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NEHOWMEAN — NENOOTHLECT 



[B. A. 



Cherokee clan, signifying 'blind sa- 

 vanna'. No such clan name or meaning 

 exists in the tribe, and the name is evi- 

 dently a bad corruption either of Ani'- 

 kihlhi or of Ani^-Gatagevvi, Cherokee clan 

 names, the latter having a slight resem- 

 blance to the word for 'swamp' or 'sa- 

 vanna', (j. M.) 



Nehowmean {JVx'6)7)Vn, meaning doubt- 

 ful). A village of the Lytton band of 

 Xtlakyapanmk, on the w. side of Fraser 

 r., H m. above Lytton, Brit. Col. 



Nehowmean. — Can. Ind. Aff., 79, 1K78. N'homi'n.— 

 Hill-Toiit in Rep. Ethnol. Surv. Can., 4, 1899. 

 Nhumeen.— Can. Ind. Aff. 1892, 312, 1893. 

 Nchomeen. — Brit. Col. Map, Ind. Aff., Victoria, 

 1872. Nx'omi'n.— Teit in Mem. Am. Mas. Nat. 

 Hist., II, 172, 1900. 



Neihahat. An unidentified village or 

 tribe mentioned by Joutel in 1689 (Mar- 

 gry, Dec, iii, 409, 1878) as an ally of the 

 Kadohadacho. 



Neiuningaitua. A settlement of the 

 Aivilirmiut Eskimo on an island n. of the 

 entrance to Lyon inlet, at the s. end of 

 Melville jienin., Canada. 



Neyuning-Eitdua.— Parry, Second Voy., 162, 1824. 

 Winter Island.— Ibid. 



Nekah {Nfka, 'goose'). A gens of the 

 Chippewa. 



Ne-kah.— Warren, Hist. Ojibways, 45, 1885. 

 Ni'ka.— Win. Jones, iiif'n, 1906. 



Nekoubaniste. A tribe, probably Mon- 

 tagnais, formerly living n. w. of L. St John, 



Quebec. 



Neconbavistes.— Lattre, map, 1784 (misprint). 

 Nekoubanistes.— Bellin, map, 1755; Alcedo, Die. 

 Ceog., Ill, 2S, 290; IV, 210, 1788. Neloubanistes. — 

 Esnants aii<l Kapilly, map, 1777 (misprint). 



Nekunsisnis ('round isle'). A former 

 Chitimacha village opposite lie aux Ois- 

 eaux, in Lac de la Fausse Pointe, La. 

 Ne'kun si'snis.— Gatsehet in Trans. Anthrop. Soc. 

 Wash., 11, l.'S2, 18.83. 



Nekun-stustai {Xeku^ii stAstd^-i, 'the 

 Stu.stas of Naikun'). A subdivision of 

 the Stustas, a family of the Eagle clan of 

 theHaida(q. v. ). As their name implies, 

 they lived near the great sand point called 

 Naikun, or Rose spit. (.t. r. s. ) 



Naeku'n stastaai'. — Boas in 12tli Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can., 23, 1898. Neku'n stAsta'-i.— Swanton, Cont. 

 Haida, 276, 1905. 



Nelcelchumnee. Given as one of the 

 tribes on Fresno res., Cal., in 1861, num- 

 bering 85 (Ind. Aff. Rep., 219, 1861). 

 Apparently the only mention of the tribe, 

 which is presumably Moquelumnau. 



Nellagottine ( 'i)eople at the end of the 

 world'). A division of the Kawcho- 

 dinne, occupying the country on L. Simp- 

 son and along Anderson r., Canada, next 

 to the Eskimo. Anderson and others 

 (Hind, Labrador Penin., ii, 260, 1863) 

 called them half Kawchodinne and half 

 Kutchin. Macfarlane( ibid., 259) said they 

 erect lodges of turf on poles. Ross said 

 in 1859 that the Kawchodinne residing in 

 the country around Ft Good Hope ex- 

 tended beyond the Arctic circle on Mac- 

 kenzie r., coming intci contact with the 

 Kutchin, with whom, by intermarriage, 



they have formed the tribe Bastard 

 Lduclieux. 



