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LIYAM LOGAN 



[b. a. e. 



li-wai'-to.— Powers in Cont. N. A. EthnoL, iii, 218, 

 1877. 



Liyam {Li' -yam). A former Chiima- 

 shan village on Santa Cruz id., Cal. — 

 Hensbaw, Buenaventura MS. vocab., B. 

 A. E., 1884. 



Llagas (Span.: 'wounds'). A former 

 group of Cocopa rancherias on the w. side 

 of the Eio Colorado, just below tidewater, 

 about lat. 32°, in n. e. Lower California. 

 Visited and so named by Fray Fi-ancisco 

 Garces, Sept. 17, 1771, which is given as 

 the day of the wounds or sores of St Fran- 

 cis Assisi. — Garces (1775), Diary, 188, 

 1900. 



Llaneros ( Span. : ' plainsmen ' ) . A term 

 indefinitely applied to the former wild 

 tribes of the Staked plains of w. Texas 

 and E. New Mexico, including the Kwa- 

 hari Comanche (q. v.) and i:>arts of the 

 Jicarillas and the Mescaleros. See Gohl- 

 kahut, GtUdka'nide. 



Llano. A Papago village in s. Arizona; 

 pop. 70 in 1858. 



Del Llano.— Bailey in Ind. Aft'. Rep., 208, 1858. 



Lochchiocha. A former Seminole town 

 60 m. E. of Apalachicola, and near Ok- 

 loknee, Fla. ; Okoskaamathla was chief in 

 1823.— H.R. Ex. Doc. 74 (1823), 19th 

 Cong., 1st sess., 26, 1826. 



Locobo. A Costanoan village situated in 

 1819 within 10 in. of Santa Cruz mission, 

 Cal.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 5, 1860. 



Locust Necktown. A village in Mary- 

 land, occupied in 1792 by that band of the 

 Nanticoke known as Wiwash, cj. v. 

 Locust Neck. — Mt Johnson conf. (1755) in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., VI, 983, 1855. Locust Necktown. — 

 Gallatin in Trans. Am. Antiq. Soe., ii, 63, 1836. 



Lodges. See Earth lodge, Grass lodge, 

 Hahitaiions. 



Lodges without horses. A former Crow 

 band. — Culbertson in Smithson. Rep. 

 1850, 144, 1851. 



Lofka. A former Kaiyuhkhotana set- 

 tlement on the w. bank of Yukon r., 

 Alaska. The place probably consisted of 

 only a single hut occupied by an Indian 

 named Lofka, at which the earliest 

 American travelers on the Yukon used to 

 spend the night. 

 Lofka's barrabora,— Dall, Alaska, 211, 1870. 



Logan. A synonym of pokeloken, in 

 use in Maine, and probably a corruption 

 of that word. (a. f. c. ) 



Logan, John (?) (native name Tah-gah- 

 jute, lit. 'hiseyelashes stick out or above,' 

 as if looking through or over something, 

 and so could well mean 'spying.' — Hew- 

 itt). A noted Indian chief, born at 

 Shamokin, Fa., about 1725. His father, 

 called by the English Shikellamy and by 

 the Moravians Shikellemus, according to 

 Crantz (Hist, of the Brethren, 269, 1780), 

 was a white man, taken prisoner in Can- 

 ada and reared among the Indians, and 

 was later made chief of all or a part of 

 the Indians residing at Shamokin. He is 



usually spoken of as a Cayuga chief, while 

 others call him a Mingo, the common 

 term in the colonial period for those 

 Iroquois living beyond their proper 

 boundaries. Bartram says that he was 

 a Frenchman born in Montreal, but as 

 a prisoner was adopted by the Oneida. 

 The same authoiity further states that 

 his son (presuma})ly Tah-gah-jute) took 

 the name Logan from his friend James 

 Logan, who was secretary and for a 

 time acting governor of Pennsylvania. 

 He lived a number of years near Reeds- 

 ville. Pa., supporting himself and family 

 by hunting and the sale of dressed skins. 

 Later, about 1770, he removed to the Ohio 

 and was living at the mouth of Beaver 

 cr. when visited by Heckewelder in 

 1772; and in 1774, about the time of the 

 Dunmore war, he resided at Old Chilli- 

 cothe, now Westfall, on the w. bank of 

 iSciota r., Pickaway co., Ohio. In 1774 a 

 number of Indians, including some of 

 Logan's relatives, were brutally massacred 

 at tlie mouth of Y'ellow cr. by settlers on 

 the Ohio, in retaliation, it was claimed, 

 for the murder of white emigi'ants, and 

 for a time Michael Cresap was sup- 

 posed to be the leader in this massacre. 

 There has been much controversy as to 

 the facts in this case. A careful study of 

 the evidence given by Jefferson in the 

 appendix to his Notes on Virginia, by J. 

 J. Jacob in his Biographical Sketch of 

 the Life of Michael Cresap, and by Brantz 

 Mayer in his Tah-gah-jute, leads to the 

 conclusion that the massacre of the In- 

 dians was by Greathouse and a party of 

 white settlers, and that Cresap was not 

 present; that Logan's sister, and possibly 

 some other relative, were killed; that his 

 wife was not murdered, and that he had 

 no children. It seems evident, however, 

 that Logan was brought in some way to 

 believe that Cresap led the attack. For 

 several months Logan made war on the 

 border settlements, perpetrating fearful 

 barliarities upon men, women, and chil- 

 dren. In the celebrated speech attributed 

 to him he boasts of these murders. This 

 supposed speech was probably only a 

 memorandum written down from his 

 statement and afterward read before the 

 treaty meeting at Chillicothe, at which 

 Logan was not present. His intemperate 

 habits, begunabout the time of his removal 

 to the Ohio, grew upon him, and after the 

 return of peace compelled him to forbear 

 the use of the tomahawk he became an 

 abandoned sot. On his return from a 

 trip to Detroit in 17S0 he was killed by 

 his nephew, apparently in a quarrel. 

 His wife, who was a Shawnee woman, sur- 

 vived him, but no children resulted from 

 their union. A monument to Logan 

 stands in Fair Hill cemetery, near Au- 

 burn, N. Y. " (c. T.) 



