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MONTS PELES MOQTAVHAltAKlt! 



[b. a. e. 



Middlesex, but chiefly in New Haven co. 

 This chief, in 1638, sold a tract n. of the 

 site of New Haven comprising a large 

 portion of that county. As his father was 

 chief of theMattaljesec, his band probably 

 belonged to that tribe. (.i. m. c. t. ) 

 Mantoweeze.— Davenport (1660) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 41h s., VII, 518. 1.S65. 



Monts Pel^s. A tribe, called from the 

 nature of their country the Nation des 

 Monts Peles ( ' nation of the bare moun- 

 tains' ), living in the n. e. part of Quebec 

 province in 1661. Hind (Lab. Penin., ii, 

 1863) thinks they may have been a part 

 of the Nascapee. 



Mont-Peles.— Keane in Stanford, Compend., 523, 

 liS78. Nation des Monts pelez. — Jes. Rel. 1661, 29, 

 1858. 



Mooachaht ( ' deer people ' ) . A tribe on 

 the N. side of Nootka sd., Vancouver id. 

 This is the tribe to which the term Nootka 

 was applied by the discoverers of Van- 

 couver id. Pop. 153 in 1906. Their prin- 

 cipal village is Yucuatl. The noted Ma- 

 quinna (q. v.) was chief of this tribe in 

 1803. 



Bo-wat-chat.— Swan in Smithson. Cont., xvi, 56, 

 1870. Bowatshat.— Swan, MS., B. A. E. Moa- 

 chet.— Mavne, Brit. Col., 251, 1862. Mo'atcath.— 

 Boas in 6th Hep. N. W. Tribes Can., 31, 1890. 

 Mooachaht.— Can. Ind. .\ft'., 1,8S, 1883. Mooacht- 

 aht. — Iliid., 3.'r7, 1S97. Moo-cha-ahts.— Ibid., .52, 1875. 

 Moouchaht.— Sproat, Sav. hife, 308, 1868. Mou- 

 chatha, — Swan, MS., B. A. E. Mowaches. — Arm- 

 strong, (;)regon, 136, 1857. Mo- watch-its.— Jewitt, 

 Narr., 36, 1849. Mowatshat— Swan, MS., B. A. E. 

 Mowitchat. — Swan in Smithson. Cont., xvi, 56, 

 1870. Nootka.— Schedule of Reserves, Can. Ind. 

 Aft"., Suppl. to Ann. Rep., 82, 1902. 



Moodyville Saw Mills. The local name 

 for a body of Salish of Fraser River 

 agencv, Brit. Col.; pop. 86 in 1889. 

 Moodyville Saw Mills.— Can. Ind. Aff. Rep. 1889, 

 268, 1890. Moonyville Saw Mills.— Can. Ind. Aff. 

 Rep. 1886, 229, 18s7. 



Mooharmowikarnu {Moo-ltar- ino-ui- 

 kur^-jiu). A suljdi vision of the Dela- 

 wares (q. v.). — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 172, 

 1877. 



Mookwungwahoki ( Moo-kwung-iva-Jio^- 

 ki). A subdivision of the Delawares (q. 

 v.). — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 172, 1877. 



Moonack. A Maryland- Virginia name 

 of the ground-hog (Jrc/oH;//.s'?;io?ta.r) ; also, 

 by transference, the name of a mythic ani- 

 mal feared by many Southern negroes. 

 The word occurs very early. Glover, in 

 his account of Virginia (Philos. Trans. 

 Roy. Soc, XI, 630, 1676) , speaks of mo/K/cA-.s. 

 John Burroughs (Winter Sunshine, 25, 

 1876), says: "In Virginia they call wood- 

 chucks ' moonacks.'' " Lewis and Clark 

 (Orig. Jour., ii, iv, 1905) use the forms 

 moonax and moonox. It is probaI)le that 

 theH(o»«.(inthe scientific name of this ani- 

 mal is a Linnean latinization of its aborig- 

 inal appellation. The Virginian moonack, 

 or monack, is cognate with the Delaware 

 monachgeu (German form), the Passa- 

 maquoddy monimquess, the Micmac nnin- 

 umkiredi, etc. The word signifies 'the 

 digger,' Iroui the Algonquian radical 



mnna, or mona, 'to dig'; seen also in 

 the Chippewa monaike, 'he scratches 

 up' ; in Cree, munnltikew. The Sauk, Fox, 

 and Kickappo language has inonanaa, 

 'little digger', for woodchuck, according 

 to Dr William Jones. (a. f. c.) 



Moonhartarne {Moon-har-tar-ne, 'dig- 

 ging'). A subdivision of the Delawares 

 (q.v.).— Morgan, Anc Soc, 172, 1877. 



Moors. See Croatan Indians. 



Moose. The common name of a species 

 of large deer {Cervns alces) found in 

 Maine and parts of Canada and formerly 

 over most of n. e. North America. An 

 identical term for this animal occurs in 

 many Algonquian dialects: A'irginian, 

 moos; Narraganset and Massacihuset, 

 moos; Delaware, mos; Passamaquoddy, 

 mns; Abnaki, monz; Chippewa, vions; 

 Cree, monsuxi. All these words signify 

 ' he strips or eats off, ' in reference to the 

 animal's habit of eating the young bark 

 and twigs of trees. The word came into 

 p]nglish from one of the New England 

 dialects. Derivative words and expres- 

 sions are: Moose bird (Canada jay) ; moose 

 call, moose horn, or moose trumpet (a 

 bark trumpet used to imitate notes of 

 this animal); moose elm (slippery elm); 

 moose fly (a large brown fly common in 

 Maine) ; moosewood (applied variously to 

 the striped maple, Acer ■j)ennst/lmnica) ; 

 the leatherwood (Dirca palnslr is),- and 

 the hobblebush {VihnruiDii luntcmoides) ; 

 moose yard (the home and browsing- 

 place of tlie moose in winter), (a. f. c. ) 



Mooseliead Lake Indians. The common 

 name of a band of Penobscot living on 

 Moosehead lake, Me. — Vetromile, Abna- 

 kis, 22, 1866. 



Moosemise. A name current in parts of 

 New England, Vermont in particular, for 

 the false wintergreen {Pi/rola americana). 

 The name seems to have been transferred 

 from another plant, since in Chippewa 

 and Nipissing mo'>soiiHsh, signifying 

 'moose shrub,' designates the hobble- 

 bush ( Viburnum lantmwides), called in 

 Canadian French bois d'orignal. The 

 word, which is written moosemize also, 

 is derived from some Algonquian dialect 

 of the Chippewa group or a closely related 

 one of the E. (a. f. c_. ) 



Mooshkaooze ( ' heron ' ) . A gens of the 

 Chippewa, q. v. 



Moosh-kii-oo-ze'.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 166, 1877. 

 Moshka'U'sig. — Win. .Jones, inf'n, 1906. 



Mooskwasuh ('inuskrat'). A gene of 

 the Abnaki, q. v. 



Moos-kwa-suh'.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 174, 1877. 

 Moskwas.— .J. P. Prince, inf'n, 1905 (modern St 

 Francis Abnaki form). 



Mootaeyuhew. A Luiseno village for- 

 merly in the neighborhood of San Luis 

 Rev mission, s. Cal. — Taylor in Cal. Far- 

 mer, May 11, 1860. 



Moqtavhaitaniu {MoqUVrhiUVniu, 'black 

 men,' i. e. Ute; sing. Moqta^vhaitd'n). 



