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Kashunuk. A Magemiut Eskimo village 

 on the Kashunuk outlet of Yukon r., 

 Alai^ka; pop. 125 in 1880, 232 in 1890, 208 

 in li)00. 



Kashunahmiut.— llth Census, Alaska, 111, 1893. 

 Kashunok.— Petrotf in 10th Census, Alaska, 54, 1884. 

 Kashunuk.— Nelson U87S) quoted by Baker, Geog. 

 Diet. Alaska, 1902. Kesuna.— 12th Census Rep. 



Kashutuk. — A Chnagmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on an island of the Yukon delta, 

 Alaska; pop. 18 in 1880. 



Kachutok.— Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, map, 

 18&4. Kashutuk.— Nelson (1878) quoted by Baker, 

 Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1902. Kushutuk.— Nelson in 

 18lh Kep. B. A. E., map, 1899. 



KasigianguitC little freshwater seals.' — 

 Boas). An Eskimo village near Amerahk 

 fjord, w. Greenland, lat. 64° 10'. — Nansen, 

 First Crossing of Greenland, ii, 37(5, 1890. 



Kasihta. A former Lower Creek town 

 on the E. bank of Chattahoochee r., in 

 Chattahoochee co., Ga., 2^ m. below 

 Kawita, its branch settlements extending 

 along the w. side of the river. It was 

 visited by De Soto in 1540, and is re- 

 ferred to under the name Casiste by the 

 Gentleman of Elvas as a great town. 

 Ill 1799 it was considered the largest of 

 the Lower Creek towns, containing, with 

 its dependencies, 180 warriors and in 

 1832 it had 620 families and 10 chiefs. 

 Hawkins (Sketch, 58, 1843), in 1799, 

 described a large conical mound, with 

 the "old Cussetah town" near it, which 

 afterward was settled by the Chickasaw. 

 Apatai, now spelled Upatoie, was a branch 

 village. The Kasihta people believed 

 they were descended from the sun, and a 

 curious migration legend, preserved by 

 Von Reck, existed among them (see 

 Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, 133-34, 

 1884), from which it appears that the 

 Kawita were originally the same people 

 as those of Kasihta, and that they sepa- 

 rated in very ancient times. Cusseta, a 

 variant of Kasihta, is now the name of a 

 town in Chambers co., Ala., and another 

 is in Chattahoochee co., Ga. A district 

 in the Creek Nation, Okla., was once 

 called Cuseta. (a. s. g. ) 



Casawda.— Crawford (1830) in H. R. Doc. 274, 25th 

 Cong., 2d sess., 24, 1838, Caseitas.— Boudinot, Star 

 in the West, 126, 1816. Casica.— Barcia (1693), 

 Ensavo, 287, 1723. Casista.— Ibid. ,333. Casiste.— 

 Gentleman of Elvas (1.5.57) in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., II, 15.5, 1850. Casseta h.— White (1787) in Am. 

 State Pap., Ind. AfY., i, 21, 1832. Cassita — Swan 

 (1791) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v. 2.54, 1855. 

 Cuseta.— Ind. AfF. Rep., 36-5, 18.54. Cusetahs.— U. S. 

 Ind. Treat. ( 1779), 69, 1837. Cusetas.—Lattre, Carte 

 des Etats-Unis. 1784. Cusheta s.— Coxe, Carolana, 

 23, 1741. Cusitas.— .Alcedo, Die. Geog., i, 738, 1786. 

 Cusitash.— White ( 1787 ) in Am. State Pap. . Ind. Aff . , 



I, 20. 1832. Cusseta.— (;atschet. Creek Migr. Leg., 



II, IS), 1-88. Cussetahs — McGillivray (1787) in 

 Am. State Pap., Ind. Aff., I, 18, 1832. Cussetas.— 

 Pickett, Hist. Ala., passim, 18.51. Cussetau.— U. S. 

