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Eastman, an American army officer, and 

 maternal granddaugliter of C'loudman, a 

 Sioux chief. He continued with his 

 father, except for one year at Beloit Col- 

 lege, Wis., until the latter died in 1876. 

 The same year he was ordained as a 

 Presbyterian minister at Flandreau, S. 

 Dak., and installed as pastor of the In- 

 dian church of Flandreau township, 

 which had been organized in 1871 and 

 provided by the Presbyterian Mission 

 Board with a building in 1874. Mr East- 

 man took charge of a Government school 

 and began teaching the youth of the San- 

 tee res. in 1878, but resigned this charge 

 in 1885 in order to accept the position of 

 overseer of the band then living in Flan- 

 dreau township. He retired from this 

 position in 189(3 and now devotes much 

 of his attention to the work of his min- 

 istry and the cultivation of a small farm 

 purchased some years ago. His church 

 now numl)ers 96 communicants. In 1874 

 Mr Eastman married ^liss Mary J. Fari- 

 bault, a half-blood Santee. They are 

 parents of 6 children. Mr Eastman is still 

 active in tribal affairs, and since about 

 1880 has annually served in the capacity 

 of delegate of his people at Washington. 



Eat tiie Ham. A former Sans Arc band 

 under a medicine-man named Wichasha- 

 M'akan. — Culbertson in Smithson. Rep. 

 1850, 142, 1851. 



Ebahamo. An extinct tribe formerly 

 dwelling on Matagorda bay, Tex. Ea 

 Salle constructed his Ft St Louis within 

 the territory of this trilie and of the 

 Quelanhubeches, or Karankawa, who 

 probably were a cognate peojile. Joutel 

 (1687) states in his narrative (French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., i, 134, 1846) that La Salle 

 recorded a vocabulary of their language, 

 which is very different from that of the 

 Cenis (Caddo) and more difficult; that 

 they were neighbors and allies of the latter 

 people and understood some of their 

 words. "At our fort at St Louis bay," he 

 says, "we made some stay to cultivate the 

 friendship of our Bracamos (as the Indian 

 nation that dwells near our fort is called) , 

 in order to leave protectors to the people 

 whom we would have to leave in the 

 fort." (a. s. g.) 



Apayxam.— Massanet MS. (1690) cited by H. E. 

 Bolton, inf'n, 1906 (same?). Bahamos. — Early 

 writer quoted by Gatschet, Karankawa Inds., 

 24, 1891. Bracamos. — Cavelier (1685) quoted bv 

 Shea, Early Vov., 21, 1861. Ebahamo.— Joutel 

 (1687) in Margrv, Dee., in, 276. 1878. Ebahumo.— 

 Ibid., 300. Hebahamo.— .Toutel (ICiS") in French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., i, 134, 1.S46. Hebohamos.— Joutel 

 quoted by Gatschet, op. cit. 



Ebiamana, An unidentified village in 

 X. Florida about 1565. — De Bry, Brev. 

 Nar., ir, map, 1591. 



Ebita Poocola Chitto {Ihetap alia chitto, 

 'fountain-head big people'). A former 

 Choctaw town, noted by Romans, be- 

 lieved to have been situated on the head 



of Straight cr., in Kemper co., Miss., 

 hence the name. — Halbert in Miss. Hist. 

 Soc. Pul)l., VI, 425, 1902. 

 Ebita-poocolo-ohitto. — West Florida map, ca. 1772. 

 Ebitap-oocoolo-cho. — Romans, Florida, 310, 1775. 

 Ibetap okla chitto. — Halbert, op. cit. 



Ebita Poocola Skatane [Ibetap oliaishUini, 

 ' fountain-head little people ' ) . A former 

 Choctaw town on the w. or main prong 

 of Yazoo cr., a n. affluent of Petickfa or., 

 in Kemper co.. Miss. — Halbert in Miss. 

 Hist. Soc. Publ., VI, 423, 1902. 

 Ebeetap Oocoola. — Komans, Florida, 310, 1775. 

 Ibetap okla iskitini. — Halbert, op. cit. 



Ecatacari. A rancheria of either the 

 Eudeve or the Nevome of Sonora, Mexico, 

 in the early part of the 18th century. It 

 was probablv situated near Matape. — 

 AVriter of 170'2(?) in Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th 

 s., V, 126, 1857. 



Echantac. A village, jjresumably Cos- 

 tanoan, formerly connected with San Juan 

 Bautista mission, Cal. — P^ngelhardt, Fran- 

 ciscans in Cal., 398, 1897. 



Ecbilat. A former village of the Rum- 

 sen division of the Costanoan family sit- 

 uated 12 m. s. E. of San Carlos mission, 

 Cal. 



Echilat.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860. 

 San Francisquita. — Ibid. 



Ecbojoa, A Mayo settlement on the Rio 

 Mayo, al)ove Santa Cruz, s. w. Sonora, 

 Mexico; pop. 444 in 1900. 

 Echehoa.— Hardy, Trav. in Mex., 438, 1829. Echo- 

 joa. — ( )rozco y Berra, Geog., 356, istu. Echonova. — 

 Il>id.(E('hojoa, or). Hetschojoa. — Kino, map (1702) 

 in Stocklein, Neue Welt-Bott, 1726. 



Echota (corruption of Itsa'd, meaning 

 unknown). The name of several Chero- 

 kee towns. (1) the most important— 

 often distinguished as Great Echota — was 

 on the s. side of Little Tennessee r., a 

 short distance l)elow Citico cr., in Monroe 

 CO., Tenn. It was the ancient capital and 

 sacred "peace town " of the nation. At 

 that place there is a large mound. (2) 

 Little Echota was on Sautee (Itsa^ti) cr., 

 a head-stream of the Chattahoochee, w. 

 of Clarkesville, Ga. (3) New Echota, 

 the capital of the nation for some years 

 before the removal, was established at a 

 spot, originally known as Gansdgi, at the 

 junction of Oostanaulaand Conasauga rs., 

 in (jordon co., Ga. It was sometimes 

 called Newtown. (4) The old Macedo- 

 nian mission on Soco cr., of the North 

 Carolina res., is also known to the Cher- 

 okee as ItsiVti, as was also (5) the great 

 Nacoochee mound. See Mooney in 19th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 523, 1900. 

 Choquata.— Mooney, op. cit. (cited as former mis- 

 print). Chota.— Doc. of 1799 quoted bv Kovce in 

 5th Rep. B. A. E., 144, 1887. Chote.— Timberlake, 

 Mem., map, 1765 (on Little Tennessee r.). Chote 

 great. — Bartram, Trav., 371, 1792(onTenn. r.). 



Echulit. A Tolowa village at a lagoon 

 on the coast about 5 m. n. of Crescent, 

 Cal. (p. E. G.) 



E'-tcu-let ?fin-ne. — Dorsey, MS. Chetco vocab., B. 

 A. E., 1884. E-tcu'-lit.— Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk- 

 lore, in, 236, 1890(Tututunne named). E-tc'u'-lIt.— 



