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NEUTUBVIG NEVOME 



[b. a. e. 



chieftains and persons noted for valor and 

 wisdom, by the substitution of some per- 

 son who they thoufiht was like the 

 deceased in person, ane, and character. 

 The selection wag made in council, by 

 the clan of the deceased person; then all 

 the people except the one chosen arose, 

 and the master of ceremonies, gently 

 lowering his hand to the earth, feigned 

 to raise the illustrious dead from the 

 tomb and to give life to him in the per- 

 son of the chosen one, on whom he then 

 imposed the name and dignity of the 

 dead chieftain, and tiie newly made chief- 

 tain then arose amid the ceremonial ac- 

 claim of the i)eople. 



In 1643 the Neutrals sent an expedi- 

 tion of 2,000 warriors against the "Nation 

 du feu," some of whom they attacked in 

 a palisaded village defended by 900 men, 

 wlao bravely withstood the first assaults; 

 but after a siege of 10 days the Neutrals 

 carried the palisade and killed on the 

 spot many of its defenders and took 

 about 800 captives. After burning 70 of 

 the best warriors of the Nation du feu, 

 they put out the eyes and girdled the 

 mouths of the old men, whom they 

 afterward abandoned to starve (Jes. 

 Rel. 1643-44). The same authority also 

 says that the Nation du feu alone was 

 more populous than all the Neutral na- 

 tion, all the Ilurons, and all the Iro- 

 quois, showing that the term had not yet 

 become restricted to those now called 

 Mascoutens, or "Small Prairie people," 

 but included all the so-called Illinois 

 tribes as well. 



From the Journal des PP. Jesuites for 

 1652-53 it is learned that the portions of 

 the Tobacco Nation and of the Neutral 

 Nation then remaining indejiendent 

 bodies of people were assembling with 

 all neighl>()ring Algonquian tril)es at 

 A'otonatendie (Akotonatendike?), sit- 

 uated 3 davs' journey southward from 

 Skia'e (Sault Sainte Marie) ; that the To- 

 bacco Nation wintered in 1653 at Tea'on- 

 to'rai, and the Neutrals, numbering 800, 

 at Sken'chio'e (i. e.. Fox place) in the 

 direction of Te'o'chanontian, probably 

 Detroit; tliat these two tribes would ren- 

 dezvous in the autumn of 1653 at A'oto- 

 natendie, where they had asseml)led 

 more than 2,000 warriors. This is per- 

 haps the last historical mention of the 

 Neutrals as an independent l)ody. It is 

 these Neutrals, apparently, whom Per- 

 rot (Memoire, chap, xiv, 1864) calls 

 "Huron de la nation neutre" and "Hu- 

 rons neutres. ' ' 



In 1640 the Hurons offered a present of 

 9 hatchets (costly articles at that time) 

 to the chieftains of the Neutral council, 

 in the hope of inducing it to order 

 the assassination of Fathers Brebeuf 

 and Chaumonot, but after deliberat- 



ing on the i)roposal all night the council 

 refused to accept the gift. 



As has been seen, Daillon said the 

 Neutrals occupied 28 villages in 1626. 

 In 1640 Brebeuf ascrilied to them 40 

 villages with a minimum population of 

 12,000 persons, including 4,000 warriors. 

 Only a few of the names of these have 

 been preserved, among them being Kan- 

 doucho or Tons les Saints, Khioetoa or 

 Saint Michel, Ongniaalira ("Ouaroro- 

 non," probably on the site of Youngs- 

 town, N. Y.; a form of Niagara), Ounon- 

 tisaston, and Teotongniaton or Saint 

 Guillaume. * (-i. n. b. ir. ) 



Aragaritkas.— N. Y. Doe. Col. Hist., iv, yos, 1854 

 (said tnl)i.M-()iiiiiose(lof 7 tribes). Atiaonrek. — .les. 

 Rel. 165(1, ol. ISfiS. Atiouandaronks.— Ibid., 163.S,33, 

 1S5S. Atioiiendaronk.— Ibid., KUl.'.iV, l.^'iS. Atira- 

 guenrek. — Iliid., lliSti.Ml, is^.s. Atirhagenrenrcts. — 

 .les. Rv\. qiiiiti'il by Parlcinati, Jesuits, xliv, liS67. 

 Ati-rhagenrets.— SlK'ii in Selioolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 IV, 20X, ISfd. Atiwandaronk. — ."^liea, t'atli. Miss., 

 '2t, l.SS.i. Attenonderonk.— Selioolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 IV, 201, 185-1. Attihouandaron.— Sasanl ( b;;',l! ),Hist. 

 Can., IV, ISOG. Attinoindarons.— Sa.trard (Jt;26), 

 Can., II, 40H, ISGd. Attionandarons.— Gallatin in 

 Trans. Am. Etlinol. Soe., ii, eiii, 1,S4S (misprint). 

 Attionidarons.— 8aKard(l(i2(3) quoted by Parkm an, 

 .Jesuits, xliv, ]8ti7. Attiouandaronk. — .les. R el. 

 1(;41, 72, l.S.=.,S. AttiSandarons.— Ibid., 1039, SS, 18.58. 

 Attiouendarankhronon.— Il)id,, l(i4U, 35, 1,S58. Atti- 

 ouendaronk. — Ibid. Attiuoindarons. — Sagard 

 (lt;2t)), Hist. Can., II, 334, iscd. Attiwandaronk. — 

 Shea, Mis.s. Val., lix, 1S52. Attiwondaronk. — 

 Rovce in Smithson. Misc. Coll., xxv, art. 5, 

 95,' 1883. Hatiwa"ta-runh. — Hewitt, inf'n, 1886 

 ( = 'their speech isiiwry '; from Jiiiti 'they', owai'ta 

 'voices', riivli 'is awry': Tusearora name). 

 Nation Neuht, — MeKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 

 HI, 81, 1854. Neuter Nation. — Morgan, League 

 Iroq., 9, 18.51. Neuters. — Shea, Miss. Val., Ix, 

 18.52. Neutral Nation. — Ibid., lix. Neutre 

 Nation.— Champlain (Itilfi), (Euvres, iv, 58,1.^70. 

 Neutrios. — Dtn-o, lion IJiego de Peualosa, 43, 1882. 

 Rhagenratka.— Shea in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 IV, ■20S, ls.54. 



Neutubvig. An unidentified tribe, said 

 to have inhabited the extreme n. end of 

 Whitneys ( Whidl)ey ) id. , and the country 

 between Skagit r. and Bellingham bay, 

 Wash., in 1852. This territory is Salishan. 

 Ne-u-lub-vig.— starling in Ind. Aflf.'Rep., 171, 1852. 

 Ne-u-tub-vig.— Ibid., 170. 



Nevantin. A former village of the 

 Nacogdoche (q. v. ) on the site of the pres- 

 ent Nacogdoches, Texas. 



Nevome. A name apj^lied to the Lower 

 Pima, or Pimas Bajos, living chiefly in 

 Sonora, Mexico, including the middle 

 Yaqui r. region and extending e. some- 

 what into Chihuahua. They are now 

 almost completely assimilated with the 

 whites, the Nevome (" Pima" ) poi)ula- 

 tion in Sonora and Chihuahua being offi- 

 cially given as only 528 in 1900. Under 

 the same term may be included also one 

 or two small colonies; one known as the 

 Bamoa (q. v. ) and the other a former .set- 

 tlement in the Tepehuane territory. The 

 language of the two divisions of the Pima 

 tribe, Upper and Lower, is substantially 

 the same, and there are no marked dif- 

 erences in their physical characteristics; 

 they are generally tall, robust, and well- 



