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CIIISCA CHISKELIKBATCHA 



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Chiricahua.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 175, 1875. Tchishi 

 dinne.— Gatschet, Apache MS., B. A. E., 1883 (Nav- 

 aho name). 



Chisca (possibly from Cherokee lai^sknu 

 ' bird, ' tsigk-H'iVlu ' bird place. ' — Mooney ) . 

 The luountainons northern region of the 

 Cherokee in x. w. (ieorgia or n. k. Ala- 

 bama, in search of which men were sent 

 by De 8oto in 1541 from the province of 

 C'hiaha to look for copper and gold. It 

 seemingly received its name from a village 

 of the same name on an island in the 

 river of St Esj^rit (Coosa r.?), the inhab- 

 itants of which made a great deal of oil 

 from nuts. De Soto's troops remained 

 here 26 or 27 days. The Chisca of Gar- 

 cilasso de la Vega (Florida, 175, 1723) is 

 the Quizquiz of the other chroniclers of 

 De Soto's exjiedition, situated in n. w. 

 Mississippi, on Mississippi r. See Garci- 

 lasso de la Vega, Florida, 175, 1723; 

 Biedma in French, Hist. Coll. La., pt. ii, 

 101, 1850; Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. K., 

 1900; Bourne, Narr. De Soto, i, 79, ii, 

 110, 1904. 



Cheesca. — Schoolcraft, Iiid. Tribes, iii, 47, 1853. 

 Chisca. — Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, i, 79, 117; ii, 

 110, 1901. Cisca.— La Salle (ca. 1680) in Margrv, 

 Dec, n, 196 et seq., 1877. 



Chisedec. A Montagnais tribe, band, 

 or settlement about the Bay of Seven 

 Islands on the x. shore of St Lawrence r. 

 where it enters the gulf. The name 

 appears to have l)een applied to a locality 

 and the people of that locality, as it is 

 stated in the Jesuit Relation of 1645 that 

 certain savages boasted of their warlike 

 actions "at Chichedek, country of the 

 Bersiamites, where they had killed 7 sav- 

 ages," probably Eskimo. In the Relation 

 of 1640 it is stated that in ascending the St 

 Lawrence, after jiassing the Eskimo, ' ' we 

 meet with the people of Chisedech and the 

 Bersiamites, two small nations of which 

 we have but slight knowledge." Lescar- 

 botsays that in his time ( 1609) the name 

 of the river which enters into or near 

 the Bay of Seven Islands was changed 

 to Chi-sche-dec, an Indian appellation 

 (Hind). A Dutch map of 1621 names 

 the bay or locality Chichedec. It is pos- 

 sible, therefore, that the name applied 

 to the Indians, who seem to have been 

 closely connected with and possibly were 

 a part of the Bersiamite tribe, was that 

 of the river and referred only to a settle- 

 ment. The name Ouakouiechidek, used 

 in 1660 as that of a tribe in connection 

 with the Outabitibek (Abittibi), if m- 

 tended for the Chisedec would indicate a 

 locality in the distant n. As the designa- 

 tion of a people the name dropped from 

 history at an early date. (c. T. ) 



Chichedec— Dutch map (1621) in N. V. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., 1, 1856. Chichedek.— .Jes. Rel. 1645,37,1858. 

 Chisedech.— Ibid., 1640,34, 18.58. OuakSiechidek.— 

 Ibid., 1660, 12, 1858, (.«ame?). Wakouiechiwek — 

 Ibid., HI, inde.x, 1858. 



Chisels. Long, slender, celt-like imple- 

 ments of stone or hard varieties of bone, 



with narrow cutting edge, and round, 

 rectangular, elliptical, or half-elliptical 

 in section. Those of stone, mainly pre- 

 historic, are rarely more than a few 

 inches in length. Some specimens are 

 largest at the top, gradually tapering to 

 the edge, but most of them decrease in 

 size in each direction from near the mid- 

 dle. Some have hammer marks on the 

 blunt end, others are polished at the top, 

 while a few are sharp at both ends. It is 

 probable that their primary intent was 

 for woodworking, though they are nu- 

 merous wherever steatite vessels were 

 made, and the marks of their 

 use are seen on the unfinished 

 product and on the worked sur- 

 faces of the quarry face. These 

 soapstone cutting tools have 

 usually been flaked into the 

 desired form, the edge only 

 being carefuUj' ground. In the 

 lower Ohio valley and in the 

 Southern states chisels are gen- 

 erally made of chert; toward 

 the N., where glacial material is easily 

 procured, they are of diorite, syenite, 

 or other tough rock. Chisels of stone 

 were in common use among the wood- 

 working tribes of the N. W. coast, but 

 these are now almost wholly superseded 

 by chisels of metal. While not so abun- 

 dant as celts (q. v.), from which they 

 can not always be distinguished, they 

 have practically the same distribution. 

 See Fowke in 13th Rep. B. A. E., 1896; 

 Holmes in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 1897; 

 Ran in Smithson. Cont., xxii, 1876. 



(w. H. H. G. F. ) 



Chiserhonon. A former Canadian tribe 

 subordinate totheOttawa. — Sagard(1632), 

 Canada, iv, 1866. 



Chishafoka ('among the post oaks'). A 

 former Choctaw town on the site of the 

 present citv of Jackson, Miss. — Brown in 

 Miss. Hi.st.'Soc. Publ., iv, 445, 1902. 



Chishucks. One of the 8 Tdlamook vil- 

 lagesat the mouth of Tillamook r.,Oreg., 

 in 1805. — Lewis and Clark, Exped., ii, 

 117, 1814. 



Chisi. A town in 1540 on a small river, 

 between Toalli and Altamaca, in e. Geor- 

 gia. The name seems to ])e intended for 

 Ochisi, but not the town of that name on 

 Chattahoochee r. It was entered by De 

 Soto's army in Mar., 1540. 

 Achese.— Gentleman of Elvas (1557) in French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., II, 138. 1850. Chisi.— Biedma (1544) 

 in French, op. cit., 100. 



Chiskatalofa {cJdski 'post oak,' talofa 

 ' town ' ) . A former Creek town on the w. 

 side of Chattahoochee r., 4 in. below 

 Wikaihlako, in Henry co., Ala. 

 Cheskitalowas.— Morse, Rep. to Sec. War, 364, 1822. 

 Chuskee Tallafau.— U. S. Ind. Treat. (1814), 163, 

 1837. 



Chiskelikbatcha. A former Choctaw 

 town belonging to the Sixtowns dis- 

 trict, near Chicasawhay r., probably in 



