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LACAME LA FLESCHE, FRANCIS 



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entirely abandoned. On account of the 

 use of these ornaments the Tlingit were 

 called Kolosch by their northern neigh- 

 bors and the Russians, whence the name 

 Koluschan, adopted for the linguistic 

 stock. 



Among the Eskimo and Aleut bone 

 labrets predominated, though some very 

 precious specimens were of jade. They 

 were shaped like buttons or studs, or, iii 

 the case of some worn by women, like 

 sickles. The lips of men were pierced 

 only at puberty, and the holes were en- 

 larged successively by means of plugs. 



LAERETS, WESTER 



(nelson) 



which were often strung together after- 

 ward and preserved. For further illustra- 

 tion of the use of labrets, see Adornment. 



Consult Ball (1) in 3d Rep. B. A. E., 

 1884, (2) in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., i, 1877; 

 Dawson, Rep. on Queen Charlotte Ids., 

 Geol. Surv. Canada, 1880; Murdoch in 

 9th Rep. B. A. E., 1892; Nelson in 18th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 1899. (.i. r. s.) 



Lacame. A province visited by Moscoso, 

 of De Soto's expedition, toward the close 

 of the year 1542; probably in s. w. Ar- 

 kansas. 



Lacame. — Biedma (1.544) in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., II, 108,1850. Laeane.— Gentl. of Elvasin Hak- 

 luytSoc. Pub., IX, 135, 1851. 



Lacayamu. Two former Chumashan 

 villages, one on Santa Cruz id., the other 

 in Ventura co., Cal. 



lacayamu. —Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 2-1, July 

 24, 1863. Lucuyumu, — Bancroft, Native Races, f, 

 459, 1874. 



Lac Court Oreilles. A Chippewa band, 

 named from the lake on which they 

 lived, at the headwaters of Chippewa r., 

 in Sawyer co.. Wis. In 1852 they formed 

 a part of the Betonukeengainubejig divi- 

 sion of the Chippewa, and in 1854 were 

 assigned a reservation. In 1905 they 

 were officially reported to number 1,214, 

 to whom lands had been allotted in sev- 

 eralty. 



Lac Court d'Oreille band.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 254, 1877. 

 Lac Court Oreille band.— U. S. Stat. L., X, 223, 1854. 

 Lac Court Orielles.— La Pointe treaty (1854) in 

 U. S. Ind. Treat., 224, 1873. Lac Court, Orville.— 

 Fitch in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1857, 28, 18.58. Lac Couter- 

 eille.— Warren (1852) in Minn. Hist. Soc. CoIl.,v, 

 191, 1885. Ottawa lake men.— Ibid., 39. 



Lachalsap. A village of the Hwotso- 

 tenne on Bulkley r., Brit. Col.; pop. 157 

 in 1904. 



Lachalsap.— Can. Ind. Aff., pt. 2, 70, 1902. Lack- 

 alsap.— Ibid., 1903, pt. 2, 73, 1904. Moricetown.— 

 Ibid., 70,1902. 



Lackawanna. A variety of coal. From 

 Lackairanna, the name of a tributary of 

 the Susquehanna and a county in Penn- 

 sylvania, which represents /^c//rtuwan?ie in 

 theLenape (Delaware) dialect, signifying 

 'the stream forks ' ; iroin lecliau, 'fork', 

 a.nd -hanne, 'stream,' ' river', (a. f. c.) 



Lackawaxen {Lechauweksinl; 'the forks 

 of the road ' ) . Mentioned by Alcedo 

 (Die. Geog., II, 565, 1787) as a former In- 

 dian (Delaware?) settlement on the e. 

 branch of Delaware r. , Pa. The e. branch 

 of the Delaware is in New York, and the 

 settlement, if ever existing, was probably 

 on Lackawaxen cr., a tributary of the 

 Delaware in n. e. Pennsylvania. Hecke- 

 welder (Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, iv, 359, 

 1834) mentions this as the Delaware name 

 for two places, one in Wayne co. and the 

 other in Northampton co., Pa. 

 Lechavaksein. — Alcedo, op. cit. Lechawaxen. — 

 Heckewelder, op. cit. 



Lacrosse. See Ball jjlay. 



Ladles. — See Dishes, (yourds, Receptacles. 



Lady Rebecca. See Pocahontas. 



Laenukhuma ( Lae^nuxxnia). Given by 

 Boas (Petermanns Mitt., pt. 5, 131, 1887) 

 as the ancestor of a gens of the Quat- 

 sino; also applied to the gens itself. 



La Flesche, Francis. Son of Estamaza, 

 or Joseph La Flesche, former head chief 

 of the Omaha, born in Thurston co., 

 Nebr., Dec. 25, 1857. He attended the 

 Presbyterian mission school on the Omaha 

 res., where he laid the foundation of his 

 later education. In 1878-79 he accom- 

 panied the Ponca chief Standing Bear on 

 his eastern tour and interpreted his pre- 

 sentation of the wrongs his people had 

 suffered in the removal from their home 

 in South Dakota. During an investiga- 

 tion of the Ponca removal by a committee 

 of the U. S. Senate he served again as in- 

 terpreter and attracted the attention of 

 the chairman by the impartial manner 

 in which he performed his work. In 



