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COCKAEOUSE COCKEROUSE 



[b. a. e. 



Rio Grande, where they were found by 

 Onate in 1598. The Cochiti took an 

 active part in the Pueblo revolt of 1680, 

 but remained in their pueblo for 15 

 months after the outbreak, when, learn- 

 ing of the return of Gov. Otermin to recon- 

 quer New Mexico, they retreated with the 

 Keresan tribes of San Felipe and Santo 

 Domingo, reenforced l)y some Tewa from 

 San Marcos and l)y Tigua from Taos and 

 Picuris, to the Potrero Viejo, where they 

 remained until about 1683, when it was 

 reported that all the villages from San 

 Felipe northward were inhabited. Be- 

 tween 1683 and 1692 the Cochiti, with 

 their San Felipe and San Marcos allies, 

 again took refuge on the Potrero Viejo. 

 In the fall of the latter year they were 

 visited in their fortified abode ( known to 

 the Spaniards an Cieneguilla) by Vargas, 

 the reconqueror of New Mexico, who in- 

 duced them to promise to return to their 

 permanent villages on the Rio Grande. 

 But only San Felipe proved sincere, for 

 in 1692 the Cochiti returned to the 

 Potrero, where they remained until early 

 in the following year, when Vargas, with 

 70 soldiers, 20 colonists, and 100 warriors 

 from the friendly villagers of San Felipe, 

 Santa Ana, and Sia, assaulted the pueblo 

 at midnight and forced the Cochiti 

 to flee, the Indian allies leaving for the 

 protection of their own homes. The 

 force of Vargas being thus weakened, the 

 Cochiti returned, surprised the Span- 

 iards, and succeeded in liberating most 

 of the Indian captives. Vargas remained 

 a short time, then burned the pueblo and 

 evacuated the Potrero, taking with him 

 to Santa Fe a large quantity of corn and 

 other booty and nearly 200 captive 

 women. Cochiti was the seat of the 

 Spanish mission of San Buenaventura, 

 with 300 inhabitants in 1680, but it was 

 reduced to a visita of Santo Domingo 

 after 1782. These villagers recognize the 

 following clans, those marked with an 

 asterisk being extinct: Oshach (Sun), 

 Tsits (Water), Itra (Cottonwood), Shu- 

 wham i (Turquoise), Mohkach (Mountain 

 Lion), Kuhaia (Bear), Tanyi (Calabash), 

 Shrutsuna (Coyote), Hapanyi (Oak), 

 Yaka (Corn), Hakanvi (Fire), *Dyami 

 (Eagle), *Tsin (Turkey), *Kuts (Ante- 

 lope), *Shruhwi (Rattlesnake), *Washpa 

 (Dance-kilt), *Kishqra (Reindeer ?). In 

 addition, Bandelier notes an Ivy and a 

 Mexican Sage clan. Present population 

 300. The Cochiti people occupy a grant 

 of 24,256 acres, allotted to them by the 

 Spanish government and confirmed by 

 United States patent in 1864. Consult 

 Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 139, 

 1892. See also Keresan, Pueblos. 



(f. w. H.) 

 Cachiti.— Bandelier, Gilded Man, 216, 1893 (mis- 

 print). Chochite. — Barreiro, 0] eada Sobre N. M6x., 



15. 1832. Chochiti.— Onate (1598) in Doc. IntSd... 

 XVI, 114, 1871. Cocheli. — Vaugondv, map, Am6r- 

 ique, 1778. Cocheti.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 263, 1889. 

 Cocheto. — Ibid. , 264. Cochilis. — Meriwether (1856) 

 in H. R. Ex. Doc. 37, 34th Cong., 3d sess., 146, 1857. 

 Cochit.—Prince,N.Mex., 217, 1883. Cochite.— Zarate- 

 Salmeron (m. 1629) quoted bv Bancroft, Nat. 

 Races, i, 600, 1882. Co-chi-te-mi'.— Pac. R. R. Rep., 

 Ill, pt. 3, 90, 1856 (given as own name). Cochite- 

 nos. — Lummi.s in Scribner's Mag., 92, 1893. Cochi- 

 teumi.— Ctibas, Repub. of Mexico, 65, 1876. Co- 

 chiti.— Ofiate (1598) in Doc. In6d., xvi, 102, 1871. 

