BULL. 30] 



coNOYTowisr — coos 



341 



hoUs U6S'2), ibid., xin, 561, 1881. Piscatua.— Doc. 

 of 1743 quoted by Brinton, Lenape Leg., 2f), 1885. 

 Pisscattaways. — IBrockholLs, op. cit. 



Conoytown. A Conoy village formerly 

 on Susquehanna r. in Pennsylvania, be- 

 tween Conejoholo (Bainbridge) and Sha- 

 mokin (Sunbury). In 1744 the Conoy 

 abandoned it after but a short stay there 

 and removed to the last-named place. — 

 Brinton, Lenape Leg., 29, 1885. 



Conshac ( ' cane ' , ' reed ' , ' reed-brake ' ) . 

 A name applied in three principal ways: 

 (1) to the inhabitants of certain Choc- 

 taw tgwns (see Conclia, ConchacJdtou, 

 Conchatikpi, Conshaconsapa, Coosha); (2) 

 totheKoasati, q. v.; (3) to a people living 

 somewhere on Coosa r., not far from the 

 Alibamu. Most of the later statements 

 regarding these people seem to have been 

 derived from Iberville (Margrv, Dec, 

 IV, 594-95, 602, 1880), who, in 1702, speaks 

 of two distinct bands under this name, 

 the one living with the Alibamu, the other 

 some distance e. n. e. of them. The former 

 were probably the Koasati, although it is 

 possible that they were the people of Old 

 Kusa, which was close by. The Conshac 

 living higher up, 20 to 30 leagues beyond, 

 Iberville states to have been called "Apa- 

 lachicolys" by the Spaniards and to have 

 moved into the district they then occupied 

 from Apalachicola r. in order to trade with 

 the English. Such a migration does not 

 seem to have been noted by anyone else, 

 however, and it is highly probable that 

 these Conshac were the people of Kusa, the 

 UpperCreek "capital." This is rendered 

 more likely by the analogous case of the 

 Choctaw Coosha, called Coosa by Romans, 

 the name of which has been corrupted 

 from the same word, and from the fur- 

 ther consideration that Conshac and 

 Kusa rarely occur on the same map. 

 That the Conshac were an important tribe 

 is attested by all early narratives and by 

 the fact that Alabama r. was often called 

 after them. If not identical with the peo- 

 ple of Kusa specifically, the entire Musko- 

 gee tribe may be intended. (j. r. s. ) 

 Conchacs. — Du 'Pratz, Hist, de la Louisiane, ii, 

 208, 1758. Conchaes.— Boudinot, Star in the West, 

 126, 1816. Conchakus.— McKenneyand Hall, Ind. 

 Tribes, iii, 79, 1S54, Conchaques.— Penicaut 

 (1708) in French, Hist. Coll. La., l, 101, 1869. 

 Conchas.— French, ibid. , in, 235, 1851. Conchatez,— 

 De risle, map {ca. 1710) in Win.sor, Hist. An:., n, 

 294, 1886. Conches.— Keane in Stanford, Com- 

 pend., 510, 1878. Conshachs.— Carroll, Hist. Coll. 

 S. C, I, 190, 1836 (Coosas are also mentioned, but 

 this is probably a duplication made in quoting 

 earlier authorities). Conshakis. — Bossu (1759), 

 Travels La., i, 229, 1771. 



Conshaconsapa (corruption of Kushak- 

 osapa, 'reed-brake field'). A former 

 Choctaw towuE. of Imongalasha, Neshoba 

 CO., Miss.; exact location not known. — 

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

 431, 1902. 



Contahnali ( ' a pine in the water.' — Hew- 

 itt). A Tuscarora village near the mouth 

 of Neuse r., N. C, in 1701. 



Cau-ta-noh.— Cusic (1825) quoted by Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, V, 636, 1855. Contahnah, — Lawson 

 (1709), N.C., 383, 1860. Kau-ta-noh.— Cusic, op. cit. 

 Kautanohakau. — Cusic, Six Nations, 24, 182S. 



Contarea. One of the principal Huron 

 villages in Ontario in the 17tli century; 

 situated near the present Lannigan's lake. 

 Tiny tcjwnship. See Kontareahronon. 

 Carmaron. — Champlain (1615),CEuvres, iv,27, 1S70. 

 Contareia.— Jes. Rel. for 1656, 10, 1858. Contar- 

 rea.— .les. Rel. for 1636, 94, 1858. Kontarea.— Jes. 

 Rel. for 1642, 74, 1858. 



Contla. A branch of the Opata inhab- 

 iting the pueblo of Santa Cruz, Sonora, 

 Mex ico ( Orozco y Berra, Geog. , 344, 1 864 ) . 

 The name is probably that applied by 

 the natives to their town. 



Cooking. See Food. 



Cook's Ferry. A body of Ntlakyapa- 

 muk, probably belonging to the Nicola 

 band, under the Eraser superintendency, 

 Brit. Col. ; pop. 282 in 1882, 204 in 1904.— 

 Can. Ind. Aff. Reps. 



Coon. See Raccoon. 



Coongale^s. Given bv Sauvole ( French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., 1st s., ni, 238, 1851) as a 

 village on Wabash (i. e. Ohio) r., above 

 a Chickasaw village that was 140 leagues 

 from the Mississii)pi in 1701. As it is 

 represented as on the route to Carolina, 

 Tennessee r. may have been intended. 

 Perhaps a Cherokee town. 

 Tahogale.— Coxe in French, Hist. Coll. La., n, 230, 

 1850. 



Cooniac. A village of the Skilloot tribe 

 of the Chinookan family at Oak point 

 (from which the village was named), on 

 the s. side of Columbia r., below the 

 mouth of the Cowlitz, in Columbia co. , 

 Oreg. After 1830 the Cooniac people 

 seem to have been the only surviving 

 remnant of the Skilloot. (l. f. ) 



Cooniacs. — Gibbs, Chinook Vocab., iv, 1863. Kahn- 

 yak. — Ibid. Ketlakaniaks. — Framboise (1835) 

 quoted bv Gairdner in Jour. Geog. Soc. Lend., xi, 

 255, 1841." Konick.— Lane (1849) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 

 52, 31st Cong., 1st sess., 174, 1850. Konnaack,— 

 Pres. Mess., Ex. Doe. 39, 32d Cong., 1st sess., 2, 

 1852. Kukhn-yak. — Gibbs, Chinook Vocab., iv, 

 1863. Ne-co-ni-ac. — Lee and Frost, Oregon, 194, 

 1844. Ne Coniacks.— Ibid., 194. Q,a'niak.— Boas, 

 field notes (name for Oak point). Whill Wetz. — 

 Ross, Adventures, 104, 1849. 



Coonti. A cycadaceous plant (Zamia 

 integrifoUa) , or the breadstuff obtained 

 from it by the Seminole of Florida; 

 spelled also koontie, coontia, etc. Kunti 

 is the name of the "flour" in the Seminole 

 dialect. (a. f. c.) 



Cooptee. A Nootka winter village near 

 the head of Nootka sd., w. coast of Van- 

 couver id. 



Coopte.— Can. Ind. AflF. Rep. 1902, app., 83. Coop- 

 tee.— Jewitt, Narr., 104, 1849. 



Coos. The term usually employed to 

 denote the villages or tribes of the Kusan 

 family formerly on Coos bay, Oreg. Lewis 

 and Clark estimated their population at 

 1,500 in 1805. The name is often used 

 as synonymous with the family name. 

 Properly speaking there are 2 villages 

 included under the term, Melukitz and 

 Anasitch. (l. f. ) 



