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NIKISHKA — NIMHAM 



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On the approach of winter they fre- 

 quented the lake shores to kill beaver and 

 elk, whence they returned in the spring 

 to plant and tend their corn. In 1653, 

 jointly with the Saulteurs and the ]\Iissi- 

 saufra, they so completely defeated an 

 Iroquois Avar-party of 120 men that but 

 few escaped. (,i. n. b. h.) 



Gens de la Loutre.— Perrot {ca. 1724), Memoire, 

 83, 1.S6-1. Mikjkoues.— Ibid., 219. Mikikoiiet.— 

 Ibid., 83. Nation de la Loutre. — BacquevilU'dehi 

 Pothorie, Hist. .\mer. Sept., ll, 4S, 17.=)3. Nation of 

 the Otter.— Hf riot, Trav., 20'.t, ISO". Nig:ik.— Kel- 

 ton. Ft Markiiiac, 20, 1884. Nikicouek.— Jes. Rel., 

 Ill, index, Is.W. Nikikouek.— .les. Rel. lO'iS, 22, 

 IS.'jS. Nikikoues. — Perrot, ISIemoire, index, 1S(;4. 



Nikishka. A Knaiakhotana village, of 

 57 inhabitants in 1880, near the head of 

 Cook inlet, Alaska. — Petroff in 10th Cen- 

 sus, Alaska, 29, 1884. 



Nikolaief (presumably named by the 

 Russians after Tsar Nikolas). An Aleut 

 village N. of Belkofski, on Alaska penin., 

 Alaska; pop. 43 in 1880. 

 Nikolaievsky. — Petroff in 10th Census, Ala.ika, 23, 

 1884. 



Nikolski. An Aleut settlement and 

 trading post for otter skins on Umnak id., 

 Alaska. Pop. 83 in 1834, 127 in 1880, 94 

 in 1890. 



Nikolskoje. — Holmberg, Ethnog. Skizz., map, 1855. 

 Nikolsky.— Elliott, Our Arct. Prov., 184, 1886. 

 Oomnak. — Ibid., 179. Recheshnaia. — Veniarainoff 

 quoted by Petroff in 10th C'ensu.«, Alaska, 35, 1884. 

 Retchechnoi. — Lntke quoted bv Baker, Geog. 

 Diet. Alaska, 4ti2, 1906. Riechesnoe.— Ibid., 1902. 

 Rjatscheschnoje. — Holmberg, op. cit. Rychesnoi. — 

 Veniamiiioff (1833) quoted by Elliott, Cond. Aft'. 

 Alaska, 225, 1875. Umnak. — Eleventh Census, 

 Alaska, 16:5, 1893. 



Nikozliautin ('people of the river cov- 

 ered with the enemy's arrows'). A Ta- 

 kulli clan or division on the s. half of 

 Stuart lake and on Pintce r., Brit. Col. 

 They inha])it two villages, Nakraztli and 

 Pintce. The name comes from a legend 

 of a tribe of dwarfs who once attacked 

 their village in such numbers that the 

 surface of Stuart r. was covered with float- 

 ing arrows (Morice in Trans. Can. Inst., 

 188, 1891). The Nikozliautin are devout 

 Catholics, sober, law-abiding, and hos- 

 pitable. Their main resources are hunt- 

 ing, trapning, and fishing. Pop. 234 in 

 1906. 



Na-kas-le-tin. — Dawson in Rep. Geol. Surv. Can., 

 30R, 18S1. Nakazeteo-ten. — Smet, Miss, de I'Oregon, 

 63, 1S44. Na-ka-ztli-tenne.— Morice, letter, 1890. 

 Nakoozetenne.— Can.'ind. Aff., 215, 1902. Na-'kra- 

 ztli-'tenne. — Morice, Notes on VV. D(5n(?s, 26, 1893. 

 Nancaushy Tine, — Jour. Antlirop. Inst., vil, 206, 

 187S. Nekaslay.— McLean, Hud.son's Bav, I, 262, 

 1849. Nekaslayans,— Ibid., 263. Nekasly.— Ibid., 

 269. Nikozliantin,— Macdonald, British Columbia, 

 126,1862. Nikozliantins, — Domenech, Deserts of 

 N. Am., Tl, 62, I860. Nikozliautin.— Hale, Ethnog. 

 and Philol., 202, 1846. Stewart's Lake Indians,— 

 Can. Ind. Aff., 79, 1878. 



