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MANTA MANUELITO 



[b. a. e. 



by Fray Garcia tie San Francisco, who 

 founded among them the mission of Nues- 

 tra Seiiora de Guadakipe de los Mansos, 

 the church editice being de<licated in 

 1668. At this date the mission is rejiorted 

 by Vetancurt (Teatro Mex., in, 309, 1871) 

 to have contained upward of 1,000 parisli- 

 ioners. About their idiom nothing is 

 known. Tliey have the same officers as 

 the Pueblos, and, altliough re(hiced to a 

 dozen families, maintain their organiza- 

 tion and some of their rites and dances, 

 which are very similar to those of the 

 northern Pueblo peoples, whom the 

 Mansos recognize as their relatives. They 

 are now associated with the Tigua and 

 Piros in the same town. 



The term "manso" has also been ap- 

 plied by the Spaniards in a general sense 

 to designate any subjugated Indians. 

 (See Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Rep., v, 50, 

 1884; Arch. Inst. Papers, in, 86, 165-68, 

 248, 1890; iv, 348-49, 1892. ) 



Gorretas.— Zaratf-8almeron {ca. 1(529) in Land of 

 Sunshine, 183, Feb. 1900 (Span.: 'little caps'): 

 BenavidfS, Memorial, 9, 1G30. Gorrites. — Linscho- 

 ten, Desor. de rAme>riquc, map 1, 1H.S8. Lanos. — 

 Perea (1629) quoted by Vetaiu-urt, Teatro Mex., 

 HI, 300, 308, 1871 (or Mansos). Maises.— Linschotcn, 

 Descr. de I'Amerique, map 1, 1638. Mansa.— 

 Benavides, ISIemorial, 9, 1630. Manses. — Sanson, 

 L'Amerique, 27, map, 16.57. Mansos.— Benavides, 

 Memorial, 9, 1630. Manxo.— Oiiate (l.'i98) in Doc. 

 Ined, XVI, 243, 1871 C'sus primeraspalabrast'neron 

 vianxo, 7nanxo, 7» /(■(».<, micos, por decir mansos y 

 amigos " ) . Xptianos Manssos. — Doc. of 1684 qvioted 

 by Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iii, 89, 1890 

 (i. e., 'Christian Mansos'). 



Manta ( Brinton believed this to be acor- 

 ruption of TNIonthee, the dialectic form of 

 Munsee among the iMahican and Indians 

 of E. New Jersey). Formerly an impor- 

 tant division of the New Jersey Dela- 

 wares, living on the e. bank of Delaware 

 r. about Salem cr. According to Brinton 

 they extended up the river to the vicinity 

 of Burlington, as well as some distance 

 inland, but early writers locate other 

 bands in that region. Under the name 

 of Manteses they were estimated in J 648 

 at 100 warriors. About tlie beginning of 

 the 18th century they incorporated them- 

 selves with the Unami and Unalachtigo 

 Delawares. They have fi-equently been 

 confounded with the latter division, and 

 Chikohoki (q. v. ) has also been used as 

 synonymous with Manta, but Brinton 

 thinks they were a southern branch of 

 the Munsee. (j. jr. ) 



Frog Indians. — Proud, Pa., 11,294,1798. Mandes.— 

 Ibid., 29.^. Mantaas. — llerrman, map (1670) in 

 Maps to Accompany the Rep. of the Conir.s. on 

 the Bndry. Line bet. Va. and Md., 1873 (refers to 

 the river). Mantaes.— Hudde (1662) in N. Y. Doe. 

 Col. Hist., xir, 370, 1877 ("Mantaeshoeck"). Man- 

 taesy.— De Laet (16:',3)inN. Y. Hi.st.Soc.Coll.,2ds. 

 1,315,1841. Mantas.— Doc. of 1656 in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist, I, 598, 1S56. Mantaws.— Macauley, N. Y.,li 

 293, 1829. Mantes.— Bondinot, Star in the West, 

 127,1816. Manteses.— Evelin (ca. 1648) in Proud, 

 Pa., I, 113, 1797. Mantos.— Brinton, Lenape Leg., 

 44, 1885. Maritises.— San ford, U. S., cxlvi, 1819 

 (mi.sprint). Salem Indians.— Proud, Pa., ii, 295, 



Mantouek. A trilie, possibly the ]M(le- 

 wakanton Sioux oritsMatantonwainlivi- 

 sion, known to the French missionaries; 

 l^laced by the Jesuit R(.'lation of 1640 x. of 

 a small lake w. of Sault Ste Marie, and by 

 the Relation of 1658 with the Nadoue- 

 chiduek (Nadowessioux, Dakota), the two 

 having 40 towns 10 days' travel \. w. of 

 the mission St Michael of the Potawatomi. 



Mantoughquemec. A village of the 

 Powhatan confederacy, in 1608, on Nan- 

 semond r., Nansemond co., Va. — Smith 

 (1629), Virginia, i, map, repr. 1819. 



Mantuenikashika ('tho.se who made or 

 adopted the grizzly bear as their mark or 

 means of identification as a jieople.' — La 

 Flesche). A Quapaw gens. 



Grizzly-bear (?) gens. — Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 

 229, 1897. Ma"tu' e'nikaci'jia. — Ibid. 



Manuelito. A Navaho chief. "When 

 Gov. ^lerriwether conferred with the 

 Niivalio in 1S55 about putting an end to 



MANUELITO 



nunders and robberies committed by 

 members of this tribe, the head cliief 

 avowed that he could not command the 

 obedience of his people, and resigned. 

 The chiefs present at the council there- 

 upon elected jNIanuelito to fill the place. 

 The lawless element did not crease their 

 dei)Tedations, and the obligation to sur- 

 render evil doers was no greater than it 

 had been because the Senate neglected to 

 confirm the treaty signed at the con- 



