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KEREMEUS KESHKUNUWU 



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Keremen.— Joutel (1(187) in French, Hist. Coll. La., 

 1, 137, 1S4('>. Korimen.— Joutel (1687) in Margry, 

 D^e., Ill, 288, 1878 (mentioned as distinct from 

 Keremen, but probably a duplication). 



Keremeus. A Similkameen band of the 

 Okinagan; pop. 55 in 1897, when last 

 separately enumerated. 



Kerem-eeos".— Can. Ind. Afi. for 1883, 191. Kere- 

 meoos.— Ibid., 1892, 313. Keremeus.— Ibid., 1897, 

 3(i4. Keremya'uz.— Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., II, 174, 1900. 



Keresan Family (adapted from K'eres, 

 the aboriginal name). A lingnistic fam- 

 ily of Pueblo Indians including the in- 

 habitants of several villages on the Rio 

 Grande, in n. central New JNIexico, be- 

 tween the Rito de los Frijoles (where, 

 before being confined to reservations, 

 they joined the Tewa on the n. ) and 

 the Rio Jemez, as well as on the latter 

 stream from the pueblo of Sia to its mouth. 

 The w. division, comprising Acoma and 

 Laguna pueblos, are situated westward 

 from the Rio Grande, the latter on the 

 Rio San Jose. Like the other Pueblo 

 tribes of New Mexico, the Keresan In- 

 dians maintain that they had their origin 

 at the mythical Shipapu and that they 

 slowly drifted southward to the Rio 

 Grande, taking up their al)ode in the Rito 

 de los Frijoles, or Tyuonyi, and con- 

 structing there the cliff-dwellings found 

 to-day excavated in the frial)le volcanic 

 tufa. . Long before the coining of the 

 Spaniards they had abandoned the Rito, 

 and, moving farther southward, sepa- 

 rated into a number of autonomous vil- 

 lage communities. According to Coro- 

 nado, who visited the "Quirix" province 

 in 1540, these Indians occupied 7 pueblos; 

 40 years later Espejo found 5; while in 

 1630 Benavides described the stock as 

 numbering 4,000 people, in 7 towns ex- 

 tending 10 leagues along the Rio Grande. 

 See Bandelier (1) in Arch. Inst. Papers, 

 I, 114, 1883, (2) ibid., iv, 139etseq., 1892, 

 (3) Delight Makers, 1890. 



According to Loew this stock consti- 

 tutes two dialectic groups, the first or 

 Queres group comprising the inhabit- 

 ants of Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Sia, 

 San Felipe, and Cochiti; the other, the 

 Sitsime or Kawaiko group, comprehend- 

 ing Laguna and Acoma with their outly- 

 ing villages. 



The Keresan settlements are as follows, 

 those marked with an asterisk being ex- 

 tinct: Acoma, Acomita, Cieneguilla*, Co- 

 chiti, Cubero*, Cueva Pintada*, Gipuy*, 

 Haatze*, Ilasatch, Heashkowa*, Huash- 

 patzena*, Kakanatzatia*, Kashkachuti*, 

 Katzimo*, Kohasaya*, Kowina*, Kuapa*, 

 Kuchtya*, Laguna, I\Io(|uino*, Paguate, 

 Pueblito, Puerto (?)*, Punyeestye, Pun- 

 yekia, Pusityitcho, Rito*, San Felipe, 

 Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, Seemunah, 

 Shumasitscha*, Sia, Siama, Tapitsiama*, 

 Tipoti*, Wapuchuseamma, Washpashu- 

 ka*, Yapashi*. The following pueblos, 



now extinct, were perhaps also Keresan: 

 Alipoti, Ayqui, Cebolleta, Pelchiu, Pueblo 

 del Encierro, San Mateo, Tashkatze, 

 Tojagua. . (f. w. h. ) 



Bierni'n. — Hodge, field notes, B. A. E. , 1895 ( Sandia 

 name). Cherechos. — Onate (1.598) in Doc. Ined., 

 XVII, 102, 1871. Chares.— Ibid., XVI, 114. Chu-cha- 

 cas. — Lane (1854) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 v, 689, 1855 (applied to the language). Chu-cha- 

 chas. — Keane in Stanford, Compend., 479, 1878 

 (after Lane, misprint). Cueres. — Humboldt, Atlas 

 Nouv. Espagne, carte 1, 1811. Cuerez.— Simp.son 

 in Smithson. Rep. 1869, 334, 1871. Drinkers of the 

 Dew. — dishing in Johnson's Cyclop., iv, 891, 1896 

 (given as Zuni traditional name). Gueres. — 

 Ogilby, America, 295, 1671. Hores.- Oiiate (1598) 

 in Doc. In<5d., xvi, 205, 1871 (probably identical), 

 ing-we-pi'-ran-di-vi-he-ma". — Hodge, field notes, B. 

