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[b. a. e. 



fine with accuracy the pohtical organiza- 

 tion of these groups. See Clan and Gens, 

 Government, Social Organization, Tribe. 

 (j. N. B. H.) 



Congaree. A small tribe, supposed to 

 be Siouan, formerly living in South Caro- 

 lina. The grounds for including this 

 tribe in the Siouan family are its location 

 and its intimate relation with known 

 Siouan tribes, especially the Catawba, 

 with which it was ultimately incorpo- 

 rated; but according to Adair and Law- 

 son the Congaree spoke a dialect differ- 

 ent from that of the Catawba, which they 

 preserved even after their incorjioration. 

 In 1693 the Cherokee complained that the 

 Shawnee, Catawba, and Congaree took 

 prisoners from among them and sold 

 them as slaves in Charleston. They were 

 visited in 1701 by Lawson, who found 

 them on the k. e. bank of Santee r. below 

 the junction of the Wateree. Their town 

 consisted of not more than 12 houses, 

 with plantations up and down the coun- 

 try. On a map of 1715 the village of 

 the Congaree is placed on the s. bank of 

 Congaree r., about opposite the site of 

 Columbia. A fort bearing the tribal 

 name was established near the village in 

 1718. They were a small tribe, having 

 lost many by tribal feuds but more by 

 smallpox. Lawson states that, although 

 the several tribes visited by him were 

 generally small and lived closely adjoin- 

 ing one another, they differed in features, 

 disposition, and language, a fact which 

 renders the assignment of these small 

 tribes to the Siouan family conjectural. 

 The Congaree, like their neighbors, took 

 part in the Yamasi war in l7I5, as a re- 

 sult of which they were so reduced that 

 they were compelled to move up the 

 country and join the Catawba, with 

 whom they were still living in 1743. 

 Moll's map of 1730 (Salmon, Modern 

 History, iii, 562, 1746) places their town 

 or station on the x. bank of Congaree r. , 

 opposite which ran the trail to the Chero- 

 kee country. It was s. of lat. 34°, prob- 

 ably in Richland CO. They were a friendly 

 people, handsome and well built, the 

 women being especially beautiful com- 

 pared with those of other tribes. See 

 Moonev, Siouan Tribes of the East, 1894. 

 Ani'-Gili'.— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 508, 

 1900 (' long-hairi'd people,' a Cherokee clan, pos- 

 .sibly originally Congaree). Canggaree. — Acfair, 

 Hist. Am. Inds., 225, 1775. Congarees, — Mills, Hist. 

 S. C, 108, 1826. Congares.— Doc. of 1719 in Rivers, 

 Hist. S. C, 93, 1874. Congerees. — Lawson, Hist. 

 Carolina, 25, 1860. Congeres. — Moll, map of Caro- 

 lina, 1720. Congree.— La Tour, map of U. S., 1784. 

 Conqerees. — Warmapof 1715 in Winsor, Hist. Am., 

 V, 346, 1887. 



Congewichaclia {wichacha=' man'). A 

 Dakota division, possibly of the Teton. 

 Cf. Kanghiijuha. 



Conge-wee-cha-cha. — Corliss, MS. Lacotah vocab., 

 B. A.E., 106, 1874 (Teton name). 



Conicari (Nahuatl :con« 'crow, ' 'raven ', 

 cari 'house': 'house of the raven.' — 

 Buelna). A settlement of the Mayo, 

 probably of the Tepahue division, on 

 the Rio Mayo, 30 m. n. of Alamos, in 

 lat. 27° 6', s. E. Sonora, Mexico. It con- 

 tained 200 families in 1645, and is still 

 one of the most important Mayo settle- 

 ments. For discussion as to its linguistic 

 relations see Bandelier in Arch. Inst. 

 Papers, iir, 53, 1890. 



Canicari, — Escudero, Noticias de Son. y Sin., 101, 

 1849. Conecare. — Hardy, Travels in Mexico, 438, 

 1829. Conicare. — Kino, map (1702) in Stocklein, 

 Neue Welt-Bott, 1726. Conicari.— Rivera, Diario 

 y Derrot., leg. 1179, 173C. San Andres Conicari,— 

 Orozeo y Berra, Geog., 356, 1864. 



Conisca (seemingly from kane^sku, 

 ' grass ' ) . One of 4 Cherokee settlements 

 mentioned by Bartram (Travels, 371, 

 1792) as situated on a branch of Ten- 

 nessee r. about 1776. 



Conkhandeenrlionon. An Iroquoian tribe 

 living 8. of St Lawrence r. in 1635. 

 Conkhandeenrhonons. — Brebeuf in Jes. Rel. for 1635, 

 33, 1858. Konkhandeenhronon, — Jes. Rel. for 1640 

 35, 185s. 



Conneaut. A village composed of Onon- 

 daga and Missisauga and other Algon- 

 quian immigrants, situated on Conneaut 

 lake. Pa., in the 18th century. 

 Coneyat.— Procter (1791) in Am. St. Pap., Ind. Aff., 

 I, 163, 1832. Conyat.— Ellicot (1794), ibid., 516. 



Connecticut (from the Mahican quinni- 

 tukq-ut, ' at the long tidal river ' ) . Tribes 

 living on Connecticut r., including the 

 Scantie, Nawaas, and Podunk. 

 Conittekooks. — Van der Donck (1655) quoted by 

 Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 82, 1872. Connecta- 

 cuts.— Wood (1639) quoted by Barton, New View.s, 

 xi.x, 1798. Connegticuts.— Russell (1682) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., Vlll, 85, 1868. auinticoock,— 

 Williams (1643), ibid., 1st s., ni, 205, 1794. 



Connewango ('at the falls'). (1) A 

 Seneca village that stood on the site of 

 Warren, Pa., and was destroyed by Col. 

 Brodheadin 1781. (2) A former Seneca 

 village on the left bank of Alleghany r., 

 above the site of Tionesta, Forest co. , Pa. 

 Both villages belonged to the division of 

 the Seneca known as Cornplanter's band. 

 Cananouagan. — La Tour, map, 1779. Canaouagon. — 

 Vaudreuil (17.59) in N.Y. Doc. Col. Hist., X, 949, 1858. 

 Canawagon, — Guy Park conf. (1775), ibid., vni, 

 553, 1857. Canawagow, — Johnson Hall conf. (1774), 

 ibid. Canawako. — Onondaga conf., ibid., 426. 

 Canwagan.— Guy Park conf. (1774), ibid., 519. 

 Cayantha. — Procter in Am. St. Pap., iv, 154, 1832. 

 Conawago, — Royee in 18th Rep. B. A. E., pi. 

 clx, 1899. Conewango. — Butterfield, Washington- 

 Irvine Cor., 43, 18S2. Conneogie. — Harris, Tour, 

 map, 1805. Connewangoes. — Schoolcraft, Ind. 



Tribes, III, 288, 1853. Cornplanter's Town V. L. 



Thomas, letter, 1885. Kanaouagan, — Joncaire 

 (1749) in Margry,Dec., vi, 675, issrl. Kanauagon. — 

 Butterfield, op. cit. Kanoagoa. — I'onchot, map 

 (1758) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., x, 694, 1858. Kuno- 

 agon.— Doc. of 1759, ibid., 984. 



Conohasset. A Massachuset village for- 

 merly about Cohasset, Norfolk co., Mass. 

 The site was sold ])v the Indians in 1635. 



Conohasset.— Flint (1821) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 3d s., II, 84-85, 1830. auonahasit.— Smith (1629), 

 Virginia, II, 194, repr. 1819. Quonahassit. — Smith 

 (1616) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., vi, 108, 1837. 



