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NA PETACA— -NARRAG AKSET 



[b. a. b. 



his last years Joseph was respected for 

 his piety and industrj- by both whites 

 and Indians. For nearly 10 years he was 

 a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church, 

 and supported his family, notwithstand- 

 ing the infirmities of old age, without 

 Government aid. See Williamson in 

 Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., in, 188, 1880. 



Napetaca. A village of the Yustaga 

 tribe or "province" in Florida, the scene 

 of one of the fiercest l)attles between the 

 Indians and De Soto's troops in 1539. It 

 was prol)ably on one of the head-streams 

 of Suwannee r. (j. m.) 



Napetaca.— Gentl. of Elvas (1557) quoted by 

 Bourne, De Soto Narr., i, 41, 190-1. Napetuca. — 

 Gentl. of Elvas in Hakluyt Soc. Pub., ix, 39, l.s51. 

 Napituca.— Ranjel (ca. 1516) in Bourne, op. cit., 

 n, 73, 1904. 



Napeut. A former Pima rancheria on 

 the N. bank of the Rio Gila, s. Ariz. ; vis- 

 ited by Father Garces in 1770. 

 Napeut.— Arrieivita, Chr6nica, ii, 416, 1792. 



Napissa (Choctaw: na"p/sa, 'spy,' 'sen- 

 tinel'). A tribe mentioned in 1699 by 

 Iberville as united with the Chickasaw, 

 living in villages adjoining those of the 

 latter, and speaking the same or a cognate 

 language. As they disappear from his- 

 tory early in the ISth century, it is prob- 

 able that they were absorbed by the 

 Chickasaw, if indeed they were not a 

 local division of the latter. {a. s. g. ) 

 Napissa.— Iberville (1699) in Margry, Dec., IV, 184, 

 1880. Napyosa.— Ibid., 164. Napyssas.— Ibid., 180. 



Napiw. See Nanahozho. 



Napobatin. A name said by Gibbs 

 (Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 110. 1853) 

 to signify 'many houses,' and to have 

 been used by the Indians of Big valley, 

 on the s. shore of the main body of Clear 

 lake, for themselves collectively. This is 

 doubtful. (s. A. B. ) 



Napochies. A tribe living near Coosa r. , 

 Ala., at war with the Co(;'as (Creeks) in 

 1 560. They were probably a Muskhogean 

 people, more nearly affiliated to the mod- 

 ern Choctaw. Cf. Napissa. 

 Napaches.— Fairbank.i, Hist. Fla., 86, 1871. Napo- 

 chies.— Barcia, Ensayo, 35-37, 1723. 



Napoya. A clan of the Apohola phra- 

 try of the Timucua of Florida. — Pareja 

 {ca. 1612) quoted by Gatschet in Proc. 

 Am. Philos. Soc, xvii, 492, 1878. 



Nappeckamak ('enclosed or occupied 

 water-place'). The principal village of 

 the Manhattan, on the site of Yonkers, 

 N. Y. 



Nappeckamaks.— Bolton quoted by Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson's R., 77, 1872. Nappikomack,— Rut- 

 tenber, Ind. Geog. Names, 23, 1906. Nepahko- 

 muk. — Ibid. 



Napuchi ('mountain pass'). A small 

 rancheria of the Tarahumare near Noro- 

 gachic. Chihuahua, Mexico. — Lumholtz, 

 inf'n, 1894. 



Naquisco^a. An unidentified town vis- 

 ited by Moscoso's troops in 1542, w. of 

 Mississippi r. — Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in 

 French, Hist. Coll. La., ii, 199, 1850. ' 



NarajeracMc ('where the dead are 

 dancing') . A burial cave of the Tarahu- 

 mare in the Arroyo de las Iglesias, on the 

 road from Batopilas to Carichic, in s. w. 

 Chihuahua, Mexico. It has been much 

 despoiled in recent years on account of 

 mining the saltpeter deposits in the cave, 

 in conducting which about a hundred 

 bodies were uncovered. — Lumholtz, Un- 

 known Mex., I, 222, 1902. 



Nararachic (probably 'place of tears', 

 or ' weeping j^lace ' ) . Formerly a large 

 pueblo of the Tarahumare, but now an 

 unimportant settlement about 15 m. n. 

 of Norogachic, lat. 27° 40^ Ion. 107°, 

 Chihuahua, Mexico. With the neigh- 

 boring ranches the population numbered 

 about 180 families in 1902. 



Marrarachic. — Lumholtz in Scribner's Mag., xvi, 

 311, Sept. 1.S94 (misprint). Nararachic— Lumholtz 

 in Internat. Cong. Anthrop., 102, 1894. 



Naraticon. A division of the Delawares 

 of s. New Jersey. They have been vari- 

 ously located by writers, but according 

 to Brinton lived on Raccoon cr. 

 Mattikongy.— Do Laet (1633) in N. Y. Hist. .Soc. 

 Coll., 2d .s., I, 315, 1841. Naratekons,- De Laet 

 (1633), ibid., 303. Naraticons. — Brinton, Lenape 

 Leg., 42, 1885. Naricon.— Doe. of 1656 in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., I, 590, 1856 ( the creek ). Narraticongs.— 

 Proud, Penn., ll, 295, 1798. Narraticonse. — Stuv- 

 vesant (1608) in N. Y. Doe. Col. Hist., xii, 61, 1877. 

 Narratikonck. — Herrman map, 1670. Nar-rit-i- 

 congs.— Macauley, N. Y., ii, 164, 1829. 



Narices. A tribe, isrobably Coahuilte- 

 can or Tamaulipan, at Reinoso, Mexico, 

 nearthe Rio Grande, below Laredo, Texas, 

 in 1757. They were with the Nazas, 

 Comecrudos, and Tejones. The Narices 

 and the Nazas had been converted at 

 Villa de Pilon, in Nueva Leon (Joseph 

 Tienda de Cuervo, Informe del Recono- 

 cimiento e Ynspecciun de la Colonia de el 

 Seno Mexicano, 1757, MS. in the Archive 

 General, Historia, lvi; Orozco y Berra, 

 Geog., 294, 1864). (h. e. b.) 



Narises. — Tienda de Cuervo, op. cit., 1757. 



Nariz (probably Spanish 'nose'). A 

 Papago village, probably in Pima co., s. 

 Ariz.; pop. about 250 in 1863. 

 Naris.— Browne, Apache Country, 291, 1869 (mi.s- 

 quoting Poston). Nariz. — Poston in Ind. Aff. 

 Rep. 1863, 385, 1864. 



Narosigak. An Ikogmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on the left bank of Kwemeluk pass, 

 at Nioklakowik slough, Yukon delta, 

 Alaska. 



Narosigagamieut.— Putnam (1899) cited by Baker, 

 Geog. Diet. Alaska, 4.54, 1906 {mieut=' people'). 

 Narosigak. — Baker, ibid. 



Narraganset ( ' people of the small point, ' 

 irom naiagans, diminutive oi naiag, 'small 

 point of land,' with locative ending -d). 

 An Algonquian tribe, formerly one of the 

 leading tribes of New England. They 

 occupied Rhode Island w. of Narragansett 

 bay, including the Niantic territory, from 

 Providence r. on the n. e. to Pawcafcuck i 

 r. on the s. w. On the n. w. they claimed 

 control over a part of the country of the 

 Coweset aiKl Nipmuc, and on the s. w. 

 they claimed by conquest from the Pequot 



