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GAKAKONTHIE GEGUEP 



[I!. A. E. 



Garakonthie ( Ga-ra ^-kon-ti-e' , ' Moving 

 Sun'), Daniel. An Onondaga chief dur- 

 ing tlie middle of the 17th century; died 

 at Onondaga, N. Y., in 1676. When the 

 French missionarie.s tied from Onondaga 

 in 1658, Garakonthie aided them, perhaps 

 secretly, to make their escape, but soon 

 openly became the protector of the 

 Christians and an advocate of peace. In 

 1661 he induced the Or.ondaga to send 

 an embassy to Quebec and to return 9 

 French captives with a view of establish- 

 ing peace. He accompanied the prison- 

 ers to Montreal, where he was well re- 

 ceived, and oljtained the release of a 

 number of his i^eople. In 1662 he suc- 

 ceeded in temporarily checking the chiefs 

 who wished to make war on tlie French, 

 and frustrated a plot to kill the mission- 

 ary Le Moyne. During the war that fol- 

 lowed he exercised his authority in pro- 

 tecting the French in his country. He 

 declared himself a convert and was bap- 

 tized in 1669 in the cathedral at Quebec, 

 receiving the name Daniel. Garakon- 

 thie was not only an able, humane 

 leader, but an orator of considerable 

 ability; his strong attachment to the 

 whites lessened his influence with the 

 more warlike element of his tribe, yet 

 when an embassy was to be sent either to 

 the French or to the English, his services 

 were in demand. (c. t. ) 



Garangula. See Grangulu; 



Garganwahgah. See Cornplanter . 



Garomisopona. A Chumashan village 

 betv\een CJoleta and Ft Conception, Cal., 

 in 1542.— Cabrillo, Narr. (1542) in Smith, 

 Colec. Doc. Fla., 183, 1857. 



Gash. The winter town of the Sanya- 

 koan (q. v.), a Tlingit clan near C. Fox, 

 s. Alaska. Most of the people have now 

 moved to Ketchikan. (,t. r. s. ) 



Gasins {GasVns, perhaps 'gambling 

 sticks'). A Haida town on the n. w. 

 shore of Lina id.. Bearskin bay. Queen 

 Charlotte ids., Brit. Col.; occupied by 

 the family Hlgaui-lanas. — Swantoti, Cont. 

 Haida, 279, 1905. 



Gaskosada ('it is a waterfall.' — Hewitt). 

 A former Seneca village on Cayuga cr., 

 w. of Lancaster, N. Y. 



Falls Village. Morgan, League Iroq., 466, 18.51 

 (common English name). Ga'-sko''-sa-da'.— 

 Hewitt, inf'n, 1886. 



Gaspesien ( Gaspe is from gachepe, or 

 ktclipi, 'the end.' — Vetromile). A name 

 given by early French writers to a part 

 of the ]\Iicmac living about Gaspe bay on 

 the Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec province. 

 Their dialect differs somewhat from that 

 of the other Micmac. They frequently 

 crossed the gulf and made war on the 

 Eskimo and Papinachois. In 1884 the 

 "Micmacs of Gaspe" numbered 71 per- 

 sons, (j. M.) 

 Gaspesians.— Lahontan, New Voy., i, 230, 1703 

 (common English form). Gaspesies.— Hennepin, 

 New Discov., map, 1698. 



Gatagetegauning (probably for Kd- 

 'tdfp'thjatuiKj, 'at the ancient tield.' — . 

 W. J.) A former Chippewa village on 

 Lac (Vieux) Desert or Gatagetegauning, 

 on the Michigan-Wisconsin state line. 

 The present Vieux Desert Chippewa in 

 Michigan numbered, with the L'Anse 

 band, 668 in 1903. 



Ga-ta-ge-te-gaun-ing. — Warren (185l>) in Minn. 

 Hist.Sdc. Coll., V, 38, 1885. Gete'kitigan.— Baraga 

 Eng.-Otch. Diet., ISb, 1878. Katagi'tiganing.— 

 Wm. .Tones, inf'n, 190.'i (correct Chiiijicwa form). 

 Old Field.— Ibid. Vieux Desert.— Ibid. Vieux De 

 Sert band.— La Fointe treaty (1854) in U. S. Ind. 

 Treat., 223, 1873. 



Gatga-ina.na (Gd''tga'ina^ns). A Haida 

 town on Hippa id., 'Queen Charlotte ids., 

 Brit. Col. It is in posses.sion of the family 

 Do-gitinai. — Swanton, Cont. Haida, 280, 

 190.5. 



Gatiin^wa'li. See Big-niush. 



Gaudekan ( ' bell to wn ' ) . The principal 

 Huna town, now generally called Huna, 

 in Port Frederick, on the n. shore of 

 Chichagof id., Alaska. Pop. 800 in 1880; 

 447 (including whites) in 1900. 

 Gaotla'k-an. — Swanton, field notes, B. A. E.,1904. 

 Gaud-ah-kan. — Emmons in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., HI, pi. xii, 1903. Gaudekan.— Krause, Tlin- 

 kit Ind., 104, 118, 188.=). Koudekan.— PetrofT in 

 Tenth Census, Alaska, 31, 1884. 



Gawababiganikak ( Kuuiapabikunt kag, 

 ' place of much white earth. ' — W. J. ) . A 

 Chippewa band about White Earth lake, 

 N. w. Minn., officially reported to number 

 1,735 in 1905. 



Gawababiganikak. — Gatschet, Ojibwa MS., B. A. 

 E., 18H2. Kawapabikani'kag. — Wm. Jones, inf'n, 

 1905. 'White Earth band. — Common name. 



Gawunena. A band of the Arapaho, 

 q. V. 



Gayagaanhe {Ga-i/u'-gu^-d"'-h€', 'its 

 body is inclined.' — Hewitt). The former 

 principal village of the Cayuga, situate 

 near the e. shore of Cayuga lake, 3h miles 

 s. of Union Springs, N. Y. St Joseph's 

 mission was established there in 1668, and 

 the settlement was destroyed by Gen. 

 Sullivan in 1779. (.i. m.) 



Cayuga Castle.— Machin, map (1779), cited by Con- 

 over, Kanadesaga and Geneva MS., B. A. E. 

 Ga-ya'-ga-an'-ha. — Morgan, League Iroq., 4'23, 

 1851. Ga-ya'-ga'-a"'he'. — Hewitt, inf'n, 1886. 

 Goiogouin. — See Cayuga. Gwa-u-gweh. — Morgan, 

 League, Iroq., map, 1851. Saint Joseph. — Jes. Rel. 

 for 1670, 63, 18.58. 



Gayanthwahgeh, Gayehtwageh, Gayenth- 

 wahgih. See Cornplanter . 



Gay Head. A village, probably of the 

 Wampanoag, formerly on the w. end of 

 Martlias Vineyard, off the s. e. coast of 

 Massachusetts. It contained 260 souls in 

 1698, and in 1809 there were still 240 

 Indian and negro mixed-bloods, who 

 probably represented the entire Indian 

 population of the island. (.i. M. ) 



Gearksutite. A fluorine mineral resem- 

 bling kaolin, found in Greenland. The 

 word is compounded of arksutlte (q. v.) 

 and the Greek yi), 'earth.' (a. f. c. ) 



Geguep. A former Chumashan village 

 near Santa Inez mission, Santa Barbara CO., 

 Cal. —Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



