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DUKE8, JOSEPH DUTCH INFLUENCE 



[b. a. e. 



Dukes, Joseph. An interpreter, the son 

 of half-blood Choctaw parents, born in 

 the old Choctaw country, in the present 

 Mississippi, in l.Sll. He attended one of 

 the early mission schools at Mayhew, 

 where he made such progress that he often 

 acted as interpreter for Rev. Cyrus Kings- 

 bury, the pioneer missionary, who never 

 learned the Choctaw language. After 

 the Choctaw had ceded to the United 

 States their lands in the E. , he remained 

 in Mississippi for some years, helping 

 Rev. Cyrus Byington prepare a Choc- 

 taw grammar and dictionary. In 1851 or 

 1852 he preached under the direction of 

 Rev. Allen Wright at Wheelock, Ind. 

 Ter., and assisted Mr Wright in trans- 

 lating the Old Testament. When Mr 

 Wright was succeeded by Rev. John Ed- 

 wards, in 1853, Dukes taught the latter 

 Choctaw and aided him in translation in 

 addition to his preaching. The first draft 

 of the whole of the Old Testament from 

 Genesis to II Kings, as well as of the 

 Psalms, is attributed to him, and he prob- 

 ably translated also some portions of the 

 New Testament. He died in 1861. He 

 was the author of The History of Joseph 

 and His Brethren (Utica, 1831, repr. 

 1836).— Pilling, Bibliog. Muskh. Lang., 

 Bull. B. A. E.,1889. 



Dulastunyi {DHJastfm'yl, 'potsherd 

 place'). A former Cherokee settlement 

 on Nottely r., Cherokee co., N. C, near 

 the Georgia line. A half-breed Cherokee 

 ball captain who formerly lived there, 

 John Butler, or Tsanugdsita (Sour John) , 

 having been defeated in a ball game, 

 said, in contempt of his men, that they 

 were of no more use than broken pots. — 

 Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 406, 1900. 



Dulchioni. A tribe, probably Caddoan, 

 formerly living in villages on Red r. of 

 Louisiana, 3 leagues below those of the 

 Natchitoches. They were visited by Bien- 

 ville and St Denys in 1700, when on their 

 journey up Red r. to open trade between 

 the Spanish and French provinces, and 

 by La Harpe in 1719. Further than these 

 brief references little is known of this 

 tribe or of its subsequent fate. (a. c. f. ) 

 Dulchanois.— La Harpe (1719) in French, Hi.st. 

 Coll. La., HI, 19, 18.51. Dulchinois.— Ibid., 72. 

 Oulchionis.— La Harpe in Margry, D^c, vi, 277, 

 188(i. 



Duldulthawaiame (' village where there 

 are plenty of humming insects'). A 

 former village of the Mishikhwutmetunne 

 on Coquille r., Oreg. 



Dul-dul' 9a-wai'-a-me.— Dorsevin Jour. Am. Folk- 

 lore, in, 232, 1890. 



Dull Knife. A chief of a band of North- 

 ern Cheyenne who first came into public 

 notice in 1868 when, as one of the repre- 

 sentatives of his tribe, he signed the 

 treaty of Ft Laramie, May 10, made by 

 the Northern Cheyenne and Northern 

 Arapaho with the United States, his name 



appearing as " Tah-me-la-pash-me, or 

 Dull Knife." In 1875, or early in 1876, 

 Dull Knif-e's band, numbering about 400 

 warriors, suddenly attacked Washakie's 

 band of Shoshoni, at that time on Big- 

 horn r. near the mouth of Gray Bull 

 r. In 1876 the Northern Cheyenne, in- 

 cluding Dull Knife's band, joined the 

 Sioux under Sitting Bull in their general 

 uprising during this and the following 

 year. They were present at and were 

 participants in the Custer massacre on 

 the Little Bighorn in June, 1876, and ac- 

 cording to Chief Gall's statement, at the 

 beginning of the battle the Cheyenne 

 fought Custer's command while the Sioux 

 attacked Reno's force, and after the lat- 

 ter had been driven back, the entire 

 body of warriors turned on Custer's com- 

 mand. On Nov. 25, 1876, the cavalry 

 under Col. Mackenzie attacked Dull 

 Knife's camp at daybreak, destroying 173 

 lodges and capturing 500 ponies. Al- 

 though the Indians escaped, with heavy 

 loss, they later surrendered and were 

 moved to Oklahoma and placed with the 

 Southern Cheyenne. (Greatly dissatisfied 

 with their new home, an attempt was 

 made by a large party under Dull Knife 

 to escape to the N. in Sept., 1878. They 

 were pursued and a part of them cap- 

 tured and confined at Ft Robinson, Nebr., 

 whence they made a desperate attempt 

 to escape on the night of Jan. 9, 1879, 

 during which most of them, including 

 Dull Knife, were killed. Consult Dunn, 

 Massacres, 1886; Ellis, Ind. Wars, 1892; 

 Ind. Aff. Rep. 1877-79; Mooney in 14th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 3 896. See the article 

 Cheyenne. (c. t. ) 



Durango. A former Tepehuane settle- 

 ment, now the capital of the Mexican 

 state of the same name. — Orozco y Berra, 

 Geog., 318, 1864. 



Dustayalunyi {DAstdyaMn^yt, 'where it 

 made a noise, as of thunder or shooting,' 

 apparentl y referring to a lightning stroke ) . 

 A former Cherokee settlement about the 

 mouth of Shooting cr., an affluent of Hi- 

 wassee r., near Hayesville, Clav co., 

 N. C— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 

 517, 1900. 



Dutch influence. The influence of the 

 Dutch on the Indians n. of Mexico was 

 confined to the period (1609-64) from 

 Hudson's visit to the surrender of New 

 Amsterdam and its dependencies to the 

 English. The region in which this in- 

 fluence was exerted lies between the 

 Susquehanna and Connecticut rs., and 

 between the Atlantic and L. Ontario. 

 Ft Orange, now the city of Albany, was a 

 noted trading post of the Dutch, and there 

 they came in contact with the Iroquoian 

 tribes of the N., in addition to the Algon- 

 quian tribes of the S. The harsh con- 

 duct of Hudson toward the Indians met 



