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ous small, dark-colored poisonous rattle- 

 snakes, inhabiting the lake and jn-airie 

 regions, such as the Cwtalojihorus (er- 

 geminus {Sistrums catenatus) , and pos- 

 sibh'to C.kirtlaudi, the black massasauga. 

 Cuoq gives as the meaning of the term 

 natoice, a "kind of large serpent formerly 

 quite common in the neighboihood of 

 Michillimakina, i. e., Mackinac, the flesh 

 of which the Indians ate; the Algonkin 

 and all nations of the Algonquian tongue 

 give this name to the Iroquois and to tribes 

 of the Iroquoian stock. ' ' The Menominee 

 (Hoffman) apply the term to the mas- 

 sasauga rattlesnake, and the Chij^pewa 

 (Tanner) to a "thick, short rattlesnake." 

 In Tanner's list of Ottawa tribal names 

 are found Navlowuig, Naudowaytf, 'rattle- 

 snakes,' and MatcTienmvtoivay^, 'bad Nau- 

 doways,' and in a footnote to the word 

 Anego, 'ant,' it is stated that these same 

 Naudoway Indians relate a fable of an 

 old man and an old woman to the effect 

 that these two watched an ant-hill until 

 the ants therein became transformed into 

 white men, and the eggs which these ants 

 were carrying in their mouths were trans- 

 formed into bales of merchandise. But 

 in none of these references are the people 

 so named thereby defined in such manner 

 that without other information they may 

 be recognized by other nomenclature. 



The word ' ' Sioux "is itself an abbrevi- 

 ation of the diminutive of this term, 

 namely, Nadowe-is-iw, literally 'he is a 

 small massasauga rattlesnake,' the sense- 

 giving part of the word being dropped, 

 but signifying 'enemy,' 'enemies.' This 

 diminutive form, with the qualifying 

 epithet Mascoutens, was a name of the 

 Iowa and the Teton. In Virginia the 

 term, which became Anglicized into 

 "Nottoway," was applied to an Ir'o(juoian 

 tribe resident there. In this locality it 

 is probable that the name was applied 

 originally to the rattlesnake common to 

 this eastern region. (.i. N. b. h.) 



Naenshya {Natynsx'a, 'dirty teeth'). 

 The name of two Kwakiutl gentes, one 

 belonging to the Koskimo, the other to 

 the Nakomgilisala. — Boas in Nat. Mus. 

 Eep. 1895, 329, 1897. 



Na-gan-nab. See Nagonuh. 



Nageuktormiut ('horn people'). A 

 tribe of Eskimo who summer at the 

 mouth of Coppermine r. and winter on 

 Richardson r., INIackenzie Ter., Canada. 



Deer-Horn Esquimaux. — Franklin.. lourn. to Polar 

 Sea, n, 178, 1824. Na-ge-uk-tor-me-ut. — Richard- 

 son, Arct. Exped., l,362. 1S51. Naggiuktop meut. — 

 Petitot in Bib. Ling, et Ethnog. Am., ni, xi, 1876. 

 Naggoe-ook-tor-moe-oot. — Richardson in Franklin, 

 Second Exped., 174, 1828. Nappa-arktok-towock. — 

 Franklin, Journ. to Polar Sea, ii, 178, l.s24. 



Nagokaydn ('pass in the mountains'). 

 A band of the Pinal Coyoteros at San Car- 

 los agency, Ariz., in 1881. — Bourke in 

 Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 112, 1890. 



Nagoiiabe(iVrt(7ft?iaM). A former Chip- 

 pewa village in lower Michigan (Smith in 

 Ind. Aff. Kep., 53, 1851). A chief of this 

 name represented a band on "South 

 Monistic " r. in 1835 (Mich. Pion. Coll. , xii, 

 622, 1888 ) . See also Nagonuh, Naguonahe. 



Nagonub {Niganiiht, or Niganuh, 'the 

 foremost sitter'). A Chippewa Indian, 

 born about 1815, and first mentioned as 

 attracting the attention of Gen. Lewis 

 Cass by his sprightliness while but a 

 mere lad. So well pleased was Cass that 

 he gave Nagonub a medal and a written 

 token of his precocity. He attained no- 

 toriety through his spirited and often 

 fiery oratory, and his unusually cour- 

 teous manners won for him the decla- 

 ration that he was the "beau ideal of 

 an Indian chief" (M<irse in Wis. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., Ill, 349, 1857). Nagonub is 

 said also to have been an especial favorite 

 with the white ladies, whom he greeted 

 with the ease and grace of a courtier. He 

 signed as first chief of the Fond du Lac 

 Chippewa the treaties of La Pointe, Wis., 

 Oct. 4, 1842, and Sept. 30, 1854. His 

 portrait, painted by J. 0. Lewis and 

 copied l3y King in 1827, hung in the In- 

 dian Gallery of the Smithsonian build- 

 ing at Washington, but was destroyed by 

 fire in 1865. His name is also written 

 Naa-gar-nep, Na-gan-nab, and Naw-gaw- 

 nub. (c. T. ) 



Nagosugn. A band of the Pinal Coyo- 

 teros found in 1881 by Bourke (Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, in, 112, 1890) at San Carlos 

 agency, Ariz. ; correlated with the 

 Natootzuzn of the White Mountain 

 Apache, and with the Nadohotzosn of 

 the Chiricahua. 



Naguatex. A town and province w. of 

 the Mississippi, visited by Moscoso, of 

 De Soto's army, in 1542. Located bv 

 Lewis (Narr. De Soto, 238, 1907) on the 

 w. side of Washita r., in the present 

 Clark CO., Ark. The tribe was evidently 

 Caddoan. 



Nagateux.— Harris, Voy. and Trav., I, 810, 1705. 

 Naguatex. — Gentl.of Elvas (ir>,57) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., II, 196, 1850. Naguatez.— Barton, New 

 Views, app., 9, 1798. 



Naguchee {NagiitsV). A former im- 

 I^ortant Cherokee settlement about the 

 junction of Soquee and Sautee rs., in Na- 

 coochee valley, at the head of Chatta- 

 hoochee r., in. Habersham co., Ga. The 

 meaning of the word is lost, and it is 

 doubtful if it be of Cherokee origin. It 

 may have some connection Avith the name 

 of the Yuchi Indians. — Mooney in 19th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 526, 1900. 

 Cauchi. — Pardo {ca. 1598) quoted by Mooney, op. 

 cit., 28 (probably identical). Nacoothee. — Com- 

 mon map form. Nae oche. — Bartram, Travels, 372, 

 1792. Noccocsee.— Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 

 map, 18S7. 



Naguonabe ('feather end,' according to 

 Warren, evidently referring to a feather 

 at the end of a row of others) . The civil 



