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Meseekunnogliquoh. See Little Turtle. 



Mesheka ( Me-she^-M, ' mud turtle ' ) . A 

 gens of the Chippewa, q. v. — Morgan, 

 Anc. Soc, 166, 1877. 



Meshekenogliqua. See Little Turtle. 



Mesheketeno. A Potawatomi village 

 which took its name from the resident 

 chief, situated on Kankakee r., a short 

 distance above the present Kankakee, n. 

 E. Illinois, in 1833. — Camp Tippecanoe 

 treaty (1834) in IT. S. Ind. Treaties, 698, 

 1873. 



Meshekunnoghquoli. See Little Turtle. 



Meshingomesia. A former Miami village, 

 commonly called after a chief of this 

 name, situated on a reservation on the 

 N. E. side of Mississinewa r., in Liberty 

 tp., Wabash co., Ind. The reserve was 

 originally established for Meshingomesia' s 

 father, Metosinia, or Matosinia, in 1838, 

 and its inhabitants -were known as Mesh- 

 ingomesia's band. In 1872 the land was 

 divided among the surviving occupants 

 and patented to them, being the last land 

 held as an Indian reservation in Indiana. 



(.1. M. ) 

 Me-shing-go-me-sia. — Roj'ce in 1st Rep. B. A. E., 

 262. 1881. Me-shing-go me-zia. — Trt-aty of 1840 in 

 U. S. Ind. Treat., 510, 1873. Me-shin-gi-me-yia. — 

 Hough, map in Indiana Geo). Rep., 188c!. Shingle- 

 masy. — Common local form. 



Meshkemau. An Ottawa village, com- 

 monly called "Meshkemau's village," 

 from the name of its chief, formerly ex- 

 isting on Maumee bay, Lucas co., Ohio, 

 on land sold in 1833. The name is also 

 written Meskemau and Mishkemau. 



Meshtshe {Mcc^-tce, ' village at the mouth 

 of asmall creek ' ). A formerMishikhwut- 

 metunne village on upper Coiiuille r., 

 Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 III, 232, 1890. 



Mesitas (Span.: ' little mesas ' or table- 

 lands). An ancient settlement of the 

 Tepecano, the ruins of which are situated 

 E. of the Rio de Bolafios, about 3 m. s. e. 

 of Mezquitic, in Jiilisco, Mexico. — Hrd- 

 licka in Am. Anthrop., v, 389, 409, 1903. 



Meskwadare (for Mlskwddds^, 'small 

 water-turtle.' — W. J.). A gens of the 

 Chippewa, q. v. 



Me-skwa-da'-re. — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 166, 1877. 

 Miskwadas'. — Wm. Jones, inf n, 1906. 



Mesquawbuck ('red rock place.' — Hew- 

 itt). A former Potawatomi village, com- 

 monly known as " Mesquawbuck' s vil- 

 lage," from a chief of this name, near the 

 present Oswego, Kosciusko co., Ind., on 

 a reservation sold in 1836. The name is 

 spelled also Mesquabuck and Musqua- 

 buck. (j. M. ) 



Mesquite (adapted from Aztec for 

 Prosopis juliflora). A village of the cen- 

 tral Papago, probably in Pima co. , s. Ariz. ; 

 said to have 500 inhabitants in 1863 and 

 70 families in 1865. 



Mesquit.— Poston in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1863, 38.'i, 1864. 

 Mesquite. — Browne, Apache Country, 291, 1869. 

 Misquito.— Bailey in Ind. Aff. Rep. , 208, 18.58. Mus- 



quito. — Ibid., 135, 1865. Raiz del Mesquite. — Orozco 

 y Berra, Geog., 348, 1864 (sig. 'Mesquite root' 

 probably identical). 



Mesquites. A tribe represented in the 

 18th century at the San Antonio missions, 

 Texas. They are mentioned as early as 

 1716, by Espinosa, who met one Indian 

 of this tribe w. of Arroyo Hondo (Diario, 

 1716, MS.); he also met others near the 

 Brazos with the Tonkawan Indians of 

 Rancheria Grande. In 1727 Rivera men- 

 tions them at San Antonio with the 

 Payayas and Aguastayas (Diario, leg. 

 1994, 1736). There are proofs that in 

 their gentile state they intermarried with 

 the Ervipiames and Muruames (Baptis- 

 mal Rec. of Valero, partidas 194, 418), 

 and also with the Payayas (ibid., partida 

 90). The first baptism of one of this 

 tribe recorded at San Antonio de Valero 

 is dated Nov. 8, 1720. In 1734 one per- 

 son at a residencia in San Antonio acted 

 as interpreter for Xarame, Payaya, Sia- 

 guan, Aguastaya, and Mesquite witnesses 

 (Residencia de Bustillos y Zevallos, 

 Bexar archives, 1730-36); but too much 

 must not be inferred from this circum- 

 stance. In 1768 Solis reported Mesquites 

 at San Jose mission, with Pampopas, 

 Aguastallas, Pastias, and Xarames (Dia- 

 rio, Mem. Nueva Espafia, xxvii. 270), 

 and in 1793 Revillagigedo implied that 

 this tribe constituted a part of the few 

 neophytes still at this mission (Carta, 

 Die, 27, 1793). A tribe called Mesquites 

 lived in 1757 across the Rio Grande at 

 Villa de Santander. These were divided 

 into 4 bands, consisting of 150 families 

 (Tiendo de Cuervo, Re vista. Archive 

 General, MS. ). (h. e. b.) 



Mesquita. — Baptismal reiM irds cited abo\ e, partida 

 310. Mesquites.— Solis ( 1767) (incited by H. E. Bol- 

 ton, inf'n, 1906. Mesquittes. — Residencia, cited 

 above, 1734. Mezquites. — Rivera, Diario, leg. 1994, 

 1736. 



Messiah legends. See (Jhost dance. 



Mestethltun ( Mes-tecJ' -tun) . A former 

 village of the Tolovva, on the coast near 

 Crescent, Cal. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, in, 236, 1890. 



Mestizo. See Metis, Mixed-bloods. 



Meta. A Yurok village on Klamath r., 

 Cal., 4 or 5 m. above Klamath bluffs. 

 Me'h-teh. — Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 

 138, 1853. Meta.— A. L. Kroeber, inf'n, 1905. 

 Mi-ta.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 44, 1877. 



Metacom, Metacomet. See King Philip. 



Metal-work. Before the arrival of the 

 whites, the tribes n. of Mexico had made 

 considerable progress in the arts of metal- 

 lurgy, dealing almost exclusively with 

 copper (q. v. ). The other metals utilized 

 were gold, silver, iron, and galena (lead 

 ore). Galena was known only in the 

 form of ore, and the same is true of iron 

 (hematite, pyrites, etc.), except where 

 chance bits of meteoric iron came into 

 the hands of the native artisan. Copper 

 alone was mined ( gee Mii[ie,i and Quarries). 



