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KESHLAKCHUIS KEWAITGHTOHENEMACH 



[b. a. e. 



Keshlakchuis {Ke' sh-laktch uisli ) . A for- 

 mer Modoc settlement on the s. e. side of 

 Tule (Rhett) lake, Modoc co., ne. Cal.— 

 Gatschet in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., ii, pt. 1, 

 xxxii, 1890. 



Keskaechquerem. INIentioned as if a 

 former t'anarsee village near Maspeth, on 

 the w. end of Long id., N. Y., in deed of 

 1638.— N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiv, 14, 1883. 



Keskistkonk. A former Nochpeem vil- 

 lage which seems to have been on Hudson 

 r. , s. of the H ighlands, in Putnam co. , N. Y. 

 Keskistkonck. — Van der Donck (1656) qiuited by 

 Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 80, 1872. Kis Kight- 

 konck.— Doc. of 1663 in N.Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xin, 

 303, 1S81 (used for the Nochpeem tribe). 



Kesmali { Keft-md-li) . A former village 

 of the San Luis Obispo Indians of the 

 Chumashan family, at Pt Sal, San Luis 

 Obispo CO., Cal. — Schumacher in Smith- 

 son. Rep. 1874, 340, 1875. 



Kespoogwit ( ' land's end ' ) . One of the 

 two divisions of the territory of the Mic- 

 mac as recognized by themselves. Ac- 

 cording to Rand it includes the districts of 

 Eskegawaage, Shubenacadie, and Annap- 

 olis (q. v.), embracing all of s. and e. 

 Nova Scotia. In Frye's list of 1760, 

 Kashpugowitk and Keshpugowitk are 

 mentioned as two of 14 Micmac bands or 

 villages. These are evidently duplicates, 

 as the same chief was over both, and were 

 intended for the Kespoogwit division. 

 The inhabitants are called Kespoog- 

 witunak. See 3Ii('mac. (.i. m. ) 



Kashpugowitk. — Frye (1760) in INIass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 1st s., X, n.D-116, 1809. Keshpugowitk.— 

 Ibid, (mentioned separately, but evidently the 

 same). Kespoogwit. — liand, First Micmac Read- 

 ing Book, 81, IsTfi. Kespoogwituna'k.— Ibid, (the 

 people of Kcsiioojiwit ). 



Kestaubuinck. A former Sintsink vil- 

 lage in Westchester co., N. Y., between 

 Singsing cr. and Croton r. ; mentioned by 

 Van der Donck in 1656. — Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R., 72, 79, 1872. 



Ket {Q.'et, ' narrow strait ' ). A Haida 

 town on Burnaby str., Moresliy id.. Queen 

 Charlotte group, Brit. Col. It was occu- 

 pied l)y a branch of the Hagi-lanas, who 

 from their town were called Keda-lanas. — 

 Swanton, Cont. Haida, 277, 1905. 



Ketangheanycke. A village, probably of 

 the Abnaki, near the mouth of Kennebec 

 r., Me., in 1602-09.— Purchas (1625) 

 quoted in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., v, 156, 1857. 



Ketchewaundaugenink ( ' large lick at.' — 

 Hewitt). A former Chippewa village on 

 Shiawassee r. , on the trail between Detroit 

 and Saginaw bay, in lower Michigan, on a 

 reservation sold in 1837. (j. m. ) 



Big lick.— Detroit treaty (1837) in U. S. Ind. 

 Treat., 245, 1873. Big salt lick.— Williams (1872) in 

 Mich. Pion. Coll., ii, 476, 1880. Che-won-der-gon- 

 ing. — Ibid., 477. Ke-che-wan-dor goning. — Ibid., 

 476. Kech-e-waun-dau-gu-mink. — Itdvce in 18th 

 Rep. B. A. K., Mich, ma]!, 765, 1S9'.). ' Ketchewaun- 

 daugenink. — Saginaw treaty (proclaiiiied 182(1) in 

 U. S. Ind. Treat., 142, 1873. Ketchewaundaug- 

 umink. — Detroit treaty, op. cit. Ketchiwawiyan- 

 daganing. — Wm. .Tones, inf'n, 1905. Keth-e-wan- 

 don-gon-ing. — Williams, op. cit., 481. Saline. — 

 Ibid., 476 (French name). Wan-dor-gon-ing.— 

 Ibid., 477. 



