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CHENTSITHALA CHERAW 



[b. a. e. 



Chentsithala. — A Naskotin village on 

 Fraser r., Brit. Col., at the mouth of 

 Qiiesnelle r. 



Chichula.— Brit. Col. map, Victoria, 1872. Ques- 

 nel,— Morice, Notes on W. D6n6s, 24, 1893. Ques- 

 nelle Mouth. — Tolmie and Dawson, Vocabs. Brit. 

 Col., map, 1884. Tcantsithal'a, — Morice in Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. Can., X, sw. 2, 109, 1892. 



Chenughivata {Odjino>'']iia^dd', 'it is a 

 sinew.' — Hewitt). An Onondaga village 

 in New York in 1774. — Johnstown conf. 

 (1774) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., viii, 506, 

 1857. 



Cheokhba ( ' sleepy kettle ' ). A division 

 of the Hunkpapa Teton Sioux. 

 fte-oKba.— Dorsoy in 15th Rc-p. B. A. E., 221, 1897. 

 Ci-o-ho'-pa. — Havden, Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. 

 Val., 370, 1862. Sleepy kettle band.— Culbertson in 

 Smithson. Rep. 1850, 141, 1851 (under White Feet, 

 0-jah-ska-ska). Tce-oqba, — Dorsey in 15th Rep. 

 B.A.E., 221, 1897. 



Chepanoc. A village of the AVeaponie- 

 ioc in 1586 on Albemarle sd., in Perqui- 

 mans CO., N. C. 



Chapanun.— Dutch map (1621) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., I, 18.56. Chepanoc— Lane (1586) in Smith 

 (1629), Virginia, l,87, repr. 1819. Chepanu.— Smith, 

 ibid., I, map, 112. Chepanuu. — De Brv, map («(. 

 1.590), in Hawks, N. C, i, 1859. Chepawy.— Mar- 

 tin, N. C., I, 13, 1829. Chippanum. — Lane (1.586) 

 in Smith, op. cit., i, 90. 



Chepenafa. A Kalapooian tribe, some- 

 times regarded as a subdivision of the 

 Lakmiut, formerly residing at the forks 

 of St Marys cr., near Corvallis, Oreg. 

 They are now on Grande Ronde res., 

 being officially known as Marys Elver 

 Indians, and number about 25. ( l. f. ) 

 Api'nefu. — Gatschet, Calapooya MS.. B. A. E., 1877 

 (so called by the other Calapoova). Chep-en-a- 

 pho,— U. S. Ind. Treat., 19, ls73. Mary River.— 

 Smith in Ind. Aff. Rep., -56, 1875. Mary's River,— 

 Victor in Overland Month., vii, 346, 1S71. Marys- 

 ville. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 12, 1863. 

 Pineifu. — Gatschet in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, xii, 

 213, 1899. Tsa mpi'nefa ami'm, — Gatschet, Cala- 

 pooya MS., B. A. E., 1S77 (Calapooya name). 



Cheponta's Village. A former Choctaw 

 village on the w. bank of Tombigbee 

 r., in extremes, e. Choctaw co., Ala. — 

 Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., Ala. maji, 

 1900. 



Cheposhkeyine ('swelled young buffalo 

 bull'). A subgens of the Arukhwa, the 

 Buffalo gens of the Iowa. 



Tee p'o-cke yin'-e, — Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 

 239, 1S97. 



Chepoussa. A name applied by La Salle 

 and Allouez to a band of Illinois Indians, 

 probably from a chief or leader of a jior- 

 tion of those collected at Kaskaskia by 

 La Salle's invitation; on the other hand 

 it may have been given to those Indians 

 from a river (apparently Kaskaskia r. ), 

 in s. w. Illinois, to which tlie name Che- 

 poussa was sometimes applied by early 

 explorers. These people were probably 

 connected with the Michigamea. 



Cheponssea. — La Salle (1680^ in Hist. Mag., 1st s., 

 v, 197, 1861. Chepontia.— Proees Verbal (1682) in 

 Margry, D^c, ii, 1S9, 1877. Chepousca.— La Salle 

 (1681), ibid., 134. Chepoussa.— Allouez (1680), 

 ibid., 96. Chepoussea.— La Salle (1682), ibid., 201. 

 Chipoussa.— Tonti (n(. 1680) in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., I, 82, 1846. Choponsca. — Hennepin, New 

 Discov., 310, 1698. 



Chequet, Chequit. See Chicku'it. 



Cheraw. A n important tribe, very prob- 

 ably of Siouan stock, formerly ranging in 

 central Carolina, e. of the Blue ridge, from 

 about the present Danville, Va., south- 

 ward to the neighborhood of Cheraw, 

 S. C, which takes its name from them. 

 In numbers they may have stood next to 

 the Tuscarora among the North Carolina 

 tribes, but are less prominent in history 

 by reason of their almost complete de- 

 struction before the white settlements 

 had reached their territory. They are 

 mentioned first in the De Soto narrative 

 for 1540, under the name Xuala, a corrup- 

 tion of Suali, the name by which they 

 are traditionally known to the Cherokee, 

 who remember them as having anciently 

 lived beyond the Blue ridge from Ashe- 

 ville. In the earlier Carolina and Vir- 

 ginia records they are commonly known 

 as Saraw, and at a later period as Cheraw. 

 We first hear of "Xuala province" in 

 1540, apparently in the mountain country 

 southward from Asheville. In 1672, 

 Lederer, from Indian information, located 

 them in the same general region, or jiossi- 

 bly somewhat farther n. e., " where the 

 mountains bend to the west," and says 

 that this portion of the main ridge was 

 called " Sualymountain" from the tribe. 

 This agrees with Cherokee tradition. 

 Some years later, but previous to 1700, 

 they settled on Dan r. near the s. line of 

 Virginia, where the marks of their fields 

 were found extending for several miles 

 along the river by Byrd, in 1728, when 

 running the dividing line between the 2 

 colonies. There seem to have been 2 vil- 

 lages, as on a map of 1760 we find this 

 place designated as ' ' Lower Saura Town, ' ' 

 while about 30 m. above, on the s. side 

 of the Dan and between it and Town fork, 

 is another place marked "Upper Saura 

 Town." They are also alluded to by 

 J. F. I). Smyth (Tour in U. S., 1784), who 

 says the upper town was insignificant. 

 Aboutthe yearl710, being harassed by the 

 Iroquois, they abandoned their home on 

 the Dan and moving s. e. joined the Key- 

 auwee. The colonists of North Carolina 

 being dissatisfied at the proximity of these 

 and other tribes. Gov. Eden declared war 

 against the Cheraw, and applied to Vir- 

 ginia for as.sistance. This Gov. Spots- 

 wood refu,sed, as he believed the people 

 of Carolina were the aggressors; neverthe- 

 less the war was carried on against them 

 and their allies by the Carolinas until the 

 defeat and expulsion of the Yamasi in 

 1716. During this i^eriod complaint was 

 made against the Cheraw, who were de- 

 clared to be resijonsible for most of the 

 mischief done n. of Santee r., and of en- 

 deavoring to draw into their alliance the 

 smaller coast tribes. It was asserted 

 by the Carolinians that arms were sup- 



