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LELIOTU LES NOIEE INDIANS 



[b. a. e. 



Laylekeean. — Powers in Overland Mo., xii, 22, 1874. 

 Le'-li-ki-an. — Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., iii, 

 310, 1877. 



Leliotu. The Tiny Ant {sp. incog. ) clan 

 of the Ala (Horn) phratry of the Hopi. 

 Le-li-o-tU wun-wii. — Fewkes in Am. Anthrop., vii, 

 401 1894 (tt'Mn-'!(u<=' clan'). 



Lema. One of the more important of 

 the old villages of the Porno; situated in 

 Knight's valley, about 4 m. n. w. of Hop- 

 land, Mendocino co., Cal. (s. a. b. ) 

 La-ma.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., ill, 172, 

 1777. lema.— S. A. Barrett, inf'n, 1906. 



Lemaltcha (Le-mal-tcha). A former 

 Lummi village on Waldron id., Wash. 

 (Gibbs, Clallam and Lummi, 39, 1863). 

 The name is the same as Lilmalche, q. v. 



Lemitas. Mentioned bv Villa-Seiior 

 (Theatro Am., pt. 2, 412, 1748) as a wild 

 tribe hostile to the people of New Mexico. 

 Possibly the local name of an Apache 

 band or of its chief. 



"lenahuoii. One of the tribes formerly 

 occupying "the country from Buena 

 Vista and Carises lakes and Kern r. to the 

 Sierra Nevada and Coast range," Cal. 

 (Barbour (1852) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 32d 

 Cong., spec, sess., 256, 1853). By treaty 

 of June 10, i851, these tribes reserved a 

 tract between Tejon pass and Kern r., 

 and ceded the remainder of their lands 

 to the United States. Kroeber suggests 

 that the name is perhaps intended for 

 Sanahuon, Spanish orthography of San- 

 akhwin, a Yokuts and perhaps other 

 Indian corruption of San Joaquin or a 

 similar Spanish geographical term. 



Lenahuon. — Barbour, op. cit. Senahuow. — Royce 

 in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 782, 1899. 



Lenape stone. A perforated tablet of 

 shale, of the form usually classed as gor- 

 gets, found by Bernard Hansell while 

 plowing on his father's farm half a mile 

 E. of Doylestown, Bucks co., Pa. A large 

 fragment of the stone was found on the 

 surface of the ground in the spring of 

 1872; and a second, the smaller piece, 

 was picked up in 1881. The length is 

 nearly 4^ in., and the width varies from 

 I5 to 1| in The surface on both sides 

 has been smoothed, and on one side are 

 carved in outline the figure of an ele- 

 phant or mammoth, two rude human 

 forms, the sun, and a number of uniden- 

 tified objects. On' the other are outline 

 figures of a turtle, fishes, a bird, a pipe, 

 etc. There are two round perforations in 

 the tablet, about a third of its length from 

 the ends. The specimen may possibly 

 be genuine Indian workmanship, but the 

 carving is apparently modern and exe- 

 cuted after the stone had been broken. 

 For further notice consult Mercer, The 

 Lenape Stone, or the Indian and the 

 Mammoth, 1885. See Gorgets, Perforated 

 Tablets. (c. t. ) 



Lengya. The Flute phratry of theHopi, 

 consisting of the Flute (Lelengtu), Blue- 

 flute (Shakwalengya), Drab-flute (Masi- 



lengya), and Mountain-sheep ( Pangwa ) 

 clans, and probably other-s. They claim 

 to have come from a region in s. Arizona 

 called Palatkwabi and from Little Col- 

 orado r., and after their arrival in Tusa- 

 yan joined the Ala (Horn) phratry, form- 

 ing the Ala-Lengya group. — Fewkes in 

 19th Kep. B. A.E.", 583, 587, 190L 

 lenya. — Fewkes, ibid. 



Lengyanobi ( ' high place of the Flute 

 clans'). The legendary home of the 

 Lengya (Flute) clans of the Hopi, now a 

 large ruin on a mesa about 30 m. n. e. of 

 Walpi, N. E. Ariz. The village is said to 

 have been abandoned just before the ar- 

 rival of the Spaniards (1540), its inhabit- 

 ants becoming amalgamated with the 

 Hopi. The people of Lengyanobi at that 

 time belonged to two consolidated phra- 

 tries, the Ala (Horn) and the Lengya 

 (Flute), of which the latter built the vil- 

 lage, (j. w. F. ) 



Lentes. Said to have been a former 

 pueblo of the Tigua, but more likely a 

 village established for the benefit of Geni- 

 zaros (q. v.), on the w. bank of the Rio 

 Grande near Los Lunas, N. Mex. By 

 1850 the natives had become completely 

 "Mexicanized." 



Lentes. — Simpson in Rep. See. War, 143, 1850. 

 Lentis.— Calhoun in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 

 633, 1853. Leunis.— Schoolcraft, ibid., I, 519, 1851. 

 Leutis. — Ibid. Los Lentes. — Lane (1854), ibid., v, 

 689, 1855. 



Lesamaiti. A former village of the 

 Awani about one-fifth of a mile from 

 Notomidula, in Yosemite valley, Mari- 



£osa CO., C'al. 

 aysamite. — Powers in Overland Mo., x, 333, 1874. 

 Le-sam'-ai-ti. — Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 

 365, 1877. 



Leschi. A Nisqualli chief, prominent 

 in the war which involved all the tribes 

 of Washington and adjacent regions in 

 1855-58, and commonly known as the 

 Yakima war. While Kamaiakan (q. v. ) 

 headed the Yakima and their confeder- 

 ates E. of the mountains, Leschi took 

 command w. of the Cascades, particular- 

 ly about Puget sd. His most notable 

 exploit was an attack on the new town 

 of Seattle, Jan. 29, 1856, at the head of 

 about 1,000 warriors of several tribes. 

 The assailants were driven off by means 

 of a naval battery upon a vessel in the 

 harbor. On the collapse of the outbreak 

 Leschi fled to the Yakima, who, having 

 already submitted, refused him shelter 

 except as a slave. A reward was offered 

 for his capture, and being thus outlawed, 

 he was at last treacherously seized by 

 two of his own men in Nov., 1856, and 

 delivered to the civil authorities, by 

 whom, after a long legal contest, he was 

 condemned and hanged, Feb. 19, 1857. 

 See Bancroft, Hist. Wash., 1890. (.i. M. ) 



Les Noire Indians. Mentioned by Say 

 (Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., n, Ixxxiv, 

 1823) as a people known to the Hidatsa, 



