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MlGUmUI MIKASITKI 



[b. a. e. 



related to the Assiniboin, "because of the 

 great affinity of their language. ' ' As this 

 statement is in contradiction to his sub- 

 sequent assertion, known from other evi- 

 dence to be correct, that the Assiniboin 

 dwelt w. of L. Winnipeg, it may be in- 

 ferred that these "Eagle-men" belong to 

 the Chippewa, who have among their 

 gentes one named Omegeeze, "Bald 

 Eagle." (.1. M. c. T. ) 



Eagle ey'd Indians. — Dobbs, Hudson Bay, 24, 17-14. 

 Eagle Eyed Indians. — Ibirl., map. Migiehihilini- 

 ous. — Ibid., 24. 



Miguihui. A Chumashan village, one 

 of the two popularly known as Dos Pue- 

 blos, in Santa Barbara co., Cal. ; also a 

 village in Ventura co. 



Migiu. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. vocab., B. 

 A. E., 1884. Miguigui.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 July 24, 1863 (Ventura co ) . Miguihui. — Ibid., Apr. 

 24, 1863. 



Mihtukmechakick. A name, signifying 

 'tree eaters,' which, according to Roger 

 Williams' Key (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 Ists., Ill, 209, 1794), referred to "a peo- 

 ple so called (living between three or 

 four hundred m. w. into the land) from 

 iheir esiim^mUi-tMck-qnash, 'trees.' They 

 are men-eaters; they set no corn, but live 

 on the bark of chestnut and walnut and 

 other fine trees. They dry and eat this 

 bark with the fat of beasts and sometimes 

 of men. This people are the terrour of 

 the neighboring natives. ' ' The name Ad- 

 irondack (q. v.), applied by the Iroquois 

 to certain Algonquian tribes of Canada, 

 signifies ' they eat trees ' . ( .i. m. c. t. ) 



Miitsr. The Humming-bird clan of 

 San Felipe pueblo, N. Mex. , of which there 

 were only one or two survivors in 1895. 

 Miitsr-hano. — Hodge in Am. Anthrop., ix,351, 1896 

 {hAno=' people'). 



Mikakhenikashika ( ' those who made or 

 adoptetl the stars as their mark or means 

 of identity as a people. ' — La Flesche ) . A 

 Quapaw gens. 



Mika'q'e ni'kaci'jfa. — Dor.sey in l.ith Rep. B. A. E., 

 229, 1897. Star gens.— Ibid. 



Mikanopy ( ' head chief ' ). A Seminole 

 chief. On May 9, 1832, a treaty was 

 signed purporting to cede the country of • 

 the Seminole to the United States in ex- 

 change for lands w. of the Mississippi. 

 The Seminole had already relinquished 

 their desiral)le lands near the coast and 

 retired to the pine barrens and swamps 

 of the interior. Mikanopy, the heredi- 

 tary chief, who. possessed large herds of 

 cattle and horses and a hundred negro 

 slaves, stood by young Osceola and the 

 majority of the tribe in the determination 

 to remain. Neither of them signed the 

 agreement to emigrate given on behalf of 

 the tribe by certain pretended chiefs on 

 Apr. 23, 1835. In the summer of that 

 year the Indians made preparations to 

 resist if the Government attempted to 

 remove them. When the agent notified 

 them on Dec. 1 to deliver their horses 



and cattle and assemble for the long 

 journey they sent their women and 

 children into the interior, while the 

 warriors were seen going about in armed 

 jjarties. The white people had con- 

 tenmed the Seminole as a degenerate 

 tribe, enervated through long contact 

 with the whites. Although Mikanopy, 

 who was advanced in years, was the 

 direct successor of King Payne, the chief 

 who united the tribe, the agent said he 

 would no longer recognize him as a chief 

 when he absented himself from the 

 council where the treaty was signed. 

 When the whites saw that the Seminole 

 intended to fight, they abandoned their 

 plantations on the border, which the 

 Indians sacked and burned. Troops were 



MiKANOPY. (mcKENne 



then ordered to the Seminole country, 

 and a seven-years' war began. In the 

 massacre of Dade's command, Dec. 28, 

 1836, it is said that Mikanopy shot the 

 commander with his own hand. He took 

 no further active part in the ho.stilities. 

 He was short and gross in person, indo- 

 lent, and self-indulgent in his habits, 

 having none of the qualities of a leader. — 

 McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, ii, 271, 

 1858. 



Mikasi ( ' coyote and wolf people ' ) . A 

 subgens of the Mandhinkagaghe gens of 

 the Omaha. 

 Mijtasi.— Dorsey in 1.5th Rep. B. A. E., 228, 1897 ._ 



Mikasuki, A former Seminole town in 

 Leon CO., Fla., on the w. shore of Micco- 

 sukee lake, on or near the site of the 

 present Miccosukee. The name has been 



