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MSEPASE — MUGWUMP 



[b. a. fi. 



connection with the Dutch of New York. 

 He was in close relations with Ninigret 

 in his movements. (c. t. ) 



Msepase (MHupesIn, 'big lynx.' — 

 W. J. ). A gens of the Shawnee, q. v. 



Meshipeshi. — W'm. Jones, inf'n, 1906. M'-se'-pa- 

 se,— IMorsan, Ane. Soc, 108, 1877. Panther.— Ibid. 



Muanbissek. Mentioned in a letter sent 

 by the Abnaki to the governor of New 

 England in 1721 as one of the divisions of 

 their tribe. Not identified. 



Muayu. The Yaudanchi name of a 

 village site on Tule r., Cal.; also known 

 as Chesheshim. It is not the name of a 

 tribe, as stated by Powers. 



Chesheshim,— A. L. Kroeber, inf'n, 1903. Mai- 

 ai'-u.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., iii, 370, 

 1877. Muayu,— A. L. Kroeber, inf'n, 1906. 



Muchalat. A Nootka tribe on Mucha- 

 lat arm of Nootka sd., w. coast of Van- 

 couver id.; pop. 62 in 1906. Their prin- 

 cipal village is Cheshish. 



Match-clats,— Mayne, Brit. Col., 251, 1862. Match- 

 itl-aht.— Can. Ind. Atf. 1884, 186, 188.5. Michalits.— 

 Armstrong, Oregon, 136, 18.57. Mich-la-its.— Jew- 

 itt, Narr., 36, 1849. Mo'telath.— Boas in 6tli Kep. 

 N. W. Tribes Can., 31, ls90. Muchalaht.— Brit. 

 Col. map, 1872. Muchlaht.— Sproat, Sav. Life, 308, 

 1868. 



Muckawis. A name of the whippoor- 



will. Wordsworth has the "melancholy 

 muckaivis" in his poem The Excursion. 

 Carver (Travels, 468, 1778) writes, "the 

 whipperwill, or, as it is termed by the 

 Indians, the muckawiss." This onoma- 

 topoeic word is probably of Algonquian 

 origin. It occurs as mnckkowJteesce in 

 Stiles' Pequot vocabulary of 1762 (Trum- 

 bull, Natick Diet., Bull. 25, B. A. E., 

 1908). (a. f. c.) 



Muertos (Span. : El Pueblo de los Muer- 

 tos, 'the village of the dead'). A group 

 of prehistoric ruined pueblos 9 m. s. e. of 

 Tempe, in the Salt River valley, Ariz. — 

 Gushing in Compte-rendu Internat. Cong. 

 Am., VII, 162, 1892. 



Los Muertans. — Cashing, ibid., 168 (referring to 

 the former inliabitants). 



Mugg. An Arosaguntacook chief in 

 the latter half of the 17th century, con- 

 spicuous in the war beginning in 1675, 

 into which he was drawn l)y the ill-treat- 

 ment he received from the English. With 

 about 100 warriors he made an assault, 

 Oct. 12, 1676, on Black Point, now Scar- 

 boro. Me. , where the settlers had gathered 

 for protection. While the officer in charge 

 of the garrison was parleying with Mugg, 

 the whites managed to escape, only a few 

 of the officers' servants falling into the 

 hands of the Indians when the fort was 

 captured; these were kindly treated. 

 Mugg became eml)ittered toward the Eng- 

 lish when on coming in behalf of his own 

 and other Indians to treat for peace he 

 was seized and taken a prisoner to Boston, 

 although soon released. He was killed 

 at Black Point, May, 16, 1677, the place 

 he captured the preceding year. (c. t. ) 



Mugu. A former populous Chumashan 

 village, stated by Indians to have been 



on the seacoast near Pt Mugu, Ventura 

 CO., Cal., and jjlaced by Taylor on Guad- 

 alasca ranch, near the point. 

 Mugu. — Cabrillo, Narr. (1542) in Smith, Colec. 

 Doe. Fla., 181, 1857; Taylor in Cal. Parmer, July 

 24, 1863. Mu-wu. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. 

 voeab., B. A. E., 1884. 



Mugulasha. A former tribe, related to 

 the Choctaw, living on the w. bank of 

 the Mississippi, 64 leagues from the sea, 

 in a village with the Bayogoula, whose 

 language they spoke. They are said vari- 

 ously to have been the tribe called Quini- 

 pissa by La Salle and Tonti, and encoun- 

 tered by them some distance lower down 

 the river, or to have received the rem- 

 nants of that tribe reduced by disease. 

 At all events their chief was chief over 

 the Quinipissa when La Salle and Tonti 

 encountered them. In January or Feb- 

 ruary, 1700, the Bayogoula attacked the 

 Mugulasha and killed nearly all of them. 

 The name has a generic signification, 

 ' ojiposite people' — Imuklasha in Choc- 

 taw — and was applied to other tribes, as 

 Muklassa among the Creeks and West 

 Imongolasha on Chickasawhay r., and it 

 is sometimes difficult to distinguish the 

 various bodies one from another. Among 

 the Choctaw it usually refers to people 

 of the opposite phratry from that to which 

 the speaker belongs. See Imomjalasha, 

 Mitklusm. (a. s. g. j. r. s.) 



Moglushah town.— H. R. Doc. 15, 27th Cong., 2d 

 sess., 5, 1.S41. Mogolushas.— Ind. Aff. Kep., 877, 

 1847. Mogoulachas.— Sauvole (1699) in Margry, 

 Dec., IV, 453, 455, 1880. Mongontatchas, — McKeii- 

 ney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, in, 81, ls,')8. Mongou- 

 lacha. — La Harpe (1723) in French, Hi.st. Coll. La., 



III, 17, 1851. Mongoulatches. — Drake, Bk. Inds., 

 ix, 1848. Mougolaches. — Coxe, Carolana, 7, 1741. 

 Mougoulachas, — Iberville (1699) in Margry, D^e., 



IV, 113, 119, 124, 1880. 



Mugwump. Norton (Political Ameri- 

 canisms, 74, 1890) defines this word as 

 "an Independent Republican; one who 

 sets himself up to be better than his fel- 

 lows; a Pharisee." Since then the term 

 has come to mean an Independent, who, 

 feeling he can no longer support the policy 

 of his party, leaves it temijorarily or joins 

 the o})posite party as a protest. The 

 term was applied to the Independent Re- 

 publicans who bolted the nomination of 

 Blaine in 1884, and it at once gained popu- 

 lar favor. The earlier history of the term 

 is doubtful, though it seems to have been 

 for some time previous in local use in 

 parts of New England to designate a per- 

 son who makes great pretensions but 

 whose character, ability, or resources are 

 not equal to them. The word is derived 

 from the Massachuset dialect of Algon- 

 quian, being, as Trumbull pointed out, 

 the word mukqitomp, by which Eliot 

 in his translation of the Bible (Gen., 

 xxxvi, 40-43; Matt, vi, 21, etc.) renders 

 such terms as duke, lord, chief, captain, 

 leader, great man. The components of 

 the word are moqki * great ' , -omj) ' man. ' 

 In newspaper and political writings mug- 



