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NIANTIC— NICOTOWANCE 



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I, 418, 1856. Nyanticke.— Vincent (1G:?,S) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., vi, 37, 1837. Nyhantick.— 

 Tinker (1660), ibid., 4th .s., vii, 211. ],stir>. 



Niantic. An AlgoiKiuian trihc foriiR^rly 

 occupying the coast uf Connecticut from 

 Niantic bay to Connecticut r. De Forest 

 concluded that they once formed one tribe 

 with the Rhode Island Niantic, wliich 

 was cut in two by the Pequot invasion. 

 Their principal village, also called Niantic, 

 was near the present town of that name. 

 They were subject to the Peijuot, and had 

 no political connection with the eastern 

 Niantic. They were nearly destroyed in 

 the Pecjuot war of 1687, and at its close 

 the survivors were placed under the rule 

 of the Mohegan. They numbered about 

 }00 in 1638, and about 85 in 1761. Many 

 joined the Brotherton Indians in New 

 York about 1788, and none now exist 

 under their own name. Kendall (Trav., 

 1809) states tiiat they had a small village 

 near Danbury in 1809, but these were 

 probably a remnant of the western Con- 

 necticut tribes, not Niantic. According to 

 Speck (inf'n, 1907) several mixed Niantic- 

 Mohegan live at Mohegan, Conn., the 

 descendants of a pure Niantic woman from 

 the mouth of Niantic r. Their voices are 

 commonly said to have been high-pitched 

 in comparison with those of their neigh- 

 bors. (.1. M.) 

 Naihantick. — Early form cited by Trumbull, Ind. 

 Names Conn., 36, 1S81. Na-ticks. — Macauley, 

 N. Y.. II, 164, 1829 (incorrectly so calleii) . Nayan- 

 tiaquct.— Williams (1648) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 3d s., IX, 272, 1846. Nianticks.— Winthriip im. 

 1642) quoted by Drake. Bk. Inds., bk. 2, 67, 1S4S. 

 Niantigs. — Cobbet (164;')), ibid., 83. PequotNayan- 

 taquit. — Williams (1637) quotedby Tr\iml)ull, hid. 

 Names Conn., 36, 1881. Pequt Nayantaquit. — Wil- 

 liams (1637) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., vi, 

 220, 1863. 



Niantilik ( ' with the gulls ' ) . An Oko- 

 raiut Eskimo village of the Kinguamiut 

 subtribe, on Cumberland sd., Canada. 

 Naintilic— Howgate, Cruise of Florence, 50, 1877. 

 Niantilic— Kumlien in Bull. Nat. Mus. no. 15, 15, 

 1,S79. 



Nibakoa. A former village, mentioned 

 in 1777-78, seemingly in the vicinity of 

 Portage, Colum 1 )ia co. , Wis. It contained 

 a mixed population of Chippewa and ap- 

 parently of Sauk and Foxes. 



Nabakoa.—Gautier (1777-78) in Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 XI, 110, isss. Nibakoa.— Ibid., 109. 



Nibowisibiwininiwak ( ' Death river peo- 

 ple' ) . A subdivision of theChippewa liv- 

 ing in Saskatchewan, n. of L. Winnipeg. 

 Cf. ( hii'j)oire><i'jn'(reiiciraI:. 



Lake Winnipeg band. — Smithson. Misc. Coll., IV, 

 art. 6, 35, 1.S78. Nibowi-sibi-wininiwak. — Gat-schet, 

 Ojibwa MS., B. A. E., 1882. 



Nicassias. A name api)lied by early 

 writers (Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 3Iar. 30, 

 1860) to a group of ^Io(]uelumnan Indians 

 who formerly lived near the coast, in 

 Marin CO., Cal. (s. a. b. ) 



Nichewaug. A village, i)robal)ly of the 

 Nipmuc, aljout the present Nichewaug, 

 near Petersham, Worcester co., Mass. 

