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MAKOUKUWE MALECITE 



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Makou.— Liipham.Inds. ofWis.,4,1870. MaKoua. — 

 Jes. Kel. (1672), LViii, 40, 1899. 



Makoukuwe. A band or ^ens, j:)rol)ably 

 of the Foxes, found living near (ireen 

 bav, Wi,s.,in 1673. 



Makoucoue.— Je.s. Rel. (1673),Lvni, 40, 1899. Ma- 

 koueoue. — Jes. Rel. quoted by Shea in Wis. Hist. 

 Soe. Coll., in, 131, 1857. Makoukoue.— MS. Jes. Rel. 

 of lt)73 quoted by Tailhan, I'errot Mem., 293, 1864. 

 Makoukoueks. — Ibid. 



iMaktlaiath ( Md'kWaiath ) . A sept of the 

 Seshart, a Nootka tribe. — Boas in 6th 

 Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 32, 1890. 



Makushin. An Aleut village on Maku- 

 shin bay, Unalaska id., Alaska. Pop. 35 

 in 1834, according to Yeniaminoff; 49 in 



1874, according to Shiesnekov; 62 in 1880; 

 51 in 1890. 



Makooshenskoi. — Elliott, Cond. Aff. Alaska, 225, 



1875. Makooshin.— Elliott, Our Arct. Prov., 

 map, 1886. Makuschinskoje. — Holmberg, Ethuog. 

 Skizz., maj), 142, IS-'Sft. Makushin. — Petroff in lOtli 

 Census, Alaska, 23, 1884. Makushinsk. — I'oxe, 

 Russ. Discov., 163, 1787. Makusiiinskoe. — Veni- 

 aminoff, Zapiski, n. 202, 1S40. Makuski.— Coxe, 

 Russ. Discov., 158, 1787. 



Makwa ( ' bear ' ) . According to Morgan, 

 one of the 11 clans of the Mahican. 

 According to Barton it is one of the 3 

 divisions of the Mahican, corresponding 

 to Morgan's phratries. Morgan gives the 

 wolf, turtle, and turkey; Barton gives the 

 wolf, turtle, and bear, and puts the bear 

 first. (J. M.) 



Mai'-kwa. — Morgan, Anc. Soe., 174, 1877. Much- 

 quanh. — Keane in Stanford, Compend., 523. 1878 

 (misprint). Much-quauh. — Barton, New Views, 

 xxxix,1798. Muk-wah. — Warren in Minn. Hist. 

 Soe. Coll., V, 44, 1885. 



Makwa ('bear'). A gens of the Chip- 

 pewa, q. v. 



Ma-kwa'.— Morgan, Anc. Soe, 166, 1877. Muk- 

 kwaw.— Tanner, Narrative, 314, 1830. Muk-wah. — 

 Ramsey in Iiid. Aff. Rep., 91, 1850. 



Makwisuchigi ( ' they who go by the 

 name of the bear'). The "royal" (rul- 

 ing) gens of the Foxes. (w. j. ) 

 Ma-kwis-so-jik.— Morgan, Anc. Soe., 170, 1877. 

 Ma'kwisutcigi. — Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1906. 



Malahue. A former Chumashan village 

 in Ventura co., Cal., at the Rancho de 

 Maligo. 



Hu-ma-li-wu.— Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. vo- 

 ciib., B. A. E., 1884. Malahu.— Taylor in Cal. Far- 

 mer, July 24, 1863. 



Malaka. A tribe of the Patwin division 

 of the Copehan family that formerly lived 

 in Lagoon valley, Solano co., Cal. 

 Malaccas.— Powers in Overland Mo., xni, 542, 1874. 

 Ma-lak'-ka. — Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 

 218, 1877. 



Malakut {Mct'lexah). A Salish tribe on 

 Saanich inlet, s. e. end of Vancouver id., 

 speaking the Cowichan dialect; pop. 14 

 in 1901, 10 in 1904. 



Mal-a-hut.— Can. Ind. Aff. 1889, 270, 1890. Mala- 

 kut.— Ibid., 1901, pt, II, 164. Ma'leqa«.— Boas, 

 MS., B. A. E., 1887. 



Malashaganay. A naine of the sheeps- 

 head or fresh- water drum (Haiilo'linotus 

 grunniens). Through Canadian French 

 malashigane or malaslilgaiie, from mana- 

 shigan in the Chippewa-Ni pissing dialects 

 of the Algonquian stock, signifying 'ugly 

 ashigan.' The axhigan is the black bass 

 of American Flnglish. (a. f. c. ) 



Male {Ma'le). A village of the Mus- 

 queam, a Cowichan tribe, situated x. of Sea 

 id., ill the delta of Fraser r. , Brit. Col. 

 According to Hill-Tout it was claimed by 

 the Squawmish. 



Ma'le.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 54, 1894. 

 Ma'-li.— Ibid., 473, 1900. 



Malecite. Various explanations of this 

 name have been given. According to 

 Chamberlain it is from their ^licmac 

 name Mallsit, 'broken talkers'; Tanner 

 gives the form as Mahnesheets, mean- 

 ing ' slow tongues' ; Baraga derives it 

 through the Cree from mai/isit or malisit, 

 ' the dLsfigured or ugly foot ' ; Lacombe 

 (Diet. Cris, 707) agrees with Baraga and 

 gives the etymology as VKiyi or tna/, ' de- 

 formed,' and sit, 'foot.' Maurault's ex- 

 planation is radically different from all, 

 as he .says it is from Maroudit or Malouklit, 

 ' those who are of Saint INIalo. ' Vetromile 

 says it "comes from malike, which in old 

 Abnakiand also in Delaware means witch- 

 craft," but adds, "hence the French 

 name Micmac is a substitute for Mare- 

 schite," as he writes the nanie. Accord- 

 ing to Chamberlain the name they ajiply 

 to themselves is Wukistuk-trluk, 'dwellers 

 on the beautiful river,' or, as given by 

 Maurault, Ouarastegomaks, ' those of the 

 river whose bed contains sjjarkling ob- 

 jects.' 



The Malecite belong to the Abnaki 

 group of the Algonquian stock. Maurault 

 makes a distinction between the Male- 

 cite and the Etchimin, but adds that 

 "the remnants of this tribe and the Etchi- 

 mins are called at the present day Male- 

 cites." Their closest linguistic affinity 

 is with the Passamaquoddy, the language 

 of the two being almost identical, and is 

 closely allied to the New England dia- 

 lects, but more distant from that of the 

 Micmac. 



Although the New Brunswick coast was 

 visited by or soon after the middle of the 

 16th century, and, St John r. located on 

 maps as early as 1558, making it quite 

 probable that the people of this tribe had 

 come in contact with the whites at that 

 early date, the earliest recorded notice of 

 them is in Champlain's narrative of his 

 voyage of 1604. He found the country 

 along the banks of the St John in the 

 possession of Indians named "Les Etche- 

 inons," by whom liis party was received 

 with hospitality and rejoicing, and says 

 they were the "first Christians" who 

 had been seen by these savages, which 

 may have been true of the particular 

 party he met, but doubtful in the broader 

 sense. That these were Malecite there 

 is no reasonable doul )t. ' ' When we were 

 seated," says Champlain, "they began to 

 smoke, as was their custom, before making 

 any discourse. They made us presents of 

 game and venison. All that day and the 

 night following they continued to sing, 



