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MAYPOP MDEW AKATSTTON 



[b. a. b. 



Mayo settlements, so fat- as known, are 

 Baca, Batacosa, Camoa, Conicari, Cui- 

 rimpo, Echojoa, Huatabampo, Maco- 

 yahui, Masiaca, Navahoa, San Pedro, 

 Santa Cruz de Mayo, Tepahue, Tesia, 

 and Toro. See Cahita. (f. w. h. ) 



Mago.— ten Kate in Bvill. Soc. d'Anthrop. de 

 Paris, 375, 1883 (misprint). Maya.— Ribas, Hist. 

 Triurapho.s, 237, 1645. Mayo,— Rel. Anonima 

 (1530), op. eit. 



Maypop. The fruit of the passion-flower 

 ( Passifiora incarnata ) . Capt. John Smith 

 (Va.," 123, repr. 1819) and Strachey 

 (Trav. Va., 72) speak of this fruit as ?»«ra- 

 cock and state that the Indians cultivated 

 it before the coming of the whites. 

 Trumbull (Sci. Pap. Asa Gray, 342, 1889) 

 considers that maracork is the Brazilian 

 Tupi mburucuia, related to the Carib 

 merecoya (Breton, 16(i5), the fruit of a 

 vine, the name and the thing having both 

 come from South America. Maypop 

 would thus ultimately represent, through 

 maracock, this Tupi loan-word. (a. p. c. ) 



Maysonec. A village of the Powhatan 

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

 Chickahominy, in New Kent co., Va. — 

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



Mazakutemani ('shoots the gun [iron] 

 as he walks'). A chief of the Sisseton 

 Sioux, noted for his friendship for the 

 whites; born in 1826 or 1827. In his 

 early manhood he followed strictly the 

 customs of his tribe; in 1850 he was a 

 member of the Sisseton and Wahpeton 

 delegation to Washington, and a signer 

 of the Traverse des Sioux treaty of July 

 23, 1851. When about 29 years of age 

 (about 1855) he became a convert to 

 Christianity and thenceforward M'as an 

 ardent supporter of the missionary work 

 of Rev. Stephen R. Riggs. It was in the 

 spring of 1857, when the massacre at 

 Spirit Lake, Iowa, by Inkpaduta's band 

 occurred, that Mazakutemani particularly 

 manifested his friendship for the whites 

 by following the murderous band and 

 rescuing Miss Gardener, the only sur- 

 viving white captive. Again, in 1862, on 

 receiving word of the Sioux outbreak, he 

 employed every effort to stay the mas- 

 sacre and to rescue the white captives, 

 going boldly into the hostile camps and 

 using his oratorical powers to accomplish 

 his purpose. The final escape of the 

 captives from death on this occasion was 

 due largely to Mazakutemani's efforts 

 and his cooperation with Gen. Sibley. 

 He was the chief speaker for the Sisseton 

 in their tribal deliberations as well as in 

 their treaty negotiations with the United 

 States commissioners. In addition to the 

 treaty of Traverse des Sioux he signed 

 the treaties of Washington, June 19, 1858; 

 Sisseton agency, Dak., Sept. 20, 1872, and 

 Lac Traverse agency, Dak., May 2, 1873. 

 His death occurred probably before 1880. 

 Consult S. R. Riggs (1) in Minn. Hist. 



Soc. Coll., HI, 82, 90, 1880; (2) Mary and 

 I, 141, 1880; Heard, Hist. Sioux War, 

 156, 1863. (c. T. ) 



Mazapes. A former tribe of n. e. Mex- 

 ico or s. Texas, probably Coahuiltecan, 

 drawn from Nuev(j Leon and gathered 

 into the mission of San Antonio Galindo 

 Moctezuma, in Coahuila. Cf. Mahuames. 

 Mazames. — Archive General, xxxi, fol. 208, 

 quoted by Orozco y Berra, Geog., 306. 1864 (prob- 

 ably identical). Mazapes. — Orozco y Berra, ibid., 

 302. 



Mazapeta( 'iron fire'). A chief of a vil- 

 lage of 627 Yankton and Sisseton Sioux on 

 Big Stone lake, Minn., in 1836. He was 

 probably ckief of the Yankton in the vil- 

 lage, while The Grail was chief of the 

 Sisseton. 



Mahzahpatah. — Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, mi, 612, 

 1853. 



Mazpegnaka ( ' piece of metal in the 

 hair'). A band of the Sans Arcs 

 Sioux. — Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 

 219, 1897. 



Mdeiyedan (French: 'Lac qhi park,' 

 'Speaking lake'). A band of the Wah- 

 peton Sioux whose habitat was around 

 Lac qui Parle, Minn. In 1836 (Scliool- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 612, 1853) the band 

 numbered 530 under Little Chief. 



Lac qui Parle band.— Ind. Aflf. Rep. 1859, 102, 

 1860. Lacquiparle Indians. — Sibley (1852) in Sen. 

 Ex. Doc. 29, pt. 2, 32d Cong., 2d sess., 9, 1.853. 

 Upper Wahpaton.— Sibley (1873) in Minn. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., in, 250, 1880. 



Mdewakanton ('mystery late village,' 

 from mde 'lake ', vxtkan 'sacred mystery', 

 ofonice 'village'). One of the subtribes 

 comijosing the Santee division of the Da- 

 kota, the other 3 being the Sisseton, AVah- 

 peton, and Wahpekute. A. L. Riggs con- 

 tends that the Mdewakanton are the only 

 Dakota entitled to the namelsanyati ( 'San- 

 tee'), given them from their old home on 

 Mnie Lac, Minn., called by them Isan- 

 tamde, 'knife lake.' In every respect this 

 tribe appears to be most intimatelj' re- 

 lated to the Wahpeton. Wahpekute, and 

 Sisseton. It is possible that the Mdewa- 

 kanton formed the original stem from 

 which the other 3 subtribes were devel- 

 oped. It is probable that the Nadowes- 

 sioux mentioned by early missionaries and 

 explorers were in most cases the people of 

 this tribe and the tribes associated with 

 them then living in the region of Mille 

 Lac and the headwaters of the Mississippi. 

 Dr Williamson, who spent years among 

 these Indians, fixes the home of this tribe 

 (who by tradition had once lived on Lake 

 of the Woods and n. of the great lakes and 

 had migrated toward the s.w.) atMilleLae, 

 the source of Rum r., which is apparently 

 the ancient location of the Issati of Henne- 

 pin. This identifies the Issati with the 

 Mdewakanton and sustains the conclusion 

 of Riggs. After the Mdewakanton came 

 to the Mississijipi they appear to have 

 scattered themselves along that river in 



