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COOSA COOWEESCOOWEE 



[b. a. e. 



Cookkoooose. — Lewis and Clark, Exped., ii, 118, 

 isll. Cookkoo-oosee. — Drake, Bk. Inds., xi, 1848. 

 Cookoose.— Bancroft, Nat. Races, i, 307, 1874. 

 Coos.— Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 231, 1890. 

 Coosas.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 62, 1872. Coos Bay.— Dor- 

 .sey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 231, 1890. Co-ose.— 

 Parrish in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1854, 495, 1856. Coose 

 Bay.— Palmer in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1856, 218, 1857. 

 Cooses. — Taylor in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 40th Cong., 

 spec, sess., 5, 1867. Coose Taylors. — Dole in Ind. 

 Aff. Rep., 220, 1861. Cowes.— Dorsey in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, m, 231, 1890. Ha'tene.— Everette, Tu- 

 tut^ne MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1883 (Tututunne 

 name). Ha'^unne. — Dorsey, Chasta Costa MS. 

 vocab., B. A. E., 1884 (Chastacosta name). 

 Eaons. — Framboise (1835) quoted by Gairdner 

 in Jour. Geog. Soc. Lond., xi, 256, 1841. Eaus. — 

 Hale, Ethnog. and Philol., 221, 1846. Ko'-i-yak'.— 

 Bissell, Umpkwa MS. vocab., B. A. E. (Umpqua 

 name). Ko-k'oc'. — Dorsey, Alsea MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1884 (Alsea name). Kook-koo-oose. — 

 Drake, Bk. Inds., viii, 1848. House. — Armstrong, 

 Oregon, 116, 1857. Kowes.— Drew (1855) in H. R. 

 Ex. Doc. 93, 34th Cong., 1st sess., 94, 1856. Kowes 

 Bay.— Ind. Aff. Rep. 1857, 359, 1858. K'qlo-qwec 

 ;unne. — Dorsey, Chasta Costa MS. vocab., B. A. E., 

 1884 (Chastacosta name). Kus. — Dorsey in Jour. 

 Am. Folk-lore, lli, 231, 1890. Kusa.— Ind. Aff. 

 Rep., 253, 1877. Kiis-me' ^unne, — Dorsev, Chetco 

 MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1884 (Chetco name"). Kwok- 

 wbos.— Hale, Ethnog. and Philol., 221, 1846. 

 Mu-cin'-t'a lunne. — Dorsey, Coquille MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1884 (Coquille (Athapascan) name). 

 Sai-yu'-cle-me' ^unne. — Dorsey, Tutu MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1884 (Tututunne name). Tce'iunne.— 

 Dorsey, Naltftnne itinnC MS. vocab., B. A. E., 

 1884 (Naltunne name) . 



Coosa. A small tribe, now extinct, 

 which lived about the mouth of Edisto 

 or Combahee r., South Carolina. Its 

 name is preserved in Coosaw and Coosaw- 

 hatchee rs. According to Rivers (Hist. 

 S. C, 94, 1874) they lived n. e. of Com- 

 bahee r., which separated them from the 

 Combahee tribe. They aj^pear to be 

 identical with the Couexi of the 1 luguenot 

 colonists (1562) and with the Coyao of 

 Juan de la Vandera's narrative of 1569. 

 They were hostile to the English in 1671; 

 in 1675 the "great and lesser Casor" 

 sold to the colonists a tract lying on 

 Kiawah, Stono, and Edisto rs. ; there is 

 also record of a sale by the chief of "Kis- 

 sah" in 1684. They are mentioned as 

 Kussoes in the South Carolina trade reg- 

 ulations of 1707, and last appear in 1743, 

 under the name Coosah, as one of the 

 tribes incorporated with the Catawba but 

 still preserving their own language. It 

 is possible that, like their neighbors the 

 Yamasi, they were of Muskhogean stock. 

 If not, they may have been Uchean rather 

 than cognate with Catawba. (j. m. ) 



Casor.— Deed of 1675 in Mills, S. C, app. 1, 1826. 

 Co^ao.- Vandera (1567) quoted bv French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., II, 290, 1875. Coosah.— Adair, Am. Inds., 

 225, 1775. Coosaw.— Rivers, Hist. S. C, 38, 1856. 

