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Las Mulas (Span.: 'the mules'). A 

 rancheria near the presidio of La Bahia 

 and the mission of Espiritu Santo de Zii- 

 niga on the lower Rio San Antonio, Tex., 

 in 1785, at which date it had only 5 in- 

 habitants (Bancroft, No. Mex. States, i, 

 659, 1886), who were probably of Kar- 

 ankawan affinity. 



Lassik {Las^-sik, the name of their last 

 chief). A people of the Athapascan 

 family formerly occupying a portion of 

 main Eel r., Cal., and its e. tributaries, 

 Van Duzen, Larrabee, and Dobbin crs., 

 together with the headwaters of Mad r. 

 They had for neighbors toward the n. the 

 Athapascan inhabitants of the valley of 

 Mad r. and Redwood cr. ; toward the e. 

 the Wintun of Southfork of Trinity r. ; 

 toward the s. the Wailaki, from whom 

 they were separated l>y Kekawaka cr. ; 

 toward the w. the Sinkine on Southfork 

 of Eel r. They occupied their regular 

 village sites along the streams only in 

 winter. Their houses were conical in 

 form, made of the bark of Douglas spruce. 

 They had neither sweat lodges nor dance 

 houses. The basketry was twined, but 

 differed considerably from that of the 

 Hupa in its decoration. Beside the meth- 

 ods employed elsewhere for securing deer 

 and elk, the Lassik u.sed to follow a fresh 

 track until the animal, unable to feed or 

 rest, was overtaken. They intermarried 

 with the Wintun, to whom they were 

 assimilated in n;iourning customs, etc. 

 Powers (Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 12L 

 1877) gives the impression that the Lassik 

 belong with the Wintun in language, but 

 this is a mistake. Their dialect resem- 

 bles the Hu|ia in its morphology and the 

 Wailaki in its phonology. The majority 

 of them perished during the first few 

 years of the occupancy of their country 

 by white people, a bounty being placed 

 on their heads and the traffic in children 

 for slaves being profitable and unre- 

 strained. A few families of ]them are still 

 living in the neighborhood of their former 

 homes. (p. e. g. ) 



Latcha Hoa. Noted on the West Florida 

 map {ca. 1775) as a Chickasaw settlement 

 on Latcha Hoa run, an affluent of Ahoola 

 Ihalchubba, a w. tributary of Tombigbee 

 r., N. E. Miss. 



Late-Comedu. An unidentified Dakota 

 division, mentioned by Gale, Upper Miss., 

 252, 1867. 



Lathakrezla. A Nataotin village on the 

 N. side of Babine lake, Brit. Col. 

 Lathakrazla. — Morice in Trans. Rov. Soc. Can. 

 1892, 109, 1893. Na-tal-kuz.— Dawson ill Geol. Surv. 

 Can., 26b, 1881. Ni-to-atz.— Ibid., 27b. 



Laulewasikaw. See Tenskwatawa. 



Law. See Government. 



Lawilvan. A Kawia village in Cahuilla 

 valley, s. Cal.; perhaps identical with 

 Alamo Bonito, q. v. 



Alamo. — Barrows, Ethno.-Bot. Coaliuilla Inrt., 34, 

 1900. La-wil-van.— Ibid. Si-vel.— Ibid. 



Lawokla. A Choctaw clan of the 

 Kushai^okla phratry. — Morgan, Anc. 

 Soc, 162, 1877. 



Lawunkhannek. A village of Moravian 

 Delawares estal>lished in 1769 on Alle- 

 gheny r. , above Franklin, Venango co., 

 Pa. In 1770 the inhabitants removed 

 to Languntennenk. It seems probable 

 that the village contained also some 

 Seneca. (.i. m.) 



Lauanakanuck.— Day, Penn., 172,1843. Lawanaka- 

 nuck.— Losliiel (1794) quoted by Day, Peiin., 644, 

 1843. Lawenakanuck. — Ibid., 102-3. Lawunah- 

 hannek. — Lll^ki(.'I (1794) quoted by Ruiip West. 

 Pa., app., 3')3, 1846. Lawunakhannek. — Craiitz, 

 Hist, of tlie Brethren, 594, 1780. Lawunkhannek. — 

 Loskiel (1794) quoted by Rupp.op. cit., 46. 



Laycayamu. A -former Chumashan vil- 

 lage near Santa Barbara, Cal. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, Apr. 24, 1863. 



League. See Confederation, Government. 



Lean Bear. An unidentified Dakota 

 band formerly living below L. Traverse, 

 Minn. (Ind. Aff. Rep. 1859, 102, 1860); 

 ap]>arently named after the chief. 



Leatherlips (native name tShdUeiaron'^- 

 hiiV, 'Two clouds of equal size.' — Hew- 

 itt). A Huron (Wyandot) chief of the 

 Sandusky tribe of Ohio who, in Aug., 

 1795, signed the treaty of Greenville in 

 behalf of his jjeople. His honorable 

 character and friendship for the whites 

 inflamed the jealousy of Tecumseh, who 

 ruthlessly ordered him to l)e killed on 

 the plea that he was a wizard, Tecumseh's 

 fanaticism being so overmastering that he 

 assigned the execution of Shateiaronhia 

 to another Huron chief named Round- 

 head. He was apprised of his condemna- 

 tion by his brother, who was sent to him 

 with a piece of bark on which a toma- 

 hawk was drawn as a token of his death. 

 The execution took place near his camp 

 on the Scioto, about 14 m. n. of Colum- 

 bus, in the summer of 1810, there being 

 present a number of white men, includ- 

 ing Li justice of the peace, who made an 

 effort to save the life of the accused, but 

 without success. He was tomahawked 

 by a fellow tribesman while kneeling 

 beside his grave, after having chanted, 

 a death song. The Wyandot Club of 

 Columbus, Ohio, in 1888, erected a 

 granite monument to Shateiaronhia in 

 a park surrounded by a stone wall, 

 including the spot where he died. See 

 Curry in Ohio Archreol. and Hist. 

 Quar., XII, no. 1, 1906; Drake, Life of 

 Tecumseh, 1852; Heckewelder, Hist. Ind. 

 Nat., 1876; Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, i, 611, 

 1898. 



Leatherwood (Leatherwood's Town). 

 A former Cherokee settlement at or near 

 the present Leatherwood village in the 

 N. part of Franklin co., n. e. Ga. The 

 name was probably that of a prominent 

 chief or mixed-blood. (.i. m.) 



Ledyanoprolivskoe. Perhaps a town of 

 the Tlingit, locality not given, number- 

 ing 200 in 1835. 



