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falls at Richmond. In 1669 they still had 

 30 bowmen, or i)erhaps about 100 souls. 

 Thirty years later, the Indian population 

 having died out or emigrated, a Hugue- 

 not colony took possession of the site. 

 Consult Mooney, vSiouan Tribes of the 

 East, Bull. B. A". E., 1894. (.r. m. ) 



Manacans. — Smith, Va.,l, 130,1819. Manachees. — 

 Neill, Va. Carolorum, 32,'S, 188ti. Manakan.— Dor. 

 of 1701 in Va. Hist. Coll., n. s., v, i'l. 1886. Mana- 

 kins.— Stith (1747) quoted bv Burk, Va., I, 128, 

 1804. Manikin.— Doc. of 1700 in Va. Hist. Coll., 

 op. cit., 48. Mannacans. — Strachev {ca. 1612) , Va., 

 41, 1849. Mannachin.— Doc. of 1701 in Va. Hist. 

 Coll., op. cit., 45. Mannakin. — Lawson (1714), 

 Hist. Carolina, 187, 1860. Manskin. — Herrman, 

 map (1670) in Rep. Bound. Com.,lS7o (erroneously 

 located on Pamunkey r.). Manycan. — Doc. of 

 1700 in Va. Hi.st. Coll., op. cit., .'il. Monacans. — 

 Smith, Va., I, 116, 1819. Monachans.— Yonf,' ( WM) 

 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s.. ix, 112, 1871. 

 Monakins. — Lederer, Discov., 9, l<i72. Monanacah 

 Rahowacah. — Archer (1607) in Smith, Works, 

 Arber ed., xlvi, 1884. Monanacans. — Ibid., 1. 

 llonocans.— Strachey, op. cit., 27. 



Monack. See Moonack. 



Moiialiassano (a name of uncertain ety- 

 inology, but most probably connected 

 with Yesan, the name which the Tutelo 

 applied to themselves). A tril^e of tlie 

 Monacan confederacy, formerly living on 

 the s. side of James r., near the moun- 

 tains, in Bedford and Buckingham cos., 

 Va. Lederer describes them as tall and 

 warlike, and says their totem was three 

 arrows. In 1671 they were 25 m. from the 

 Saponi, on Staunton r. They seem to 

 have been next in iuiportance to the 

 Monacan in the confederacy. See Tutelo. 

 Consult Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the 

 East, Bull. B. A. E., 1894. (j. m.) 



Flanakaskies. — Batts (1671) quoted by Fernow. 

 Ohio Val., 221, 1890 (misprint). Hanahaskies. — 

 Batts (1671) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist.,ni, 197, 18.")3. 

 Hanohaskies. — Batts, ibid., 194. Monahasanugh. — 

 Smith (C((. 1629), Va., I, map, 1819. Monahassan- 

 oes. — Jefferson, Notes, 134, 1794. Monahassan- 

 ughes.— Strachey (ca. 1612), Va., 102, 1S19. Nahys- 

 sans. — Lederer, Discov., 9, 1672. Nobissan. — Ibid., 

 map (misprint). Yesah. — Hale in Proc. Am. 

 Philos. Soc, XXI, 11, 1883-4 (own name: see Tu- 

 telo). Yesa-^.— Hale, iMS.,B. A.E.,1877. Yesang.— 

 Hale in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, op. cit. 



Monakatuatha. See Half King. 



Monanauk. A village, possibly Conoy, 

 on the Potomac in 1608, about Breton 

 bay, or Clenifints branch, St Marvs co., 

 Md. 



Monashackotoog. A tribe which, with 

 the Wunnashowatuckoog, lived w. of 

 Boston, Mass., in 1637. They were 

 friends of the Pe<iuot and enemies of the 

 Narraganset. — Williams (1637) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., vi, 194, 1863. 



Monasiccapano. A tribe of the Monacan 

 confederacv, formerly living in Louisa 

 and Fluvanna cos., Va., between the 

 James and the headwaters of the Panmn- 

 key. The derivation of the name is un- 

 known, but it may have some connection 

 with Saponi. See Mf)oney,. Siouan Tribes 

 of the East, Bull. B. A. E., 1894. (.i. m.) 



Massicapanoes. — Macauley, X. Y., II, 178, 1829. Mo- 

 nasiccapanoes. — .Jefferson, Notes, 134, 1794. Mo- 

 nasiceapanoes. — Boudinot, Star in the West, 127, 



1816. Monasickapanoughs. — Smith (ca. 1629), Va., 

 I, 134, 1819. Monasukapanough. — Ibid., map. 



Monax. See Muunack. 



Moncachtape ('killer of pain and fa- 

 tigue'). A Yazoo Indian, noted chiefly 

 on account of his real or supposed trav- 

 els and his knowledge of various Indian 

 languages. Le Page du Pratz, during his 

 residence in J.iOuisiana about the middle 

 of the 18th century, met Moncachtape 

 and obtained from him an account of his 

 wanderings, accordingto which (DuPratz, 

 Hist. La., HI, 89-128, 1758), after the loss 

 of his wife and children, he had devoted 

 much of his time to traveling. One of 

 his journeys was to the N. E., in which 

 he passed up the Ohio, visited the Shaw- 

 nee and Iroquois, and wintered among 

 the Abnaki; thence he went up the St 

 Lawrence and returned to his liome by 

 way of the Mississippi. His second 

 trip was to the N. W. coast by the 

 route subsequently traveled by Lewis 

 and Clark. He mentions the Tamaroa, 

 Kansa, and Amikwa, and although he 

 alludes to numerous tribes seen during his 

 passage down Columbia r., he mentions 

 no tribal names. He tinally reached the 

 Pacific coast, where, in addition to In- 

 dians, he met with bearded white men, 

 who " came from sun-setting, in search of 

 a yellow stinking wood which dyes a 

 fine yellow color." With other Indians 

 he ambushed and killed 11 of these 

 strangers, 2 of whom bore firearms. These 

 whites are described as small, but having 

 large heads and long hair in the middle 

 of the crown and wrapped in a great 

 many folds of stuff, while their clothes 

 were soft and of several colors. This 

 story, so far as it relates to the western 

 trip, is very doubtful on its face, and the 

 names of tribes which it gives extend 

 only as far as DuPratz' own knowl- 

 edge of them; yet Quatrefages (Human 

 Species, 205, 1895) accepts the story as 

 credible, and that Moncachtape under- 

 stood a number of languages is clearly 

 proven. See also Clarke, Pion. Davs in 

 Oreg., 1905. (c t.) 



Monemins. A village of the Mahican 

 tribe, known as Monemius' Castle from 

 the name of the resident chief, situated in 

 the 17th century on Haver id., in Hudson 

 r., near Cohoes falls, Albany co., N. Y. 



(.1. M.) 

 Moenemines Castle. — Deed of 1630 in N. Y'. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., XIV, 1, 1883. Moeneminnes Castle. — Pat- 

 ent of 1630, ibid., l, 44, 1856. Monemiu's castle. — 

 Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 85, 1872. 



Mong {Mang, 'loon'). A gens of the 

 Chippewa (q. v.). Cf. Maak. 

 Mahng.— Tanner, Narrative, 314, 1830. Mang.— 

 Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1906. Mank. — Gatschot, Ojibwa 

 MS., B. A. E., 1882. Mong.— Warren (18.52) in 

 Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., v, 44, 1885. 



Mongwa {Mon-gwcV, 'loon'). A gens of 

 the Miami (q. v.). — Morgan, Anc Soc, 

 168, 1877. 



