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MISINAGUA — MISSION 



[b. a. 



family. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. 

 vocab., B. A. E., 1884. 



Misinagua. A Chumashan village w. 

 of Pueblo de las Canoas ( San Buenaven- 

 tura), Ventura cc, Cal., in 1542. Placed 

 by Taylor near San Marcos. 

 Misinagua. — Cabrillo (1542) in Smith, Colec. Doc. 

 Fla., 181, 1857. Misinajua.— Tavlorin Cal. Parmer, 

 Apr. 17, 1863. 



Misisagaikaniwininiwak ( MlsMsagdi- 

 gayitwlnlnhviig, ' people of the big lake.' — 

 W. J.). A Chippewa band, taking its 

 popular name from its residence on Mille 

 Lac, E. Minn. They were included 

 among the " Chippewaof the Mississippi ' ' 

 in the treaty of Washington, Feb. 22, 

 1855, by which a reserve was assigned to 

 them in Crow Wing co., Minn. There 

 are now (1905) 1,249 Mille Lac Chippewa 

 under the White Earth agency in the 

 same state. 



Mille lac band.— Treaty of 1863 in U. S. Ind. Treat., 

 215, 1S73. Mishisagaiganiwininiwag. — Wm. Jones, 

 inf'n, 1906. Misisagaikani-wininiwak. — Gatschiet, 

 Ojib\vaMS.,B. A.E.,1S82. 



Misketoiitok (Mis-ke-toV-i-tok). A for- 

 mer Hupa village on or near Trinity r., 

 Cal. — Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., iii, 

 73, 1877. 



Miskouaha. One of the 4 divisions of 

 the Nipissing at the Lake of the Two 

 Mountains, Quebec, in 1736. Their to- 

 tem was blood, for which reason they 

 were also called Gens du Sang. 

 Gens du Sang. — Chauvignerie (1736) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., IX, 1053, 1855. Mikouachakhi.— Jes. 

 Rel. 1643, 38, 1858 (same?). Miskouaha.— Cliau- 

 vignerie, op. eit. Miskuakes. — Chauvignerie as 

 quoted by Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 554, 1853. 



Miskouakimina (prob. for Meskwdkiwi- 

 naW, 'red-earth town,' i.e., 'Fox town.' — 

 W. J.). Marked on La Tour's map of 

 1784 as if a Fox village near the site of 

 Milwaukee, Wis., on the w. shore of L. 

 Michigan. The Sauk are marked on the 

 same map as in the adjacent region. 



Miskut. A former Hupa village on the 

 E. bank of Trinity r., Cal., about f m. be- 

 low Takimilding. (p. e. g. ) 

 Agaraits. — Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 

 1.39, 1853. A-gar-it-is.— McKee in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 

 32d Cong., spec, .sess., 194, 18.53. Ehgrertsh.— 

 Gibbs, MS., B. A. E., 1852. Hergerits.— Goddard, 

 inf'n, 1903 (Yurok name). Miscolts. — Keane in 

 Stanford, Compend.,. 522, 1878. Miscott.— Ind. Aff. 

 Rep., 82, 1870. Mis'-kut.— Powers in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., Ill, 73, 1877. Miskiit.— Goddard, Life and 

 Culture of the Hupa, 13, 1903. 0-gahrit-tis.— Meyer, 

 Nacli dem Sacramento, 282, 1855. 



Miskwagamiwisagaigan ( ' red - water 

 lake', from miskwa 'red', garni 'fluid, 

 water', sa,9a-?V/«n 'lake'). A Chippewa 

 band living about Red lake and Red 

 Lake r. , n. Minn., and numbering 1,353 

 under the Leech Lake agency in 1905. 

 By treaty at the Old crossing of Red Lake 

 r., Minn., Apr. 12, 1864, this band and 

 the Pembina ceded all their lands in 

 Minnesota. 



