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be the Payaya tribe, who were in the 

 vicinity of San Antonio. (h. e. b. ) 



Meqnachake ('red earth.' — Hewitt). 

 One of the 5 general divisions of the 

 Shawnee, whose villages on the head- 

 waters of Mad r., Logan co., Ohio, were 

 destroyed by United States troops in 

 1791. (j. M.) 



Hachachac. — Drake, Tecumseh, 50, 1852. Machi- 

 ohac. — Ibid., 71. Mackacheck. — Howe, Hist. Coll., 

 150, 1851. Mackacheek.— Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. 

 E., Ohio map, 1899. Magueok.— .Vlcedo, l>ie. Geog., 

 Ill, 22,1788 (probably ideiitieal). Makostrake. — 

 McKenney and Hall", Ind. Tribes, hi. 111, 1854. 

 Maquichees. — Stone, Life of Brant, II, 43, 1864. Me- 

 nekuf thegi.— Gatsehet, Shawnee MS., 1879. Me- 

 quachake. — Johnston (1819) in Brinton, Lenape 

 Leg., 29, 1885. 



Meracouman. A tribe or village men- 

 tioned by Joutel as being on or near the 

 route taken when going with La Salle in 

 1687 from Ft St Louis on Matagorda bay 

 to Maligne (Colorado) r., Tex. If the 

 list of so-called tribes given by the Eba- 

 hanio Indians and recorded by Joutel 

 followed the geographic order of his line 

 of march, the ileracouman must have 

 dwelt near the Colorado r. of Texas. 

 Joutel remarks that when the Indians 

 approached or bathed in the current of 

 the river, the horses always fled. Gat- 

 sehet states that the custom of the Karan- 

 kawa Indians of anointing their skin with 

 shark's oil caused horses and cattle to run 

 from the disagreeable odor to tlie distance 

 of two or three miles. As Karankawan 

 tribes are said to have dwelt in the 

 vicinity of Colorado r., it is possible that 

 the Meracouman may have belonged to 

 that stock (see Gatsehet, Karankawa 

 Inds., 1891). Perhaps they are the Ma- 

 liacones of Cabeza de Vaca or the IManico 

 of Manzanet. In 1739 there were neo- 

 phytes of the Merguan, or Merhuan, tribe 

 at San Antonio de Valero mission (Bap- 

 tismal records, partidas 448, 455, MS., 

 cited by H. E. Bolton, inf'n, 1906). 

 •They were with others who appear to 

 have come from near Guadalupe r., and 

 they may be identical with the Meracou- 

 man, as well as with the Menenquen 

 (q. v.). (a. c. f. h. e. b. ) 



Meracouman.— Joutel (1687) in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., I, 137, 1846. Meraquaman.— Joutel (1687) in 

 Margry, D6c., Ill, 288, 1878. Muracumanes.— Bar- 

 cia, Ensayo, 271, 1723. 



Merced (Span.: 'grace', 'mercy'). A 

 group of Cajuenche rancherias, situated, 

 in 1775, in n. e. Lower Cahfornia, w. of 

 the Rio Colorado, and 4 leagues s. w. of 

 Santa Olalla, a Yuma rancheria. These 

 settlements contained about 300 natives 

 when visited by Father Garces in 1775 

 and were provided with abundant corn, 

 melons, calabashes, and beans, but with 

 little wheat. See Garces, Diary (1775), 

 172-173, 1900. 



Merced. A Pima rancheria, visited by 

 Father Kino in 1700, and placed on maps 



of Kino (1701) and Venegas (1759) x. e. 

 of San Rafael, in what is now s. Arizona. 

 La Merced. — Venegas, Hist. Cal., I, 300, map, 1759. 

 Merced, — Kino map (1701) in Bancroft, Ariz, and 

 N. Mex., 360, 1.^89. 



Merced. jNlentioned as a tribe appar- 

 ently inhabiting the Merced r. region, 

 California. Probably Moquelumnan. 

 Mercedes. — Barbour et al. (1851) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 

 4, 32d Cong., spec, sess., 60, 1^53. 



Mer, Gens de la ( French : ' people of the 

 sea,' or Gens de la Mer du Nord, 'people 

 of the sea of the north'). A collective 

 term applied by the early Jesuits to the 

 Algonquian tribes about Hudson bay, 

 Canada. (j. m. ) 



Gens de la Mer du Nord.— Jes. Rel. 1670, 79, 1858. 

 Gens de Mer.— Ibid., 1643, 3, 1858. 



Merip. A Yurok village on Klamath r. , 

 Cal., alaout 10 m. below the mouth of the 

 Trinity. (a. l. k.) 



Merkitsok. An Eskimo winter habita- 

 tion near Bute bay, s. w. Greenland. — 

 Crantz, Hist. Greenland, i, 8, 1767. 



Merric. A small Algonquian tribe or 

 division formerly inhabiting the s. coast 

 of Queens co.. Long Island, N. Y., from 

 Rockaway to South Oyster bay. Their 

 name survives in the hamlet of Merricks, 

 which is on the site of their principal 

 village. (j. M. ) 



Marricoke. — Doc. of 1675 in N. Y. Doc. CoL.Hist., 

 XIV, 705, 1883. Meracock.— Treaty of 1656 in Rut- 

 tenber. Tribes of Hudson River, 125, 1872. Meri- 

 cock. — Doc. of 1657 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiv, 

 416, 1883. Mericoke.— Thompson, Long Id., 344, 

 1839. Merikoke. — Wood in Macaulev. N. Y., ii, 

 2.52, 1829. Meroke.— Thomp.son, Long' Id., 67, 1839. 

 Merriack.— Deed of 1643 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 XIV, 530, 1883. Merric— Thompson, Long Id., 67, 

 1839. Merricocke.— Doc. of 1675 in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist.. XIV, 705, 1883. 



Mershom. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage at Caiiada de los Sauces, w. of San 

 Buenaventura, Ventura co., Cal. 

 Mer-cdm. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1884 {r=sh). 



Mesa Chiquita (Span.: 'small mesa' or 

 table-land). A Diegueiio village in w. 

 San Diego co., Cal. — Jackson and Kinney, 

 Rep. Miss. Inds., 24, 1883. 



Mesa del Nayarit. A pueblo of the 

 Cora in the Sierra de Nayarit, on the 

 upper waters of the Rio de Jesus Maria, 

 in the x. part of the Territory of Tepic, 

 lat. 23° 25^ Mexico.— Lumholtz, Un- 

 known Mex., I, 500, 1902. 



Mesa Grande (Span.: 'large mesa' or 

 table-land). A small Dieguefio village 

 in w. San Diego co., Cal., with 103 in- 

 habitants in 1880. The name is now ap- 

 plied to a reservation of 120 acres of 

 patented, largely desert land, 75 m. from 

 Mission Tule River agency. See Jackson 

 and Kinnev, Rep. Mission Inds., 24, 1883; 

 Ind. Aff. Rep., 175, 1902. 



Mescal (Aztec: mexcalU, ' metl [ma- 

 guey] liquor'). The fleshy leaf bases 

 and trunk of various species of agave. 

 It was roasted in pit ovens and became 

 a sweet and nutritious food among the 



