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MEKE W E MENENQU ElSf 



[ B. A. E. 



Black-River band.— Washinjjton treaty (1836) iii 

 U.S.Ind. Treat., 227, 1873. Ma'kadawagami'tigweya- 

 wininiwag.— Wm. .Tones, inf n, iyu6. Mskadewaga- 

 mitigweya-wininiwak.— Giitschet, Ojibwa MS., 

 B. A. E., 1882. Wakazoo.— Smith in Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 53, 1851. 



Mekewe. A former Chumashan village 

 near Santa Inez, Santa Barbara oo. , Cal. — 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, May 4, 1860. 



Mekichuntun {Me'-ki-tcur/-t{m) . A 

 former village of the Chastacosta on 

 Eogue r., Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, in, 234, 1890 (given as a gens). 



Mekumtk ( Me'-kumik, ' long tree moss ' ) . 

 A former Alsea village, the highest on the 

 N. side of Alsea r., Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. 

 Am. Folk-lore, iii, 230, 1890. 



Melejo. A Diegueiio rancheria near San 

 Diego, s. Cal.; probably identical with 

 "Mileotonac, San FeHpe," which was 

 represented in the treaty of Santa Isabel 

 in 1852. 



Melejo.— Ortega (1775) quoted by Bancroft, Nat. 

 Race.s, I, 2.53, 1884. Mielo-to-nac, San Felipe.— H. R. 

 Ex. Doc. 76, 34th Cong., 3d sess. 132, 1857. 



Meletecunk. Given as the name of a 

 Delaware tribe formerly on the coast of 

 New Jersey. Proud in 1798 applies this 

 name to Metedeeonk r. in Ocean co. 



Meletecunk.— Macaulev, N.Y., 11,293,1829. Moeroah- 

 kongy.— De Laet {ca. 1633) in N.Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 2d s., I, 315, 1841. 



Melona. A Timucuan village on the s. 

 bank of lower St Johns r. , Fla. , in the 16th 

 century. — De Bry, Brev. Nar., ii, map, 

 1591. 



Melozikakat. A Yukonikhotana village 

 of .30 inhabitants, on Melozikakat r., a 

 N. affluent of the Yukon, Alaska. — 

 Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 12, 1884. 



Melukitz. A Kusan village or tribe on 

 the N. side of Coos bay, coast of Oregon. 

 Probably the village most often referred 

 to by writers. — Milhau, Coos bav MS. 

 vocab. , B. A. E. ; also MS. letter to Gibbs, 

 B. A. E. 



Melungeon. See Oroafan Indians. 



Memkumlis ( 'islands in front' ). A vil- 

 lage of the Mamalelekala and Koeksote- 

 nok, onVillageids. ,at the mouth of Knight 

 inlet, Brit. Col.; pop. 215 in 1885. 

 Mem-koom-lish. — Dawson in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. 

 for 1887, sec. ii, 65. Memkumlis. — Boas in Bull. 

 Am. Geog. Soc, 227, 1887. 



Memoggyins {Me/mogg'iyis, 'having sal- 

 mon traps' ) . A gens of the Koeksotenok, 

 aKwakiutl tribe. — Boas in Rep. Nat. Mus. 

 for 1895, 330. 



Memramcook (same as amlamkook, 'va- 

 riegated'). Mentioned by Rand (First 

 Reading Book in Micmac, 81, 1875) as one 

 of the 7 districts of the Micmac country. 



Memruncook,— Alcedo, Die. Geog., ill, 147, 1788." 



Menacupunt. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacv, in 1608, on Pamunkey r., 

 King William co., Va.— Smith (1629), 

 Virginia, i, map, repr. 1819. 



Menaskunt. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, in 1608, on the n. bank of 

 Rappahannock r., Richmond co., Va. — 



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

 1819. 



Menatonon. A chief, in 1585-86, of the 

 Chowanoc (q. v.), an Algonquian tribe 

 formerly living in n. e. North Carolina, 

 but now extinct. He was prominent 

 during the time that Ralph Layne was in 

 charge of the party sent out by Sir Walter 

 Raleigh to establish a colony, and was 

 one of the chiefs from whom Layne ob- 

 tained most of his information regarding 

 the country visited, Menatonon being 

 made a jirisoner a few days for the pur- 

 pose. This knowledge of the new coun- 

 try is included in the report sent to 

 Raleigh. According to Layne (Hakluvt, 

 Voy., Ill, 312, 1810), Menatonon was 

 lame, but for a savage was very grave 

 and wise, and well acquainted not only 

 with his own territory but with the sur- 

 rounding regions and their productions. 

 It is probable that he died soon after 

 Layne' s visit, as John White, who was 

 in the country two years later, mentions 

 his wife and child as belonging to Croatan, 

 but says nothing of him. (c. t. ) 



Menawzhetaunaung. An Ottawa village, 

 about 1818, on an island in the Lake of 

 the Woods, on the s. boundary of Mani- 

 toba, Canada. (.t. m.) 



Me-nau-zhe-t.au-naung, — Tanner, Narr., 202, 1830. 

 Me-nau-zhe-taw-naun. — Ibid., 198. Me-naw-zhe-tau- 

 naung. — IVjid., 236. 



Menchu. Apparently a former Cochimi 

 rancheria in Lower California, not far 

 from Concho bay, on the gulf coast. — Doc. 

 Hist. Mex. 4th s., v, 66, 1857. 



Mendica. A tribe, met by Cabeza de 

 Vaca during the earlier part of his stay 

 in Texas (1527-34), that lived "in the 

 rear," i. e., inland. Nothing further is 

 known of it. The country mentioned was 

 probably occupied by Karankawan tribes, 

 which are now extinct. See Cabeza de 

 Vaca, Smith trans., 84, 1851; Gatschet, 

 Karankawa Inds., 46, 1891. (a. c. p.) 



Menemesseg. A rendezvous of Nipmuc, 

 Narraganset, and other hostile Indians 

 in 1676, during King Philii^'s war, near 

 New Braintree, Worcester co., Mass. 



Meminimisset.— Fiske (1775) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 1st s., I, 2-58, 1806. Menemesseg.— Mass. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., IstS., VI, 205, 18U0. Menumesse.— Gookin 

 (1677) inTran.s. Am. Antiq. Soc, ll, 487, 1836. Mim- 

 inimisset.— Hutchinson in Mass. Hi.st. Soc. Coll., 

 1st s I 259, 1S06. Mominimisset. — Whitney in 

 Barber, Plist. Coll., 559, 1839. 



Menenquen. An unidentified tribe or 

 band represented at the mission of San 

 Antonio de Valero, Texas, between 1740 

 and 1750. They allied in their gentile 

 state with the Caguas (C^avas?) and Si- 

 james, who were related to the Emets 

 and Sanas. There is some indication that 

 they were from the middle or lower (Guad- 

 alupe country. Some words of their 

 language are preserved (Manzanet, 1690, 

 in Texas Hist. Ass'n Quar., ii, 309, 1899; 



