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Chomcliadila ( ' pitch-pine ' — Powers ; or 

 ' white-pine ridge ' — Kroeber ) . A former 

 Porno village on the mesa s. w. of Calpella, 

 Mendocino CO., C'al. 



Choam-Cha-di'-la Porno. — Powers in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., Ill, 155, 1S77. 



Chomonchotianiste. A name given on 

 several maps as that of a tribe formerly 

 Hving N. w. of L. St Jt)hn, Quebec. Prob- 

 ably a Montagnais band or settlement. 

 Chemonchovanistes. — Esnauts and Rapilly map, 

 1777. Chomonchouanistes. — Belliii map, 1755. 

 Chomoncouanistes. — LottiT map, fa. 1755. Chomo- 

 nehouanistes, — LattrS map, 1784. 



Chomontokali {shomo-taJcali, ' hanging 

 moss ' ) . A former town of the Oy patukla 

 or northeastern division of the Choctaw, 

 consisting of 8 hamlets, with garden 

 patches intervening, extending e. and 

 w. about 2 m. and about 5 m. in width; 

 situated between two head-streams of 

 Black Water cr., in Kemper co., Miss. 

 In 1830 the residence of Nita Homma, 

 * Red Bear,' was in the third hamlet from 

 the w., and about 1,200 yds. s. of the site 

 of his house is a mound about 12 ft. high. 

 The town was on the trail that extended 

 E. and w. from Imongolasha to Haan- 

 kaulla.— Halbert in Miss. Hist. Roc. 

 Publ., VI, 418, 1902. 



Chomontakali. — Romans, Fla. , map, 1775. Chomon- 

 tokali. — West Fla. map, ca. 1775. Shomo Takali. — 

 Halbert, op. cit. 



Chonacate. — A Huichol settlement at the 

 E. border of their territory, in the Sierra 

 de los Huicholes, Jalisco, Mexico. — Lum- 

 holtz, Unknown Mex., 11, 16, map, 1902. 



Chonakera. The Black Bear gens of 

 the Winnebago. 



Bear, — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 157, 1877. Black bear. — 

 Dorsey, MS. Winnebago vocab., B. A. E., 1878. 

 Hone'-cha'-da. — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 157, 1877. 

 Ho"tc' i-ki'-ka-ra'-tca-da. — Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. 

 A. E., 210, 1897 ('they who call themselves after 

 the black bear'). Tco'-na-ke-ra. — Ibid, (archaic 

 name). 



Chongasketon. A division of the Sisse- 

 ton Sioux, identified by Riggs as the Lac 

 Traverse band; possibly the same as the 

 Sisseton proper of Pike; apjilied by early 

 writers to the whole tribe and interpreted 

 Wolf or Dog nation, though now recog- 

 nized as a form of the word Sis.seton. 

 Chongaskabes. — Barcia, Ensayo. 238, 1723. Chon- 

 gaskabion.— Hennepin (nmteii by Neill in Minn. 

 Hist. Coll., i.'-'.'u, 1S72. Chongaskethon. — Hennepin 

 quoted by Shea, Early Voy. Miss., Ill, 1861. Chon- 

 gasketon, — Hennepin, New Discov., 185, 1698. 

 Chongonsceton. — Neill, op. cit., 260 (misprint). 

 Chongousceton.— Carver, Trav., 80, 1778. Chonkas- 

 ketonwan. — Willianisdii quoted by Neill, op. cit., 

 260 (interpreted 'dwellers in a foi't ' and applied 

 to the Sisseton of L. Traverse). Chonsgaskaby, — 

 Hennepin, New Di-scov., map, 169s. Chougaska- 

 bees. — McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, hi, 8U, 

 1854. Chougasketon. — LaSallc(1670-.si)in Margry, 

 Dl>c., I, 481, 1876. Cnongasgaba. — (Oxe, Carolana, 

 map, 1741 (misprint). Conkasketonwan. — Riggs, 

 Dakota Gram, and Diet., introd., i.x, l,s52. 



