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and Gulf region have much of Indian 

 blood. Lewis and Clark reported that 

 some of the N. W. Indians, for mysterious 

 reasons, got their negro servant to consort 

 with the Indian women, so much were 

 they taken with him. According to 

 Swanton the richest man among the 8kid- 

 egate Haida is a negro. In the Indian- 

 negro half-breed, as a rule, the negro 

 type of features seems to i)re<lominate. 

 The relation of the folklore of the negroes 

 in America to that of the American abo- 

 rigines has 1)een the subject of not a little 

 discussion. In regard to the "Uncle 

 Remus" stories. Crane (Pop. Sci. Mo., 

 XVIII, o24-33, 1881) and Gerber (Jour. 

 Am. Folk-lore, vi, 245-57, 1893) assume 

 the African origin of practically all these 

 myths, and hold that such borrowing as 

 has taken place has been from thenegroes 

 by the Indians. Powell (Harris, Uncle 

 Remus, introd., 1895) and Mooney (19th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 232-34, 1900) entertain 

 the opinion that a considerable portion 

 of the myths in question are indigenous 

 with the Indians of s. e. United States. 

 The latter points out that "in all the 

 southern colonies Indian slaves were 

 bought and sold and kept in servitude 

 and worked in the tields side by side 

 with negroes up to the time of the Revo- 

 lution." The conservatism of the In- 

 dian and his dislike or contempt for the 

 negro must have prevented his borrowing 

 much, w^hile the imitativeness of the lat- 

 ter and his love for comic st(jries led him, 

 Mooney thinks, to absorb a good deal from 

 the Indian. He also holds that the idea 

 that such stories are necessarily of negro 

 origin is due largely to the common but 

 mistaken notion that the Indian has no 

 sense of humor. 



In addition to the writings cited, con- 

 sult a special study bv Chamberlain in 

 Science, xvii, 85-90, 1891. See Mixed 

 bloods^, Race mimes, Slaver;/. (a. f. c.) 



Negro Town. A village mentioned in 

 1836 as near Withlacoochee r., Fla., and 

 burned in that year bv the Americans 

 (Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 4, 135, 1848). It 

 was probably occupied by runaway slaves 

 and Seminole. 



Negusset. A former village, probably 

 of the Aliuaki, about the site of Wool- 

 wich, Me. The site was sold in 1639. 



Nassaque. — Smith (1616) in Mass. Hi.st. Soo. Coll., 

 3d s., Ill, 22, 1833. Nauseag.— Sewall (ls;?3) in Me. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., IT, 207, 1847. Neguascag.— Sewall 

 (1833), ibid.. 190 (misprint.) Neguaseag.— Willis, 

 ibid., 233. Neguasseag. — Deed of 16-18 quoted bv 

 Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 3, 100, 1848. Neguasset.— 

 Sewall (1833) in Me. Hist. See. Coll., ll. 207, 1S47. 

 Negusset. — Deed of 1648 quoted by Drake, Bk. 

 Inds,, bk. 3, 100, 1848. 



Negwagon. A chief of the Ottawa of the 

 Michilimackinac region of Michigan, com- 

 monly known as Little Wing, or Wing, 

 and also called Ningweegon. Although 

 the United States had declined the i>roffer 



of Indian services in the war with Great 

 Britain in 1812, Negwagon espoused the 

 American cau.se and lost a son in battle, 

 whereuijon he ailopted Austin E. Wing. 

 When the British took possession of 

 Michilimackinac, Negwagon retired with 

 his people to their hunting grounds, hoist- 

 ing the American flag over his camp. 

 Happening to l)e alone, he was visited by 

 British soldiers, who ordered him to 

 strike his flag. Obeying the command, 

 he wound the em))lem aromid his arm, 

 and, drawing his tomahawk, said to the 

 officer, " Englishmen, Negwagon is the 

 friend of the Americans. He has but one 

 flag and one heart; if you take one you 

 shall take the other!" Then sounding a 

 war cry he assembled his warriors and 

 was allowed to remain in peace and to 

 hoist the flag again. After the close of 

 the war he annually visited Detroit with 

 his family in two large birchl)ark canoea 

 with an American Hag flying from the 

 stern of each. Lewis Cass, then stationed 

 at Detroit, never failed to reward him on 

 the occasion of these visits with two new 

 flags. By treaty of Mar. 28, 1836, he was 

 granted an annuity of $100, payable in 

 money or goods. Negwagon is described 

 as having been very large in stature. A 

 county of Michigan was named in his 

 honor, but the name was subsequently 

 changed. Consult Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 Ill, 1857. (c. T.) 



Nehadi ( NexA^dl, ' people of Nex ' ) . A 

 Tlingit division living at Sanya, Alaska, 

 peculiar as being outside of both Tlingit 

 phratries and al)le to marry into any 

 other group. It is said to be of Tsim- 

 shian origin. (.t. r. s.) 



Nehalem. A Salish tribe formerly living 

 on or near Nehalem r. , in N. w. Oregon, but 

 nowouGrandeRonderes. Pop. 28in 1871. 

 Naalem.— Sen. Ex. Doc. 39, 32d Cong., 1st se.ss., 2, 

 18.52. Naelim. — Framboise quoted by Gairdner 

 (183.5) in Jour. Geog. Soc. Lond., xi, 255, 1841. 

 Na-e'-liim.— Dorsev, Naltilnnetiinn(5 MS. vocab., 

 B.A.E.,18S4. Nahelem.—DuflotdeMofras, Oregon, 

 II, 104, 1844. Nehalems.— Palmer in H. R. Ex. Doe. 

 93, 34th Cong., 1st sess,. 111, l.H,56. Nehalim.— 

 Victor in Overland Mo., VII, 346, 1871. Nehalins. — 

 Geary in Ind. AfF. Rep,, 171, 1860. Ne-i'lem.— 

 Gatsehet, MS., B. A. E. (Nestucca name. ) 



Nehaltmoken. A body of Salish under 

 the Eraser superintendencv, British Co- 

 luml)ia.— Can. Ind. Aff., 79, 1878. 



Nehemathla. See Neamathhi. 



Nehjao {Ne-lV-ja-o, 'wolf'). A clan of 

 the Mahican. — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 174, 

 1877. 



Nehogatawonahs. A band of the Dakota 

 near St Croix r., in Minnesota or Wis- 

 consin, in 1778. It was one of the three 

 river bands. 



Kehogatawonaher,— Balbi, Atlas Ethnog., xxxlii, 

 H 774, 1.S26. Nehogatawonahs. — Carver, Trav., 60, 

 1778. 



Neholohawee. Given l)v Havwood 

 (Hist. Tenn., 276, 1823) as tlie naiiie of a 



