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GRINAICHES GUAES 



[b. a. e. 



Grigas. — Richebourg (1713) in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La.. Ill, 24S, 1,S51. Grigras.— Le Page du Pratz, 

 Hi^t. La., II, 2'>2, 17.5s. 



Grinaiches. Mentioned by Baudiy de 

 Lozieres (Vo}'. Lonisiane, 242, 1802) in a 

 list of tribes with no indication of habitat. 

 Probabl}^ a misnrint of some well-known 

 tribal name. 



Grinding stones. See Abrading imple- 

 ments. 



Grizzly Bear Erect. See Etsowish-sim- 

 megee-ilsliin. 



Gros ( Les ) . A Wea village on the Wa- 

 bash in 1718 (Memoir of 1718 in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., IX, 891, 1855); perhaps in 

 Tippecanoe co., Ind. 



Grosse Tete (Fr. : 'big head'). A for- 

 mer Cliitimacha village in Louisiana. 



Grosse Tete namu. — Gatschet in Trans. Anthrop. 

 Soc. Wasli., II, 1.52, 1,S83 (ii<\inu= 'village'). 



Gros Ventres ( French, ' big bellies' ) A 

 term applied by the French, and after 

 them )>y others, to two entirely distinct 

 tribes: (1) theAtsina(q. v. ),orHitunena, 

 a detached band of the Arapaho, and (2) 

 the Hidatsa (q. v.), or Minitari. In the 

 Lewis and Clark narrative of 1806 the 

 former are distinguished as Minitarees of 

 Fort de Prairie and the latter as Mini- 

 tarees of the INIissouri, although there is 

 no proper warrant for applying the name 

 Minitari to the Atsina. The two tribes 

 have also been distinguished as Grosven- 

 tres of the Missouri (Hidatsa) and Gros- 

 ventres of the Prairie ( Atsina ) . The name 

 as applied to the Atsina originates from 

 the Indian sign by which they are desig- 

 nated in the sign language — a sweeping 

 pass with both hands in front of the ab- 

 domen, intended to convey the idea of 

 'always hungry,' i. e., 'beggars.' Aclew 

 to its application to the Hidatsa is given 

 in the statement of Matthews (Hiclatsa, 

 43, 1877) that the Hidatsa formerly tat- 

 tooed parallel stripes acro.ss the chest, and 

 were thus sometimes distinguished in pic- 

 ture writings. The gesture sign to indicate 

 this style of tattooing would be sufficiently 

 similar to that used to designate the At- 

 sina to lead the careless observer to inter- 

 pret both as "Gros Ventres." The ordi- 

 nary sign now used by the southern Plains 

 tribes to indicate the Hidatsa is inter- 

 preted to mean 'spreading tipis' or 'row 

 of lodges.' (j. M.) 



Big-bellys.— Gass, Journal, 76, 1S07. Big bellied.— 

 Mackenzie, Voy.,lxiv, 1801. Bigbellies.— Lewis and 

 Clark, E.xped., l, 132, 1814. Big Pauch.— Lewis and 

 Clark, Travels, 15, 1807 (misprint). Big Paunch.— 

 Lewis and Clark, Discov., 18, 1806. Gos ventres. — 

 De Smet, Letters, 62, 1813. Great Belly Indians.— 

 Writer of 1786 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s.. Ill, 

 24, 1794. Grosse Ventres.— Brown, West. Gaz., 212, 

 1817. Gross Vantres. — ( )rig. Jour. Lewis and Clark 

 (1804), I, 210, 1904. Grossventers.— Gass, Jour., 76, 

 1807. Gross Ventres. — Orig. Jour. Lewis and Clark, 

 I, 243, 1904. Gross Ventres proper. — Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, 1,259,18.51 (intended for the Hidatsa). 

