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present Coosa station. The town was 

 once regarded as an important center, a 

 sort of capital. The De Soto expedition 

 of 1540-41 saw it in its flourishing condi- 

 tion, l)ut wlian Bartram passed it, about 

 1775, it was mostly in ruins and half de- 

 serted, a part of its inhal)itants evidently 

 having joined the Abikudshi, while the 

 others went to the nearby Natchez town. 

 Up to 1775, according to Adair, Kusa was 

 a place of refuge for "those wlio kill un- 

 designedly." The Upper Creeks were 

 frequently called "Coosas," from the 

 name of the town. 



Copa. — Gontleman of Elvas (1567) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., II, 141, 1850. Cooca.— French, ibid., "id s., 

 11,247,1876. Coosa. — Romans, Fla., 90, 1775. Coo- 

 sau.— Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 41, 1848. Coosaw.— 

 Martin, N. C, i, 194, 1829. Coosee.— Royce in 18th 

 Rep. B. A. E., Ala. map, 1899. Coosis.— U. S. Ind. 

 Treat. (1797), 68, 1837. Corsas.— Hawkins (1799), 

 Sketch, 16, 1848. Cosa — .Jet^'erys, French Dom. 

 Am., map, 131, 1761. Cossa. — Vandera (1567) in 

 Smith, Colee. Doc. Fla., I, 18, 1857. Cousas.— 

 Mitchell, map (1755), cited in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 X, 219, 1858. Coussa.— Coxe, Carolana. map, 1741. 

 Cozas. — Ibid. ,25. Curas. — Rafinesqne, introd. Mar- 

 shall, Ky., 1, 35, 1824. Cuzans.— Ibid.,24. Koosah.— 

 Adair, Am. Ind., 159, 1775. 



Kusan Family. A small linguistic stock 

 formerly occupying villages on Coos r. 

 and bav, and on lower Coquille r., Oreg. 

 (see Powell in 7th Rep. B. A. E., 89, 

 1891). The name is from that of the 

 tribe, Coos (q. v.) or Kusa, which is said 

 to be taken from one of the Rogue River 

 dialects in which it means 'lake,' 'la- 

 goon,' or 'inland bay.' Within historic 

 times there have been 4 villages in this 

 region in which the Kusan language was 

 spoken. It is probable that at an earlier 

 period the family extended much farther 

 inland along the tributaries of Coos bay, 

 but had been gradually forced into the 

 contracted area on the coast by the pres- 

 sure of the Athapascan tribes on the s. 

 and E. and the Yakonan on the n. The 

 stock is now practically extinct; the few 

 survivors, for the greater part of mixed 

 blood, are on the Siletz res. in Oreg., 

 whither they went after ceding their 

 lands by (unconfirmed) treaty of 1855. 

 Practically nothing is known of the cus- 

 toms of this people, but there is no rea- 

 son to. suppose that tliey differed mark- 

 edly from their neighbors on the N. The 

 social unit was apparently the village, and 

 there is no trace of a clan or gentile sys- 

 tem other than the relationships natu- 

 rally arising in a locally restricted group. 

 It is interesting to note also that the prac- 

 tice of deforming the head was not cur- 

 rent among the Kusan, although preva- 

 lent among the Yakonan, their northern 

 neighbors. The Kusan villages known to 

 have existed are: Melukitz, n. side of 

 Coos bay; Anasitch, s. side of Coos bay; 

 Mulluk (speaking a different dialect), n. 

 side of Coquille r. ; Nasumi, s. side of 

 Coquille r. (l. f. ) 



Kuseshyaka. The extinct White-corn 

 clan of Acoma pueblo, N. Mex. See 

 Yaka. 



Kiiseshyaka-hanoq'^fi. — Hodge in Am. Anthrop., 

 IX, 349, 1896 (//a/;a='corn',M?(07<''i='people'). 



Kushapokla ('divided people'). One 

 of the two Choctaw phratries, consisting 

 of 4 clans: Kushiksa, Lawokla, Lulak- 

 iksa, and Linoklusha. 



Kashapaokla. -ten Kate, Reizen in N. A., 402, 

 1885. Kashap-ukla.— Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., 

 1, 104. 1884. Ku-shap'. Ok'-la,— Morgan, Anc. Soe., 

 162, 1877. 



Kushetunne. A former village of the 

 Tutntni on the n. side of Rogue r., Oreg. 

 Cosatomy.— Palmer in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1856, 219, 

 1857. Kas-so-teh-nie. — (iibbs, ]MS. on coast tribes, 

 B. A. E. 3uc-ce' ^unne'. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, iii, 233, 1890. Kwus-se'-jiin. — Dorsev, 

 Naltunne ^unnC MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1884 (Na!l- 

 tunnetunne name) . 



Kushiksa ( Kush-ik^-m). The Reed clan 

 of the Choctaw, belonging to the Kush- 

 apokla or Divided people phratry. — Mor- 

 gan, Anc. Soc, 162, 1877. 



Kushletata {Kiic'-le-ta'-ta). A former 

 Chastacosta village on Rogue r., Oreg. — 

 Dorsev in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 234, 

 1890. ' 



Kushnh ( ' Cottonwood tree ' ) . A former 

 Chitimacha village on L. Mingaluak, 

 near Bayou Chene, La. 



Kushu'h namu. — Gatschet in Trans. Anthrop. Soc. 

 Wash., ir, 152, 1883 (;«}mH = ' village'). 



Kusilvak. A Chnagmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage and Roman Catholic mission on 

 Kusilvak id., at the mouth of Yukon r., 

 Alaska. 



Kusilvak.— Petri iff in 10th Census, Alaska, map, 

 1884. Kusilvuk.— Bruce, Alaska, 1885. 



Kuskok. A Kuskwogmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on Kuskok wim r., Alaska, near its 

 mouth; pop. 24 in 1880, 115 in 1890. 

 Kuskogamute.— Pttrdft" in 10th Census, Alaska, 

 map, 1884. Kuskohkagamiut. — Eleventh Census, 

 Alaska, 164, 1893. Kuskok.— Baker, Geog;. Diet. 

 Alaska, 1902. Kuskokvagamute.— PetrolY in 10th 

 Census, Alaska. 17, 1884. Kuskokvagmute. — Petroff, 

 Rep. on Alaska, 74, 1881. Kuskokwagamute.— 

 Hallock in Nat. Geog. Mag., ix, 88, 1898. 



Kuskokvak. A (former?) Kuskwog- 

 miut p]skimo village on the w. bank of 

 Kuskokwim r., Alaska, near its mouth. 

 Kuskokvakh. — Petroff m lOthCensus, Alaska, map, 

 1884. Kuskovak.— Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1902. 

 Kuskovakh.— Nelson (1879) cited by Baker, ibid. 



Kuskunuk. A Kaialigamut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on Hooper bay, Alaska. — Nelson in 

 18th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1899. 



Kuskuski (seemingly from kuslikmh- 

 khig, ' hog place ' ) . An important village 

 of mixed Delawares and Iroquois, in 1753- 

 1770, on Beaver cr., Pa., near Newcastle, 

 in Lawrence co. A note in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist. X, 949, says it was at the forks of 

 Beaver cr., in Beaver co. Another au- 

 thority (Darlington, Gist's Jour., 101, 

 1898) says it was on the w. bank of Ma- 

 honing r., 6 m. above the forks of Beaver 

 cr. and just s. of the present Edinburg, 

 Lawrence co. An older village of the 

 same name had formerly stood on the 

 Shenango, at the site of the present New- 



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