14 SIOUAN TRIBES OF THE EAST. [ 



BUREAU OF 

 ETHXULOCiY 



inveterate aii eiiinity that it could be extinguished, only by their total 

 extirpation" (New York, 2). On the same subject, Byrd said, in 1728: 

 "And now I mention the northern Indians, it may not be improper 

 to talce notice of their implacable hatred to those of the south. Their 

 wars are everlasting, without any peace, enmity being the only iidier- 

 itance among them that descends from father to son, and either party 

 will march a thousand miles to take their revenge upon such hereditary 

 enemies" (Byrd, 2), The great overmastering fact in the history of the 

 Siouau tribes of the east is that of their destruction by the Iroquois. 



The various tribes and confederacies which made up this eastern 

 Siouan group, or were intimately connected with it, will be treated sep- 

 arately. The description of each tribe will be preceded by a synonymy, 

 giving the various names known to have been apphed to it. The 

 Biloxi, whose isolated position has given them a separate history, 

 will first bo described, and more closely aggregated tribes and confed- 

 eracies Avill then receive attention. 



THE BILOXI. 



Si/uoin/my. 



Ananis (for Auaxisf ). — Document of 1699 in French, Louisiana, 1875, p. 99. 

 Annoccluj. — Document of 1699 in Margry, Decouvertes, vol. iv, 1880, p. 172. 

 Bahixa. — Brown, Western Gazetteer 1817, p. 133. 



i?e/o«.— Porter (1829) in Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, 1853, vol. iii, p. 596. 

 i>'e?»x(s.— Document of 1764 in New York Doc. Col. Hist., 1850, vol. vii, p. 641. 

 Bilexes. — Berquin-Duvallou, Travels in Louisiana, 1806, p. 97. 

 Z>i//ojf;ts.— Butel-Dumont, Louisiana, 1753, vol. i, p. 134. 

 Bilocchij. — De ITsle map, 1700. 



Btloccls.—R6\nn, Voyagi^ a la Louisiaue, 1807, vol. ii, p. 54. 

 BUoui. — Ber(iuin-DuvalIon, Travels in Louisiana, 1806, p. 91, note (misprint). 

 Biloxis.—VGn'iciint (1699) in French, Louisiana, n. s., 1869, p. 38. 

 i?i7HS(.— Michler in Report of Secretary of War, 1850, p. 32. 

 Z>7(t/i,s*',— Mo(mey, MS., 1886 ("Trifling, worthless;" Choctaw name). 

 />'(■« HA/i.v/(.—Gatschet, Caddo and Yatassi MS., 1885 (Caddo name), 

 /yo/ixies.— Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, 1854, vol. iv, p. 561. 

 L'oZwr«s.— Sibley (1805) in Lewis and Clark, Discovery, 1806, p. 94. 

 /Vt/iiJ-sit's.— Parker, Texas, 1856, p. 221. 



Poliilcsalgi.—Qiix,tiic\nit, Creek MS. (Creek name, plural form). 



ronioiicsis (for Pouloucsis?). — Borquin-Duvallon, Travels in Louisiana, 1806, p. 94. 

 Tuucks or 7V(hAs. — Gatschet, Biloxi MS., 1886. (Name used by themselves; Taneks 

 liaya, the Biloxi ])eople j 



Inspection of the various names which have been applied to this 

 tribe suggests that they are all derivatives from Taneks, the name 

 by which the Biloxi call themselves. The interchangeability of the 

 liquids /, n, and r in different dialects is a well-known linguistic fact, 

 while the substitution of a labial for a dental or a compound labial- 

 dental is of frequent occurrence in the Siouan languages. As exam- 

 ples, Dorsey mentions mda or bla and mdu or bin, i)ronominal particles 

 in Dakota, which become hata or hatu in Oto, and ta or tu in Winne- 



