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Eawaiki (Hitchiti: oki 'water', aitmki 

 'haiiliri'i', 'carryinji' [place]: 'water- 

 carrying place' ). A former Lower Creek 

 town at the junction ot the present C'owi- 

 kee cr. and Chattahoochee r., in the n. e. 

 corner of Barbour co., Ala. It had 45 

 heads of families in 1S33. (.\. s. g.) 



Cow ye ka.— Census of 1833 in Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, i v, 678, 1854. Ka-waiki.— Gatschet, Creek 

 Migr. Leg.,I, 134, 1884. 



Kawaaunyi { Kdtvandnyi, from kdwdnd 

 'duck', yi locative: 'duck place'). A 

 former Cherokee settlement about the 

 present Ducktown, Polk co., s. e. Tennes- 

 see, (j. M.) 

 Cowanneh. — Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1887. 

 Duck-town. — Doc. of 1799 quoted by Royce, ibid., 

 141. 



Kawarakish {Ka-im-ra^-khli). One of 

 the two divisions of the Pitahauerat, or 

 Tapaje Pawnee, the other being the Pita- 

 hauerat proper. — Grinnell, Pawnee Hero 

 Stories, 241, 1889. 



Kawas ( K.'d^was, ' fish eggs ' ) . A subdi- 

 vision of theStustas, an important family 

 of the Eagle clan of the Haida. One 

 of their chiefs is said to have been 

 blown across to the Stikine country, 

 where he became a chief among the 

 Stikine. (.i. R. s.) 



K' a' was. —Boas, 12th Rep. N. W. Tribes Canada, 

 22, 1898. K!a'was, — Swanton, Cont., Haida, 275, 

 1905. Eouas, — Harrison in I roc. and Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. Can., sec. li, 125, 1895. 



Kawchodinne ( ka 'hare', o/io 'great', din- 

 rje'people': 'people of the great hares'). 

 An Athapascan tribe dwelling n. of 

 Great Bear lake, Mackenzie Ter., Canada, 

 on Mackenzie r., the lakes e. of it, and An- 

 derson r. Mackenzie ( Voy., i, 206, 1802) 

 said they were a small tribe residing on 

 Peace r., who spoke the language of the 

 Chipewyan and derived tlieir name from 

 the Arctic hare, their chief means of sup- 

 port. Atanother time (Mass. Hist. Coll., 

 II, 43, 1814) he placed them on Porcupine 

 r., Alaska. Franklin ( Journ. to Polar Sea, 

 261, 1824) placed them immediately n. 

 of the Thlingchadinne on the n. side of 

 the outlet of Bear lake. Back (Journal, 

 497, 1833-35) located them on INIackenzie 

 r. as far n. as 68°. Richardson (Arct. 

 Exped., II, 3, 1851) gave their habitat as 

 the banks of Mackenzie r. from Slave lake 

 downward. Hind (Lab. Penin., ii, 2il, 

 1863) said they resorted to Ft Norman and 

 Ft (4ood Hope on the Mackenzie, and also 

 to Ft Yukon, Alaska. Ross ( MS.,B. A. E. ) 

 said they resided in 1859 in the country 

 surrounding Ft Good Hope on Mackenzie 

 r., extending beyond the Arctic circle, 

 where they came in contact with the 

 Kutchin, with whom by intermarriage 

 they have formed the tribe of Bastard 

 Loucheux ( Nellagottine). Petitot (Diet. 

 Done-Dindjie, XX, 1876) said the Kawcho- 

 dinne lived on the lower Mackenzie from 

 Ft Norman to the Arctic ocean. They 

 are described as a thickset people, who 

 subsist partly on fish and reindeer, but 



obtain their clothing and most of their 

 food from the hares that abound in their 

 country. Their language differs little 

 from that of the p]tchareottine, while 

 their style of dress and their customs are 

 the same, although through long inter- 

 course with the traders, for whom they 

 have great respect, most of the old cus- 

 toms and beliefs of the tribe have become 

 extinct. They are on friendly terms 

 with the Eskimo. The Kawchodinne 

 have a legend of theformation of the earth 

 by the muskratandthe beaver. The dead 

 are deposited in a rude cage built above 

 ground, the body being wrapped in a 

 blanket or a moose skin; the property of 

 relatives is destroyed, and their hair is cut 

 as a sign of mourning. When the supply 

 of hares becomes exhausted, as it fre- 

 quently does, they believe these mount 

 to the sky l)y means of the trees and re- 

 turn in the same way when they reap- 

 pear. Polygamy is now rare. They are 

 a peaceable tribe, contrasting with their 

 Kutchin neighbors. In personal combat 

 they grasp each other by their hair, which 

 they twist round and round until one of 

 the contestants falls to the ground. They 

 are not so numerous as formerly, a great 

 many having died from starvation in 1841, 

 at which time numerous acts of cannibal- 

 ism are said to have occurred. In 1858 

 Ross (MS., B. A. E. ) gave the population 

 as 467; 291 males, 176 females. Of these 

 103 resorted to Ft Norman and 364 to Ft 

 Good Hope. Petitot (Diet. Done-Dindjie, 

 XX, 1876) arranged them in five subdivi- 

 sions: Nigottine, Katagottine, Katchogot- 

 tine, Satchotugottine, and Nellagottine. 

 In another list (Bull. Soc. Geog. Paris, 

 1875) instead of Nigottine he has Etat- 

 chogottine and Chintagottine. In a later 

 grouping ( Autour du lac des Esclaves, 362, 

 1891 ) Petitot identifies Katagottine with 

 Chintagottine, suppresses Satchotugot- 

 tine, and adds Kfwetragottine. 



Dene.— Petitot, Hare MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1869. 

 Dene Peaux-de-Lievre. — Petitot, Autour du lac des 

 Esclaves, 289, 1891. Harefoot Indians.— ( happell, 

 Hud^rm Bay, 166, 1817. Hare Indians. — Mac- 

 kenzie, Voy.", I, 206, 1802. Hareskins.— Petilot in 

 Jour. Roy. Geog. Soc, 650, 1883. Ka-cho-'dtinne.— 

 Richardson, Arct. Exped., ii, 3, 1851. Kah-cho 

 tinne.— Ross quoted by Gibbs, MS . B. A. E. 

 f'Arctic hare people'). Kan ho.— Gallatin in 

 Trnns. Am. Antiq. S<c., II, 19, 18:^6. Kat'a-got- 

 tine —Petitot, MS. vocab., B. A. K., 1867. K'a-f a- 

 gottine. — Petitot, Diet. Den^-Dindjie, xx, 1876 

 ("people among the hares'). Kawchodinneh. — 

 Franklin. Journ. to Polar Sea, 261, 1824. Kha-t'a- 

 ottine. — Petitot in Bull. Soc. Geog. Paris, chart, 

 1875. Khatpa-Gottine.— Petitot, Autour dii lac des 

 E-clave<, 362, 1891 ('people among the rabbits'). 

 Kkpayttchare ottine.— Petitot, Hare M:^. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1869 (f'hipewyan name). Nouga — Mac- 

 farlane (18.57) in Hind. Lab. Penin., ii, 258,1863 

 ('Spittle': Eskimo name). PeaudeLie re. — Peti- 

 tot in Bull. Soc. GC'og. Paris, chart, 1875 Peaux- 

 de-L e^res.— Petitot, Autour du lac des E>-claves, 

 362, 1891. Rabbitskins.— McLean, Hudson Bay, n, 

 243, 1849. Slave.— Richardson, Arct. Exped., I, 

 242. 1851. Tana-tin-ne.— Morgan, Consang. and 

 Afiin., '289, 1871. 