 Cosah.— Mills, Stat. S. C, 107, 1826. Couexi.— Doc. 

 cited by Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the East, 84, 

 1894. Cozao. — Vandera, op. cit. Eissah. — Mills, 

 op. cit., 107, app. 1. Eussoe. — Doe. of 1671 quoted 

 by Rivers, Hist. S. C, 372, 1856. 



Coosa. Given as a Cherokee town in a 

 document of 1799 (Royce in 5th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 144, 1887). Unidentified, but 

 perhaps on upper Coosa r., Ala. See 

 Kusa. 



Coosada. A former small mixed settle- 

 ment of Creeks and Cherokee, established 

 about 1784 on the left bank of Tennessee 

 r. at what is now Larkin's Landing, Jack- 

 son CO., Ala. From this village to the 

 site of the present Guntersville there was 

 an Indian trail. — Street in Ala. Hist. Soc. 

 Publ., I, 417, 1901; Royce in 18th Rep. 

 B. A. E., pi. cviii, 1899. 



Coosadi Hychoy. A former Koasati set- 

 tlement on Tombigbeer., in Choctaw and 

 Marengo cos., Ala., about lat. 32° 35^. 



Coosadi Hychoy. — West Fla. map, ca. 1775. Oc- 

 choy.— Romans, Florida, 327, 1775. 



Coosahatchi. An Upper Creek town on 

 Tallapoosa r., Ala., with 36 families in 

 1832. 



Coosahatches. — Swan (1791) in Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, v, 262, 1855. Cubahatchee.— Hopoethle 

 Yoholo (1836) in H. R. Ex. Doc. 80, 27th Cong., 3d 

 sess., 36, 1843. Cube hatcha. — Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, IV, 578, 18.54. 



Coosak-hattak-falaya ( Choctaw : ' long 

 white cane'). Noted on Robin's map 

 as an Indian town in 1807. Romans 

 (Fla., 305, 1775) mentions it apparently 

 as a settlement w. of lower Tombigbee 

 r., Ala., in Muskhogean territory. 

 Coosak hattak, — Robin, Voy., I, map, 1807. 



Coosha {kushal; or kusha, 'reed,' or 

 'reed-brake'). A former important 

 Choctaw town on the n. side of a w. 

 branch of Lost Horse cr., an affluent of 

 Ponta cr., in Lauderdale co., Miss. (Hal- 

 bert in Miss. Hist. Soc. Publ., vi, 416, 

 1902) . Romans has transposed the loca- 

 tion of this town and Panthe, q. v. 

 Coosa. — Romans, Florida, map, 1775 (misapplied). 

 Coosahs. — Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, 108,1884. 

 Cusha, — Ibid. Eonshaws. — Bvington, Choctaw 

 MS. Diet., B. A. E.,m. 1834._ 



Coosuc( from A'oas/i' pine,' ak 'at:' 'atthe 

 pine'). A small band, probably of the 

 Pennacook, formerly living about the 

 junction of the Upper and Lower Am- 

 monoosuc with the Connecticut, in Coos 

 and Grafton cos., N. H. Their village, 

 called Coos or Coosuc, seems to have 

 been near the mouth of the Lower Am- 

 monoosuc. They were driven off by the 

 English in 1704 and joined the St Francis 

 Indians, where they still kept up the 

 name about 1809. (j. m. ) 



Cohassiac— Kendall, Travels, in, 191, 1809 (name 

 still used for themselves by those at St Francis). 

 Coos.— Macaulev. N. Y., Il, 162, 1829. Coosucks.- 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, V, 222, 1855. Cowa- 

 sacks.— Kidder in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., vi, 236, 

 1859. Cowassuck.— Penhallow (1726) quoted by Ly 

 man in N. H. Hist. Soc. Coll., i, 36, 1824. 



Coot. A Costanoan village situated in 

 1819 within 10 m. of Santa Cruz mission, 

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

 1860. 



Cooweescoowee( Gu^wisguwtV, anonoma- 

 tope for a large bird said to have been 

 seen formerly at frequent intervals in 

 the old Cherokee country, accompanying 

 the migratory wild geese, and described 

 as resembling a large snipe, with yellow 

 legs and unwebbed feet) . A district ot 