Chippewa of Red Lake.— Ind. Aff. Rep. 1905, 516, 

 1906 (official name). Chippeways of Red Lake. — 

 Lewis, Travels, 178, 1809. Misku -Gami-Saga-igan- 

 anishinabeg. — Gatschet, op. cit. ('Red fluid lake 



Indian.s ' ) . Miskwa-gamiwi-saga-igan. — Gatschet, 

 Ojibwa MS., B. .\. E., 1882. Miskwagamiwisagiii'- 

 gan. — Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1905. Mlskwa-ka Mewe 

 Sagagan Wenenewak. — Long, Exped. St Peter's R., 

 II, 1.53, 1824. 



Mismatuk {Mls-ma^-tuk). A former 

 Chumashan village in the mountains near 

 Santa Barbara, Cal., in a locality now 

 called Arroyo Burro. — Henshaw, Santa 

 Barbara MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1884. 



Mispu {Mis'-pu). A former Chumashan 

 village near the light-house at Santa 

 Barbara, Cal., in a locality now called 

 El Castillo Viejo. — Henshaw, Buena- 

 ventura MS. vocal)., B. A. E., 1884. 



Misshawa (JHsMM'ti, 'elk'). A gens of 

 the Potawatomi, q. v. 



Micawa. — Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1905 (c=sh). Mis- 

 sha'-wa.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 167, 1877. 



Missiassik (on the etymology of the 

 name, see McAleer, Study in the Ety- 

 mology of Missisquoi, 1906). An Algon- 

 quian tribe or body of Indians belonging 

 to the Abnaki group, formerly living on 

 Missisquoi r. in n. Vermont. Whether 

 they formed a distinct tribe or a de- 

 tached portion of some known Aknaki 

 tribe is uncertain. If the latter, which 

 seems probable, as the name "Wander- 

 ers" was sometimes applied to them, it is 

 possible they were related to the Sokoki 

 or to the Pequawket. They had a large 

 village at the mouth of Missisquoi r., 

 in Franklin co., on L. Cham plain, but 

 abandoned it about 1730 on account of 

 the ravages of an epidemic, and removed 

 to St Francis, Quebec. They subse- 

 quently sold their claims in Vermont to 

 the "Seven Nations of Canada." Chau- 

 vignerie in 1736 gives 180 as the number 

 of their warriors, indicating a popula- 

 tion of 800. They seem to have been on 

 peaceable terms with the Iroquois. 



(j. M. c. T. ) 



Masiassuck. — Douglass, Summary, i, 185, 1755. 

 Massassuk. — La Tour, map, 1784. Messiasics. — 

 Boudinot, Star in the Westj 127, 1816 (possibly 

 the Missi.sauga). Michiskoui. — Chauvignerie 

 (1736) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 553, 1853. 

 Misiskoui. — Beauharnois (1744) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., i.\, 1110, 1S55 (village). Missiassik. — Vater, 

 Mith., pt. 3, sec. 3, 390, 1816. Missiscoui.— De 

 Bougainville (17.57) in N. Y. Doc. ('ol. Hist., x, 

 607, 18.58. Missiskouy.— Doc. of 1746, ibid., 32. 

 Wanderers. — Chauvignerie, op. cit. (given as syn- 

 onynidus with Michiskoui). 



Missinquimeschan. A former Pianka- 

 shaw (?) village near the site of Wash- 

 ington, Daviess co., Ind. — Hough, map 

 in Ind. Geol. Rep., 1883. Cf. ilfc/im- 

 gomeda. 



Mission. One of the three bodies of 

 Seaton Lake Lillooet on the w. side of 

 Seaton lake, under the Williams Lake 

 agencv, Brit. Col.; pop. 73 in 1906.— Can. 

 Ind. Aff., pt. II, 77, 1906. 



Mission (Burrard Inlet). The name 

 given by the Canadian Dept. of Indian 

 Affairs to one of six divisions of Squaw- 

 mish under the Fraser River agency, 

 Brit. Col. ; pop. 213 in 1906. 