Ketchigumiwisuwugi ( Ke tdgqmhnsu- 

 wqgi, 'they go by the name of the sea'). 

 A Sauk gens. 



Ka-che-kone-a-we'-so-uk. — Morsan, Anc. Soc, 170, 

 1877 (trans, '.sea'). Ke'teigamiwisuwag'. — Wm. 

 Jones, inf'n, 1906. 



Ketgohittan ( ' people of small-shark 

 house'). Given as a subdivision of the 

 Tlingit clan Nanyaayi, but in reality 

 simply the name of those inhabiting a 

 certain house. 



K'e'tgo hit tan.— Boas, 5th Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can., 25, 1889. Q,lA'tgu hit tan.— Swanton, field 

 notes, B. A. E., 1904. 



Ketlalsm {Ke^tlah' id, 'nipping grass', 

 so called because deer come here in spring 

 to eat the fresh grass) . A Squawmish 

 village community on the e. side of 

 Howe sd., Brit. Col.— Hill-Tout in Rep. 

 Brit. A. A. S., 474, 1900. 



Ketlaynup. A body of Salish of Van- 

 couver id. , speaking tlie Cowichan dialect; 

 pop. 24 in 1882.— Can. Ind. Aff. for 1882, 

 258. 



Ketnas-hadai (K'' etnas :h(td\VI, 'sea- 

 lion hou.'^e people' [?]). Given by Boas 

 ( Fifth Rep. N. W. Tribes Canada, 27,1889) 

 as the name of a subdivision of the Yaku- 

 lanas, a family of the Raven clan of the 

 Haida of s. w. Alaska; but it is in reality 

 only a house name belonging to that 

 family. There seems to be an error in 

 the designation, the word for 'sea-lion' 

 being qa-i. (.i. r. s. ) 



Ketsilind {KitsiWnd, 'people of the Rio 

 Chiquito ruin'). A division of the Jica- 

 rilla who claim that their former home 

 was s. of Taos puel)lo, N. Mex. They are 

 possibly of mixed Picuris descent. 



(j. M. ) 



Keuchishkeni {Ke-utclm]ixi''ni, 'where 

 the wolf rock stands ' ) . A former Modoc 

 camping place on Hot cr., near Little 

 Klamath lake, n. Cal. — Gatschet in Cont. 

 N. A. Ethnol., ii, pt. 1, xxxii, 1890. 



Kevalingamiut. A tribe of Eskimo 

 whose country extended from C. Sep- 

 pings and C. Krusenstern, Alaska, inland 

 to Nunatak r. They were an offshoot of 

 the Nunatogmiut, reenforced by outlaws 

 from the Kinugumiut and Kaviagmiut. 

 The main body of the tribe is now found 

 about Pt Hope and farther n., having 

 emigrated on account of disease and lack 

 of food, and expelled theTigaramiut from 

 their northern hunting grounds. Their 

 villages are Kechemudluk, Kivualinak, 

 and LTlezara. 



Kevalinye Mutes. — Kelly, Arct. Eskimos, chart, 

 1890. Kevalinyes. — Ibid., 13. Kivalinag-miut 

 (Tikhmenief (1861) quoted by Baker, Geog. Diet. 

 Alaska, 115. 1902. 



Kevilkivashalah. A body of Salish of 

 Victoria superintendency, Vancouver id. 

 Pop. 31 in 1882, when last separately 

 enumerated. 

 Kevil-kiva-sha-lah.— Can. Ind. Aff. for 1882, 258. 



Kewatsana ( Keu'utsmia, 'no ribs'). An 

 extinct division of the Comanche. — 

 Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1045, 1896. 

 ^ Kewaughtohenemach, Given as a divi- 



