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MEXAM MIAMI 



Ib. a. e. 



milian, Trav., 335, 1843. Mitutahankish. — Mat- 

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

 Mitutahankuc. — Dor.sey in Am. Natur., 829, Oct. 

 1882. 



Mexam. See 3friksah. 



Meyascosic. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, in 1608, on the n. side of 

 James r., in Charles City co., Va. — Smith 

 (1629), Va., I, map, repr. 1819. 



Meyemma. Mentioned by Gibbs 

 (Schoolcraft, Ind._ Tribes, in, 139, 1853) 

 as a Hnpa village in Hupa valley, Cal., in 

 1851. Not identified. The name is per- 

 haps of Yurok origin. 



Meyo. The Lizard clan of the pueblo 

 of Laguna, N. Mex. Although Laguna 

 was not founded until 1699, the origin of 

 the clan is unknown to the natives. It 

 forms a phratry with the Skurshka 

 (Water-snake), Sqowi (Kattlesnake),and 

 Hatsi ( Earth ) clans, which came from 

 Sia, Oraibi (probably), and Jemez, re- 

 spectively, (f. w. H. ) 

 Meyo-hano"!!, — Hodge in Am. Anthrop., IX, 351, 

 1896 (/k(ho'''!=' people'). 



Mezquital (Span: 'inesquite grove'). A 

 former pueblo of the Tepehuane on the 

 upper waters of Eio de San Pedro, s. 

 Durango, Mexico, and the seat of a Span- 

 ish mission. It is now a Mexican town. 

 S. Francisco del Mezquital. — Orozco v Berra, Geog., 

 318, 1.S64. 



Mgezewa (for Me/gezi, 'bald eagle'). 

 A gens of the Potawatomi, q. v. 



Megezi. — Wm. Jones, inf n, 1906. M'-ge-ze'-wa. — 

 Morgan, Anc. Soc., 167, 1877. 



Miacomit. A village formerly on Nan- 

 tucket id., off the s coast of Massachu- 

 setts. — Writer of 1807 in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 2ds., Ill, 26,1846. 



Miahwahpitsiks ( Mi -ah-vKih' -pit-s1ks<, 

 'seldom lonesome'). A division of the 

 Piegan tribe of the Siksika. 



Mi-ah-wah'-pit-siks. — Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge 

 Tales, 209, 1892. Seldom Lonesome.— Ibid., 225. 



Miakechakesa. One of the two divi- 

 sions of the Sisseton Sioux. Their 

 habitat in 1S24 was the region of Blue 

 Earth and Cottonwood rs., Minn., ex- 

 tending westward to the Coteau des 

 Prairies. Unlike the Kahra, they had no 

 fixed villages, no mud or bark cabins. 

 They hunted on Blue Earth r. in winter, 

 and during the summer 2:)ursued the buf- 

 falo as far as Missouri r. Thev numbered 

 about 1,000. 



Lower Sissetons. — Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., in, 250, 

 1880. Mi-ah-kee-iack-sah. — Lewis and Clark, Dis- 

 cov., 34, 1806. Mia Kechakesa. — Long, Exped. St 

 Peter'.s R., I, 378, 1824. South Sussetons.— Ind. 

 Aff. Rep., 495, 1839. 



Miami (?Chippewa: Omuumeg, 'people 

 who live on the peninsula' ). An Algon- 

 quian tribe, usually designated by early 

 English writers as Twightwees {tirni'li 

 twu'ih, the cry of a crane. — Hewitt), from 

 their own name, the earliest recorded 

 notice of which is from information fur- 

 nished in 1658 by Gabriel Druillettes 

 (Jes. Rel. 1658, 21, 18.58), who called them 

 the Oumamik, then living 60 leagues from 



St Michel, the first village of the Pota- 

 watomi mentioned by him; it was there- 

 fore at or about the mouth of Green 

 bay, W^is. Tailhan (Perrot, Memoire) 

 says that they withdrew into the Missis- 

 sippi valley, 60 leagues from the bay, 

 and were established there from 1657 to 

 1676, although Bacqueville de la Pothe- 

 rie asserts that, w ith the Mascoutens, the 

 Kickapoo, and part of the Illinois, they 

 came to settle at that place about 1667. 

 The first time the French came into 

 actual contact with the Miami was when 

 Perrot visited them about 1668. His 

 second visit was in 1670, when they were 

 living at the headwaters of Fox r.. Wis. 

 In 1671 a part at least of the tribe were 

 living with the JNIascoutens in a palisaded 



LUM-KI-KUM— MIAMI 



village in this locality (Jes. Rel. 1671, 45, 

 1858). Soon after this the Miami parted 

 from the JMascoutens and formed new set- 

 tlements at the s. end of L. Michigan and 

 on Kalamazoo r., Mich. The settlements 

 at the s. end of the lake were at Chicago 

 and on St Joseph r. , where missions 

 were established late in the 17th century, 

 although the former is mentioned as a 

 Wea village at the time of Marquette's 

 visit, and Wea were found there in 

 1701 by De Courtemarche. It is likely 

 that these Wea were the Miami men- 

 tioned by Alloiiez and others as being 

 united with the Mascoutens in Wisconsin. 

 The chief village of the Miami on St 

 Joseph r. was, according to Zeiiobius 

 (Le Clercq, ii, 133), about 15 leagues 

 inland, in lat. 41°. Theextent of territory 

 occupied by this tribe a few years later 

 compels the conclusion that the Miami 