Chongyo. The Pipe clan of the Piba 

 (Tobacco) phratry of the Hopi. 

 Tcon-o.— Stephen in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 39, 1891. 

 Tcoii wun-wii. — Fewkes in Am. Anthrop., vii, 

 405, 1894 ((OT()i-w« = 'clan'). 



Chonodote (perliaps i.vo/mofZo^c,' 'where 

 a spring issues.' — Hewitt). A former 

 Cayuga settlement located on Machin's 

 map of Sullivan's expedition (Conover, 

 MS., B. A. E. ) on the e. side of Cayuga 

 lake, a few miles s. of the present Cayuga, 

 N. Y. It was iiroV)ably destroyed by 

 Sullivan in 1779. 



Chonque. Probably a Choctaw band ( m 

 Yazoo r.. Miss., below the Tioux, in the 

 17th century. See Chutikt'y. 

 Chenkus, — MeKennev and Hall, Ind. Tribes, iii, 

 80, 1854. Chongue.— Coxe, Carolana, 12, 1741. 

 Chonque.— Tonti (1690) in French, Hist. Coll. La., 

 82, 1846. 



Chooahlitsh. A former Samish settle- 

 ment in the canoe passage e. of Hidalgo 

 id., X. w. Wash. 

 Choo-ah-litsh.— Gibbs, MS. no. '248, B. A. E. 



Chooca Hoola {chiikd 'hou.se,' 'lodge,' 

 /( ullo ' beloved ' ) . A former Choctaw set- 

 tlement on the N. side of Sukenatcha cr., 

 between the mouths of Running Tiger 

 and Straight crs., in the n. part of Kemper 

 Co., Miss. — Halbert in Miss. Hist. Soc. 

 Pub!., VI, 425, 1902. 



Chooca Hoola. — Romans, Florida, map, 1775. 

 Chooka-hoola, — Ibid, 310. 



Choppatee's Village. A former Miami 

 village on the w. bank of St Joseph r., a 

 few miles from Ft Wayne, Allen co., Ind. 

 Named after a chief who resided there. 

 The tract was granted to J. B. Boure, an 

 interpreter, by treaty of Oct. 23, 1826. 



Choptank. Apparently a tribe consist- 

 ing (if 3 subtribe-s — the Ababco, Hutsa- 

 wap, and Tequassimo — formerly living 

 on Choptank r. in Maryland. In 1741 

 they were given a re.'^erve near Secretary 

 cr., on the s. side of Choptank r., in Dor- 

 chester CO., on the Eastern shore, where 

 a few of mixed Indian and negro h\oo6 

 still remained in 1837. See Bozman, 

 Maryland, i, 115, 1837. 



Chorofa ('bird'). A clan of the Apo- 

 hola phratry of the ancient Timucua of 

 Florida. — Pareja (1614) quoted l)y Gat- 

 schetinProc. Am. Philos. Soc, xvii, 492, 

 1878. 



Choromi. A Costanoan village formerly 

 situated near Santa Cruz mission, Cal. — 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 5, 1860. 



Chorruco. A tribe, formerly on the 

 Texas coast, to whom Cabeza de \'aca 

 fled from the Coaque with whom he had 

 lived nearlv a year after shipwreck on 

 Malhado id. in 1528. The people, he 

 said, took their name from the woods in 

 which they lived. He stayed with this 

 tribe al;)Out 6 3 ears, traveling and trading 

 with others in the vicinity and inland. 

 The region was probably the home of the 

 Karankawan family at that time. The 

 Chorruco are now extinct. See Gatschet, 

 Karankawa Indians, Peabody Museum 

 Palmers, i, 46, 1891. (a. c. f.) 



Carruco. — Harris, Voy. and Trav., I, 802, 1705. 

 Charruco, — Cabeza de Vaca, Smith trans., 53, 1851. 