 Ind. Treat. (1814), 162. 1837. Cusset w.— Census of 

 1832 in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, IV,578, 1854. Cus- 

 8e-tuh.—Hawkins(]799), Sketch. 25,57,1848. Cussi- 

 tahs.— Swan (1791) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 

 262. 1S.55. Cussito .—Romans, Florida, l,28), 1775. 

 Cussutas. — Boudinot, Star in the West, 126, 1816. 

 Kacistas.— Milfort, Mt^moire, 118,1X02. Old Cuse- 

 taw.— Woodward, Reminis., 14, 1859. ITsseta.— 

 Bartram, Travels, 4.57, 1791. 



Kasilof. A Knaiakhotana village on 

 the E. coast of Cook inlet, at the mouth 

 of Kasilof r., Alaska. A settlement was 

 planted there by the Russians in 1786, 

 called St George. Pop. 31 in 1880; 117, 

 in 7 houses, in 1890. 



Georgiefskaia.— Russian map cited by Baker, Geog. 

 Diet. Alaska, 232, 1902. Kassilo.— Petroff in 10th 

 Census, Alaska, 29, 1884. Kassilof.— Ibid., map. 

 Kussilof.— Post route map, 1903. 



Kasispa [kxisVs 'a point', pa locative: 

 ' at the point ' ) . A Paloos village at Ains- 

 worth, at the junction of Snake and 

 Columbia rs., Wash. 



Cosispa.— Ross, Fur Hunters, i, 185, 1855. Ka- 

 si'spa.— Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 735, 1896. 



Kaska. Given by Dawson ( Rep. GeoL 

 Surv. Can., 199b, 1889) as a division of the 

 Nahane, comprising the Achetotena 

 (Etchareottine) and Dahotena (Etagot- 

 tine) tribes. They are described as un- 

 dersized and of poor physique, have the 

 reputation of being timid, and are lazy 

 and untrustworthy, but are comparatively 

 prosperous, as their country yields good 

 furs in abundance. According to Morice 

 (Trans. Can. Inst., vii, 519, 1892-93), 

 however, "Kaska is the name of no tribe 

 or subtribe, but McDane cr. is called by 

 the Nahane Kasha . . . and this is the 

 real word which, corrupted into Cassiar 

 by the whites, has since a score of years 

 or more served to designate the whole 

 mining region from the Coast range to 

 the Rocky mts., along and particularly 

 to the N. of the Stickeen r." The name 

 Kaska is not recognized by the Indians 

 themselves, who form the third division 

 of Morice' s classification of the Nahane. 

 They number about 200. (a. f. c.) 



Kaskakoedi ('people of Kaskek'). A 

 division of the Raven phratry of the 

 Tlingit, living at Wrangell, Alaska. 

 They are said to have come from among 

 the Masset Haida and to have received 

 their name from a place (Kasqie'k") 

 where they camped during the migration. 



Kaas-ka-qua-tee.— Kane, Wand, in N. A., app., 

 1859. K-asq'ague'de.— Boas, 5th Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 of Can., 25, 1SS9. Kasq!akue'dJ.— Swanton, tield 

 notes, B. A. E.. 1904. Kassra-kuedi.— Krause, Tlin- 

 kit Ind., 120, 1885. 



Kaskanak. A Kiatagmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on Kvichak r., where it flows from 

 L. Iliamna, Alaska; pop. 119 in 1880, 66 

 in 1890. 



Kaskanakh.— Post route map, 1903. Kaskanek.— 

 Petroff, Rep. on Alaska, map, 1880. Kaskinakh.— 

 Ibid., 45. 



Kaskaskia (perhaps akin to kdskdska- 

 liamv'n, 'hescrapesitoff bymeansofatool.' 

 The Foxes have a! ways 'held the Peoria 

 in low esteem, and in their traditions 

 claim to have destroyed most of them on 

 a rocky island in a river. — Wm. Jones). 

 Once the leading tribe of the Illinois con- 

 federacy, and perhaps rightly to be con- 

 sidered as the elder brother of the group. 

 Althougli the lir.'^t knowledge of this con- 

 federacy obtained by the whites related, 

 in all iprobability, to the Peoria while 



