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April of that j-ear he was surpri^ied b\- an 

 Eiijjli.sh force and surrendered. He was 

 taken to Stonington, Conn., and was shot 

 by representatives of his allied enemies 

 under the eyes of the English. His head 

 was sent as a trophy to the magistrates of 

 Hartford (De Forest, Inds. of Conn., 282, 

 1852) . Nanuntenoo was tall and strongly 

 built, and wasa man of conrageand ability. 

 His fame at times was hardly less than that 

 of King Philip. Some of his sayings have 

 been j) reserved. (a. p. c. ) 



Nanusek. An Eskimo settlement in s. 

 E. (ireenland. — Meddelelser om Gron- 

 laiid, xxv, map, 1902. 



Nanussussouk ( Nenuswlsowug^, 'they go 

 by the name of the buffalo.' — W. J. ). A 

 gens of the Sauk and Foxes. 

 Na-nus-sus'-so-uk, — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 170, 1877. 

 Nenuswisowag'. — Wui. Jones, inf n, 190(). 



Nanvogaloklak. A Magemiut village 

 on one of the lakes connected with Kvich- 

 ivak r., Alaska; pop. 100 in 1880. 

 Nanvogalokhlagamute. — Nelson (1879) (luoted bv 

 Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 454, IWti {mutc= 

 'people'). Nanvogaloklak. — Baker, ibid. Nau- 

 vogalokhlagamute. — Petroff in lUtli Census, 

 Alaska, map, 1&4 (misprint). Nauwogalokhlaga- 

 mute.— Petroff, Rep. on Alaska, 54, 1881 (mis- 

 print). 



Nanyaayi (perhaps 'people of Nanya'). 

 The most important social group among 

 the southern Tlingit. They belong to 

 the Wolf clan, have their winter town at 

 Wrangell, and camp in summer along 

 Stikine r. in Alaska. Ketgohittan and 

 Kutshittan are given as divisions. 



Naa-nu-aa-ghu. — Kane, ^Yand. in N.A., app.,lS59. 

 Nanaa'ri.— Boas, .5th Rep. N. W. TriV)es Can., 25, 

 1S89. Nan-gche-ari.— Krause, Tlinkit Ind., 120, 

 1885. Nanya'ayi. — Swanton, field notes, B. A. E., 

 1904. 



Nanykypusson. See Xaniki/piisfton^ 

 Nanzewaspe ( 'quiet heart'). The prin- 

 cipal settlement of the Osage formerly in 

 Neosho valley, s. e. Kans. According to 

 De Smet its inhabitants numbered 600 in 

 1850. 



CJan'jse -waspe. — Dorsey, Osage MS. vocab., B. A. 

 E., 1883. Nan'^se waspe, — Ibid. Nanze-Waspe. — 

 De Sniet, W. Missions, 355, 1856. 



Naogeli ( ' deer ' ) . A clan of the Seneca. 

 Canendeshe. — French writer (IGtUi) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., IX, 47, 1855. Na-o'-geh.— Morgan, 

 League Iroq., 46, 80, 18.51 (Seneca form). 



Napa. A name of doubtful Indian 

 origin, now used to designate a cotmty, a 

 town, a river, and a creek in California. 

 So far as can be learned it was not used as a 

 village name by either the Wintun or the 

 Yukian Wapj^o, the territories of both of 

 which peoples embrace parts of Napa co., 

 the boundary between them passing just 

 N. of Napa Citv. Powers (Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., Ill, 218, 1877) lists it as a Patwin 

 tribe. (s. a. b. ) 



Napai. A mixed Athapascan and Kus- 

 kwogmiut village on the n. bank of Kus- 

 kokwim r., a little above Kolmakof, 

 Alaska; pop. 23 in 1890. 

 Napaimute. — Hallock in Nat. Geog. Mag., ix, 91, 

 1898. 



Napai. A Nushagagmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage in the Nushagak district, Alaska; 

 pop. 11 in 1890. 



Napaimiut.— 11th Census, Alaska,164, 1893(Eskimo 

 name f(ir the people). 



Napaiskak. A Kuskwogmiut Eskimo 

 village on the left liank -of Kuskokwim 

 r., al)out 4 m. below P)ethel, Alaska; 

 pop. 196 in 1880, 97 in 1890. 

 Napaiskagamut.— Kilbuck (luoti'd by Baker, Geog. 

 Diet. Alaska, IWl. Napaskeagamiut,— Uth Cen- 

 sus, Alaska, 164, 1893. Napaskiagamute. — Petroff 

 in 10th Census, Alaska, 17, issi. 



Napakiak. A Kuskwogmiut village on 

 the right bank of Kuskokwim r., about 

 10 m. below Bethel, Alaska; pop. 98 in 

 1880. 



Napachiakachagamut. — Kilbuck quoted 1)y Baker, 

 Geog. Diet. Alaska, 454, 1906. Napahaiagamut. — 

 Nelson in isth Rep. B. A. K., Tit. 1, 23, map, 1899. 

 Napahaiagamute.— Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 

 17, 1S84. Napahayagamiut.— 11th Census, Alaska, 

 104, 1893. Napahayagamute,— Petroff, Resources 

 of Alaska, 53, issi. 



Napaklulik. A Malemiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on INIangoak r., Alaska, s.e. of Sela- 

 wik lake, about lat. 66° 20^ Ion. 160° 20^ 

 Nah-park-lu-lik.— Slonev (1886) quoted bv Baker, 

 Geog. Diet. Alaska, 4.54, 1906. Napaklulik.— Baker, 

 ibid. 



Napakutak. An Eskimo village on an 

 island variously called Ettyhren, Ipekut, 

 and Chirluk, off the n. e. coast of Siberia. 

 Pop. 52 in 5 houses about 1895; 37 in 4 

 houses in 1901. 



Napa'kutak.— Bogoras, Chukchee, 29, 1904 (Eski- 

 mo name). Nepe'kuten,— Ibid. (Chukchee name). 



Napeshneeduta ('Red man who flees 

 not'). A Mdew^akanton Sioux, the first 

 full-blood Dakota man to be baptized and 

 received into a Christian church. He 

 was a son of the sister of ]\Irs Renville, 

 w'ife of Joseph Renville the trader, and 

 claimed kindred with some of the prin- 

 cipal chiefs of the ]\Idewakanton. He is 

 described as having been alcove the aver- 

 age height, well formed, and with a coun- 

 tenance indicative of intelligence, kind- 

 ness, and honestv. He was baptized at 

 Lac-qui-Parle, M'inn., Feb. 21, 1840, re- 

 ceiving the name Joseph Napeshnee; his 

 wife was received into the church at the 

 same time, and he brought four children 

 to be ba]itized, three of them by former 

 wives. His wife died within 5 years, 

 Avhen he married a convert. Pretty Rain- 

 Ijow, who deserted him ; he later married 

 another Christian woman and removed 

 to Little Crow's Village, a few miles below 

 Ft Snelling, on the Mississippi, where 

 many of his relatives lived. Here he 

 became ill with fever, and l)ecause of his 

 change of religious faith his people re- 

 fu.sed him food and help. When the 

 outbreak of the Sioux began in 1862, 

 Joseph, like the other Christian Indians, 

 befriended the whites, and in the follow- 

 ing spring he was engaged as a Govern- 

 ment scout, a position which he held for 

 several years, returning finally to Lac- 

 qui-Parle where he died in July 1870. In 