 Cochitinos.— Bandelier in Arcli. Inst. BuL, l, 26,. 

 1883. Cochito. — Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 

 map, 1889. Cochitti.- Vargas (1694) quoted by 

 Bandelier in Arcli. Inst. Papers, iv, 168, 1892. 

 Cochity.— Ind. Aff. Rep. 1864, 194, 1865. Cocluti.— 

 Curtis, Children of the Sun, 121, 1883. Cotchita.— 

 Kingslev, Stand. Nat. Hist., VI, 183,1886. Cotchiti.— 

 Powell in Am. Nat., xiv, 604, Aug., 1880. Cu- 

 chili.— Simpson, Report Sec. War, map 4, 1850. 

 Cuchin. — Abert, Report, map, 1848. Ko-cke. — 

 Simpson, op. cit., 143 (proper name). Kotite. — 

 Stephen in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 37, 1891 (Tewa 

 name). Kot-ji-ti. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Pa- 

 pers, III, 260, 1.S90 (native name of pueblo). 

 Kotu'ti.— Hodge, field notes, B. A. E., 1895 (Acoma 

 name). Kotyit'.— Ibid. Ko-tyi-ti.— Bandelier in 

 Arch. Inst. Papers, in, 126, 1890 (nalive name of 

 pueblo). 06tyi-ti. — Bandelier.GildedMan, 216,1893 

 (0=Q). Pa 'hlai.— Hodge, field notes, B. A. E., 1895 

 Usleta and Sandia name; prob. sig. ' soapweed 

 place'). Pa'l-ab.— Gatschet, Isleta MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1885 ('soapweed town': Isleta name). 

 Pa'lahuide. — Ibid. (Isleta name for a Cochiti 

 man), ftui'-me. — Pac. R. R. Rep., in, pt. 3, 90, 

 18.56 (incorrectly given as Spanish name of the 

 Cochitemi). St". Bartholomew.— Pike, Trav., 273, 

 1811 (evidently Cochiti; intended for San Bue- 

 naventura). San Bartolomeo. — Miihlenpfordt, 

 Mejico, II, 533, 1844 (mistake). San Buena Ventura 

 de Gochita. — Donaldson, Moqui Pueblo Inds., 91, 

 1893. San Buenaventura de Cochiti.- — Ind. Aff. 

 Rep. 1867, 213, 1868. San Buena Ventura de 

 Cochiti. — Alencaster (1805) in Meline, Two Thou- 

 .sand Miles. 212, 1867. S. Buenaventura. — Bancroft, 

 Ariz, and N. Mex., 281, 1889. 



Cockarouse. A word, derived from the 

 Algonquian dialect of Virginia, used by 

 early writers in the sense of a person of 

 distinction. In the 17th century the term, 

 written also cockeroiise, was applied to a 

 member of the Provincial Council. Bev- 

 erly, in 1705, stated that "a cockarouse 

 is one that has the honor to be of the king's 

 or queen's council." Capt. John Smith 

 (Hist. Va., 38, 1624) couples the word 

 with werowance as synonymous with "cap- 

 tain ' ' . Trumbull derives cockarouse from 

 the Virginian caivcairaassough, 'adviser,' 

 'urger,' from which may be derived also 

 caucus. (a. f. c. ) 



Cockenoe (Algonq. : 'interpreter'). A 

 Montauk, made captive in the Pequotwar 

 of 1637, who afterward became the inter- 

 preter of John Eliot, the missionary and 

 Bible translator, and probably his first 

 teacher in the Massachnset language. He 

 died about the close of the 17th century, 

 having rendered great service not only to 

 individual settlers, 1 )ut also to the authori- 

 ties of New England and New York. With- 

 out him the Eliot Bible, in all probability, 

 would never have been prepared. See 

 Tooker, John Eliot's First Indian Teacher 

 and Interpreter: Cockenoe de Long 

 Island, 1896. (a.f.c.) 



Cockerouse. See Cockarouse. 



