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FOSKEY FOXES 



[b. a. e. 



Foskey. See Black drink, Busk. 



Fotshou's Village. A summer camp of 

 one of the Taku chiefs of the Tlingit 

 named Gochai; 24 people were there in 

 1880.— Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 32, 

 1884. 



Fountain. A band of Upjjer Lillooet, 

 inhabiting, with the Shuswap, the village 

 of Huhilp, on the e. bank of Fraser r., 

 above Lillooet, Brit. Col.; pop. 205 in 

 1904.— Can. Ind.Aff. 1904, pt. ii, 73, 1905. 



Four Creek Tribes. A collective name 

 for the Yokuts tribes or bands that re- 

 sided on the four streams tributary to L. 

 Tulare, Cal.— McKee (1851) in Sen. Ex. 

 Doc. 4, 32d Cong., spec, sess., 80, 1853; 

 Henley inlnd. Aff. Eep., 511, 1854. 



Four Mile Ruin. A prehistoric ruin on 

 a branch of the Little Colorado, 4 m. 

 from Snowflake, Navajo co., Ariz. The 

 ruin was excavated in 1897 by the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, the mortuary' 

 deposits unearthed indicating relations 

 with both Zufii and Hopi clans. See 

 Fewkesin22dRep. B. A. E., 136-164, 1904. 



Four Nations. Mentioned with the Ka- 

 wita and Kasihta as having a conference 

 with the English near the mouth of Apa- 

 lachicola r., Fla., in 1814 (Hawkins in 

 Am. State Papers, Ind. Aff., i, 859, 1832). 

 Probably the Oakfuskee, with their 3 vil- 

 lages on the Chattahoochee, were meant. 



(A. .S. G.) 



Fowl Town. A former Seminole town 

 in N. w. Florida, about 12 m. e. of Ft Scott, 

 on Apalachicola r. at the Georgia bound- 

 ary, containing about 300 inhabitants in 

 1820. The name has been given also in 

 the plural as though including more than 

 one town. It is distinct from Tutalosi, 

 also called Fowl Town. 



Foul Town.— Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 4, 64, 1848. Fowl 

 Towns.— Morse, Rep. to See. War, 364, 1822. 



Foxes (trans, in plural of u-(igosh, 'red 

 fox,' the name of a clan). An Algon- 

 quian tribe, so named, according to Fox 

 tradition recorded by Dr William Jones, 

 l)ecause once while some Wagohiig', 

 members of the Fox clan, were hunting, 

 they met the French, Avho asked who 

 they were; the Indians gave the name of 

 their clan, and ever since the whole tribe 

 has 1)een known by the name of the Fox 

 clan. Their own name for themselves, 

 according to the same authority, is M^sh- 

 kwakihiig", 'red-earth people,' because 

 of the kind of earth from which they are 

 supposed to have been created. They 

 were known to the Chippewa and other 

 Algonquian trilies as Utiigamig, ' people 

 of the other shore'. 



When they first became known to the 

 whites, the Foxes lived in the vicinity of 

 L. Winnebago or along Fox r., Wis. Ver- 

 wyst (Missionary Labors, 178, 1886) says 

 they were on Wolf r. when Allouez visited 

 them in 1670. As the tribe was inti- 



mately related to the Sauk, and the two 

 were probably branches of one original 

 stem, it is probable that the early migra- 

 tions of the former corresponded some- 

 what closely with those of the latter. 

 The Sauk came to Wisconsin through 

 the lower Michigan peninsula, their tra- 

 ditional home having been n. of the 

 lakes, and were comparatively new- 

 comers in Wisconsin when thej^ first 

 became known to the French. One of 

 their important villages was for some time 

 on Fox r. The conclusion of Warren 

 (Hist. Ojibways, 95, 1885) that the Foxes 



FOX CHIEF 



early occupied the country along the s. 

 shore of L. Superior and that the incom- 

 ing Chippewa drove them out, has the 

 general support of Fox tradition. Nev- 

 ertheless there is no satisfactory histor- 

 ical evidence that the Foxes ever re- 

 sided farther n. than Fox r. in Wis- 

 consin, and in none of their treaties 

 with the United States have they 

 claimed land n. of Sauk co. This restless 

 and warlike people was the only Algon- 

 quian tribe against whom the French 

 waged war. In addition to their dispo- 

 sition to be constantly at strife with their 