Niktak. A Kaviagmiut P^skimo village 

 on C. Prince of Wales, Alaska. 

 Nikhtapmut. — Zegoskin, Descr. Russ. Poss. Am., 

 I, 73, 1S47 (the people). 



Nilakshi ( 'dawn' ). A former Klamath 

 settlement at or below Nilaks mtu., e. 

 shore of Upper Klamath lake, Greg. The 

 name is now used to designate Modoc 



point, but it properly refers to Nilaks mtn. 

 ridge onlv. — Uatschet in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol.,ii, pt. I, XXX, 1890. 

 Nilakskni maAlaks. — Gatschet, op. cit., pt. it, 243 

 (name of people), 



Nilalhuyu (Xi-lal-Jiu^-yu). A former 

 Chumashan village on Santa Cruz id., 

 Cal., the inhabitants of which are said to 

 have been celebrated for the ])ractice of 

 sorcerv. — Hcnshaw, Buenaventura MS. 

 vocab.", B.A.E., 1884. 



Nilestunne ( Xi-li'n]i'mnr\ ' jieople at the 

 small dam in the river'). A former vil- 

 lage of the Mishikhwutmetunne on 

 Coquille r., Oreg. — Dorsev in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, iii, 232, 1890. 



Niletunne. A former village of the 

 Tututnionthe Oregoncoast, beingthefirst 

 village s. of the Kusan village of Nasumi, 

 s. of the mouth of ('(xjuille r. 

 Jake's people, — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, III, 

 233,1890 (referring to some man on Siletz res.). 

 Nile' ^unne'. — Ibid. 



Nilsumack. A Salish band, probably 

 Cowichan, under the Fraser superinten- 

 dency, Brit. Col.— Can. Ind. Aff., 78, 1878. 



Niltala. A Wikeno village on Rivers 

 inlet, Brit. Col. — Boas in Petermanns 

 Mitt., pt. 5, 130, 1887. 



Nim {nevm or num, 'people'). A name 

 adopted by Merriam (Science, xi.v, 916, 

 1904) to designate a Mono-Paviotso divi- 

 sion on the N. fork of San Joaquin r. and 

 theadjacent region in California. Regard- 

 ing it, Kroeber (Univ. Cal. Pub., Am. 

 Archfeol. and Flthnol., iv, 119, 1907) says: 

 "Nim is not a tribal name but the word for 

 person, nitm, which occurs also in other 

 Mono dialects as far s. and e. as Kings r. 

 and Owens r., so that it cannot be re- 

 garded as distinctive of these j)eople n. 

 of the San Joaquin." In one or another 

 form it is the common Shoshonean desig- 

 nation for 'men,' 'people.' 

 Pa-zo-ods— Merriam, op. cit. (Holkomah name). 



Nimatlala {Ni-mat-la/-la). A former 

 Chumashan village on Santa Cruz id., 

 E. of Prisoners har]>or. — Henshaw, Bu- 

 enaventura MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1884. 



Nimham, Daniel. A Wappinger chief, 

 noted not only for his active participation 

 in the wars of 1746 and 1754, but espe- 

 cially for his efforts to recover for his tribe 

 the lands lying along the e. side of Hud- 

 son r. that had been taken from it while 

 aiding the English. The earliest recorded 

 notice of him is Oct. 13, 17.']0, the date of 

 an affidavit in which it is stated that the 

 deponent was "a River Indian of the 

 tribe of the AVappinoes " (Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R., 51, 1872). Nimham 

 was made chief sachem in 1740; his resi- 

 dence after 1746 was at Westenhuck. In 

 1755, with most of his fighting men, he 

 entered the Englisli servi<'e under Sir 

 Williani Johnson, and about 1762, in 

 company with some INIohegan chiefs of 

 Connecticut, went to England on a mis- 

 sion regarding their land claims. They 



