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Indians because rations pauperized them ; 

 the inexpediency of leasing Indian graz- 

 ing lands, and the need of greater care 

 in selecting men of character as Indian 

 agents. Still more progressive policies 

 have been advocated in subsequent years. 

 The conference early declared for land in 

 severalty, with inalienable homesteads 

 for Indian families; for educating Indians 

 industrially as well as intellectually for 

 citizenship, to be conferred as rapidly as 

 practicable; and for uniform insistance 

 upon monogamy, the sacredness of mar- 

 riage, and the preservation at each 

 agency of family records of marriages 

 and relationships. The al)olition of the 

 system of appointing Indian agents as a 

 reward for partisan service with little 

 regard to fitness, was urgently advocated. 

 The advantages of the "outing system," 

 by which Indian children of school age 

 were placed in carefully chosen homes of 

 white people, to attend school with white 

 children, and learn to work on wliite 

 men's farms, were discussed and demon- 

 strated. The breaking up of the tribal 

 system in Indian Territory was advocated 

 several years before the Commission to 

 the Five Civilized Tribes (q. v.) was ap- 

 pointed; and the conferencehasadvocated 

 the division of the great tribal trust funds 

 into individual holdings, each Indian to 

 have control of his own share of that 

 money as soon as he shows himself able 

 to begin to use it wisely. The develop- 

 ment of native Indian industries, wher- 

 ever practicable, has been intelligently 

 favored. Sympathetic appreciation of all 

 that is fine, artistically suggestive, and 

 worthy of development in the nature, in- 

 stitutions, and arts of the Indian, has 

 been marked and constant, (m. e. g.) 



Mohotlath ( Mo-h oil' ath ) . A sept of the 

 Opitchesaht, a Nootka tribe. — Boas in 

 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes Canada, 32, 1890. 



Moicaqui. A former rancheria, proba- 

 bly of the Nevome, in Sonora, Mexico, 

 visited by Father Kino in 1694. — Doc. 

 Hist. Mex., 4th s., i, 253, 1856. 



Moingwena. The name (the etymology 

 of which is doubtful) of a small tribe of 

 the Illinois confederacy, closely affiliated 

 with the Peoria. The name was applied 

 also to the village in which they resided. 

 The first recorded notice of the tribe is by 

 Marquette in the account of his descent 

 of the Mississippi with Joliet in 1673, 

 when he found them residing in the vi- 

 cinity of the Peoria village on the w. side 

 of the Mississippi near the mouth of a 

 river supposed to have been the Des 

 Moines. Franquelin's map of 1688 gives 

 the name of the river as "Moingana," 

 and marks the Indian village of "Moin- 

 goana ' ' on it. When Marquette returned 

 from the S. in 1674, he passed up Illinois 

 r. and found the Peoria in the vicinity of 



L. Peoria, the tribe having removed hither 

 after his descent the previous year. He 

 does not mention the Moingwena in this 

 connection, but from the fact thatGravier 

 found them with the Peoria in this local- 

 ity in 1700, it is presumed that they 

 migrated thither with the latter tribe. 

 As no mention is made of them after this 

 time they probably were incorporated 

 with the Peoria, thus losing their tribal 

 distinction. (j. m. c. t. ) 



MoengSena,— Joliet, maps in Coues, Pike's Exped., 

 I, 13, 1895. Moingoana.— La Salle (1681) in Mar- 

 gry,D6c., II, 134,1877. Moingona,— Penieaut(1700), 

 ibid., V, 411, 1S,S3. Moingwenas.— Shea, Cath. Miss., 

 404, 1855. Moins.— Nuttall, Journal, 251, 1821. 

 Mouingouena. — Gravier (1701) in Jes. Rel., Lxv, 

 101, 1900. 



Moiseyu {Moiscyii, a word of uncertain 

 origin, sometimes rendered as a Cheyenne 

 name meaning 'many flies' or 'fiint peo- 

 ple', but probably of foreign derivation). 

 An Algonquian tribe which, according to 

 the tradition of the Cheyenne, adjoined 

 them on the n. e. in their old home in 

 Minnesota, and started with them on 

 their westward migration about the year 

 1700, but turned back before reaching the 

 Missouri r. It is said that some of their 

 descendants are still with the Cheyenne. 

 They are possibly identical with the Mon- 

 soni. (j. M. ) 



Arrow Men. — Dorsey in Field Cohimb. Mus. Pub. 

 103, pi. xix, 1905. Mo wis si yu.— Grinnell, Social 

 Org. Cheyennes, 136, 1905. 



Moisie. A summer village of Montagn- 

 ais and Nascapee at the mouth of Moisie 

 r., on the n. shore of the Gulf of St 

 Lawrence, Quebec (Hind, Lab. Penin., i, 

 290, 1863). In 1906 the Montagnais and 

 Nascapee at Moisie and Seven Islands 

 numbered 376. 



Moiya. Given by Gibbs (Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, iii, 112, 1853) as the name 

 of a Pomo village in the vicinity of Hop- 

 land, Mendocino co., Cal. 



Mojualuna. A former Taos village in 

 the mountains above the present Taos 

 pueblo, N. Mex. 



Mojual-ua. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 

 32, 1,S92. Mojualuna.— Ibid. 



Mokaich. The Mountain Lion clan of 

 the Keresan pueblos of Laguna, Sin, San 

 Feli])e, and Cochiti, N. Mex. The Moun- 

 tain Lion clan of Laguna went to that vil- 

 lage from the Rio Grande, dwelling first 

 at Mt Taylor, or Mt San Mateo. With the 

 Hapai ( Oak ) clan it formed a phratry, but 

 it is probably now extinct. The clans 

 of this name at Sia and San Felipe are 

 quite extinct. (f. w. H.) 



Mohkach-hanuch. — Hodge in Am. Anthrop., ix, 

 351, 1896 (Cochiti name; liumirh = 'people'). 

 Mokaich-hano. — Ibid. (Sia and San Felipe form). 

 Mokaiqch-hanoch. — Ibid. (Laguna form). Mo'- 

 kaitc— Stevenson in 11th Rep. B. A. E., 19, 1894 

 (Siaform; tc=ch). Mo-katsh.— BandelieriiiArch. 

 Inst. Papers, in, 293, 1890. Mokatsh hanutsh,— 

 Bandelier, Delight Makers, 464, 1890 (hanutsh = 

 'people'). 



Mokaskel. A former Luisefio village 

 in the neighborhood of San Luis Rey 



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