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METATE RUIN METLAKATLA 



[b. a. e. 



discoidal and cylindrical pestle. Many of 

 these hand-stones serve equally well for 

 rubbing, rolling, and pounding. See Afor- 

 tarx, Midlers, Notched plates, Pestles. 



Consult Gushing in Millstone, ix, x, 

 1884-1885; Fewkes (1) in 17th Eep. B. 

 A. E., 1898, (2) 22d Rep. B. A. E., 1903; 

 Mindeleff in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 1891; 

 James Stevenson in 2d Rep. B. A. E., 

 1883; M. C. Stevenson in 23d Rep. B. A. E., 

 1904. (w. H.H.) 



Metate ruin. A prehistoric pueblo ruin 

 in the Petrified Forest, across the wash 

 from the "petrified bridge," near the 

 Navaho-Apache co. boundary, Arizona; 

 locally so called on account of the numer- 

 ous stone milling troughs, or metates, set 

 on edge in circular or linear form and 

 scattered over the surface. The builders 

 of the pueblo are unknown. The pottery, 

 gray-brown and black in color, is coarse 

 in texture and decorated with rude in- 

 cision and bv indented coiling. — Hough 

 in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1901, 318, 1903. 



Metates. A former Opata pueblo at the 

 E. base of the Sierra de Teras, about 12 m. 

 w. of Baseraca, e. Sonora, Mexico. Pos- 

 sibly identical with Teras, Guepacomatzi, 

 or Toapara, which pueblos are mentioned 

 in early documents as being in that vi- 

 cinity. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, 

 IV, 524etse(i., 1892. 



Metea (prob. for Metawd, ' he sulks.' — 

 W. J.). A Potawatomi chief, distin- 

 guished in his tribe as a warrior and an 

 orator. When the Potawatomi were sub- 

 sidized by the British at the beginning of 

 the War of 1812 he was one of the leaders 

 of the party that massacred the families 

 of the garrison and citizens of Chicago as 

 they were retreating to Detroit. He led 

 the band that harassed the troops who 

 marched in the fall of 1812 to the relief of 

 Ft Wayne and was shot in the arm by Gen. 

 W. H. Harrison. At a council held atChi- 

 cago in 1821 he impressed the whites by 

 his eloquence and reasoning powers, and 

 also when the treaty of the Wal^ash was 

 concluded in 1826. He advocated the 

 education of Indian youth and sentseveral 

 from his tribe to the Choctaw academy in 

 Kentucky. He died in a drunken de- 

 bauch at Ft Wayne, in 1827, after having 

 conducted difficult negotiations with dig- 

 nity and skill in a conference with com- 

 missioners of the Government. — Mc- 

 Kenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 59-64, 

 1858. See Muskwawasepeotan, 



Meteahke. A Mandan band. 

 High Village.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 158, 1877. 

 Me-te-ah'-ke. — Iliid. 



Metewemesick ( ' place of black earth ' ), 

 A fornier Nipmuc (?) settlement on Quine- 

 baug r., near Sturbridge, Mass. — Roger 

 Williams (1643) quoted by Tooker, Al- 

 gonquian Series, viii, 33, 1901. 



Methow(3/('/^-/(o^r). A Salishan tribe of 

 E. Washington, formerly living about 

 Methow r. and Chelan lake, now chiefly 

 gathered on the Colville res. Their num- 

 ber is not officially reported. 



Battle-le-mule-emauch. — Ross, Adventures, 290, 

 1817. Lahtohs. — Van Viilkenburgh in Ind. Aff. 

 Hop., •I'.yi. 1S65 (perhap.s a misprint for Methows). 

 Meatwho. — Ross, op. cit. Meshons. — Mooney in 

 14th Rep. B. A. E., 734, 1896. Met-cow-we.— Orig. 

 Jour. Lewis and Clark, iv, 321, 19uri. Metcowwee. — 

 Lewis and Clark, Exped., ii, 252, 1814. Meteow- 

 wee.— Ibid., il, 318, 1817. Methau.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 253, 1877. Methews.— H. R. Doc. 102, 43d Cong., 1st 

 .sess., 1, 1874. Methoms.— Shanks, et al. (1873), 

 ibid., 4. Methow.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 302, 1877. Mi- 

 taui. — Moonev in Hth Rep. B. A. E., pi. Ixxxviii, 

 1896. Mithouies.— Winans in Ind. Aff. Rep., 23, 

 1870. 



Methy. The burbot ( Lota maculosa ) , the 

 loche of the Canadian French, a fish 

 common in the waters of n. w. Canada. 

 The word is taken from the name of this 

 fish in the Wood Cree dialect of Algon- 

 quian, the Cree proper term being mihyey, 

 according to Lacoml )e. L. Methy in Atha- 

 basca is named from this fish ; also a lake 

 in Labrador. (a. f. c. ) 



Meti. A former rancheria of gentile 

 (probably Diegueno) Indians near San 

 Diego, s. Cal. — Ortega (1775) quoted by 

 Bancroft, Hist. Cal., i, 253, 1884. 



M^tis ('mixed,' from French metis, a 

 derivative of Latin miscere, 'to mix'), 

 or uietlf. A term used by the French- 

 speaking population of the N. W. to 

 designate persons of mixed white and 

 Indian blood. Among the Spanish- 

 speaking population of the S. W. the 

 word mestizo, of the same derivation, is 

 used, but is applied more especially to 

 those of half-white and half-Indian blood. 

 The term inustee, a corruption of mestizo, 

 was formerly in use in the Gulf states. 

 In the W. the term "half-breed" is loosely 

 applied to all persons of mixed white 

 and Indian blood, without regard to the 

 proportion of each. See Mixed-bloods. 



(j. M.) 

 Maitiffs.— Brevel /?deSiblev (1805) in Am. State Pa- 

 pers, Ind. Aff ,1,730,1832. Mestigos.— Williams, Vt., 

 1,494,1809 (misprint). Mestizo. — Correct Spanish 

 form; feminine meMiza. Metis. — ^^Corrcct French 

 form. Mustees.— Report of 1741 in Carroll, Hist. 

 Coll. S. C, II, 353, 1836. Musteses.— Bermuda Royal 

 Gazette, July 13, 1875, /?de Jour. Anthrop. Inst., v, 

 491, 1876 (u.sed in Bermuda for descendants of In- 

 dian slaves brought from the U. S.). Wissakode- 

 winini.— Baraga, Otchipwe-Eng. Diet., 421, 1880 

 (Chippewa name: 'half-burnt wood man'; from 

 wifis6kode, 'burnt trees', referring to their mixed 

 light and dark complexion; pi. Wissakodiwinini- 

 wog. He gives aiabitdirisiii as the literal word 

 for 'half-breed'). 



Metlakatla. A Tsimshian town 15 m. s. 

 of I'ort Simpson, Brit. Col. Anciently 



