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enepa,— Doc. of 1665 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ii, 

 463, 18.^8 (probably a Dutch settlement). Ga- 

 monepa. — Ibid., 466. Gemoenepaen. — Deed of 16.54, 

 ibid., XIII, 36, 1881. Gemoenepaw, — Deed of 1647, 

 ibid., 22 (name of creek). 



Como. An unidentified tribe that lived 

 near the Su,«ola, of whom Cabeza de 

 Vaca (Smith trans.. 84, 1851) heard while 

 in Texas in 1527-34. The people seem 

 to have been nearer the coast than the 

 Susola, who, at the time Cabeza de Vaca 

 heard of them, were at war with the 

 Atayos (Adai). 



Comohuabi. A Papago village in s. 

 Ariz., on the border of Sonora; pop. 80 

 families in 1871.— Wilbur in Ind. Aff. 

 Rep. 1871, 365, 1872. 



Comopori. A warlike tribe of the Cahita 

 group formerly inhabiting a peninsula 7 

 leagues from Ahome, n. w. Sinaloa, 

 Mexico. They subsisted by fishing, and 

 appear to have been related to the Vaco- 

 regue, speaking the same language. — 

 Orozco y Berra, Geog., 58, 332, 1864. _ 



Comox. An important coast Salish 

 tribe on both sides of Discovery pas- 

 sage, between Chancellor channel and C. 

 Mudge, Brit. Col. Their proper name, 

 ^'atlo'ltx, has been taken by Boas as the 

 designation of one dialect of coast Salish, 

 including, besides this, the Clahoose, 

 Eeksen, Kakekt, Kaake, Tatpoos, Ho- 

 maltko, and Sliammon. Pop. of the 

 tribe 58 in 1904; of those speaking the 

 dialect, about 300. (.7. r. s. ) 



Pa«6'ltq.— Boas in 5th Rep. N. W. Tribes of Can., 

 10, 1889. Commagsheak.—Scoulcr (1846) in Jour. 

 Ethnol.Soc. Loud., i.'.'H), 184H. Co-moux.— School- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, v, 488, 18.55. Comox. — Mayne, 

 Brit. Col., 181, 1861. Comuxes. — Grant in Jour. 

 Roy. Geog. Soc, 293, 1857. K-6'moks.— Boas in 5th 

 Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 10, 1889. Ko-mookhs.— 

 Gibbs in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., l, 269, 1877. Komux.— 

 Sproat, Savage Life, 311, 1868. Kowmook.— Tol- 

 niie and Dawson, Vocabs. Brit. Col., IJOb, 1884. 

 S'komook.— Gibbs in Cont. N. A. P^thnol., I, 269, 

 1877 I I'Kuultas name). S'tlaht-tohtlt-hu. — Ibid, 

 (own name). Xomoks.— Boas, MS., B. A. E., 1887 

 (Lekwiltok name). 



Comoza. A former PotaM^atomi vil- 

 lage on Tippecanoe r., in Fulton co., 

 Ind. The reserve on which it was situa- 

 ted was sold in 1834. The name was 

 that of a chief. Also spelled Camoza. 



Comupatrico. An Opata pueblo visited 

 by Coronado in 1540. It was situated in 

 the valley of the Rio Sonora, n. w. 

 Mexico, doubtless in the vicinity of 

 Arizpe. Possibly identical with a pueblo 

 later known by another name. 

 Comupatrico. — Castafu'da (iri'.lCiiin 14th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 515. 1896. Upatrico — Castaneda in Ternaux- 

 Conipans, Voy., ix, 1.58, 1838. 



Cona. A settlement of a semisedentary 

 tribe called Teyas by the Spaniards, re- 

 garded as probably the Hainai, a Caddoan 

 tribe. The place was visited by Coro- 

 nado and his army in 1541, and de- 

 scribed as situated 250 leagues {ca. 660 

 m.) from the Puel)lo settlements of the 

 Rio Grande and 40 days' journey s. of 

 Quivira in e. central Kansas. See Casta- 



neda (1596) in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 507, 

 1896. 