 Grosvantres. — C)rig. Jour. Lewis and Clark, i, 209, 

 1904. Gros-Ventres. — Saint I'ierrei 175:-{iin Maryry, 

 Dec VI, 640, 1,S.S6. Gros Ventres of the Missouri. — 

 Hale, Ettinog. and Philol., 220, 1846 (intended for 



the Hidatsa). Gros-Vents. — Kane, Wanderings of 

 an Artist, 366, 1859. Grovan. — Bonner, Life of 

 Beckwourth, 162, 1856. 



Groton. A former Mohegan villageabout 

 the present Groton, New London, Conn. 

 In 1825 the population was reduced to 50 

 souls. (j. M.) 



Gua. A Chumashan village w. of Pue- 

 blo de las Canoas (San Buenaventura), 

 Ventura co. , Cal. , in 1542. In the Muiioz 

 manuscriptof Cabrillo's narration (Smith, 

 Colec. Doc. Fla., 181, 1857) this name is 

 united, probably correctly, with the prefix 

 Quanmu, forming Quanmugua. 



Guacata. An inland Calu.sa village on 

 L. "Mayaimi," or Okechobee, s. Fla., 

 about 1570. Elsewhere in his memoir 

 Fontaneda refers to it as a distinct but 

 subordinate tribe. 



Guacata,— Fontaneda Memoir (ca. 1575), Smith. 

 trans., 19, 1854. Guasaca. — Fontaneda in French, 

 Hist. Coll. J;a., 2d .s., li, 246, 1875. 



Guacaya. Mentioned by Oviedo (Hist. 

 Gen. Indies, iii, 628, 1853) as one of the 

 provinces or villages on or in the general 

 vicinity of the South Carolina coast, vis- 

 ited by Ayllon in 1520. 



Guachocliic ('place of the blue herons ' ). 

 A rancheria of "civilized" Tarahumare 

 on the headwaters of Rio Fuerte, about 

 lat. 26° 50^ long. 106° 55^ in s. Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico; entire population 1,147 

 in 1900. The inhabitants gain a liveli- 

 hood mainly as servants of the Mexi- 

 cans. — Lumholtz (1) in Scribner's Mag., 

 XVI, 32, 39, 1894; (2) Unknown Mexico, 

 I, 194, 205, 1902. 



Guachoya. A palisaded village, prob- 

 ably of the Quapaw, containing 300 houses 

 in the 16th century, on the w. bank of the 

 Mississippi, apparently a short distance 

 below the mouth of the Arkansas. It 

 was here De Soto died. May 21, 1542. 



Guachoia.— Shipp, De Soto and Florida, 432, 1881. 

 Guachoya. — Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., II, 186, 1850. Guachoyanque. — Biedma 

 (1544) in French, Hist. Coll. La., ll, 107, 1850. 



Guadalupe. Mentioned as a Navaho 

 settlement in 1799 (Cortez in Pac. R. R. 

 Rep., Ill, pt. 3, 119, 1856), butmore 

 likely the Spanish name of a locality, as 

 the Navaho are not villagers. 

 Guadelupe. — Domeneeh, Desertsof N. A., ii, 7, 1860. 



Guadalupe. A Papago village about 10 

 leagues s. of Areitorae, in Sonora. Mexico. 



Guadalupe. — Box, Adventurers, 264, 1869. Guada- 

 lupe-Pa-Pagoe. — Ibid, (i.e., "Papago"). 



Guadalupe y Ocotan. — A Huichol pueblo 

 near Rio Chapalagana, Jalisco, Mexico. 

 See Lumholtz (1) Huichol Indians, 5, 

 1898; (2) Unknown Mexico, ii, 16, map, 

 1902. 



Guaes. A people of whom Coronado 

 learned in 1542. They evidently lived e. 

 of Quivira, the Wichita country of e. cen- 

 tral Kansas, of whose people they were 

 enemies. The name bears a resem- 



blance to Kaws, but as this is the French 

 traders' contraction of Kansa, first ap- 

 plied not earlier than the first quarter of 



