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MATANTONWAN MATCHEBENASHSHEWISH 



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connection with ^lanta (q. v. ) or with 

 Matiniconk, the Indian name of a a island 

 in Delaware r. Cf. Mathiecoc. (j. m. ) 



Matantonwan ( said to mean ' village of 

 the great lake which empties into a small 

 one,' and therefore probably from mdo-fe, 

 ' the ontlet of a lake ' ). One of the two 

 early primarj^ divisions of the Mdewakan- 

 ton Sioux (Neill, Hist. Minn., 144, 1858). 

 They seem to have been a distinct tribe 

 when visited by Perrot in 1689. They are 

 mentioned as residing at tlie mouth of 

 Minnesota r. in 1685. To this division 

 belonged in 1858 the Khemnichan, Ka- 

 pozha, Maghayuteshni, Makhpiyamaza, 

 Kheyataotonwe, and Tintaotonwe bands. 

 All these are now on Santee res., Nebr. 



Mah-tah-ton. — Lewis and Clark, Discov., 34, 1S06. 

 Man tantans.— Perrot (1689), quoted by Neill, Hist. 

 Minn.. 144, 1858. Mantantons. — La Harpe (jiioted 

 by Neill, Hist. Minn., 170, 1858. Mantanton 

 Scioux, — Le Sueur (1700) <iuoted by Neill, ibid., 

 166. Mantantous. — Prise de Possession (16,89) in 

 Margry, Dec., v, 34. l.s.ss. Mantautous. — Perrot, 

 Mem., 304. 1864 (misprint). Matabantowaher. — 

 Balbi, Atlas Plthnog., .^5, 1826. Mententons. — 

 Penieaut (1700) in Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., n, pt. 2, 

 6, 1864. Mentonton. — Penieaut (1700) in Margrv, 

 Dee., V, 414, 1883. 



Matantuck. See Magnus. 



Matanza (Span.: 'massacre'). A name 

 frequently appearing on early Spanish 

 maps, and on maps derived therefrom, 

 apparently as settlements, but in reality 

 to mark the locality or supposed locality 

 where a massacre had taken place. A 

 Matanza appears on maps of the Quivira 

 region, in which Francisco Ley va Bonilla 

 and his companions were killed by the 

 natives about 1594-96; and another on 

 theE. coast of Florida, below St Augustine, 

 where the Huguenot colonists were mas- 

 sacred by the Spaniards in 1565. 



Matapan (probably from the Nahuatl 

 matkdll, <itl, and pan, which suggests 'in 

 the blue water.' — Buelna). A subdivision 

 of the Tehueco that inhabited a village of 

 the same name on the lower Rio Fuerte, 

 in N. w. Sinaloa, Mex. — Orozco v Berra, 

 Geog., 58, 1864. 



Matape. A Eudeve settlement, which 

 evidently contained also some Coguinachi 

 Opata, inlat. 29°, Ion. 110°, central Sonora, 

 Mexico. Identified by Bandelier with 

 the Vacapa or Yacupa of Marcos de Niga 

 (1539). The mission of San Jose de Ma- 

 tape was established there in 1629; it 

 had 482 inhabitants in 1678 and but 35 in 

 1730. According to Davila (Sonora His- 

 torico, 317, 1894) it was a Coguinachi 

 pueblo. Not to be confounded with Ba- 

 capa, a Papago settlement. 



Bacapa.— Coues, Garees Diary, n, 481, 1900. Mata- 

 pa. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, v, 123, 1890. 

 Matape.— Sonora Materiales (1730) quoted by 

 Bancroft. No. Mex. States, i, 513, 1SS4. San Jose de 

 Matape.— Zapata (167.s) in Due. Hist. Mex.,4tli s.. 

 Ill, 353, 1857. S. Jose Matape.— Bancroft, No. :Mex. 

 States, I, 246. 1W4. Vacapa.— Marcos de Ni^a 

 (1539) in Terniiux-Compans. Vov., ix. 2.59, 1838. 

