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MAGUINA MAHICAN 



[b. a. 



Maguina. A pueblo in w. Chihuahua, 

 Mexico, probably between lat. 28° and 

 29°. As it is on the border land of the 

 Nevome and Tarahuinare and not far from 

 the main habitat of the Tepehuane, it 

 doubtless contains or contained a mixed 

 population. The village has therefore 

 been assigned by various writers to one or 

 another of those tribes. Orozco y Berra' s 

 map includes the village in Nevome 

 country. 



San Juan B [autista] . Haguina. — Orozco y Berra, 

 Geog.,3'24,l«64. 



Magunkaquog (originally Magwonkko- 

 muk, 'place of the gift,' or 'granted place' 

 (Eliot), possibly afterward changed by 

 the Indians to the present form, meaning 

 'place of great trees.' — Trumbull). A vil- 

 lage of Christian Indians in Nipmuc terri- 

 tory, at Hopkinton, Middlesex co., Mass., 

 in 1674. On the name, see Trumbull and 

 Tooker, cited below. Cf. Mangunckakuck. 

 Magoncog.— Livingstmi (1678) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist, XIII, 528, 1881. Magooonkkomuk,— Eliot (1669) 

 quoted by Tooker, Algoiiq. Ser., x, 26, 1901. Ma- 

 guncog.— Rawson (1678) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 xni, 521, 1881. Magunkahquog.— Trnmbnll, Ind. 

 Names Conn., 18, 1881. Magunkakook.— Tooker, 

 Algonq. Ser., x, 27, 1901. Magunkaquog.— Goo- 

 kin (1674) in Mas.s. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., i, 18S, 

 1806. Magunkoag.— Gookin (1677) in Trans. Am. 

 Antiq. Soc, ll, 443, 1836. Magunkog.— Ibid., 470. 

 Majunkaquog.— Eliot quoted bv Tooker, Algonq. 

 Ser., X, 25, 1901. Makunkokoag.— Gookin (liw7) in 

 Trans. Am. Autiq. Soc, ll, 435, iMlii. Mogkun- 

 kakauke. — Tooker, op. cit., 27. Moogunkawg.— 

 Stone (1767) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., x, 82, 

 1809. 



Magwa [Ma-gtvaf , 'loon'). A gens of 

 the Shawnee (q. v.).— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 

 168, 1877. 



Maha ( 'caterpillar ' ) . Given by Bourke 

 (Jour. Am. Folk-lore, ii, 181, 1889) as a 

 clan of the Mohave, q. v. 



Mahackemo. The principal chief of a 

 small band on Norwalk r., s. w. Conn., 

 which sold lands in 1640 and 1641. See 

 Norv'dlk. 



Mahackemo. — De Forest, Inds. of Conn., 177, 1851. 

 Mahackeno. — De Forest as quoted by Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R., 82,1872. 



Mahahal. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage on San Cayetano ranch, Ventura co., 

 Cal. — Henshaw, Buenaventura IMS. vo- 

 cab.,B. A.E.,1884. 



Mahala mats. A California name of 

 Ceanothus prostratus, also known as 

 squaw's carpet. Mahala, more often nxj- 

 hale, is often used as synonymous with 

 "squaw'-' in California by the whites. 

 If not from Spanish rnujer, 'woman,' it 

 is from Yokuts muk'ela, having the same 

 meaning. (a. f. c. a. l. k.) 



Maharolukti ( Md-har-o-luk^-ti, ' brave ' ) . 

 Asubclanof theDelawares (q. v.). — Mor- 

 gan, Anc. Soc, 172, 1877. 



Mahaskahod. A hunting village of the 

 Manahoac in 1608, on Rappahannock r., 

 Va., at the limit of the Powhatan con- 

 federacy, }>ro))ably near Fredericksburg. 

 Mahaskahod.— Smitli (1629), Va , ], map, repr. 

 1819. Mohaskahod. — Simons in Smitli, ibid., 186. 



Mahcoah. The principal village of the 



Toquart(q.v. ) on Village passage, Barclay 

 sd., w. coast of Vancouver id. — Can. Ind. 

 Aff., 263, 1902. 



Mahewala. A village formerly on the 

 lower Mississippi, destroyed afcout the 

 close of 1681 or early in 1682; perhaps 

 a settlement of the Tangibao, q. v. 

 Mahehoualaima.— La Salle (1682) in Margry, Dec, 

 11,198,1877. Maheouala.— Ibid., 190. Maheoula.— 

 La Metairie (1682) quoted by French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., II, 23, 1875. 



Mahican ( ' wolf ' ) . An Algonquian tribe 

 that occupied both banks of upper Hud- 

 son r., in New York, extending n. almost 

 to L. Cham plain. To the Dutch they were 

 known as River Indians, while the French 

 grouped them and the closely connected 

 Munsee and Delawares under the name 

 of Loups ('wolves'). The same tribes 

 were called Akochakanefl ( * stammerers ' ) 

 by the Iroquois. On the w. bank they 

 joined the INIunsee at Catskill cr., and on 

 the E. l)ank they joined the Wappinger 

 near Poughkeepsie. They extended e. 

 into IMassachusetts and. held the upper 

 part of Housatonic valley. Their council 

 tire was at Schodac, on an island near 

 Albany, and it is probable that they had 

 40 villages within their territory. The 

 name, in a variety of forms, has been ap- 

 plied to all the Indians from Hudson r. to 

 Narragansett bay, but in ])ractical use has 

 been limited to two bodies, one on lower 

 Connecticut r., Conn., known dialectically 

 as Mohegan (q. v.), the other, on Hud- 

 son r., known as Mahican. They were 

 engaged in a war with the Mohawk, their 

 nearest neighbors on the w., when the 

 Dutch appeared on the scene, which 

 lasted until 1673. In 1664 the inroads of 

 the Mohawk comjielled them to remove 

 their council fire from Schodac to West- 

 enhuck, the modern Stockbridge, Mass. 

 As the settlements crowded upon them 

 the Mahican sold their territory piece- 

 meal, and about 1730 a large body of 

 them emigrated to Susquehanna r. and 

 settled near Wyoming, Pa. , in the vicin- 

 ity of the Delawares and Munsee, with 

 whom they afterward removed to the 

 Ohio region, finally losing their identity. 

 A previous emigration had formed the 

 main body of the mixed tribe of the 

 Scaticook. As early as 1 721 a band of 

 Mahican found their way to Indiana, 

 where they had a village on Kankakee r. 

 In 1736 those living in Housatonic val- 

 ley were gathered into a mission at Stock- 

 bridge, Mass., wliere they maintained a 

 separate existence under the name of 

 Stockliridge Indians. The.«e are the only 

 Mahican who have preserved their iden- 

 tity. In 1756 a large body of Mahican 

 and Wappinger removed from the Hud- 

 son to the E. Vjranch of the Susquehanna, 

 settling, with the Nanticoke and others, 

 under Iroquois ])rotection at Chenango, 

 Chugnut, and Owego, in Broome and Ti- 



