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EOTOTO ERIE 



[b. a. e. 



palo verde, cacti in the greatest variety, 

 and, along the water courses, cottonwood 

 and rushes. The people live a life partly 

 sedentary, housed in shelters of brush 

 and grab's. The effects of this environ- 

 ment, where the finding of springs was 

 the chief desideratum in the struggle for 

 existence, were to influence social struc- 

 ture and functions, manners and customs, 

 esthetic products and motives, lore and 

 symbolism, and, most of all, creed and 

 clilt, which were conditioned by the un- 

 ending, ever-recurring longing for water. 



Consult Morice (1) W. Denes, 1894, 

 (2) N. Inter. Brit. Col., 1904; Merriam 

 (1) Life Zones, Bull. 20, Biol. Surv. Dept. 

 Agr., (2) N. A. Fauna, ibid.. Bull. 3 and 

 16, (3) Bio.-Ceo. maps, 1892 and 1893; 

 Powell, Linguistic Families, 7th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 1891; Sargent (1) Distrib. For- 

 est Trees, 10th Census. (2) Trees of N. 

 Am., 1905, (3) Silva N. Am.; Chesnut 

 (1) Poisonous Plants, Bull. 20, Div. Bot. 

 Dept. Agr., (2) Plants used by Inds. Men- 

 docino Co., Cal., Cont. V. S. Nat. Herb., 

 vii, 3, 1902; Elliott, Mammals of N.Am., 

 Fewkes in Internat. Geog. Cong., 1903; 

 Field Columb. Mus. Publ., Zool., ii, 1901; 

 McGee, Beginning Agr., Am. Anthrop., 

 VIII, no. 4, 1895- Mason, Influence of En- 

 vironment, Smithson. Rep. 1895, 1896; 

 Barrows, Eth no-botany of Coahuilla Inds. , 

 1900; Miller, N. Am. Land Mammals, Bos- 

 ton Roc. Nat. Hist., xxx, no. 1, 1901; 

 Farrand, Basis of Am. Hist., 1904; Del- 

 lenbaugh. North Americans of Yester- 

 day, 1901. (o. T. M.) 



Eototo (name of a supernatural being). 

 One of the clans of the Kokop (Wood) 

 phratry of the Hopi. 



Eototo winwu.— Fewkes in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 

 5S4, 1900 (».'//7«'» = ' clan '). E-o'-to-to -wun-wu, — 

 Fewkes in Am. Anthrop., vii, 404, 1S94. 



Epanow. One of the first Indians to be 

 taken across the Atlantic by the English 

 from New England — a member of the party 

 forcibly taken from Marthas Vineyard, 

 Mass., by Capt. Harlow in 1611. He was 

 shown in England as a wonder, and man- 

 aged to escape from the English on the 

 return voyage by pretending to pilot them 

 to a gold mine. In 1619 he was at the 

 island of Capoge, near C. Cod, and in 

 that year a body of Indians under his 

 guidance attacked Capt. Dormer's men 

 while attempting to land on Marthas 

 Vineyard. Epanow is spoken of as artful 

 and daring. He may be the same as 

 Apannow, a signer of the Plymouth treatv 

 of 1621. See Drake, Inds. N. Am., 72, 

 1880. 



Epiminguia. A tribe formerly living on 

 Mississippi r., 20 leagues above Arkansas 

 r. (Coxe, Carolana, 11, 1741); probably 

 a division of the Quapaw. 



Epinette. A Chippewa band which 

 formerly lived on the n. shore of L. Supe- 



rior, E. of Michipicoton r., Ontario. — 

 Dobbs, Hudson Bay, 32, 1744. 



Episok. An Eskimo settlement in n. w. 

 Greenland. — Kane, Arct. Explor., ii, 278, 

 1856. 



Epley's Ruin. A large prehistoric 

 pueblo ruin on the outskirts of Solomons- 

 ville, on the Gila, s. e. Ariz. So called 

 from the owner of the ranch on which it 

 is situated. — Fewkes in 22d Rep. B. A. E.. 

 171, 1904. 



Erie (Huron: yenresh, 'itis long-tailed', 

 referring to the eastern i:)uma or panther; 

 Tuscarora, ke'^'rdks, 'lion', a modern use, 

 Gallicised into Erl and Bi, whence the 

 locatives Eri'e, JUgiu;, and Rique, 'at the 

 place of the panther', are derived. Com- 

 pare the forms Erieehronon, Eriechro- 

 non, and Riqu^ro'non of the Jesuit Rela- 

 tions, signifying 'people of the panther'. 

 It is probable that in Irocjuois the puma 

 and the wild-cat originally had generic- 

 ally the same name and that the defining 

 term has remained as the name of the 

 puma or panther) . A populous sedentary 

 Iroquoiau tribe, inhabiting in the 17th 

 century the territory extending s. from 

 L. Erie probably to Ohio r., e. to the lands 

 of the Conestoga along the e. watershed 

 of Allegheny r. and to those of the Seneca 

 along the line of the w. watershed of Gen- 

 esee r., and n. to those of the Neutral 

 Nation, probably on a line running east- 

 ward from the head of Niagara r. ( for the 

 Jesuit Relation for 1640-41 says that the 

 territorj' of the Erie and their allies joined 

 that of the Neutral Nation at the end of 

 L. Erie), and w. to the w. watershed of 

 L. Erie and Miami r. to Ohio r. Their 

 lands probably adjoined those of the Neu- 

 tral Nation w. of L. Erie. The Jesuit Re- 

 lation for 1653, speaking of L. Erie, says 

 that it "was at one time inhabited toward 

 the s. by certain peoples whom we call 

 the Cat Nation; but they were forced to 

 proceed farther inland in order to escape 

 their enemies whom they have toward 

 thew." In this eastward movement of 

 the Erie is probably found an explanation 

 of the emigration of the Awenrehronon 

 (Wenrohronon) to the Huron country in 

 1639 from the e. border of the lands of the 

 Neutral Nation, although the reason there 

 given is that they had for some unknown 

 reason ruptured their relations with the 

 Neutral Nation, with whom, it is stated, 

 they had been allied, and that, conse- 

 quently, losing the powerful support of 

 the populous Neutral Nation, the "Wenroh- 

 ronon, were left a prey to tlieir enemies, 

 the Iroquois. But the earlier Jesuit Re- 

 lation (for 1640-41), referring undoubt- 

 edly to this people, says that a certain 

 strange nation, the Awenrehronon, dwelt 

 beyond the Cat Nation, thus placing them 

 at this time e. of the Erie and apparently 

 separate from the Neutral Nation ; so that 



