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CHEKO ALCH CHEMEHD EVl 



[b. a. e. 



Muskokee Tribes, in Hist. Mag., Feb., 

 1870; Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, ii, 

 1884, 1888. _ _ (j. M.) 



Chekoalch. A Squawmish village com- 

 munity on Burrard inlet, Brit. Col. 

 Tceko'altc— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., -IT-l, 

 1900. 



Chekwa ( prob. from ching^vd, 'thunder 

 rolls'). Given by Morgan (Anc. Soc, 

 167, 1878) as the Thunder gens of the 

 Potawatomi. 



Chelamela. A small division of the 

 Kalapooian family formerly living on 

 Long Tom cr., a w. tributary of Willa- 

 mette r., Oreg. They were included in 

 the Dayton treaty of 1855. Nothing is 

 known of their customs, and they are 

 now extinct. 



Chelamela,— U. S. lad. Treat. (1855), 19, 1873. 

 La-malle, — Ross, Adventures, 236, 1819. Long 

 Tom.— U. 8. Ind. Treat. (1855), 19,1873. 



Cheli. The Spruce clan of the Tewa 

 pueblo of Hano, Ariz. 



Ca'-la-bi.— Stephen in 8th Rep. B. A. R., 39, 1891 

 (Hopi name). Tce'-li.— Ibid, (own name). 

 Ts'-co. — Ibid. (Navaho name). 



Chelly (pron. shay-ee, frequently shay, 

 Spanish corruption of Navaho Tse'gi, or 

 Tscyi, 'among the cliffs.' — Matthews). A 

 canyon on the Navaho res., n. e. Ariz., in 

 which are numerous ancient cliff-dwell- 

 ings. Cortez in 1799 (Pac. R. R. Rep., iii, 

 pt. 3, 119, 1856) gave the name (Chelle) 

 to a Navaho settlement, but this is true 

 only in so far as the canyon contains 

 numerous scattered hogans or huts. 



Chemanis. A Cowichan settlement on 

 the E. coast of Vancouver id., jjresumably 

 on the l)ay of the same name. 

 Chemainis,— Can. Ind. Aff. for 1891, map. Che- 

 manis. — Brit. Col. map, Victoria. 1872. 



Chemapho. Mentioned in the Dayton 

 treaty of 1855 as a Kalapooian band. 

 Chem-a-pho.— U. S. Ind. Treat. (1855), 19, 1873. 

 Maddy Band. — Ibid. 



Chemehuevi. A Shoshonean tribe, ap- 

 parently an offshoot of the Paiute, for- 

 merly inhabiting the e. bank of the Rio 

 Colorado from Bill Williams fork to the 

 Needles and extending westward as far as 

 Providence mts., Cal., their chief seat 

 being Chemehuevi valley, which stretches 

 for 5 m. along the Colorado and nearly 

 as far on either side. When or how 

 they acquired possession of what appears 

 to have been Yuman territory is not 

 known. They may possibly have lieen 

 seen by Alarcon, who navigated the Rio 

 Colorado in 1540; but if so, they are not 

 mentioned by name. Probably the first 

 definite reference to the Chemehuevi is 

 that by Fray Francisco Garces, who 

 passed through their country in journey- 

 ing from the Yuma to the Mohave, and 

 again from lower Kern r. to the latter 

 tribe on his way to the pueblo of Oraibi 

 in N. E. Arizona in 1775-76. Among the 

 Indians whom Garces saw, or of whom 

 he heard, are the Chemegue, Chemegue 

 Cuajala, Chemegu^ Sevinta, and Che- 



meguaba, the first and last mentioned 

 being apparently the Chemehuevi, while 

 the others are tlie Virgin River Paiute 

 and Shivwits, respectively, "Chemegue" 

 here being used somewhat in the sense 

 of denoting Shoshonean affinity. In 

 passing down the Colorado from the Mo- 

 have rancherias Garces does not mention 

 any Chemehuevi or other Indians in 

 Chemehuevi valley or elsewhere on the 

 river until the Yuman Alchedoma 

 (" Jalchedunes " ), some distance below, 

 were reached. He found the Cheme- 

 huevi in the desert immediately s. w., 

 w., and N. w. of the Mohave. The same 

 observer remarks that they wore Apache 

 moccasins, antelope-skin shirts, and a 

 white headdress like a cap, ornamented 

 with the crest feathers of a bird, proba- 

 1)1}^ the roadrunner. They were very 

 swift of foot, were friends of the Ute 

 (Paiute?), Yavapai Tejua, and Mohave, 

 and when the latter "break their weap- 

 ons ' ' ( keep the peace ) , so do they also. It 

 is said that they occupied at this time the 

 country between the Befieme f Panamint 

 and Serrano) and the Colorado "on the n. 

 side" as far as the Ute, and extending 

 to another river, n. of the Colorado, where 

 they had their fields. They made bas- 

 kets, and those whom Garces saw "all 

 carried a crook besides their weapons," 

 which was used for pulling gophers, rab- 

 bits, etc., from their burrows. Their lan- 

 guage was noted as distinct from that of 

 the other Rio Colorado tribes, as in fact 

 it is, these being Yuman (see Garces, 

 Diary, Coues ed., op.cit., 1900; Heintzel- 

 man (1853) in H. R. Ex. Doc. 76, 34th 

 Cong., 3d sess., 1857; Pacific R. R. Rep., 

 Ill, pt. 3, 1856). Physically the Cheme- 

 huevi appear to have been inferior to the 

 Yuma and Mohave. Ives properly cred- 

 its them with being a wandering people, 

 traveling "great distances on hunting 

 and predatory excursions," and although 

 they did live mainly on the natural 

 products of the desert, they farmed on a 

 small scale where possible. Like the 

 other Colorado r. tribes, they had no 

 canoes, but used rafts made of bundles 

 of reeds. Their number was estimated by 

 Leroux about 1853 at 1,500, probably an 

 excessive estimate for the whole tribe; 

 in 1866 Thomas estimated their popula- 

 tion at 750. In 1903 there were 300 on 

 the Colorado River res. and probably a 

 few under the Moapa agency. It is also 

 likely that a few are not under any 

 agent but roam as Paiute. Of the organ- 

 ization of the Chemehuevi nothing posi- 

 tive is known. Palonies is mentioned 

 by Hoffman (Bull. Essex Inst., xvii, 28, 

 1885) as a subdivision. (h.w.h. a.l.k.) 

 Ah'alakat.— ten Kate, Reizen in N. Am., 160, 1885 

 ('small bows': Pima name). Che-ma-hua-vas. — 

 Thomas, Yuma MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1868. 

 Che-ma-wa-was. — Heintzelman (1853) in H. R, 



