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LAPAPU LAS FLORES 



[b. a. e. 



Museum by its owner, Mr M. C. Long, of 

 Kansas City, Mo. 



As the geologists who examined the site 

 when the deep trenches cut by the Bureau 

 of American Etlmology were open hold 

 widely divergent opinions with respect to 

 the age of the formation inclosing the re- 

 mains, some of them considering it true 

 loess, further investigation is necessary ere 

 the question of antiquity can be finally 

 settled. 



Of the geologists referred to, those fa- 

 voring great antiquity are Upham (Am. 

 Antiq., xxiv, 413, 1902, and Am. Geolo- 

 gist, Sept. 1902, 135); Winchell (Am. Ge- 

 ologist, Sept. 1902); Williston (Science, 

 Aug. 1, 1902), and Erasmus Haworth, 

 Professor of Geology, University of Kan- 

 sas. Those favoring a comparatively re- 

 cent date are Chamberlin (Jour, of Ge- 

 ology, X, 745, 1903); Holmes (Smithson. 

 Rep", 455, 1902); R. D. Salisbury, Pro- 

 fessor of Geology, University of Chicago; 

 Samuel Calvin, State Geologist of Iowa, 

 and Gerard Fowke, who conducted the 

 excavations on the site for the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology. See Antiquity, 

 Archeology. (g. f. ) 



Lapapa. A former Miwok village on 

 Tuolumne r., Tuolumne co., Cal. 

 La-pap-poos. — Johnson in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 IV, 407, 1854. Lapappu. — Latham in Trans. Philol. 

 See. Loncl., 81, 1856. 



La Piche. A small rancheria, probably 

 Luisefio, on Potrero res., 75 m. from Mis- 

 sion Tule River agency, s. Cal. With La 

 Jova the population was otKcially given 

 as 225 in 1903. Cf. Ajjeche. 



La Posta (Span.; i^robably here mean- 

 ing 'post station'). A reservation of 

 238. 88 acres of unpatented desert land oc- 

 cupied by 19 so-called Mission Indians, 

 situated 170 m. from Mission Tule River 

 agency, s. Cal. 



Lappawinze ('getting provisions'). A 

 Delaware chief — one of those who were 

 induced to sign at Philadelphia the treaty 

 of 1737, known as the "walking jjur- 

 chase," confirming the treaty of 1686, 

 which granted to the whites land extend- 

 ing from Neshaming cr. as far as a man 

 could walk in a day and a half. When 

 the survey was made under this stipula- 

 tion the governor of Pennsylvania had a 

 road built inland and employed a trained 

 runner, a proceeding that the Delawares 

 denounced as a fraud. See Pa. Archives, 

 1st ser., I, 541, 1852; Thompson, Incjuiry 

 into Alienation of Delaware and Shawnee 

 Inds., 69, 1759. 



La Prairie. The first mission village of 

 the Catholic Iroquois, established in 1668 

 on the s. bank of the St Lawrence, at La 

 Prairie, La Prairie co., Quebec. The first 

 occupants were chiefly Oneida with other 

 Iroquois, but it soon contained members 

 of all the neighboring Iroquoian and Al- 

 gonquian tribes. The Mohawk, from 



Caughnawaga, N. Y., finally gained the 

 leading position and their language came 

 into vogue in the settlement. In 1676 

 the Indians removed to Portage r.,a few 

 miles distant, and Ijuilt the presentCaugh- 

 nawaga, q. v. 



Laprairie.— Shea, Cath. Miss., 262, 1865. La Prairie 

 de la Madelaine. — Frontenac (1674) in N.Y. Doc. 

 Co]. Hist., IX, 116, 18.55. Laprairie de la Madelaine.— 

 Letter ot 1756, ibid., x, 480, 18.58. La Prairie de 

 la Magdelaine.— La Barre (16S3), i)iid.. ix, 202, 1855. 

 Saint-Frangois-Xavier-des-Pres. — .Jes. Rel., Ill, in- 

 dex, 1858. St. Francis Xavier des Pres. — Shea, 

 Cath. lMiss.,268, 1855 (mission name). St. Franfois 

 Xavier a Laprairie de la Magdeleine. — ,Tes. Rel. 

 (1675) quoted by Shea, Cath. Miss., 304,1855. S. 

 Xavier des Praiz.— Jes. Rel. 1671, 12, 1858. S. 

 Xavier des Prez.— Ibid., 1672, 16, 1858. 



Laptambif. Probably a band of the 

 Calapooya proper. In 1877 the name was 

 borne by " Old Ben," at Grande Ronde 

 res., Oreg., who came from IMohawk r.. 

 Lane co. 



Laptambif.— Gatsehet, Atfalati MS., B. A. E., 368, 

 1877. Long-tongue-bufF. — Ross, Adventures, 236, 



1849. 



La Punta (Span.: 'the point'). A for- 

 mer Diegueno rancheria near San Diego, 

 s. Cal. — Ortega ( 1775 ) quoted by Bancroft, 

 Hist. Cal., I, 253, 1884. 



Lapwai. A Nez Perce band formerly 

 living near the mouth of Lapwai cr., Ida- 

 ho, now under the Lapwai school super- 

 intendent. 



Las Flores (Span.: 'the flowers'). A 

 former Luiseno village in n. San Diego co., 

 Cal. (Hayes, 1850, quoted by Bancroft, 

 Nat. Races, i, 460, 1882). Arguello (H. 

 R. Ex. Doc. 76, 34th Cong., 3d sess., 117, 

 1857 ) mentions a Las Flores as a Diegueiio 

 pueblo in San Diego co. , established after 

 the secularization act of 1834, which may 

 be the same. 