Conaliga. A former Upper Creek band 

 or settlement, probably near Tukabatchi, 

 on Tallapoosa r., perhaps in Randolph 

 CO., Ala. — Woodward, Reminiscences, 37, 

 1859. 



Conauhkare. A Tuscarora village in 

 North C'arolina in 1701. — Lawson (1709), 

 N. C, 383, 1860. 



Concepcion (Spanish). A Tubar pueblo 

 on the vS. tributary of the Rio Fuerte, 

 s. w. Chihuahua, Mexico.— Orozco v 

 Berra, Geog., 323, 1864. 



Concepcion. A mission established 

 among the Yuma by Fray Francisco 

 Garces, in 1780, on the w. bank of the 

 Rio Colorado, in s. e. Cal., near the 

 Arizona boundary, at the site of modern 

 Ft Yuma. The mission was destroyed 

 by the natives July 17-19, 1781, and about 

 50 Spaniards, including Garces, 3 other 

 friars, and Capt. Rivera y Moncada, were 

 killed. See »SVfn Pedro y San Pablo. 

 Concepcion. — Taylor in Cal". Farmer, June 13, 

 1862; Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 397, 1889. Im- 

 maculate Conception. — Shea, Cath. Mi.ss., 101, 1855. 

 Puerta de la Furisima Concepcion. — Coues, Garces 

 Diary, 19, 1900. 



Concepcion de Nuestra Senora. A visita- 

 tion town of (Cochimi?) Indians in 1745, 

 situated 6 leagues s. of the parent mission, 

 Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, in lat. 27°, 

 Lower California. Thirty-two ranche- 

 rias were dependent on it. 



Concepcion de Nuestra Seiiora. — Venegas, Hist. 

 Cal., II, 198, 17.59. Purisima Concepcion. — Doc. 

 Hist. Mex., 4th s., v, 186, 1857. 



Concha ( shortened from Ku"shak-holukta, 

 ' round reed-brake'). A former impor- 

 tant Choctaw town, named from its situ- 

 ation on the side of a circular reed-brake 

 in the s. w. corner of Kemper co.. Miss. 

 It was at the junction of the lines which 

 separated the three primary Choctaw 

 divisions, although belonging itself to 

 the N. E. division. — Halbert in Ala. Hist. 

 Soc. Publ., I, 376, 1901; Miss. Hist. Soc. 

 Publ., Ill, 370, 1900. 



Concha.— Danville, map (1732) in Hamilton, Co- 

 lonial Mobile, 158, 1897; Jefferys, French Dom. 

 Am., 135, map, 1761. Conshaques, — LaHarpe 

 (1715) in French, Hist. Coll. La., in, 44, 1851. 

 Coosak Baloagtaw. — Romans, Florida, 311, 1775. 

 Couchas.— Vaudreuil (1709) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., X, 951, 18.58. 



Conchachitou {Ku»shak-chitto, ' big reed- 

 brake'). A former Choctaw town in 

 Neshoba co.. Miss., which extended from 

 about 2 m. w. of Yazoo town almost to 

 the vicinity of Schekaha. Often called 

 West Congeto and West Cooncheto to dis- 

 tinguish it from another town of the same 

 or a similar name. See Couediitou, and 

 consult Halbert in Miss. Hist. Soc. Publ., 

 VI, 427, 1902. 



Conchachitou. ^Philippeaux, Map of Engl. Col., 

 1781. Conchachitouu.— Aleedo. Dice. Geog., i, 638, 

 1786. Guansheto.— Adair, Am. Inds., 296, 1775. 

 West Congeta.— Romans, Florida, 313, 1775. West 

 Congeto. — Halbert, op. cit. West Cooncheto, — Ibid. 



