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NAGUS NAHCHE 



tB. A. B. 



chief of the Mille Lac Chippewa of Min- 

 nesota in the first half of the 19th cen- 

 tury, and the principal man of the Wolf 

 clan. He was descended from a Chip- 

 pewa woman and a Dakota chief. In 

 behalf of his tribe he signed the general 

 treaty of Prairie du Chien, Wis., Aug. 

 19, 1825, and the treaty between the 

 Chippewa and the United States made 

 at Fond du Lac, Wis., Aug. 6, 1826. His 

 name is also written Nauquanabee and 

 Nagwunabee. 



Nagus {X(VgA.^, ' town inhabited ' ). A 

 town of the Hagi-lanas family of the 

 Haida on an inlet on the s. w. coast of 

 Moresby id., Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. 

 Col.— Swanton, Cont. Haida, 277, 1905. 



Nagwunabee. See Naguonahe. 



Nahaego. A Shoshonean division for- 

 merly living in Reese r. valley and about 

 Austin in central Nevada. There were 

 several bands, numbering 530 in 1873. 

 Na-hae-go.— Powell in Ind. Att'. Rep. 1873, 52, 1874. 

 Keese River Indians.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 June 2(3, 1803. Tutoi band.— Ibid, (named from 

 Tutoi or Tot6na, their chief). 



Nahane ('people of the west' — A. F. 

 C). An Athapascan division occupy- 

 ing the region of British Columbia and 

 Yukon Ter. between the Coast range 

 and the Rocky mts., from the n. border 

 of the Sekani, about 57° n., to that of the 

 Kutchin tribes, about 65° n. It com- 

 prises the Tahltan and Takutine tribes 

 forming the Tahltan division, the Titsho- 

 tina and Etagottine tribes forming the 

 Kaska division, and the Esbataottine and 

 Abbatotine ( considered by Petitot to be 

 the same tribe), Sazeutina, Ettchaottine, 

 Etagottine, Kraylongottine, Klokegot- 

 tine, and perhaps Lakuyip and Tsetsaut. 

 They correspond with Petitot's Monta- 

 gnard group, except that he included also 

 the Sekani. The language of the Nahane 

 however constitutes a dialect by itself, en- 

 tirely distinct from Sekani, Carrier, or Ku- 

 tchin. The western divisions have been 

 powerfully influenced by their Tlingit 

 neighbors of Wraugell, and have adopted 

 their clan organization with maternal 

 descent, the potlatch customs of the coast 

 tribes, and many words and expressions 

 of their language. The two principal so- 

 cial divisions or ]ihratries are called Raven 

 and Wolf, and tlie fact that Sazeutina and 

 Titshotina seem to signify 'Bear people' 

 and ' Grouse people ' respectively, leads 

 Morice to suspect that these groups are 

 really phratrie§ or clans. The eastern 

 Nahane have a loose paternal organization 

 like the Sekani and other Athapascan 

 tribes farther e. According to Morice 

 the Nahane have suffered very heavily 

 as a result of white contact. He estimates 

 theentirepopulationatabout 1,000. Con- 

 sult Morice in Trans. Can. Inst., vii, 517- 

 534, 1904. See Tahltan. (j. R. s.) 



Dene des Montagnes-Rocheuses. — Petitot, Diet. 

 Deni DindjiC", xx, 1876. Kunana.— McKay in 10th 



Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 88, 1895 (Tlingit name). 

 Montagnais. — Petitot, Autour du lac des Esclaves, 

 362,1891. Naa'anee.— Petitot quoted by Dall in 

 Cont. N. A. Ethnol., i, 32, 1877. Na-ai'.— Dawson 

 in Geol. Surv. Can. 1887-8, 201b, 1889. Na'ane.— 

 Morice, Notes on W. Denes, 19, 1893. Na-ane- 

 ottine.— Petitot, MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1865. Na' 

 an-ne.— Petitot in Bull. Soe. de G6og. Paris, chart, 

 1875. Ka" annes.— Petitot, Diet. Dene-Dindjie, 

 XX, 1876. Nahane. — Morice in Trans. Can. 

 Inst., VII, 517, 1904. Nahanes.— Morice in Proc. 

