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Curepo. — A Chinipa rancheria in Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico, in 1601. — Bancroft, No. 

 Mex. States, i, 211, 1886. 



Curly Head [Jhihiftlgandibe) . A chief 

 of the Mississippi (or Sandy lake) Chip- 

 pewa, born about the middle of the ISth 

 century, on the s. shore of L. Superior. 

 He removed to the upper jMississippial)out 

 1800 with a number of the Crane (Businau- 

 see ) gens, of which he was a member, and 

 settled near the site of the present Crow 

 Wing, ]\Iinn. Here his band was aug- 

 mented by the bravest warriors and har- 

 diest hunters of the eastern Cliippewa 

 until it became a bulwark against the 

 Sioux raiders who hitlierto had harried 

 the Chippewa as far as the shores of L. 

 Michigan. The wliite traders lavished 

 gifts upon him, which lie freely shared 

 with his followers. His lodge was always 

 well supplied with meat, and the hungry 

 were welcomed. The peace and friend- 

 ship that generally prevailed between the 

 white pioneers ancl the Chipjjewa were 

 due chietiy to Curly Head's restraining 

 influence. He was visited in 1805 by 

 Lieut. Z. M. Pike, who passed the winter 

 in his neighborhood. He died while re- 

 turning from the conference, known as 

 the treaty of Prairie du Chien, held Aug. 

 19, 1825, in which his name a])pears as 

 "Babaseekeendase, Curling Hair." Ac- 

 cording to Warren (Hist. Ojibwa_v, 47, 

 1885) he was both civil and war chief of 

 his people. 



Cusabo. A collective term used to 

 designate the Conibahee, Coosa, Edisto, 

 Etiwaw, Kiawaw, St Helena, Stono, 

 Wapoo, and Westo Indians, formerly 

 living between Charleston, S. C, and 

 Savannah r. Their territory was the 

 Chicora of Ayllon and other early Span- 

 ish adventurers, and it is probable that 

 some, if not most of the tribes mentioned, 

 belonged to the Uchean stock. They 

 early became reduced through the raids 

 of Spanish slavers and the connivance 

 of the colonists. In Jan., 1715, they 

 were reported to number 295 inhabitants 

 in 4 villages, but during the Yamasi war 

 in that year they and other tribes were 

 expelled or exterminated. See Mooney, 

 Siouan Tribes of the East, Bull. B. A. E., 

 86, 1894. 



Corsaboys.— Doc. of 1719 in Rivers, Hist. S. C, 93, 

 1S74. Cusabees.— Rivers, Hist. S. C, 38, 185G. 

 Cussobos.— Sinims, Hist. S. C, 56, 1860. 



Cusarare (corruption of Umrare, from 

 usdka, 'eagle'). A small Tarahumare ran- 

 cheria situated a short distance s. of 

 Bocoyna, on the e. slope of the Sierra 

 Madre, in lat. 28°, w. Chihuahua, Mex. 

 — Lumholtz (1) in Scribner's 3Iag., xvi, 

 40, 1894; (2) Unknown Mex., i, 136, 1902. 



Cusawatee {KuKiDretiyl, 'old Creek 

 place'). A former important Cherokee 

 settlement on lower Coosawatee r., in 

 Gordon co., Ga. 



Coosawatee.— Moonev, in 19th Rep. B. A. E.. 526, 



1900. Coosawaytee.— Doe. (if 1799 quoted by Rovce 

 in Ml Kv\<. B. A. E., Ill, 1887. Kiisawetiyi. — 

 MdOUfy, op. cit. (proper Cherokee name:. Ten- 

 sawattee. — Doe. (juoteil by Mooney, ibid. 



Cuscarawaoc ('place of making white 

 beads. ' — Tooker ) . A division of the Nan- 

 ticoke; m-entioned by Capt. John Smith 

 as a tribe or people living at the head 

 of Nanticoke r., in Maryland and Del- 

 aware, and num])ering i)erhaps 800 in 

 160s. Their language was different from 

 that of the Powhatan, Conestoga, and 

 Atquanachuke. Heckewelder believed 

 them to be a division of the Nanticoke, 

 the correctness of which Bozman (Marv- 

 land, I, 112-121, 1837) has clearly dem- 

 onstrated. For a discussion of the name 

 see Tooker, Algonquian Series, ix, 65, 



1901. (J. M.) 

 Cuscarawaoke. — Simons in Smitli( 1629), Virginia,!, 

 178, repr. 1819. Cuskarawaocks. — Bozman, Mary- 

 land, I, 110, 1837. Huokarawaocks. — Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, VI, 131,18ri7. Kuscarawaoks.— Smith 

 (1629), op. cit., 74. Kuscarawocks. — Brintoii, Le- 

 nape Leg., 23, 1885. Kuskaranaocke. — I'riur in 

 Purchas, Pilgrimes, iv, 171H, Ityti. Kuskarawack.— 

 Smith's map (1615) in Purchas, ibid., ]i, 1692. Nus- 

 karawaoks.— Strachey {c<i. 1612), Virginia, 41, 1849. 



Cuscatomiu. See Kiskitomas. 



Cuscowilla. The principal Seminole 

 town on Cuscowilla lake, Alachuaco., Fla. 

 It was established by Creeks from Oconee, 

 Ga. , wh(j first settled at AlachuaOld Town 

 but al)andoned it on account of its un- 

 healthfulness. — Bartram (Travels, 1791) 

 found 30 houses there in 1775. 



Cushaw. See C'usJiaw. 



Cushna, A division of the Maidu on the 

 upper waters of the s. fork of Yuba 

 r.. Sierra co., Cal.; pop. about 600 in 

 1850.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 124, 1850; Taylor 

 in Cal. Farmer, May 31, 1861. 



Cushook. A band residing in 1806 on 

 the E. bank of Willamette r., Oreg., just 

 below the falls, their number estimated at 

 650. Proljablyabranchof theChinookan 

 tribe of Clowwewalla. 



Cashhooks. — Orig. Jour. Lewis and Clark, iv, 233, 

 1905. Cashook. — Lewisand Clark, Kxiu'd.. ii, 216 

 1814. Clishhooks.— Cass (1S34) ([Uotcd by Schooh 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, in, 609, l.s:)3. Cushhooks.— Lewis 

 and Clark. Exped., ll, 474, 1814. Cushhouks.— 

 Nouv. Ann. Voy., xn, map, 1821. 



Cushtuslia {KnHlitih-asha, 'fleas are 

 there' ). A former Choctaw town on the 

 s. side of Cushtusha cr., about 3 m. s. w. 

 of the old town of Yazoo, Neshoba co., 

 Miss.— Halbert in Miss. Hist. Soc. PubL, 

 VI, 431, 1902. 



Castachas. — Charlevoix, Hist. Nouv. France, Shea 

 ed., VI, 104, 1872. Cuctachas.— Romans, Florida, 

 map, 1775. Custachas. — West Fla. map, en. Vilb. 

 Custusha. — Halbert in Ala. Hist. Soc. Trans., 73, 

 1899. 



Cusihuiriacliic ( 'where the upright pole 

 is'). A former Tarahumare settlement, 

 now a white iNIexican town, on the head- 

 waters of the Kio San Pedro, lat. 28° 12', 

 long. 106° 50', w. central Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. 



Cusihuirachic. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., map, 1864. 

 Cusihuiriachic. — Lumholtz in Scribner's Mag., 

 XVI, 32, July, 1894. 