 The Indians remained until 17o4, when 

 they joined the French against tlie Eng- 



lish.— Barber, Hist. Coll. Mass., 597, 1839; 

 Kinnicutt, Ind. Names, 30, 1905. 



Nichochi. A Chumashan village on 

 Santa Cruz id., Cal., in 1542. 

 Nichochi.— Cabrillo (l.')42) in .Smith. Colec. Doc. 

 Fhi., isil, 18.i7. Nicochi.— Ibid. 



Nicholas. See Orontony. 



Niciat. The local name for a body of 

 Upper Lillooet around Seton lake, inte- 

 rior of British Columbia. Pop. 50 in 

 1906. 



Necait.— Can. Ind. AfT. Rep., pt. I, 277, 1902. 

 Niciat.— Iliid., pt. ll, 272. 



Nickajack. A former important Chero- 

 kee town on the s. bank of Tennessee r., 

 in Marion co., Tenn. It was settled in 

 1782 by Cherokee who espoused the Brit- 

 ish cause in the Revolutionary war, and 

 was known as one of the Chickamauga 

 towns. It was destroyed in the fall of 

 1794. The meaning of the name is lost, 

 and it is probably not of Cherokee origin, 

 although it occurs also, in the tribe as a 

 man's name. In the corrupted form 

 "Nigger Jack" it is applied to a creek of 

 Cullasagee r. above Franklin, in ]\Iacon 

 CO., N. C. See Rovce in 5th Rep. B. A. 

 E., map, 1887; Moonev in 19th Rep. B. 

 A. E., 527, 1900. 



Nicojack.— Doc. of 1799 quoted bv Rovce in 5th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 141, 1887. Nikutseg.— MVionev, op. 

 eit.(abbr.form). Nikutse'gi.— Ibid. Nikwatse'gi.— 

 Ibid. Niikatse'gi.— Ibid. 



Nickomin. A former Chehalis town on 

 North r., which flows into Shoalwater 

 bay, Wash. 



Necomanchee. — Swan, N. W. Coast, 211, 1857. 

 NKxumE'ntc. — Boas, inf'n, 1905, (correct native 

 form ) . 



Nicola Band. One of four subdivisions 

 of the Upper Ntlakyapamuk in the inte- 

 rior of British Columbia. 



Cawa'xamux. — Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 II, 170, 1900 (' people of the creek,' i. e., Nicola 

 r.)^ Nicola band. — Ibid. Tcawa'xamux. — Ibid. 

 Tcua'qamuq.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Ethnol. Surv. 

 Can., 5, 1899. 



Nicola Valley Indians. The official desig- 

 nation of a large numl)er of local groups in 

 British Columbia, princijially Cowichan, 

 Lillooet, and Ntlakyapamuk Indians, 

 numbering 522 in 1878.— Can. Ind. Aff., 

 74, 1878. 



Nicomen. A Cowichan tril)e on Nicomen 

 slough and at the mouth of Wilson cr., 

 lower Eraser r., Brit. Col. Their villages 

 are Skweahm and Lahaui, but the name 

 has become attached to the latter town of 

 the tribe, which in 1906 had 16 inhabi- 

 tants. The aggregate population of Nico- 

 men and Skweahm was 44 in 1906. 

 LEk'a'mEl.— Boas in Rep. 64th Meeting Brit. 

 A.A.S., 4.=)4, 1894. Nacomen.— Can. Ind. Aft"., 78, 

 18(8. NeK'a'mEn. — Boas, op. cit. Nicoamen. — 

 Can. Ind. Aflt., 309, 1S79. Nicoamin.— Ibid., 76, 1878. 

 Nicomen,— Ibid., pt. I, 276, 1894. 



Nicotowance. When the career of Ope- 

 chancanou2h (q. v.) as chief of the Pa- 

 munkey tribe, as well as of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, terminated on his death in 

 1644, he was succeeded as ruler of the 

 Pamunkey Indians by Nicotowance. 

 This chief, desirous of ot)taining rest for 