 Can. Inst., 112, 1889. Nah'-anestene.— Morice, let- 

 ter, 1890. Nahanies.— Dunn, Hist. Oregon, 79, 1844. 

 Nahanis. — Duflot de IMofras, Explor. de I'Oregon, 

 11,183,1844. Nahan-'ne.— Petitot, Autour du lac 

 lac des Esclaves, 362, 1891. Kahannie.— Hind, Lab- 

 rador Penin., 11,261,1863. Nahaunies. — Hardistyin 

 Smithson. Rep. 1866, 311, 1872. Nah-aw'-ny.— Ross, 

 MS. notes on Tinne, B. A. E. Napi-an-ottine. — 

 Petitot, MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1865. Nathannas.— 

 Mackenzie cited by Morice in Trans. Can. Inst, 

 VII, 617, 1904. Nehanes.— Bancroft, Nat. Races, 

 I, map, 1882. Nehanies,— Anderson (1858) in Hind, 

 Labrador Renin., ii, 260, 1863. Nehannee.— 

 Bancroft, Nat. Races, I, 149, 1882. Nehannes.— 

 Ibid., 125, 1874. Nehanni.— Latham in Trans. 

 Philol. Soc. Lond., 69, 1856. Nehaunay.— Ross, 

 Nehaunay MS. vocab., B. A. E. Nehaunees.— 

 Dall, Alaska, 429, 1870. Nohannaies.—Balbi, Atlas 

 Ethnog., 821, 1826. Nohannies.— Gallatin in Trans. 

 Am. Antiq. Soc, ii, 19, 1S36, Nohannis.— Prichard, 

 Phys. Hist., V, 377, ]S47. Nbhhane.— Richard- 

 son, Arct. Exped., l, 179, 1851. Nohhannies, — 

 Franklin, Journ. Polar Sea, ii, 87, 1824. Rocky 

 Mountain Indian. — Mackenzie, Voy., 163, 1801. 



Nahankhuotane. A part of the Umpqua 

 living on Cow cr., Oreg., and commonly 

 known as Cow Creeks. By treaty of Sept. 

 19, 1853, they ceded their lands' in s. w. 

 Oregon. They were associated with the 

 Tututni and were among those who op- 

 posed the uprising in 1856. They were 

 settled on Crande Ronde res., where 23 

 were still living in 1906. 

 Ci'-sta-qwut ni'-li t"9at' ^unne. — Dorsey in Jour. 

 Am. Folk-lore, in, 234, 1890 ('people far from 

 Rogue r.': Naltunnetiume name). Cow Creek 

 bandof Indians.— U. S. Ind. Treaties, 974, 1873, Cow 

 Creeks.— Palmer in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1856, 214, 1857. 

 Cow Creek TJmpquahs. — Ibid. . 219. Nahan^uotane. — 

 Gatschet, Umpqua MS. vocab. B. A. E., 1877 (Ump- 

 qua name). Se'-qwiit ^unne. — Dorsey, Coquille 

 MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1884 (Mishikhwutmetunne 

 name.) 



Nahapassnmkeck. A Massachuset vil- 

 lage, in 1616, in the n. part of Plymouth 

 CO., Mass., probably on the coast. — Smith 

 (1616) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., vi, 

 108, 1837. 



Nahawas-hadai [Na xawa^s xd^da-i, 

 'watery-house people'). A subdivision 

 of the Salendas, a family of the Eagle clan 

 of the Haida. They used to give away 

 so much grease at their feasts that the 

 floor of their house was said to be "mud- 

 dy" with it, hence the name. — Swanton, 

 Cont. Haida, 276, 1905. 



Nahche {Na-ai-cJi e, 'mischievous,' 

 'meddlesome.' — George Wrattan). An 

 Apache warrior, a member of the Chi- 

 ricahua band. He is the second son of 

 the celebrated Cochise, and as hereditary 

 chief succeeded his elder brother, Tazi, 

 on the death of the latter. His mother 

 was a daughter of the notorious Mangas 

 Coloradas. As a child Nahche was med- 

 dlesomeand mischievous, hencehisname. 

 He was the leading spirit in the many 

 raids that almost desolated the smaller 



