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Matchedash. A name formerly used to 

 designate those Missisauga living at 

 Matchedash bay, Ontario. 



Matchedach, — Chauvigncrie (1736) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., IX, lOM, 1855. Matchedash.— Henrv, 

 Travels, 3-5, 179, 1809. Matchitashk.— Ibid. Mate- 

 chitache.— Memoir of 1718 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 IX, 889, 185.0. 



Matchinkoa. A village containing 600 

 families of Illinois, Miami, and others, 

 situated 30 leagues from Ft Crevecoeur, 

 near Peoria, 111., in 1682 (La Salle in 

 Margry, Dec, ii, 201, 1877). The word 

 may be connected with Chinko (q. v.). 



Matchopick ('bad bay or inlet.' — Hew- 

 itt). A village of the Powhatan confed- 

 eracy, in 1608, on the n. bank of the 

 Rappahannock, in Richmond co., Va. 

 Cf. Matrholic. 



Machopeake.— Purchas, Pilgrimes, iv, 1716, 1625-26. 

 Matchopeak.— Simons in Smith (1629), Virginia, 

 1, 185, repr. 1819. Matchopick. — Smith, ibid., map. 



Matchotic ('bad inlet.' — Hewitt). A 

 group of tribes of the Powhatan confed- 

 eracy occupying the country between 

 Potomac and Rapjiahannock rs. down to 

 about the middle of Richmond co., Va., 

 comprising the Tauxenent, Potomac, 

 Cuttatawomen, Pissasec, and Onawman- 

 ient. They numbered perhaps 400 war- 

 riors in 1608, but 60 years later, accord- 

 ing to Jefferson, had become reduced to 

 60 warriors. See Appomattoc. (.i. M. ) 

 Appamatox. — Jeffer.son, Notes, table, 138, 1801. 

 Appamatricx. — Herrman, map (1670) in Rep. on 

 Line between Va. and Md , 1873. Matchoatickes. — 

 Archives Md., Proc. Council, 1636-67, 281, 1885. 

 Matchotics. — Jefferson, op. cit. Matox. — Ibid. 



Matchotic. A former village on the s. 

 bank of Potomac r. in Northumberland 

 CO., Va., a short distance below Nominy 

 inlet. 



Mattschotick, — Herrman, map (1670) in Rep. on 

 Line between Va. and Md. 



Matchotic. A former village on Macho- 

 doc cr., King George co., Va. 

 Upper Matchodic. — .TelTerson, Notes, 138, 1801. 

 Tipper Mattschotick. —Herrman, map (1670) in Rep. 

 on Line between Va. and Md. 



Matchut. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, in 1608, on Pamunkey r., 

 New Kent co., Va. 



Matchot.— Smith (1629), Virginia, ll, 15, repr. 1819. 

 Matchut.— Ibid., I, map. 



Mategarele {niategd 'juniper', rele 

 'below': 'below the junipers'). ATara- 

 humare rancheria near Palanquo, Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico. — Lumholtz, inf'n, 1894. 



Mathews, Mary. See Bosomworth, Mary. 



Mathiaca. A Timuquanan tribe and 

 village on the w. side of upper St Johns 

 r., Fla., in the 16th century. 

 Mathiaca.— I)e Bry, Brev. Nar.', ii, map, 1521. 

 Mathiaqua. — Laudonniere (1565) quoted bv Shipp, 

 De Soto and Fla., 525, 1881. Matthiaqua.— Fair- 

 banks, Hist. Fla., 105, 1871. 



Mathomauk. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, in 1608, on the w. bank of 

 James r., in Isle of Wight co., Va. — 

 Smith (1(329) Virginia, i, map, repr. 1819. 



Mathue. A tribe that traded in 1652 

 with Indians on Patuxent r., Md. There 

 is no means of determining its location 



(Bozman, Maryland, ii, 467, 1837). Pos- 

 sibly the Mantua, Monthees, or Munsees, 

 or perhaps the Manta division of the 

 Delawares. (j. m. ) 



Mathwa {M'-ath-iva, 'owl'). A gens of 

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

 168, 1877. 



