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Kitaix. A Niska village near the mouth 

 of Nass r., Brit. Col.; pop. 28 in 1903, the 

 last time it was separately enumerated. 

 In 1904 the combined strength of the 

 Kitaix and Andeguale people was 80. 

 Gitle'ks. Svvanton, field notes, 1900-01. Kit-aix. — 

 Dorsey in Am. Antiq., xix, 279, 1897. Eitax. — Can. 

 Ind.Aff., 416, 1898. Kitlax.— Ibid., 2S0, 1894. Kit- 

 tak.— Ibid., 251, 1891. Kit-tek.— Ibid., 360, 1897. 

 Kitten.— Ibid., 1903, pt. 2, 72, 1904. Kit-tex.— Ibid., 

 432, 1896. 



Kitak. A former Aleut village on 

 Agattu id., Alaska, one of the Near id. 

 group of the Aleutians, now uninhabited. 



Kitamat. A northern Kwakiutl tribe 

 living on Douglas channel, Brit. Col., and 

 speaking the Heiltsuk dialect. They 

 are divided into the Beaver, Eagle, Wolf, 

 Salmon, Raven, and Killer-whale clans. 

 Pop. 279 in 1904. 



Gyit'ama't.— Boas, 5th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 9, 

 1889 (Chimmesyan name). Hai-shi-la. — Dawson 

 in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., see. n, 65, 1887. Hai- 

 shilla.— Tolmie and Dawson, Vocabs. Brit. Col., 

 117B, 1884. Hyshalla.— Scouler (1846) in Jour. 

 Ethnol. Soc. Lond., 233, 1848. Ket aMats.— Colyer 

 in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1869, 534, 1870. Kitamah.— Can. 

 Ind. Aff. 1904, pt. 2, 70, 1905. Kitamaht.— Brit. 

 Col, map, 1872. Kitamat. — Tolmie and Dawson, 

 op. cit. Kitamatt.— Can. Ind. Aff'., 244, 1890. 

 Kitimat.— Ibid., pt. 2, 162, 1901. Kit ta maat.— 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 487, 18-55. Kitta- 

 marks.— Downie in Mayne, Brit. Col.,app., 452, 

 1862. Kit-ta-muat. — Kane, Wand, in N. Am., 

 app., 1859 (erroneously included under the Chim- 

 mesyan Sabassa) . Kittimat. — Fleminar, Can. Pac. 

 R. R. Rep. Proar., 138, 1877. Kittumarks — Ilorof zkv, 

 Can. on Pacifie, 212, 1874. Oaisla'.— Boas, (;th Rep. 

 N. W. Tribes Can., .52. 1890. Xa-isla'.— Boas in 

 Rep. Nat. Mus. 1895. 328, 1897 (own name). 



Kitami {KitiVmi, 'porcupine'). Asub- 

 phratry or gens of the Menominee. — 

 Hoffman in 14th Rep. B. A. E., pt. i, 42, 

 1896. 



Kitangata. A Niska town on Nass r. 

 or inlet, Brit. Col.; pop. 30 in 1903, the 

 last time the name appears. Probably 

 identical with either Lakungida or Kis- 

 theinuwelgit. 



Kitangata.— Can. Ind. Aff., pt. n, 68, 1902. Kitan- 

 gataa— Ibid., 416, 1898. 



Kitanmaiksh. An old town and division 

 of the Kitksan just above the junction of 

 Skeena and Bulkley rs., Brit.* Col. The 

 new town is now called Hazelton and has 

 become a place of some importance, as it 

 stands at the head of navigation on the 

 Skeena. Pop. 241 in 1904. 



Get-an-max.— Can. Ind. Aff., 415, 1898. Git-an- 

 max.— Ibid. ,2.52, 1891. Git-au-max.— Ibid., 304, 1893. 

 Gyit'anma'kys, — Boas in 10th Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can., 50, 1895. Kit-an-maiksh, — Dorsey in Am. 

 Antiq., XIX, 278, 1897. Kitinahs.— Tolmie and 

 Dawson, Vocabs. Brit. Col., 114b, 1884. 



