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Koni. A division of the Mivvok s. of 

 Cosuinnes r., in Amador and Eldorado 

 COS., Cal. 



Cawnees.— Bancroft, Nat. Races, i, 4.%, 1S74. 

 Ka'-ni.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 349, 

 1877. Koni. — A. L. Kroeber, inf n, 1900. 



Konkapot. A Mahicaii sachem who, in 

 1724, joined in the sale of the territory 

 comprising the "ui^perand lower liousa- 

 tonic townships"; his captain's commis- 

 sion was given him by Gov. Belcher in 

 1734, and he succeeded to the chieftaincy 

 about 1744. He embraced Christianity and 

 invited the INloravian missionarieritolaljor 

 among his people, the Westenhuck, who 

 became knt)wn as Stockhridge Indians 

 after they wereChristianized and removed 

 to the mission, except such as went to join 

 the Christian Indians in Pennsylvania. 

 The chief, who received the Christian 

 name John, and was recognized by the 

 authorities at Alljany and Boston as the 

 head of the Mahican, they having had 

 their council fire at Westenhuck, was long 

 the patriarch of the Indian community at 

 Stockhridge (Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson 

 R., 88, 1872). The name survived as a 

 family designation among the Stock- 

 bridges at least as late as 1864, a Levi 

 Konkapot serving in the civil war (Nel- 

 son, Inds. N. J., 147, 1894). 



Konkau (Ko^yoang Mui, 'valley earth ') . 

 A formerly populous division of the 

 Maidu, living in Butte co., Cal., in the 

 valley of Concow cr., a tributary of the 

 w. branch of Feather r. They are now 

 on Round Valley res., Mendocino co., 

 and numbered 171 in 1905. 

 Cancons.— Keane in Stanford, Compenrt.,.505, 187S. 

 Cancow.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 313, 1874. Caw-Caw.— 

 Ibid., 1867, 111, 1868. Con-Con's.— Ibid., 75, 1870. 

 Con-Cous.— Ibid., 1867, 121, 1868. Con-Cow.— Ibid., 

 1863, 93, 1864. Cou-cows.— Ibid., 1864, 119, 1865. 

 Cow-Cow.— Ibid., 130, 1868. In'shin.— A. L. Kroeber, 

 infn, 1903 (modern Yuki name). Kankau. — Cur- 

 tin, MS. vor-ab., B. A. E., 1885. Onocows.— Ind. 

 Aflf. Rep., 12, 1865 (misprint). Ooncows.— Ibid., 112. 



Konomihu. A subsidiary trilje of the 

 Shasta, living at the forks of Salmon r., 

 Siskiyou co., Cal., extending 7 m. up the 

 s. fork and 5 m. up the n. fork. Their 

 language is very divergent from that of 

 the main body of Shasta. (r. b. d. ) 



Konope. A Clatsop village on Columbia 

 r., near its mouth, in Clatsop co., Oreg. 



Konapee. — Lvman. Hist. Oregon, I, 171, 1903. 

 Kono'pe.— Boas, Chinook Texts, 274, 1894. 



Kontareahronon. The Huron name of a 

 people mentioned in the 17th century as 

 living s. of St Lawrence r., on the author- 

 ity of Ragueneau's map. The name evi- 

 dently designated the inhabitants of the 

 Huron village of Contarea (q. v.). See 

 Jes. Rel. 1640, 35, 1858. (.i. x. b. h.) 



Koo (AV-o, 'buffalo'). A clan of the 

 Tewa pueblo of San Ildefonso, N. Mex. 

 K6o-td6a.— Hodge in Am. Anthrop., ix, 349, 1896 

 (tdda ^ 'people'). 



Kooji ('wolf'). Given by Dawson 



(Queen Charlotte Ids., 134, 1880) as the 

 name of one of the 4 Haida clans. There 

 were only 2 clans, however, and the Wolf 

 was not one of them. (.j. r. s. ) 



Kookotlane {KijoqotWne). A Bella- 

 coola division at the town of Nuskelst, 

 Bellacoolar., Brit. Col. — Boas in 7th Rep. 

 N. W. Tribes Can., 3, 1891. ^ 



Kookupvansik {Kn-okup Vimslk, 'medi- 

 cine paraphernalia'). A former Pima 

 village in s. Arizona. — Russell, Pima MS., 

 B.A. E.,16, 1902. 



Koonahmicli. A body of Salish under 

 the Victoria superintendency, Brit. Col. 

 Pop. 15 in 1882, when last separately 

 enumerated. 

 Koo-nah-mich.— Can. Ind. Aff., 258, 1882. 



Koontie. See Coonti. 



Kooskoo ( Kuos-kor/, 'crane ' ) . A gens of 

 the A))naki (q. v. ). — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 

 174, 1877. 



Koossawin ('hunters'). A term com- 

 pounded from the Chippewa verb kii/usd- 

 vnn, 'hunting,' lit. 'the act of walking 

 about' (Jones), and used by Schoolcraft 

 (Ind. Tribes, vi, 582, 1857) to denote the 

 hunting tribes. 



Koot. The largest village of the Nuni- 

 vagmiut, near C. P^tolin, Nunivak id., 

 Alaska; pop. 117 in 1890. — Eleventh Cen- 

 sus, Alaska, 115, 1893. 



Kootep {Ko'-o-tep). A Yurok village on 

 lower Klamath r., Cal., near Klamath 

 bluffs. — A. L. Kroeber, infn, 1905. 



Kootpahl. A former village of the At- 

 falati at Forest Grove, Washington co., 

 Oreg. — Lyman in Oreg. Hist. Soc. Quar. 

 I, 323, 1900. 



Koowahoke (Koo-wd-ho^-ke, 'pine re- 

 gion ' ) . A subdivision of the Delawares 

 (q. V. ). — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 172, 1877. 



Kooyah. A root ( ]'aleri ana edalis), also 

 known as "tobacco root," from which a 

 bread is made by some of the Indians of 

 the Oregon region. The word is from 

 one of the Shahaptian or Shoshonean 

 dialects. (a. f. c. ) 



Kopaalk. A body of Salish under Fra- 

 sersuperintendency, Brit. C'ol. — Can. Ind. 

 Aff., 78, 1878. 



Kopagmiut ( ' people of the great river' ). 

 An Eskimo tribe at the mouth of Mac- 

 kenzie r., Canada. According to Dall 

 they formerly extended up this river 200 

 m., but are now confined to islands at 

 the mouth and the Arctic coast w. of Her- 

 schel id. 



Anenepit. — Petitot in Bib. Ling, et Ethnol., in, 11, 

 1876 (= 'Eskimo of the east': so called by Hudson 

 Bay, Labrador, and Greenland Eskimo). Chig- 

 lit. — Ibid., 10. Kopag-mut.— Dall in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., I, 10, 1877. Kopang'-meun.— Richardson, 

 Polar Regions, 1861. Kukhpagmiut.— Eleventh 

 Census, Alaska, 130, 1893. Kupunmiun. — Murdoch 

 in 9th Rep. B. A. E.,45, 1854. Kurvik.— Petitot in 

 Bui. Soc. detieog., 6th s., x, 18'2, 1875. Mackenzie 

 River Eskimo. — Richardson, Arct. Search. Exped., 

 354, 1851. Tareormeut. — Petitot, Monogr., map. 