Matiliha. A large Chumashan village, 

 said by Indians to have been on Buena- 

 ventura r., Ventura co., Cal. A village 

 of this name is mentioned in mission 

 archives as having been situated near 

 Santa Inez mission. 



Ma'-ti-la-ha. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. vo- 

 cab., B. A. E., 1884. Matiliha.— Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. Matilija.— Ibid., July 24, 

 1863. 



Matilpe ('head of the Maamtagyila ' ) . 

 A Kwakiutl sept which has recently 

 branched off from the rest of the true 

 Kwakiutl. The gentes are Maamtagyila, 

 Gyeksem, and Haailakyemae. The prin- 

 cipal winter village is Etsekin. Pop. 55 

 in 1904. 



Mah-tee-cetp.— Can. Ind. Aff.,189, 1884. Mahtilpi.— 

 Ibid., pt. 2, 166, 1901. Mahtulth-pe.— Sproat in Can. 

 Ind. Aff., 145, 1879. Mar-til-par.— Kane, Wand, in 

 N. Am., app., 18.59. Matelpa. — Tolmie and Daw- 

 son, Comp. Voeabs. Brit. Col., 118b, 1884. _ Matelth- 

 pahs. — Brit. Col. map, Victoria, 1872. Ma-tilhpi. — 

 Dawson in Trans. Rov. Soc. Can. for 1887, sec. 

 11,6.5. Ma'tilpe.— Boas' in 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can., 54, 1890. Ma'tilpis. — Boas in Petermanns 

 Mitt., pt. 5, 130, 1887. Mat-ul-pai.- Tolmie and 

 Daw.son, Comp. Voeabs. Brit. Col., 118b, 1884. 

 Mur til par.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 488, 1855. 



Matinecoc. An Algonquian tribe which 

 formerly inhabited the n. w. coast of Long 

 Island, N. Y., from Newtown, Queens co., 

 to Smith town, Suffolk co. They had vil- 

 lages at Flushing, Glen Cove, Cold Spring, 

 Huntington, and Cow Harbor, but even 

 before the intrusion of the whites they 

 had become greatly reduced, probably 

 through wars with the Iroquois, to whom 

 they paid tribute. In 1650 Secretary Van 

 Tienhoven reported but 50 families left of 

 this once important tribe. Ruttenber in- 

 cludes them in his INIontauk group, which 

 isiabout equivalent to Metoac (q. v.); but 

 the interrelationship of the tribes in the 

 western part of Long Island has not been 

 definitely determined. (j. m. c. t. ) 

 Mantinacocks.— Macauley, N. Y., ll, 164-65, 1829. 

 Mantinecocks. — Clark, Onondaga, I, 18, 1849. 

 Mantinicocks.— ISIacauley, N. Y., ll, 292, 1829. 

 Martinne houck.— Van Tienhoven (16.50) in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist , I, 366, 18.56. Matinecoc— Wood in 

 Macaulev, Long Id., ll, 253, 1829. Matinecocke. — 

 Terry.(1670) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiv, 639, 1883. 

 Matinecogh. — Doc. of 16.56, ibid., 369. Matine- 

 congh. — Ibid. Matinicock, — Doc. of 1606, ibid., 689. 

 Matiniconck.— NicoUs (1669), ibid., 621. Matinne- 

 konck, — Doc. of 1644, ibid., 56. Matinnicock. — 

 Nicolls (1666), ibid., 587. Matninicongh. — Nicolls 

 (1664), ibid., 5.57. Mattinacock.— Houldsworth 

 (1663), ibid., 530. Mattinnekonck.— Van Tien- 

 hoven (1655), ibid., 314. 



Matironn. One of the Diegueno ran- 

 cherias represented in the treaty of 1852 

 at Santa Isabel, s. Cal. — H. R. Ex. Doc. 

 76, 34th Cong., 3d sess., 133, 1857. 



Matlaten {Mat-la-ten). A summer vil- 

 lage of the Wiweakam between Bate and 

 Loughborough inlets, Brit. Col.; pop. 125 



