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MAQK U AN ANI M ARAMEG 



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count of sugar-making in New England 

 by a Mr Dudley. The Indian origin of 

 maple sugar is indicated also by notices in 

 Joutel; Lafiteau, who states directly that 

 "the French make it better than the 

 Indian women, from whom they have 

 learned how to make it"; Bossu, who 

 gives similar details about French sugar- 

 making in the Illinois country; and other 

 early writers. In various parts of the 

 country the term "Indian sugar" 

 (Canad. Settlers' Guide, 66, 1860) has 

 been in use, affording further proof of the 

 origin of the art of making maple sugar 

 among the aborigines. Some of the In- 

 dian names of the trees from which the 

 sap is obtained afford additional evidence, 

 while maple sap and sugar appear in the 

 myths and legends of the Menominee, 

 Chippewa, and other tribes. The tech- 

 nique of maple-sugar making also reveals 

 its Indian origin, not merely in the uten- 

 sils employed, but also in such devices as 

 straining through hemlock boughs, cool- 

 ing on the snow, etc. For maple sugar 

 cooled on the snow the Canadian- 

 French dialect has a special term, tire, 

 besides a large number of special words, 

 like sucrerie, 'maple-sugar bush'; togiie, 

 ' sugar snowball ' ; trempette, ' maple-sugar 

 sop', etc. The English vocabulary of 

 maple-sugar terms is not so numerous. 

 Humho (q. v. ), a New Hampshire term for 

 'maple sirup,' is said to be of Indian 

 origin. The details of the evidence of the 

 Indian origin of this valuable food product 

 will be found in H. W. Henshaw, "Indian 

 Origin of Maple Sugar," Am. Anthrop., 

 Ill, 341-351, 1890, and Chamberlain, "The 

 Maple amongst the Algonkian Tribes," 

 ibid., IV, 39-43, 1891, and "Maple Sugar 

 and the Indians," ibid., 381-383. See 

 also Loskiel, Hist. Miss. United Breth., 

 179, 1794. (a. F.c.) _ 



Maqkuanani ( Mci^qkuana^m, ' red-tail 

 hawk'). A subphratry or gens of the 

 Menominee.— Hoffman in 14th Rep. 

 B. A. E., pt. I, 42, 1896. 



Maquanago. A former village, probably 

 of the Potawatomi, near Waukesha, s. e. 

 Wis., on lands ceded to the United States 

 in 1833.— Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 

 Wis. map, 1899. 



Maquantequat. A tribe or band at war 

 with Maryland in 1639 (Bozman, Md., ii, 

 164, 1837). The commission to Nicholas 

 Hervey, from which Bozman obtained his 

 information, does not give the locality of 

 these Indians, but indicates that they re- 

 sided in the territory of the colony. In 

 the Archives (Proc. Council, 1636-67, 

 363, 1885), "Indians of Maquamticough" 

 are mentioned; these are undoubtedly 

 the same, but the locality has not been 

 identified further than that it was on the 

 Eastern shore. It is possible they were 

 not Algonquian. 



Mancantequuts. — Md. Archives, Proc. . Council 

 1636-67, <S7, 1.SS5. Maquamticough.— Ibid., 36. Ma- 

 quantequat.— Bozman, Md., II, 164, 1837. 



Maquinanoa. A Chumashan village be- 

 tween Goleta and Pt Conception, Cal., 

 in 1542. 



Maquinanoa. —Cabrillo (1542) in Smith, Colec. 

 Doc. ¥\-A., 183, 1857. Maquin, Nanoa.— Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, Apr. 17, 1S63 (mistaken for two vil- 

 lages). 



Maquinna. A chief of the Mooachaht, 

 a Nootka tribe, who attained notoriety as 

 the chief who captured the brig Boston, 

 in Mar., 1803, and massacred all of her . 

 crew except the blacksmith, John 

 Jewitt, and a sailmaker named Thomp- 

 son. After being held in captivity until 

 July, 1805, they were liberated by Capt. 

 Hill of the brig Lydia, also of Boston. 

 The story of the captivity of these two 

 men was afterward extracted from Jewitt 

 by Roland Alsop of Middletown, Conn., 

 and pul)lished in America and Europe. 

 A point near the entrance of Nootka sd. 

 is now called Maquinna pt. See Narra- 

 tive of the Adventures and Sufferings of 

 John R. Jewitt, in various editions from 

 1815 to 1869. (j. K. s.) 



Maracock. See Maypop. 

 Marameg (from Man-um-aig, Chippewa 

 for 'catfish.' — Verwyst). Evidently a 

 band or division of the Chippewa, which 

 seems to have been, at the dawn of the 

 history of the upper lake region, in the 

 process of disintegration. The first notice 

 of them is that given by Dablon in the Jes- 

 uit Relation of 1670, at which time they 

 resided on L. Superior, apparently along 

 the E. half of the n. shore. They were 

 then in close union with the Sauteurs, or 

 Chippewa of Sault Ste Marie. Dablon, 

 speaking of the Chippewa of the Sault, 

 says: "These are united with three other 

 nations, who are more than 550 persons, 

 to whom they granted like rights of their 

 native country. . . . These are the 

 Noquets who are spread along the s. side 

 of L. Sujierior, where they are the orig- 

 inals; and the Outchibous with the Mara- 

 meg of the N. side of the same lake, which 

 they regard as their proper country." 

 Here the Chippewa of the n. side of Ihe 

 lake are distinguished from those of Sault 

 Ste Marie to the same extent as are the 

 Marameg and Noquet. The Chippewa 

 settlement at the Sault, where the fishing 

 was excellent, seems to have drawn 

 thither the other divisions, as this gave 

 them strength and control of the food 

 supply. The early notices of the Mara- 

 meg and Noquet appear to indicate that 

 these two tribes became absorbed by the 

 Chippewa and their tribal or subtribal 

 distinction lost, but there are reasons 

 (see Noquet and Menominee) for believing 

 that these two peoples were identical. 

 Tailhan, in his notes on Perrot's M(?moire, 

 assumes without question that the two 

 tribes were incorporated with the Chip- 



