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NATES A N ATLI ATIN 



[b. a. h. 



Natesa (from ahzingh, black,' 'dark,' 

 hence 'dark people') . One of the three 

 classes or castes into which the Kutcha- 

 kutchin are divided, the others being the 

 Chitsa and the Tangesatsa, q. v. 



Nah-t'singh.— Hardisty in Smithson. Rep. 1866, 

 315, 1872 (name of theircoimtrv). Natesa. — Kirby, 

 ibid., 1864, 418, 186.5; Hardi.sty, ibid., 1S66, 315, 

 1872. Kat-sah-i. — Jones in Smithson. Rep. 1866, 

 326, 1872. Nat-singh.— Hardisty, op. eit. 



Natick ('the place of (our) search.' — 

 Tooker). A village founded by Indian 

 converts, mainly Massachuset, under the 

 supervision of the noted missionary John 

 Eliot, in 1650, near the present Natick, 

 Mass. Soon after its estal)lishnient it 

 numbered about 150 inhabitants, who 

 were given a reserve of 6,000 acres. It 

 increased in j^opulation and after King 

 Philip's war was the principal Indian vil- 

 lage in that region. In 1749 there were 

 166 Indians connected with the settle- 

 ment. On the breaking out of the French 

 and Indian war in 1754iHany of the Natick 

 Indiansenlistedagainstthe French. Some 

 never returned, and the others brought 

 back an infectiou.s disease wliich i-apidly 

 reduced the population. In 176-1 there 

 were 37 in the village and some others 

 connected with it. In 1792 the whole 

 body numbered l)ut 25 or 80, and soon 

 thereafter they had become so mixed with 

 negroes and whites as to be no longer dis- 

 tinguishable. It was reported in Dec. 

 1821, that Hannah Dexter, 76 years of 

 age. "the last of the Naticks," had been 

 murdered 1)y her grandson at Natick. 

 For a discussion of the name, consult 

 Tooker, Algonquian Series, x, 1901. See 

 Mmions. (.i. m. ) 



Mawyk.— Salii?bury(1678) in N. Y. ])oo. Col. Hist., 

 xni, .526, 1881 (misprint). Na-cheek.— Plat of 1677 

 cited by Tooker, AlKomi. Ser., x, is, 1901. Na- 

 chick.—" Di'cl. of 1677, ibid. Naitticke.— Salisbury 

 (1678), op. cit., 524. Natick.— Wilson (1651) in Mass. 

 Hist. S<ic. Coll., 3d s., IV, 177, 1834. Natics.— Bar- 

 ton. New Views, Iviii, 1798. Natik,— Eliot (1651) in 

 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s.. IV, 172, 1.H34. Natique.— 

 Eliot (1678), ibid. ,4ths., VIII, 377,1868. Nattick.— 

 Brockbolst (1678) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiii, 

 ,530,1881. Natuck.— Ibid., 524. Nittauke.— Perry 

 quoted by Tooker, Algonq. Ser., x, 9, 1901 (given 

 as Indian name). 



Nation, The. A term formerly applied 

 to several of the larger and nxire imixir- 

 tant tribes and confederacies in the Gulf 

 states, particularly the Creeks, but also to 

 the Cherokee, Catawba, Chocta\V, and 

 Chickasaw. At present it is an official 

 term a]^plied to each of the Five Civilized 

 Tribes (<!. v. ) in Oklahoma, viz, the Cher- 

 okee, Creeks, Choctaw, C'hickasaw, and 

 Seminole. The term Li'>< N'tttionii was 

 use<l l)y Canadian French writers of the 

 17th and 18th centuries (and occasion- 

 ally in English writings) to designate the 

 heathen tribes, who were distinguished 

 into Les grandes Nations and Les petites 

 Nations. The Riviere des petites Na- 

 tions in the province of t^uebec preserves 

 this designation. Specifically Le petit 

 Nation was the Weskarini, q. v. 



(h. w. h. a. p. c.) 



National Indian Association. A society 

 forimprovingtheconditionof the Indians. 

 It originated in Philadelphia in 1879 with 

 a memorial circulated by Mary L. Bon- 

 ney and Amelia Stone Quinton petition- 

 ing the (Tovernment to prevent the 

 encroachments of white settlers on Indian 

 territory and to guard the Indians in the 

 enjoyment of all the rights guaranteed to 

 them on the faith of the Nation. A sec- 

 ond memorial in 1880 o])tained 50,000 

 signatures, and a third in 1881, signed by 

 100,000 persons, asked for all Indians 

 common school and industrial teaching,' 

 land in severalty, and the full status of 

 citizens. The association, formally con- 

 stituted in 1880, and taking the name the 

 National Indian Association in 1882, 

 changing it to the Women's National 

 Indian Association in 1883, was the first 

 body of friends of the Indians to demand 

 for them citizenship and lands in sever- 

 alty. For these objects it labored till 

 1884, when missionary work was added, 

 and since then it has estal)lished for 50 

 triltes or tril)al remnants Christian mis- 

 sions, erecting more than 50 buildings, 

 which when well established were given 

 to the various jiermanent denominational 

 missionary societies. A home building 

 and loan department, a young people's 

 department, libraries, special education 

 for bright Indians, and hospital work 

 were added later. The National Indian 

 Association, which resumed its earlier 

 name in 1901, has asked for more schools, 

 an increase in the number of field 

 matrons, the righting of various wrongs, 

 and protection and justice to many tribes, 

 and has constantly advocated the appli- 

 cation of civil service reform ]irinciples to 

 the entire Indian service, the gradual 

 abolition of Indian agencies, the payment 

 of debts due Indians from the Govern- 

 ment, and other measures needed to pre- 

 pare Indians for civilized self-support 

 and good citizenship. Since 1888 the' 

 Association has pul)lished a periodical 

 called 77/e Ltdlmi'.t Friend. (a. s. q. ) 



Natkelptetenk {N'ndirlptE'tEtil-, 'yellow- 

 pine little slope ' ). A village of the Lyt- 

 ton band of Ntlakyapamuk, on the w. 

 side of Eraser r. , about a mile above 

 Lvtton, Brit. Col.— Teit in Mem. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., ii, 172, 1900. 



Natkhwunche {Xnt-inrun^-trr). A for- 

 mer village of the Chastacosta on Rogue r., 

 Oreg. — Dorsev in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 in, 234, 1890.' 



Natleh ('it [the salmon] comes again'). 

 A Natliatin village at the discharge of 

 Eraser lake into Watleh r., Brit. Col.; 

 pop. 53 in 1902, 64 in 1906. 

 Frazer's Lake Village.— Can. Ind. Aff., pt. 2, 78, 

 1906. Natle.— Morice in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. 

 1892, sec. 2, 109. 1893. Natleh.— Morice, Notes on 

 \V. Denes. 25, 1893. 



Natliatin. A Takulli sept inhabiting 

 the villages Natleh and Stella, one at each 