 A. E., 1895 (San Ildefonso Tewa name). Jerez. — 

 Loew (1875) in W'heeler Survey Rep., vii, 338, 

 1879 (■ probably identical). Kera.— Hervas, Idea 

 deir tJniverso, xvii, 76, 1784. Keran.— Powell in 

 Am. Nat., xiv, 604, Aug. 18S0. Keras.— Malte- 

 Brun, Geog., v, 318, 1826. Keres.— Pike, E.xpedi- 

 tions, 220, 1810. Kes-whaw-hay.— Lane (1854) in 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 6S9, 1855 (applied to 

 language). Kweres.— Petitot, Diet. Dene-Dindji6, 

 xvii, 1876. Pabierni'n. — Hodge, field notes, B. A. 

 E., 1895 (Isleta name). Gq'ueres.— Bandelier in 

 Arch. Inst. Papers, i, 114, 1883. Quera. — Hervas 

 (1784) quoted by Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, 

 V, 341, 1847. Qu'era.— Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Pa- 

 pers, I, 114. 1883. Queres. — Benavides, Jlemorial, 

 20, 1630. Queres.- Villagran, Hist. Neuva Mex., 

 155, 1610. Queres.— Benavides (1630) quoted by 

 Gallatin in Nouv. Ann. Vov., 5th s., xxvii, 305, 

 1851. Quereses.— Sosa (1591) in Doc. InM., xv, 248, 

 1871. Querez. — Rivera, Diario y Derrot., leg. 784, 

 1736. Queris. — Bandelier in Revue d'Ethnog., 

 203, 1886. Queros.— Walch, Charte America, 1805. 

 Quingas.— Graves (1854) in H. R. Misc. Doc. 38, 33d 

 Cong., 1st sess., 7, 18.54. Quires. — Espejo (1583) in 

 Doc. In(5d., XV, 122, 1871. Quirex. — Simpson in 

 Smithson. Rep. 1869, map, 1871 . Quiria. — Gallatin 

 in Trans. Am. Ethnol. Soc., ll, Lxxi, 1848. Quirix. — 

 Castaneda (ca. 1565) in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., 

 IX, 110, 1.S38. Quiros.— Dobbs, Hudson Bay, 163, 

 1744. Quivix. — Castaiieda (ca. 1565) in Ternaux- 

 Compans, Voy., IX, 182, 1838. Xeres.— Rivera, Di- 

 ario y Derrot., leg. 9.50, 1736. Zures. — Vetancurt 

 (1693), Cr6nica, 315,1871. 



Kernertok. Asettlementof East Green- 

 land Eskimo near Frederiksdal. — Med- 

 delelser om Gr(")nland, xxv, 246, 1902. 



Kern River Shoshoneans. A small Sho- 

 shonean group in s. California which dif- 

 fers so much linguistically from all other 

 peoples of this family as to form a major 

 division, although numerically insignif- 

 icant. It includes the Tubatulabal, who 

 occupy the valley of Kern r. above the falls, 

 and the Bankalachi of upper Deer cr. 



Keroflf. Mentioned among a number of 

 Upper Creek towns in H. R. Ex. Doc. 276, 

 24th Cong., 1st sess., 162, 1836. It prob- 

 ably is a badly mutilated abbreviation of 

 the name of a known Creek town, but is 

 not identifiable in this form. The settle- 

 ment appears to have been on the upper 

 course of Coosa r., Ala. 



Kershaw. See Cashmr. 



Kesa ( Qi'^sa). A Haida town on the w. 

 coast of Graham id.. Queen Charlotte 

 group, Brit. Col. It was occupied by the 

 Tadji-lanas before moving to Alaska. — 

 Swanton, Cont. Haida, 281, 1905. 



Keshkunuwu {(ileckimuwu^, 'bluejay 

 fort'). A former Tlingit village in the 

 Sitka country, Alaska. (j. e. s. ) 



