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METOAC— METUTAHANKP] 



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there were many towns in this neighbor- 

 hood, and while the mission station ot" the 

 Church of England (established in 1857 

 at a Tsimshian village of the same 

 name) was conducted by Rev. Wni. Dun- 

 can, ]\Ietlakatla was a flourishing ])lace. 

 Trouble arising over the conduct of his 

 work, Duncan moved in 18S7 to PortChes- 

 ter, or New Metlakatla, on Annette id., 

 Alaska, and most of the Indians followed 

 him. The old town, which contained 198 

 inhabitants in 1906, is now the site of an 

 Indian school of the Church of England. 

 New ]\Ietlakatla, including whites and In- 

 dians, numbered 823 in 1890 and 465 in 

 1900. See Missions. (.x. r. s. ) 



Metlah Catlah.— Horctzky, Canada on Pat'., 148, 

 1874. Metlahcatlah.— Tohiiie and Dawson, Vo- 

 cabs. Brit. Col., map, 1SS4. Metlahkatlah. — Heming 

 in Can. Padfic R. K. Rep. Prog., iii, 1877. Met- 

 lakahtla.— VVhymper, Alaska, 59, 1859. Metlakat- 

 la.— Can. Ind. Aff., pt. II, 68, 1902. Metlakatla.— 

 Dawson, Queen Charlotte Ids., 123b, 1880. 



Metoac (contraction of Melil-anaiv-ack, 

 'land of the ear-shell or periwinkle.' — 

 Tooker). A collective term embracing 

 the Indians of Long Island, N. Y., who 

 seem to have been divided into the follow- 

 ing tribes, subtribes, or l)ands: Canarsee, 

 Corchaug, Manhasset, Massapecjua, Rla- 

 tinecoc, INIerric, Montauk, Nesaquake, 

 Patchoag, Rockaway, Secatoag, Setauket, 

 and Shinnecock. There were besides 

 these some minor bands or villages which 

 have received special designations. They 

 were closely connected linguistically and 

 politically, and were jjrobably derived 

 from the same immediate ethnic stem. 

 Ruttenl)er classes them as branches of the 

 INIahican. The Montauk, who formed the 

 leading tribe in the eastern part of the 

 island, are often confounded with the 

 Metoac, and in some instances the Can- 

 arsee of the western part have also been 

 confounded with them. The eastern 

 tribes were at one time subject to the 

 Pequot and afterward to the Narraganset, 

 while the Irocjuois claimed dominion over 

 the western tribes. They were numerous 

 at the tirst settlement of the island, but 

 rapidly wasted away from epidemics and 

 wars with other Indians and with the 

 Dutch, disposing of their lands piece by 

 piece to the whites. About 1788 a large 

 part of the survivors joined the Brother- 

 ton Indians in Oneida co., N. Y. The 

 rest, represented chiefly by the Montauk 

 and Shinnecock, have dwindled to 

 perhaps a dozen individuals of mixed 

 blood. The Indians of Long Island were 

 a seafaring people, mild in temperament, 

 diligent in the pursuits determined by 

 their environment, skilled in the manage- 

 ment of the canoe, seine, and spear, and 

 dexterous in the making of seawan or 

 wamiium ( Flint). The chieftaincies were 

 hereditarj' by lineal descent, int^luding 

 females when there was no male rej^re- 

 sentative. 



The Metoac Aillages were Canarsee, 

 Cotsjewaminck, Cutchogue (Corchaug), 

 Jameco, Keskaechquereiii (?), Marych- 

 kenwikingh, Maspeth (Canarsee), Matti- 

 tuck (Corchaug), Merric, Mirrachtau- 

 hacky,Mochgonnekonck, Montauk, Nach- 

 aquatuck, Nesaquake, Ouheywichkingh, 

 Patchoag, ReclKiuaakie, Setauket, Sichtey- 

 hacky, Wawepex ( .Matinecock). (.T. M. ) 

 La Porcelaine. — Vaudreuil ( 17J1) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., IX, 937, 185.^. Long Island Indians. — Common 

 early English name. Malowwacks. — Hall, N. W. 

