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NIGALUK mKlKOUEK 



[b. a. b. 



his people, entered into a treaty of peace 

 with the colonial authorities and was 

 assigned, by an act oi the Virginia as- 

 sembly, Oct. 10, 1649, certain iaiids for 

 himself and his people. His control, 

 however, appears to have been of short 

 duration, as he soon disappears from his- 

 tory, (c, T.) 



Nigaluk. A Nunatogmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage at the mouth of Colville r., Alaska.. 



Nig-a-lek. — I'all in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., I, map; 

 1S77. Nigaluk.— Bakt-r, Geog. Dict.Alaska, 1902. 



Nigco. The tribal name assigned to an 

 Indian baptized in 1730 at 8an Antonio 

 de Valero mission, Texas. There were 

 both Tonkawan and Coahuiltecan tribes 

 there at the time, but the Nigco can not 

 be identified with any of those known. 

 It may be Sinicu, some of which tribe 

 had been baptized in 1728, and who were 

 probably Coahuiltecan (Valero Bautis- 

 mos, partida 325, MS. in the custody of the 

 bishop of San Antonio'). (h. e. b. ) 



Nighetanka ('))ig belly'). A band of 

 the Miniconjou Sioux. 



Nige-taijka.— Dorsev in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 220, 

 1S97. Nixe-taiika.— 11)1(1. 



Nightasis. A Haida town of this name 

 is given in John Work's list, 1836-41, 

 with 15 houses and 280 inhabitants. It 

 seems impossible to identify the name 

 with that of any known town. On other 

 grounds Kung, in Naden harbor, would 

 appear to be the town intended. 

 Nigh tan.— Work (183t!-Jl) in Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, v, 489, 1855. Nigh-tasis. — Dawson, Queen 

 Charlotte Ids., 173b, 1880. 



Night Cloud. Mentioned bv Culbert- 

 son (Smithson. Rep. 1850, 142,'l851) as a 

 band of Oglala Sioux. They probably 

 took their name from the chief. 



Nigiklik. A former Eskimo village in 

 Alaska at the head of the Yukon delta. 

 Nigiklik-miout. — Zagoskin in Nouv. Ann. Voy., 

 5th s., xxi, map, 1850. Nygykligmjut. — Holm- 

 berg, Ethnog. Skizz., map, 18.55. 



Nigottine ('moss people'). A part of 

 the Kawchogottine division of the Kaw- 

 chodinne living along the outlet of Great 

 Bear lake, Mackenzie Ter. , Canada. 

 Ni-gottine. — Petitot in Bui. Soc. de Geog. Paris, 

 cliart, 1875. Nnea-gottine,— Petitot, MS. vocab., B. 

 A. E., 1865. Nni-Gottine. — Petitot, Autour du lac 

 des Eselaves, 303, 1891. Nni-ottine.— Petitot, Diet. 

 Den^-Dindjie, xx, 1876. 



Nijuchsagentisquoa (probably 'it is very 

 tall reeds.' — Hewitt). A Cayuga chief, 

 one of the signers, at Albany, N. Y., 

 July 19, 1701, of the " deed from the Five 

 Nations to the King [of England] of their 

 beaver hunting ground." — N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist , IV, 910, 1854. 



Nikaomin {Neqa^umin, or Nqaii^mtn, so 

 named because the water comes from a 

 lake called Nqaunia^tko, 'wolf lake or 

 water'; from sganm, 'wolf'). A Ntlak- 

 yapamuk town on the s. side of Thomp- 

 son r., 10 m. above Lytton, Brit. Col. 

 It is called Thompson by the whites. 

 Pop. 49 in 1906. 



NEqa'umin. — Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., n, 

 171, 1900. Ni-ca-o-min.— Can. Ind, Aff. 1885, 196, 



1886. Nicomen.— Ibid. ,309, 1879. Nicomin.— Ibid., 

 map, 1891. Nikaomin.— Ibid., pt. Ii, 166, 1901. 

 N'kau'men.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Ethnol. Surv. Can., 

 4, 1899. Nqau'min. — Teit, op. cit. Thompson. — 

 Ibid, (modern name). 



Nikapashna ('bald head'). The third 

 gens on the Chizhu side of the Ponca 

 tribal circle. Its subgentes are Dtesin- 

 deitazhi, Dtedhezedhatazhi, and Dtakh- 

 tikianpandhatazhi. 



Na-ko-poz'na. — Morgan, Anc.Soc, 155. 1877(trans. 

 'elk ' ). Nika-da-ona. — Dor.sey in 15th Rep.B.A.E., 

 228, 1897. 



Nikhdhitanwan. An ancient Osage vil- 

 lage at the junction of the Sac and Osage 

 rs. in Missouri. 



Ni-q^i' tan-wa".— Dorsev, Osage MS. vocab., B. A. 

 E., 1883. Niqdhi ta-wa".- Ibid. 



Nikhkak. A Knaiakhotana village of 

 about a dozen houses on L. Clark, Alaska. 

 The people, most of whom are of Russian 

 admixture, obtain clothing and other ar- 

 ticles of civilized comfort from the trading 

 posts on Cook inlet. Their houses and 

 fish caches are built of hewn logs, floored 

 with planks, and they make windows of 

 parchment. Pop. 42 in 1891; about 25 

 in 1904. 



Keeghik.— Osgood in Nat. Geog. Mag., xv, 329, 

 1904 (from their name for the lake). Keejik. — 

 Osgood (1902) quoted bv Baker, Geog. Diet. 

 Alaska, 364, 1906. Kijik.— Baker, ibid. Nikhak.— 

 Osgood in Nat. Geog. Mag., op. cit. Nikhkak.— 

 Coast Survey map (1898) cited by Baker, op. cit. 



Nikiata. A Qua paw gens. — Dorsey in 

 15th Rep. B. A. E., 230, 1897. 



Nikie name. A term employed by Dor- 

 sey (3d Rep. B. A. E., 227, 1884 )_ to 

 designate a name "referringto a mythical 

 ancestor, to some part of his body, to 

 some of his acts, or to some ancient rite 

 which may have been established by 

 him"; derived from n'lkle, the word for 

 such a name in the Omaha dialect of the 

 Siouan stock. According to Francis La 

 Flesche (inf'n, 1907), 'nik{<i-shi-ga)ie is 

 derived from nikashiga 'people,' and iV 

 ' word or utterance,' and a nikie name is 

 one given by the people or by the word 

 of tiie people — a name conferred by the 

 consent of the people. As the chief was 

 the mouthpiece of the people, a nikie 

 name is sometimes defined as spoken by 

 a chief, but the primary meaning is that 

 the name is conferred by the word of the 

 people. (A. F. c. ) 



Nikikouek (from the Chippewa or a 

 cognate dialectic term nikig 'otter', with 

 anim. pi. suffix -ouek=' otter people'. 

 Perrot.says the form with initial in, Mik- 

 ikouei, is from their own language; such 

 is the case in the cognate INIenominee 

 mikig). A little known Algonquian tribe 

 that formerly dwelt e. of the Missisauga, 

 among the rock caverns on tlie n. shore of 

 L. Huron. They are described as lacking 

 in courage, and having much to do with 

 the tribes northward. Twice a year, like 

 the Missisauga, they deserted their village 

 to hunt and fish along the lake for stur- 

 geon and other fish, and there obtained 

 bark for constructing canoes and lodges. 



