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ECLAUOU EDUCATION 



[b. a. e. 



Ibid. (Naltunnetunne name). Tc'es-qan'-me.— 

 Ibid, (another Naltunnetunne name). 



Eclauou. A village of the Utina (Tim- 

 ucua) confederacy in central Florida in 

 theieth century.— Laudonniere (1564) in 

 French, Hist. Coll. La., n. s., 243,1869. 



Ecochee. A former Cherokee settle- 

 ment on a head stream of Savannah r. , in 

 N. w. South Carolina or n. e. Georgia. 

 It was destroyed during the Revolution- 

 ary war. (j. M. ) 



Ecorce. A band of Nipissing living at 

 Oka, Canada, in 1736. Their totem was 

 the birch . Chan vignerie calls them L' Eco- 

 ree, evidentlv intended for L' Ecorce. 

 Bark tribe.— Chauvignerie (1736) transl. in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hi.st., IX, 1053, 1855. L'Ecoree.- Chau- 

 vignerie quoted by Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 

 554, 1853. 



Ecureuil (French: 'squirrel') . Spoken 

 of as a tribe formerly living between Ta- 

 doussac and Hudson bay, Quebec pro- 

 vince, Canada; destroyed by the Iroquois 

 in 1661. Probably a Montagnais band 

 living about the headwaters of Three rs., 

 possibly about the lake named Onapichi- 

 ouanon in the Jesuit Relations. 

 Escurieux.— Jes. Rel., 20, 1661. L'Ecureuil. — Mc- 

 Kenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, in, 79, 1854. 



Ecushaw. See Cashmv. 



Edelano. An unidentified village on an 

 island in St Johns r., Fla., in the 16th 

 century. — Laudonniere (1564) in French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., n. s., 287, 1869. 



Edenshaw (or Edensaw, from a Tlingit 

 word referringto theglacier ) . The Haida 

 chief best known to the whites. He suc- 

 ceeded early in the 19th century to the 

 chieftainship of the strong Stustas kinship 

 group which centered in the town of 

 Kioosta on the coast of Graham id. oppo- 

 site North id., Brit. Col. Shortly after 

 1860, his people having fallen off in num- 

 bers, he moved with them to Kung, at 

 the mouth of Naden harbor, where he 

 erected a large house, which is still stand- 

 ing. Through the exercise of his excep- 

 tional abilities in trade and in various 

 other ways he became one of the wealth- 

 iest of the Hai<la chiefs. His relations 

 with the whites were always cordial, and 

 it was through his influence that a mis- 

 sionary was sent to Masset. Among other 

 good offices to the whites, he protected 

 the crew of an American vessel when 

 threatened by other natives. He died 

 about 1885. A monument mentioning 

 his kind treatment of the whites stands in 

 Masset. _ (j. r.s. ) 



Edgpiiliik. A Delaware village in w. 

 New Jersey in 1792. 



Edgpiiliik.— Brinton, Lenape Leg., 46, 1885. Edg- 

 piiluk,- Keane in Stanford, Comp., Cent, and S. 

 Am., .512, 1878. 



Edisto. A small tribe, now extinct, 

 which appears to have occupied lower 

 Edisto r.,'S. C, which derived its name 

 from that of the trilie. The Huguenots 

 of Ribault's colony were kindly wel- 

 comed by them in 1562, and the Span- 



iards for a time had a mission among 

 them. They were included in the Cusabo 

 group, and are mentioned in connection 

 with the Stono, Westo, and Savannah as 

 still living in the region named in 1670, 

 when English colonization began. With 

 the Westo and Stono they were possibly 

 driven out by the Shawnee in 1680. 

 Gatschet thinks it probable that they 

 spoke the LTchean language. See Moon- 

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

 E., 1894. 



Adusta.— De Bry, Brev. Nar., ii, map, 1591. 

 Audusta. — Laudonniere (1587) in Hakluyt, Voy., 

 379, 1600. Edistoes.— Gallatin in Trans. Am. Antiq. 

 Soc, II. 83, 1836. Edisto.— Adair, Hist. Inds., 325, 

 1775. Edisto-w. -Harris, Voy. and Trav., I, map, 

 1705. Crista, —Fontaneda ica. 1570) in Ternaux- 

 Compiins, Voy., xx, 16, 1841. Oristanum, — Brig- 

 stock (1623) quoted by French, Hist. Coll. La., ii, 

 186, 1875. 



Edjao {^Fdjao). A Haida town situ- 

 ated around a hill of the same name, 

 at the E. end of Masset village, Queen 

 Charlotte ids. , Brit. Col. It was occupied 

 by the Aoyaku-lnagai, a branch of the 

 Yaku-lanas, and, according to the old 

 men, consisted in later times of about 6 

 houses, which would have contained 

 nearly a hundred persons. Later it came 

 to be included within the limits of Mas- 

 set.— Swanton, Cont. Haida, 99, 1905. 

 Hai'ts'au.— Boas, Twelfth Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 

 23, 1898. Ha-ju hade.— Krause, Tlinkit-Indianer, 

 304, 18S5 ('people of Kdjao"; probably the same). 



Edjieretrukenade ('buffalo people'). 

 An Athapascan tribe of the Chipewyan 

 group living along the banks of Buffalo 

 r., Athabasca, Canada. 



Edjiere-tpou-kke-nade,— Petitot, Autourdu lac des 

 Esclaves, 363, 1891 ('buffalo people'). 



Education. The aborigines of North 

 America had their own systems of educa- 

 tion, through which the young were in- 

 structed in their coming labors and obli- 

 gations, embracing not only the whole 

 round of economic pursuits — hunting, 

 fishing, handicraft, agriculture, and 

 household work — but speech, fine art, 

 customs, etiquette, social obligations, and 

 tribal lore. By unconscious absorption 

 and by constant inculcation the boy and 

 girl became the accomplished man and 

 woman. Motives of pride or shame, the 

 stimulus of flattery or disparagement, 

 wrought constantly upon the child, male 

 or female, who was the charge, not of the 

 parents and grandparents alone but of 

 the whole tribe ( Heckevvelder). Loskiel 

 (p. 139) says the Iroquois are particu- 

 larly attentive to the education of the 

 young people for the future government 

 of the state, and for this purpose admit 

 a boy, generally the nephew of the prin- 

 cipal chief, to the council and solemn 

 feast following it. 



The Eskimo were most careful in teach- 

 ing their girls and boys, setting them diffi- 

 cult problems in canoeing, sledding, and 

 hunting, showing them how to solve them. 



