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NACHTCHE- — NACOGDOCHE 



{b. a. e. 



ously spelled Nachewinga, Nan-chee- 

 ning-a, Nau-che-ning-ga, Non-che-ning- 

 ga, Non-gee-niiiga, and Notch-ee-ning-a. 

 Consult Fulton, Red Men of Iowa, 124, 

 1882; Catlin, North American Indians, 



II, 1844; Donaldson in National Museum 

 Report for 1885, 1886. 



NacMche ('golden eagle'). A subgens 

 of the Cheghita, the Eagle gens of the 

 Iowa. 



Na'tci-tce'.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 238, 1897. 

 Qra'-qtci.— Ibid. 



Nachurituei ( Natch'd^ri-tu^ei, ' yellow 

 village'). A traditional pueblo of the 

 Tigua of Isleta, N. Mex. 

 Na'dshur' tu'ei. — Gatsehet, Mythic 'I'ale of Isleta, 

 210,1891. Nah-choo-ree-too-ee. — LHmmis, Man who 

 Married the Moon, 12, 1894. Natchu'ri-tii'ei. — 

 Gatsehet, op. cit. Yellow Village. — Luinmis in St. 

 Nieholas, xvni, 833, 1891. 



Nachvak. An Eskimo missionary sta- 

 tion of the Moravians in Labrador, close 

 to C. Chidlev. — Duckworth in Proc. Cam- 

 bridge Philos. 8oe., x, 288, 1900. 



Nacisi. A small tribe, possibly of Cad- 

 doan stock, formerly dwelling in the re- 

 gion of Red r.. La. They were first men- 

 tioned b)^ Joutel in 1687, at which time 

 they were at enmity with tlieCenis (Cad- 

 do confederacy) . When Bienville and 

 St Denis were exploring Red r. of La., in 

 1700, they found on that stream a village 

 of the Nacisi consisting of 8 houses. They 

 w^ere still in this neighborhood in 1741, 

 but during the vicissitudes of the 18th 

 century seem to have drifted southward 

 beyond the border of the French prov- 

 ince, forin 17i;0they arementioned among 

 the tribes under the jurisdiction of Nacog- 

 dociies, in Texas. (a. c. f. ) 



Nacachez. — Jefl'erys, Am. Atlas, map 5, 1776. Na- 

 cassa.— Jontel (]fi'87) in Mar^ry, Dec., in, 409, 187S. 

 Nacasse. — LaHarpe (rn.l714) inFreneli, Hist. Coll. 

 La., Ill, 19, IS.'il. Nacatches.— Aleedo, Die. Geog., 



III, 279, 1788. Kacisi. -Census of 1790 in Te.xas 

 State Archives. Nagusi. — Coxe, Carolana, map, 

 1741. Nahacassi. — .loutel. op. cit. Nakasas. — 

 Bienville (1700) in Margry, Dec, iv, 439, 1880. 



Nacogdoche (Xa-l-n-Jiodo-tsi). A tribe 

 of the llasinai confederacy of Texas. It 

 has l)een said that their language dif- 

 fered from that of the Hasinai grou^) in 

 general, but there is much evidence to 

 indicate that this is not true. For exam- 

 ple, Ramon, who founded missions at the 

 Neche, Hainai, Nasoni, and Nacogdoche 

 villages in 1716, states in his report that 

 "these four missions will comprise from 

 four to five thousand per.'^ons of both 

 sexes, all of one idiom" (Representacion, 

 July 22, 1716, in Mem. de Nneva Espana, 

 x.xvii, 160, IMS.). On the same day the 

 missionaries wrote that the Nacogdoche 

 mission "N. S. de Guadalupe ... is 

 awaiting people of the same language 

 and customs" as those of the Indians 

 of mission Concepcion, i. e., the Hainai 

 (ibid., 163). In 1752, when the gov- 

 ernor of Texas was arranging to inspect 

 the villages of the Hainai, Nabedache, 



Nacogdoche, Nasoni, and Nadote, An- 

 tonio Barrera was appointed interpreter, 

 because he was a person "understanding 

 with all perfection the idiom of these 

 Indians," the implication being that 

 they all spoke a single language (Jacinto 

 de Barrios y Juaregui, Oct. 30, 1752, in 

 Archivo General, Hist., 299, MS. ). Mez- 

 icres said that the Nabedache, Nadaco 

 (Anadarko), Hainai, and Nacogdoche 

 spoke the same language (letter to Croix, 

 Feb. 20, 1778, Mem. de Nueva Espana, 

 XXVIII, 229, MS.) . Other similar evidence 

 might be cited. 



Their main village at the opening of 

 the 18th century and for a long time 

 thereafter was approximately on the site 

 of the modern city of Nacogdoches, where 

 four Indian mounds existed until recently. 

 This place seems to have been called 

 Nevantin. The Nacogdoche were men- 

 tioned ap]>arently by the Gentleman of 

 Elvas in liis account of the De Soto ex- 

 pedition; but they were first made def- 

 initely known by Jesus Maria in 1691, 

 who called them the Nazadachotzi, indi- 

 cated correctly their location, and classi- 

 fied them as one of the nine Aseney 

 (Hasinai) tribes (Relacion, 108, MS.). 

 It seems probable that the Nacogdoche 

 are distinct from the Aquodocez, with 

 whom Pcnicaut in 1714 said the Assinais 

 were at war (Margry, Dec, v, 504, 1883). 

 At this time San Denis found the Nacog- 

 doche, Hainai, Nadaco (Anadarko), and 

 others at war with the lower Natchitoch, 

 but he restored peace among them (La 

 Harpe in Margry, Dec, vi, 193, 1886; see 

 also letter ofMacartij, Nov. 17, 1763, 

 Nacogdoches Archives, MS. ). Espinosa 

 tells us that the Nasoni, whose main vil- 

 lage was some 25 m. to the n., were es- 

 pecially closely allied with the Nacog- 

 doche, and came to their village for some 

 of their princi])al religions ol)servances 

 (Clironica Apostolica, i, 425, 1746). 



In July, 1716, the Franciscans of the 

 college at Zacatecas established their first 

 Texas mission at the main Nacogdoche 

 village for this tribe and the Nacao. 

 This mission l)e(!ame the headijuarters of 

 the jiresident, Fray Antonio Margil de 

 Jesus (Espinosa, Diario, entries for July 

 5-8, MS., Archivo General). In 1719 

 the mission, like all the others of e. Texas, 

 was abandoned through fear of a French 

 attack, but was reestablished in 1721 on 

 the same site (Pena, Diario, Mem. de 

 Nueva Espana, xxviii, 44, MS.). The 

 mission continued to exist long after three 

 of its neighbors had been removed; but 

 it had very little success, and in 1773 it 

 was abandoned. The Spanish settlers, 

 who were removed at this time from 

 Adaes, and at whose head was Antonio 

 (ilil Ybarbo, were allowed to settle on the 

 Trinity, founding in 1774 a place which 



