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KIASUTHA KICHAI 



[b. a. e. 



Canada. They were formerly numerous, 

 but had become reduced to 80 or 40 fam- 

 iUes owing to persistent Blaekfeet raids. — 

 Hayden, Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. Yal., 

 237, 1862. 



Kiasutha (alias Guyasuta, 'it sets up a 

 cross.' — Hewitt ). A chief of some promi- 

 nence as an orator in the Ohio region 

 about 1760-1790. Although called a Sen- 

 eca, he probably belonged to the mixed 

 band of detached Iroquois in Ohio com- 

 monly known as Mingo, who sided with 

 the French while their kinsmen of the 

 New York confederacy acted as allies of 

 the English. As a young warrior he ac- 

 companied Washington and Gist on their 

 visit to the French forts on the Allegheny 

 in 1753. After Braddock's defeat in 1755 

 he visited Montreal in company with a 

 French interpreter and in 1759 was pres- 

 ent at Croghan's conference with the In- 

 dians at Ft Pitt (now Pittsburg). He is 

 mentioned also at the Lancaster confer- 

 ence in 1762, and in 1768 was a leading 

 advocate of peace with the English both 

 at the treaty of Ft Pitt in May and at 

 Bouquet's conference there six months 

 later. Washington visited him while on 

 a hunting tour in Ohio in 1770. He is 

 noted as at other conferences up to the 

 time of the Revolution, and in 1782 is 

 mentioned as leading an Indian raid on 

 one of the frontier settlements. His name 

 occurs last in 1790, when he sent a written 

 message to some friends in Philadelphia. 

 See Darlington, Christopher Gist's Jour- 

 nal, 1893. 



Kiatagmiut. A division of the Aglemiut 

 Eskimo of Alaska, inhabiting the banks 

 of Kvichivak r. and Iliamna lake. They 

 numbered 214 in 1890. Their villages are 

 Chikak, Kakonak, Kaskanak, Kichik, 

 Kogiung, Kvichak, and Nogeling. 

 Kiatagmiut. — Scliaiiz in 11th Census, Alaska, 95, 

 1893. Kiatagmute. — Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 

 135, 1SS4. Kiatenes.— Lutke, Voyage, I, 181, 1835. 

 Kijataigmjuten. — ilolniber?, Ktliiiot,'. Skizz., 5, 

 l-!55. Kijataigmiiten. — Wraiitfi 11, Etlinog. Nachr., 

 121,1S39. Kijaten. — Iliiil. Kiyataigmeuten. — Rich- 

 arclson, Arct. E.xped., i, 370, 1S51. Kiyaten.— Ibid. 

 K-wichagmut. — Dall in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., i, 19, 

 1877. 



Kiatang ('shoulder' ). A village of the 

 Ita Eskimo on Northumberland id., 

 Whale sd., x. Greenland. 

 Keate. -Peary, Northward, 113, 1898. Keati.— Mrs 

 Peary, My Aret. .Tour., 84, 1893. Kie'teng.— Stein in 

 Petermanns Mitt., 198, 1902. Kujata.— Ibid. 



Kiatate. A group of ruins in the Sierra 

 de los Huicholes, about 10 m. n. w. of 

 San Andres Coamiata, in the territory of 

 the Huichol, Jalisco, Mexico. — Lumholtz, 

 Unknown Mex., ii, 16, map, 1902. 



Kiatsukwa. A former pueblo of the 

 Jemez in New Mexico, the exact site of 

 the ruins of which is not known. 

 Kiatsukwa.— He idge. field notes, B. A. E., 1895. 

 Quia-tzo-qua. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, i v, 

 207,1.S92. 



Kiawaw. A small tribe, of unknown 

 affinity, formerly on Kiawahid., Charles- 



ton CO., S. C, but long extinct. They 

 were regarded as one of the tribes of the 

 Cusabo group. 



Cayawah. — Moll, map, 1715. Cayawash. — Moll, map 

 in Huinphrev, Aeet., 1730. Keawaw. — Mills. Stat. 

 S. C, 459, 1826. Kiawaw.— Rivers, Hist. S. C, 38, 

 1856. Kyewaw. — Deed of 1675 quoted by Mills, od. 

 cit., app., 1, 1826. 



Kiawetnau. The Yokuts name of the 

 territory about Porterville, Cal. Given 

 by Powers (Cont. N. A. Ethnol., iii, 370, 

 1877) as the name of a tribe ( Ki-a-wet-ni, 

 which lacks the locative suffix -an) . 



Kichai (from KUsiish, their own name). 

 A Caddoan tribe whose language is more 

 closely allied to the Pawnee than to the 

 other Caddoan groups. In 1701 they 

 were met by the French on the upper 

 waters of tj^e Red r. of Louisiana and 

 had spread southward to upper Trinity 



KICHAI MA 



r. in Texas. In 1712 a ])urtion of them 

 were at war with the Hainai, who dwelt 

 lower down the Trinity. They were 

 already in possession of horses, as all the 

 Kichai warriors were mounted. They 

 seem to have been allies of the northern 

 and western tribes of the Caddoan con- 

 federacy and to have intermarried with 

 the Kadohadacho. In 1719 La Harjie 

 met some of the Kichai on Canadian r., 

 in company with other Caddoan tribes, 

 on their way toward New Mexico to wage 

 war against the Apache. At that time 

 they pledged friendshiji to the French, 

 to whom they seem to have remained 

 faithful. In common with all the other 

 tribes they suffered from tlie introduction 

 of new diseases and from the conflicts in- 

 cident to the contention of the Spaniards, 

 French, and English for control of the 