Kitchawank ( perhaps akin to Chippewa 

 KichucJmvtnk, ' at the great mountain.' — 

 W. Jones). Apparently a band or small 

 tribe, or, as Ruttenber designates it, a 

 "chieftaincy" of the Wappinger con- 

 federacy, formerly residing on the e. 

 bank of the Hudson in what is npw 

 Westchester co., N. Y. Their territory 

 is believed to have extended from Croton 

 I-. to Anthony's Nose. Their principal 

 village, Kitchawank, in 1650, appears 

 to have been about the mouth of the Cro- 



ton, ihough one authority ( N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., XIII, 14, 1881) locates it at Sleepy 

 Hollow. They also had a village at 

 Peekskill which they called Sackhoes. 

 Their fort, or "castle," which stood at the 

 mouth of Croton r., has been represented 

 as one of the most formidable and ancient 

 of the Indian fortresses s. of the High- 

 lands. Its exact situation, according to 

 Ruttenber, was at the neck of Teller's, 

 called Senasqua. The Kitchawank were 

 a party to the treaty of peace made with 

 the Dutch, Aug. 30, 1645. (.r. m. c. t. ) 

 Kechtawangh,— Stuvvesant (1663) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., XIII, 300, 1881. Kichtawan.— Doc. of 

 1664, ibid., 364. Kichtawanc— Treaty of 1643, 

 ibid,, 14. Kichtawanghs.— Treaty of 1645, ibid., 

 18. Kichtawons.— Treaty of 1643 in Winfield, 

 Hudson Co., 45, 1874. Kichtewangh.— Doc. of 1664 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiii, 371, 1881. Kichto- 

 wanghs.— Stuyvesant (1663), ibid., 300. Kick- 

 tawanc— Treaty of 1643 in Ruttenber. Trilic-* Hud- 

 son R., 78, 1.872. Kictawanc— Records (Kit;;',) in 

 Wintield, Hudson Co,, 42, 1874. Kightewangh. — 

 Treaty of 1664 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist.,xin, 375, 

 1881. Kightowan.— Records of 1690 in Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hud.son R., 178, 1872. Kitchawanc— Treaty 

 of 1643, ibid., 110. Kitchawonck.— Ruttenber, 

 ibid., 79. Kitchtawanghs. — Treaty of 1645, ibid., 

 118. 



Kitchigami ('great water,' from kitchi 

 'great,' garni 'water,' the Chippewa name 

 for L. Superior). A tribe living in 1669- 

 70, about central or s. w. Wisconsin, with 

 the Kickapoo and ]Mascoutens, with which 

 tril)es they were ethnically and linguis- 

 tically related. Little has been recorded 

 in relation to the Kitchigami, and after a 

 few brief notices of them, chiefly by 

 Fathers Allouez and Marquette, they 

 drop from history, having prol)ably been 

 absorbed by the Mascoutens or the kicka- 

 poo. The first mention of them is in a 

 letter written by Marquette, probablv in 

 thespringof 1670 (Jes.Rel. 1670,90,1858), 

 in which he says: "The Illinois are thirty 

 days' journey by land from La Pointe, 

 the way being very difhcult. They are 

 southwestvvard from La Point du Saint 

 Esprit. One passes by the nation of the 

 Kitchigamis, who compose more than 20 

 large lodges, and live in the interior. 

 After that the traveler passes through the 

 country of the Miamiouek [Miami], and 

 traversing great deserts ( prairies ) he ar- 

 rives at the country of the Illinois." It 

 appears from his statement that they were 

 at this time at war with the Illinois. In 

 the same Relation (p. 100) it is stated that 

 along Wisconsin r. are numerous other 

 nations; that 4 leagues from there "are 

 the Kickapoos and the Kitchigamis, who 

 speak the same language as the Mas- 

 coutens." Tailhan, who is inclined to 

 associate them with the Illinois, says the 

 above statement is confirmed bj' the 

 inedited relation, of P. Beschefer. As 

 neither Marquette nor Allouez speaks of 

 them when they reach the section in- 

 dicated, but mention the Kickapoo, I\Ias- 

 couten, and Illinois, and as it appears that 

 they had been at war with the Illinois, it 



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