 States, 34. 1849 (misprint form and wrongly 

 located*. Matauwakes. — Thompson, Long Id., 53, 

 1839. Matowacks.— I'atcntof IC.lMin N.Y.Doe.Col. 

 Hi.st., II, 296, lSr>S("Matowacks or Long Island"). 

 Mattouwacky. — De Laet {ca. 1633) in N. Y. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., 2d s.. I, 296, 1S4L Mattowax.— Shea, 

 Cath. IMiss., 16, 18,55. Matuwacks. — Yates and 

 Moulton in Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 75, 

 1872. Mertowacks. — Bondinot, Star in the West, 

 127, 1816. Metoacs.— Schoolcraft in N. Y. Hist. 

 Soc. Proc, II, 85, 1844. Metouwacks.— Winfield, 

 Hudson Co., 9, 1871. Metowacks. — Brodhead in 

 Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 75, ]872. Milo- 

 ■wacks. — Boudinot, Star in the West, 127, 1816 (mis- 

 print). Sewan-akies. — Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 VI, 147, 18.57 (■ Shell land bands,' from scwaii, ' the 

 wampum shell,' and aukie, 'land'). 



Metocaum. A village, probably of the 

 Chowanoc, situated on Chowan r., in the 

 present Bertie co., N. C, in 1585. 

 Metackwem. — Lane (1586) in Hakluvt, Voy., in, 

 312, 1810. Metocaum— Smith (1629), Va., I," map, 

 repr. 1819. Metocunent. — Dutch map (1621) in 

 N. Y. Doc. Col. Hi.st., I, 18.56. 



Metouscepriniouek (prob. for Metusane- 

 niumgi, lit. 'men who walk with bare 

 [feet] ' ; it is not the idiom forthat phrase, 

 however, but a term referring to people 

 in general. — W. J. ). A term apparently 

 aiiplied by Bacqueville de la Potherie 

 ( Hist. Am . , II, 103, 1753 ) to the Foxes, Illi- 

 nois, Kickapoo, INIiami, etc., collectively. 



Metsmetskop ('low, miserable, stink- 

 ing'). A name applied by Natchez of 

 the upper class to those of the lowest 

 social grade. This was composed princi- 

 pally of people of the same blood but also 

 included some small alien tribes. Cf. 

 Stinl-ards. (j. R. s. ) 



Miche-Miche-auipy.— Du Pratz, Hist. La., ll, 393, 

 1758. Miche Michequipi. — Bossu (1751), Travels 

 La., 65, 1771 (sig. 'stinking fellow'). Puants. — 

 Ibid., 394 (applied al.^o to the Winnebago) . Stin- 

 cards.— Latham, Essays, 408, 1860. Stinkards.— 

 P6nicaut (1704) in French, Hist. Coll. La., n. s., 

 94, 1869. 



Metstoasath {MEistc/asath). A sept of 

 the Toquart, a Nootka tribe. — Boas in 6th 

 Rep. N. W. Tribes of Canada, 31, 1890. 



Metukatoak. A Kaviagmiut village at 

 Port Clarence, Alaska. — Eleventh Cen- 

 sus, Alaska, 162, 1893. 



Metutahanke ( 'lower village'). One of 

 two Mandan villages in 1804; situated on 

 Missouri r., about 4 m. below Knife r., 

 N. Dak. It was almost exterminated by 

 smallpox in 1837. 



Matoolonha,— Thwaitcs, Orig. .Tour. Lewis and 

 Clark, VII, index, 1905. Matootonha. — Lewis and 

 Clark, Exped., 1, 1'20, 1814. Ma-too-ton'-ka.— Lewis 

 and Clark, Discov.,24, 1.S06. Metutahanke.— Mat- 

 thews, Ethnog. and Philol. Hidatsa, 14, 1877. 

 Mih-tutta-hang-kusch.— jNIaximiliau as (juoted by 

 Matthews, op. cit. Mih-Tutta-Hang-Kush,— Maxi- 



