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MONTAGNAIS — MOKTAtJE 



[b. a. e. 



Tribes, v, 40, 1855 (on account of their warning 

 cry of "Kebik!" when approaching in canoes 

 the rapids of the St Lawrence near Quebec). 

 Lower Algonkins. — Jeffervs, Fr. Doms., pt. 1, 46, 

 1761. Montagnais.— Je.s. Rel. 1611, 8, 1S.58. Mon- 

 tagnaits.— Jes. Rel. 1633, 3, 1858. Montagnards. — 

 Jes. Rel. 1632, 5, 18.58. Montagnars.— Champlain 

 (1609), CEuvres, in, 194, 1870. Montagnes.— 

 Champlain (1603), ibid., ll, 9, 1S70. Montagnets.— 

 Jes. Rel. 1611, 15, 1858. Montagnez. — Champljiin 

 (1603), CEuvres, II, 8,1870. Montagnois.— Lahon- 

 tan. New Voy., 1.207, 1703. Montagrets.— INIe. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., 1, 288, 1865 (misprint). Montagues.— 

 McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, iii, 81, 1854 

 (misprint). Montaignairs. — Champlain (1615), 

 Olluvres, iv, 22, 1870. Montaigners. — Champlain 

 (161.S), ibid., 113. Montaignes.— Champlain (1603), 

 ibid., II, 49, 1S70. Montaignets.— Ibid. (1609), v, pt. 



I, 144. Montainiers.— Scliuolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 

 40, 1855. Montanaro.— Hervas (m. 1785) quoted by 

 Vater, Mith., pt. 3, sec. 3, 347, 1816. Montaniak.— 

 Gatschet, Penobscot MS., ls.s7 (Penobscot name). 

 Mountaineers. — Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., vi, 16, 

 1800. Mountain Indians. — Kingsley, Stand. Nat. 

 Hist., pt. 6, 149, 1885. Mountaneers. — Lahontan, 

 New Voy., l,230, 1703. Mountanees.— Vater, Mith., 

 pt. 3, sec. 3, 344, 1816. Neconbavistes. — Lattre, 

 map, 1784 (misprint) . Ne-e-no-il-no. — Hind, Lab. 

 Penin., ii, 10, 1863 ('perfect peojile', one of the 

 names used bv themselves). Kehiroirini. — Kings- 

 ley, Stand. Nat. Hist., pt. 6, 149, LS85. Nekouban- 

 istes. — Bellin, map, 17-55. Neloubanistes. — Esnauts 

 and Rapilly, map, 1777 (misprint). Sheshata- 

 poosh. — Gallatin in Trans. Am. Ethnol. Soc, ii, 

 ciii, 1848. Sheshatapooshshoish.— Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 1st s., VI, 16, 1800. Shoudamunk.— Peyton 

 quoted by Lloyd in Jour. Anthrop. Inst., iv, 29,1875 

 ('good Indians': Beotluik name). Skatapusho- 

 ish.— Keane in Stanford, Compend., 536, 1878. 

 Sketapushoish.— Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., Vl, 16, 

 1800. Tshe-tsi-uetin-euerno. — Hind, Lab. Penin., 



II, 101, 863 ('people of the north-northeast' : name 

 used by themselves) . Uskwawgomees. — Tanner, 

 Narr., 316, 1S30. XJssagene'wi.— Gat.-^ehet, Penob- 

 scot MS., 1887 ('people of the outlet' [Hewitt]: 

 Penobscot name). Ussaghenick. — Vetromile, 

 Abnakis, 50, 1866 (Etchimin name). 



Montagnais. An Athapascan group, 

 comprising the Chipewyan, Athabasca, 

 Etheneldeli, and Tatsanottine tribes, 

 which, though now hving on the j^lains 

 and in the valleys of British North Amer- 

 ica, migrated from the Rocky mts. — 

 Petitot, Diet. Deiie-Dindjie, xx, 1876. 

 For synonymy, see CItipewyan. 



Montagnard. An ethnicand geographic 

 Athapascan group comprising the Tsat- 

 tine, Sarsi, Sekani, and Nahane tribes liv- 

 ing in the Rocky nits, of British North 

 America. The name was also formerly 

 applied to the eastern Algonquian people 

 now known as Montagnais. 

 Montagnardes. — Kingsley, Stand. Nat. Hist.,pt. 6, 

 143, l,s85. Montagnards. —Petitot, Diet. Dene- 

 DindjiC, xx, 1876. Mountaineersi — Morgan in N. 

 Am. Rev.,. 58, 1870. 



Montauk (meaning uncertain). A term 

 that has been used in different senses, 

 sometimes limited to the particular bancl 

 or triVje known by this name, btit in a 

 broader sense including most of the 

 tribes of Long Island, excepting those 

 about the w. end. It is occasionally used 

 incorrectly as equivalent to Metoac, q. v. 



The Indians of Long Island were closely 

 related to the Indians of Massachusetts 

 and Connectictit. Tooker (Cockenoe-de- 

 Long Island, 1896) says that the dialect of 

 the Montauk was more nearly related to 



the Natick of Massachusetts than was the 

 Narraganset. 



The Montauk, in the limited sense, 

 formerly occupied Easthampton tp., Suf- 

 folk CO., at the e. end of Long Island, 

 and controlled all the other tribes of the 

 island, except those near the w. end. 

 That these so-called tribes were but parts 

 of one group or tribe, or the loosely 

 connected elements of what had been 

 an organized body, seems apparent. 

 Ruttenber, speaking of the Montauk 

 in the limited. sense, says: "This chief- 

 taincy was acknowledged both by the 

 Indians and the Europeans as the ruling 

 family of the island. They were indeed 

 the head of the tribe of Montauk, the 

 other divisions named being simply clans 



DAVID PHARAOH, "LAST KING OF THE MONTAUK" 



or groups, a.s in the case of other tribes. 

 . . . Wyandance, their sachem, was 

 also the grand sachem of Paumanacke, 

 or Sewanhackey, as the island was called. 

 Nearly all the deed.s for lands were con- 

 firmed by him. His younger brothers, 

 Nowedonah and Poygratasuck [Poggata- 

 cut], were respectively sachems of the 

 Shinecock and the Manhasset." The 

 Rockaway and Cannarsee at the w. end 

 were probably not included. It is doubt- 

 ful whether he is correct in including 

 the west-end Indians in the confederacy. 

 The principal Montauk village, which 

 probal)ly bore the name of the tribe, 

 was about Ft Pond, near Montauk jit. 

 The Pequot made them and their sub- 

 ordinates tributary, and on the destruc- 

 tion of that tribe in 1637, the Narra- 

 ganset began a series of attacks which 

 finally, about 1659, forced the Montauk, 



