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MISSISSIPPI tablp:t — Missouri 



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Wabash, in Miami co., Ind. It was 

 burned by the Americans in 1812, l)ut 

 was rebuilt. The reservation was sold in 

 1834. (JM.) 



Massasinaway. — Stickney (1812) in Am. State Pa- 

 pers. Ind. Afl'., I, 810, 1832. Mississinaway. — Har- 

 rison (1814) in Drake, Tecuniseli, l-'ii*. I8.'iii. Mis- 

 sissinewa.— Mississinewa. treaty (l^'-ltli in U. S. 

 Ind. Treat., 49(1, 1S78. Mississinewa Town. — Royce 

 in 18tli Rep. B. A. E., Indiana map, 1899. 



Mississippi tablet. See NofcJied j)lates. 



Missogkonnog. Probably a former vil- 

 lage or band of the Niiunuc in central 

 Massachusetts. In 1671 the colony of Ply- 

 mouth raised a force against the " Missog- 

 konnog IndiaiLs." — Eliot (16711 in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., Ists., VI, 201, '1800. 



Missouri ('great muddy,' referring to 

 Missouri r. ). A tribe of the Chi were group 

 of the Siouan family. Their name for 

 themselves is Nititachi. According to 

 Gale the early form of the word JNIissouri 

 is Algoncjuian, of thelllinoisdialect. The 

 most closely allied tribes are the Iowa and 

 theOto. Accordingto tradition, after hav- 

 ing parted from the Winnebago at Green 

 bay, the Iowa, Missouri, and Oto movetl 

 westward to Iowa r., where the Iowa 

 stopped. The rest continued westward, 

 reaching the Missouri at the mouth of 

 Grand r. Here, on accoimt of some dis- 

 pute, the Ot(j withdrew and moved farther 

 up Missouri r. Manjuette's autograi)h 

 map of 1673, which is perhaps the earliest 

 authentic notice of the tril)e, locates the 

 8emess8rit on Missouri r., apparently as 

 far N. as the Platte. Joutel (1687) aj)- 

 pears to have been the lirst writer to use 

 the name ^Missouri in this form. It is 

 stated that Tonti met the tribe a day and 

 half's Journey from the village of the 

 Tamaroa, which was on the Mississippi, 

 6 leagues below Illinois r. About the 

 beginning of the 18th century the French 

 found them on the left bank of the 

 Missouri, near the mouth of Grand r., 

 and built a fort on an island near them. 

 They continued to dwell in this locality 

 until about 1800. According to Bourg- 

 mont (Margry, Dec, vx, 393, 1886) their 

 village in 1723 was 30 leagues below Kan- 

 sas r. and 60 leagues below the jtrin- 

 cipal Kansa village. About 1798 they 

 were conquered and dispersed by the 

 Sauk and Fox tribes and their allies. 

 Five or six lodges joined the Osage, two 

 or three took refuge with the Kansa, and 

 some amalgamated with the Oto, but they 

 soon recovered, as in 1805 Lewis and 

 Clark found them in villages s. of Platte 

 r., having abandoned their settlements on 

 Grand r. some time previously on ac- 

 count of smallpox. They were visited 

 again by an epidemic in 1823. Although 

 their number was estimated in 1702 at 

 200 families and in 1805 by Lewis and 

 Clark at 300 souls, in 1829, when they 

 were found with the Oto, they numbered 



only 80. Having been unfortunate in a 

 war with the Osage, part of them joined 

 the Iowa, and the others went to the Oto 

 previous to the migration of the latter to 

 Big Platte r. In 1842 their village stood on 

 thes. bank of Platte r. , Nebr. They accom- 

 panied the Oto when that tribe removed 

 in 1882 to Indian Territory. There were 

 only 40 individuals of the tribe remain- 

 ing in 1885. They are now otticially 

 classed with the Oto, together number- 

 ing 368 in 1905 underthe Oto school super- 

 intendent in Oklahoma. The gentes, as 

 given by Dorsey ( 15th Rep. B. A. E., 240, 



GEORGE BATES — MISSOURI 



1897), were Tunanpin (Black bear), Ho- 

 tachi (Elk), and Cheghita (Eagle) or 

 Wakanta (Tliunder-bird). 



The Mi.ssouri joined in the following 

 treatieswith the United States: (1) Peace 

 treaty of June 24, 1817; (2) Ft Atkinson, 

 la., Sept. 26, 1825, regulating trade and 

 relations with the United States; (3) 

 Prairie du Chien, Wis., July 15, 1830, 

 ceding lands in Iowa and INIissouri; (4) 

 Oto village, Nebr., Sept. 21, 1833, ceding 

 certain lands; (5) Bellevue, upper Mis- 

 souri r., Oct. 15, 1836, ceding certain 

 lands; (6) Washington, Mar. 15, 1854, 

 ceding lands, with certain reservation; 

 (7) Nel)raska City, Nebr., Dec. 9, 1854, 

 changing boundary of reservation. 



Morgan (Beach, Ind. Miscel., 220, 1877) 

 used the term Missouri Indians to in- 



