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HOSTAYUNTWA HOTNAS-HADAI 



[b. a. e. 



every tribe, and it was no uncommon oc- 

 currence on the plains during the sum- 

 mer season for large dancing parties to 

 make the round of the tribes, return- 

 ing in the course of a month or two 

 with hundreds of ponies given in return 

 for their entertainment. Every ceremo- 

 nial gathering was made the occasion of 

 the most lavish hospitality, both in feast- 

 ing and the giving of presents. In some 

 languages there was but one word for 

 both generosity and bravery, and either 

 one was a sure avenue to distinction. A 

 notable exemplification of this was the 

 institution of the potlatch (q. v.) among 

 the tribes of the N. W. coast, by which 

 a man saved for half a lifetime in order 

 to give away his accumulated wealth in 

 one grand distribution, which would en- 

 title him and his descendants to rank 

 thereafter among the chiefs. In tribes 

 where the clan system prevailed the duty 

 of hospitality and mutual assistance with- 

 in the clan was inculcated and sacredly 

 observed, anyone feeling at liberty to 

 call on a fellow-clansman for help in an 

 emergency without thought of refusal. 

 The same obligation existed in the case 

 of formal comradeship between two men. 

 Among the Aleut, according to Veni- 

 aminoff, the stranger received no invita- 

 tion on arriving, but decided for himself 

 at which house he chose to be a guest, 

 and was sure to receive there every at- 

 tention as long as he might stay, with 

 food for the journey on his departure. 



On the other hand it can not be said 

 that the Indian was strictly charitable, 

 in the sense of extending help to those 

 unable to reciprocate either for them- 

 selves or for their tribes. The life of the 

 savage was precarious at best, and those 

 who'had outlived their usefulness were 

 very apt to be neglected, even by their 

 own nearest relatives. Hospitality as be- 

 tween equals was a tribal rule; charity 

 to the helpless depended on the disposi- 

 tion and al)ility of the individual. See 

 Ethics and Morah, Feasts. (.i. m. ) 



Hostayuntwa {Ho-'std-y6»-twd»\ 'there 

 he cast a lean thing into the fire.' — Hew- 

 itt). An Oneida village that stood on the 

 site of Camden, N. Y. 



Ho-'sta-yon-twa"'.— J. N. B. Hewitt, inf'n, 1906. 

 Ho-sta-yun'-twa. — Morgan, League Iraq., 473, 1851. 



Hosukhaunu ( 'foolish dogs'). Given as 

 an Arikara band under chief Sithauche 

 about 1855, but properly a dance society. 

 Foolish Dogs. — Culbertson in Smitlison. Rep. 18.50, 

 143, 1851. Ho-suk'-hau-nu. — Hayden, Ethnog. and 

 Philol., 357,180-'. 



Hosukhaunukarerihu ('little foolish 

 dogs' ). (xiven as an Arikara band under 

 chief Tigaranish about 1855, but prop- 

 erly a dance society. 



Ho-siik'-hau-nu-ka-re'-ri-hu. — Havden, Etlinog. 

 and Philol., 357, 1862. little Foolish Dogs.— Ibid. 



Hotachi ('elk'). A Missouri gens, co- 

 ordinate with the Khotachi gens of the 

 Iowa. 



Ho-ma'.— Donsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 240, 1897. 

 Hoo'-ma. — Morgan, Anc. See, 156, 1877. Ho-ta'- 

 tci. — Dorsey, op. cit. 



Hotagastlas-hadai {Xo'tAgastLas xd'da-i, 

 'people who run about in' crowds'). A 

 subdivision of the Chaahl-lanas, a family 

 of the Eagle clan of the Haida, settled in 

 Alaska. They are said to have been thus 

 named because they were so numerous 

 that when visitors came great crowds ran 

 to meet them. — S wanton, Cont. Haida, 

 276, 1905. 



Hotalihuyana (Creek : hotali, hutali, 

 'wind,' 'gust,' 'hurricane' ; /mya«a, 'pass- 

 ing'; hence 'Hurricane town'). A for- 

 mer Lower Creek or Seminole town in 

 Dougherty CO. , Ga. , establ ished by Indians 

 of Chiaha on the e. bank of Flint r. , 6 m. 

 below the junction of Kitchofooni cr. 

 Settlers from the adjacent Osotchi had 

 mingled with the 20 families of the village 

 in Hawkins' time ( 1799). It had 27 fami- 

 lies in 1832. (a. s. g.) 



Fatehennyaha.— Brinton, Florida Penin., 14.5, 1859. 

 Holatlahoanna.— H. R. Ex. Doc. 276, 24th Cong., 1st 

 sess., 300, 1836. Ho tal le ho yar nar. — Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribe.s, iv, 578, 1854. 0-tel-le-who-yau-nau.— 

 Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 64, 1848. Otellewhoyon- 

 nee.— U. S. Ind. Treat. (1814), 163, 1S37. Tale- 

 hanas.— Ibid. (1797), 68. Talehouyana.— Peniere 

 in Morse, Rep. to Sec. War, 311, 1822. Talle-whe- 

 anas. — Ibid., 364. Telhuanas. — Kinnard (1792) in 

 Am. State Papers, Ind. Aff., I, 313, 1832. Telli- 

 huana.— Ibid., 383. Telluiana.— Ibid. 



Hotamimsaw {Ilotdm-lmsdw, 'foolish or 

 crazy dogs'). A warrior society of the 

 Cheyenne, q. v. 



Hota'mi massau.— Grinnell, inf'n, 1906 (lit. 'dogs 

 crazy'). Hotam-imsaw. — Mooney, inf'n, 1905. 



Hotamitanio {Hotdmitd'nio, 'dog men'; 

 sing., Ilotdinitd^n). A warrior society of 

 the Cheyenne (q. v.), commonly known 

 to the whites as Dog Soldiers. See Mili- 

 tary Societies. (j. m. ) 



Dog Men's. —G. A. Dorsey, The Cheyenne, 15, 1905. 

 Dog Soldier band.— Culbertson in Smithson. Rep. 

 18"i0, 143, 1851. Hotamita'nio.— Mooney, inf'n, 1905 

 (see p. 256 of this Handbook ) . Ho-tum'-i-ta'-ni-o. — 

 Hayden, Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. Val., 281, 1862 

 (incorrectly given as the name of a dance, but 

 properly intended for the dance of this society). 

 Mi'stavii'nut.- Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1026, 

 1896 ( = ' heavy eyebrows': another name) . 



Hotao (Xd^tao). A legendary Haida 

 town that is said to have stood on the 

 s. w. coast of Maude id.. Queen Char- 

 lotte group, Brit. Col. From this place, 

 according to one account, came the an- 

 cestress of the Hlgaiu-lanas. — Swanton, 

 Cont. Haida, 279, 1905. 



Hotdjihoas {Xo'tdjixoa's, 'hair seals at 

 low tide'). A former Haida town on 

 Lyell id., near the n. end of Darwin .sd., 

 Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. Col. It was 

 occupied bv the Hagi-lanas. — Swanton, 

 Cont. Haida, 277, 1905. 



Hothlepoya. See Geneva. 



Hotnas-hadai {'^ot iias xada'-i, 'box- 

 house i)eople'). Given by Boas (Fifth 



