis. — Farnham, Travels, 112, 1843. Chikilishes. — 

 Domenech, Deserts, ii, 56, 1860. Chikoilish.— Hale 

 in U. S. Expl. Exped., Vl, 198, 1846. Chillates.— 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 571, 18.53. Chilts.— 

 Lewis and Clark. Exped., i, map, 1SI4. Chiltz. — 

 Gass. Jour., 189, 1807. Ehihalis,— Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, V, 490, 1853. Ilgat.— Gatschet, MS. vocab., 



B. A. E., 1877 (Nestucca name). Staq-tubc — 

 McCaw, Puyallup MS. vocab., B. A. E., I.s85 (Pu- 

 yallup name: 'inland people'). Tcheheles.^De 

 Smet, Letters, 231, 1843. Tchikeylis.— Francht^re, 

 Narr., 124, 1854. Tcits-hets.— Eells in letter of 

 Feb., 1886 (own name). Tsehalish. — Grav, Letter 

 to Gibbs, B. A. E., 1869. Tsheheilis.— Tolmie and 

 Dawson, Vocabs., B. C, 1218, 18M. Tsihaili- 

 Selish.— Hale in U. S. Expl. Exped., vi, 211, 1846. 

 Tsihailish.— Ibid. Tsihalis. — Gibbs in Cont. N. 



A. Ethnol.. 1, 171, 1877. Tsi-he-lis EelLs in letter 



of Feb., ls,S6. 



Chehalis {StsEe^lis) . A Cowichan tribe 

 living along the middle course of Harri- 

 son r., Brit. Col. Chehalis and Koalekt 



were their villages. Pop. (of tribe or vil- 

 lage) 112 in 1902. 



Chehales.— Can. Ind. Aff. for 1880, 317. Chehalis.— 

 Ibid., 1901, pt. II, 1.58. Saelis.— Brit. Col. map, 

 Ind. Aff., Victoria, 1872. StsEe'lis. — Boas in Rep. 

 Brit. A. A. S., 454, 1899 (the village). 



Chehelu. A clan of the Acheha phratry 

 of the ancient Timucua in Florida. — 

 Pareja {ca. 1612) quoted by Gatschet 

 in Am. Philos. Soc. Proc, 492, 1878. 



Cheikikarachada ( ' they call themselves 

 after a l)uffalo ' ). A Winnebago gens. 



Buffalo. — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 157, 1877. Cha'-ra. — 

 Ibid. Tcei-ki'-ka-ra'-tca-da. — Dorsey in 15th Rep. 

 B. A. E. 240,1897. 



Chein. ]\Ientioned by Oiiate (Doc. 

 Ined., XVI, 114, 1871) as a pueblo of New 

 Mexico in 1598; doubtless situated in the 

 Salinas, in the vicinity of Abo, and in all 

 probability occupied by the Tigua or the 

 Piros. 



Cheindekhotding ( ' place where he was 

 dug up'). A Hupa village on Trinity 

 r., Cal. 



Chan-ta-ko'-ta, — Power.s in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., 

 Ill, 73, 1877. Tceindeqotdin. — Goddard, Hupa, 13, 

 1903. 



Chekase's Village. A former Potawatomi 

 village on the w. side of Tippecanoe r., be- 

 tween Warsaw and Monoquet, Kosciusko 

 CO. , Ind. The reserve on which it was sit- 

 uated was sold in 1836. The name, which is 

 also spelled Checose and Chicase ( c}i(t'kod, 

 'short of stature' ), is that of a chief who 

 formerly resided there. (j. m. ) 



Chekhuhaton ('kettle with legs'). A 

 band of the Oglala Teton Sioux. 

 Cefi-huha-tor). — Dor.sey (after Cleveland) in 15th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 220, 1897. Tceq-huha-to".— Ibid. 



Chekilli (from achikilUh, 'making a 

 short step backward.' — Gatschet). The 

 principal chief of the Creek confederacy 

 at the period of the settlement of the 

 Georgia colony in 1733, having succeeded 

 the " Emperor Bream " on the death of 

 the latter. He appears to have been 

 one of the Creeks who visited England 

 with Tomochichi in that year. In 1735, 

 as " P^mperor of the Upper and Lower 

 Creeks," he heade<l *a delegation in a 

 council with the English at Savannah, 

 on which occasion he recited the na- 

 tional legend of the Creeks, as recorded 

 in pictographs upon a buffalo skin, which 

 was delivered to the commissioners and 

 afterward hung uj) in the London office 

 of the colony. It is now lost, but the 

 translation has been preserved, and has 

 been made the subject of a brief paper 

 by Brinton and an extended notice by 

 Gatschet. In 1752 Chekilli was residing 

 at Coweta, and although still regarded as 

 principal ruler of the confederacy had 

 delegated his active authority to jNIalatche, 

 the war chief, a younger man. The name 

 appears also as Chiggilli and Tchikilli. 

 See Bosom worth, INIS. Jour., 1752, copy 

 in B. A. E. ; Brinton, Nat. Leg. Chahta- 



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