Batard Loucheux. — Hind, Labrador Penin., ii,260, 

 lSii3. Batards-Loucheux.— I'etitot, Diet. Den6-Diu- 

 iljie, .XX, 187(1. Loucheux-Batards. — Ro.ss, MS.,B. A. 

 E., 1859. Nne-lagottine. — Petitcit in Bui. Soc. 

 Geo«. Paris, chart, 1875. Nne-Ua-Gottine.— Petitot, 

 Autour du lac des Esclaves, 362, 1891. Tpa-pa-Got- 

 tine. — Ibid. (^' ocean people ' ) . Vieux de la Mer. — 

 Ibid. 



Nellmole. A rancheria belonging to the 

 former Dominican mission of San Miguel 

 de la Frontera, w. coast of Lower Cali- 

 fornia, about 30 m. s. of San Diego, Cal. 

 Its inhal)itants s5)oke a Diegueiio dia- 

 lect.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, May 18, 

 1860. 



Neluste (Ne-lus-te, 'the hollow leaf). 

 Given ])y Haywood (Tenn., 276, 1823) as 

 a clan of the Cherokee. No such clan 

 now exists, but there is some evidence of 

 the former existence of a Cherokee clan 

 taking its name from the holly {nstlMl); 

 the clan name would probably have been 

 Ani'-Us'tistr. ' (.i. m. ) 



Nemah. A former Chinook village on 

 the site of the present town of the same 

 name, on the e. side of Shoahvater bay, 

 AVash. 



Mar'hoo.— Swan, N. W. Coast, 211, 1857. Max.— 

 Boas, inf'n, 1905 (Chehalisname). Ne'ma. — Ibid. 

 (own name). TctEma'x. — Ibid. (Chehalis name 

 for the villaKcrs). 



Nemalquinner. A Chinookan tribe, be- 

 longing to the Cushook division (q. v. ) of 

 Lewis and Clark, which lived in 1806 at 

 the falls of the Willamette, in Oregon, but 

 also had a temporary house on the n. end 

 of Sauvies id., where they went occasion- 

 ally to collect wappatoo. They num- 

 bere-1 200, in 4 houses. — Lewis and Clark 

 Expe-l., II, 219, 1814. 



Nemalquinner.— Lewis and Clark Exped., II, 219, 

 1814. Ne-mal-quinner's.— Orig. Jour. Lewis and 

 Clark, VI, 116, 1905. 



Nemoy. Noted as a Snake band at the 

 head of ]\Iadison r., Mont., one of the 

 head forks of the Missouri. This would 

 place the band in Tukuarika territory, 

 though the name is not identified with 

 any known division. 

 Ne-moy.— Lewis and Clark Exped., I, map, 1814. 



Nenabozho. See Xanahozho. 



Nenekunat. See N'uii(/reL 



Nenelkyenok {Xl-'nclV-'enox, 'people 

 from the headwaters of the river'). A 

 gens of the Nimkish, a Kwakiutl tribe. — 

 Boas in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1895, 331, 1897. 



Nenelpae {Nc/ne/pae, 'those on the up- 

 per end of the river'). A gens of the 

 Koeksotenok, a Kwakiutl tribe. — Boas in 

 Rep. Nat. Mus. 1895, 330, 1897. 



Nennequi. A former village connected 

 with San Carlos mission, Cal., and said 

 to have been Esselen. — Tavlor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860. 



Nenohuttahe. See Path Killer. 



Nenoothlect (Ne-nooih-lect). A former 

 Chinookan tri])e living 28 m. from The 

 Dalles, on Columbia r., Oreg.— Lee and 

 Frost, Oregon, 176, 1844. 