 Vacupa.— Ni^a (1539) in Hakluyt; Vov., ni, 439, 

 1600. ^ . ' 



Matapeake. Mentioned as a tribe that 

 once occupied Kent id.. Queen Anne co., 

 Md. (Davis, Daystar of American Free- 

 dom, 45, 1855).' They lived at onetime 

 near Indian Spring, and at another on 

 Matajiax Neck. 



Matarango. A tribe living w. of Dar- 

 win, s. E. Cal. ; probably an offshoot of 

 the Panamint, as they speak a similar 

 language. (n. w. h.) 



Matatoba. A tribe or band of the Da- 

 kota, prol)al)]y the Mantantonwan divi- 

 sion of the ]\Ide\vakanton. 

 Matatoba. — Pachot (1722) in Margry, Dec., vi, 518, 

 1886. Sioux of the Prairies. — Ibid, (distinct from 

 the Teton). 



Mataughquamend, A village on the n. 

 bank of the Potomac, in 1608, in Charles 

 CO., Md., probablynearMattawomancr. — 

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



Matawachkarini ('people of the shal- 

 lows.' — Hewitt). A small tribe or band 

 living in 1640 on middle Ottawa r., but 

 found in 1672 in the vicinity of the s. end 

 of Hudson bay, near the Monsoni. They 

 were doubtless one of the bands, known 

 to the French as Algonkin, which were 

 broken and dispersed by the Iroquois 

 invasion about 1660. See Uattauxtn. 

 Madaouaskairini. — Champlain, (Envres, in, 302, 

 1S70. Mataouachkariniens.— .Tes. Rel. 1643, 61, 1858. 

 Mataoiiakirinouek. — Ibid., 1672, .54, 185s. Mat- 

 aouchkairini, — Ibid, in, index, 1858. Mataouch- 

 kairinik,— Ibid., 1658, 22, 18.58. Mataouchkairini- 

 ouek.— Ibid., 1646. 34, ]8.5,s. Mataouchkairiniwek,— 

 Ibid., 1646, 145, 185S. Mataouchkarini.— Ibid., 1640, 

 34,1858. Matawachkairini. — Ibid., in, index, 1.8.58. 

 Matawachwarini. — Ibid. Matou-ouescarini. — 



Champlain (1613), CEuvres, in, 302, 1870. 



Matawoma. A former village, prolialily 

 of the Delawares, on Juniata r., JNIitHiii 

 CO., Pa., near the present McVevtown. — 

 Roycein 18th Rep. B.A.E., Pa. map, 1899. 



Matchasaung. A former Iroquois village 

 on the left bank of the e. branch of Sus- 

 quelianna r., a))out 13 m. above Wyoming, 

 Pa.— Doc. Hist. N.Y., ii, 715, 1851. 



Matchcoat. During the era of trade 

 with the Indians almost throughout the 

 Algonquian seaboard certain garments 

 supplied in trathc were called by the 

 English "matchcoats," a corruption of 

 a name belonging to one of the cloaks or 

 mantles of the natives. The Algonquian 

 word from which it was derived is repre- 

 sented by Chii)i)evva matshigote, Delaware 

 iracJigoff'!/, 'petticoat.' (a. f. c. ) 



Matchcouchtin. A Nanticoke village in 

 1707, probablv in Pennsvlvania. — Evans 

 (1707) in Day, Penn., 391, 1843. 



Matcheattochousie. A Nanticoke vil- 

 lage in 1707, probablv in Pennsvlvania. — 

 Evans (1707) in Day, Penn., 391, 1843. 



Matchebenashshewish ( 'ill-looking bird,' 

 or ' ill-natured bird.' — Hewitt). A Pota- 

 watomi village, called after a chief of this 

 name, formerly on Kalamazoo r., proljably 

 in Jackson co., Mich. The reservation 

 was sold in 1827. The name is also written 

 Matchebenarhshewish. (j. m. ) 



