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NIMITAPAL NINIVOIS 



[b. a. e. 



received a favorable liearing, and on their 

 return to America their claims were 

 brought into court, but were lost to sight 

 during the Revolution. Nimham was 

 killed at the battle of Kingsbridge, N. 

 Y., Aug. 31, 1778, while fighting bravely 

 in the cause of the Americans. Near the 

 entrance to Pelham's Neck, Westchester 

 CO., N. Y., were, according to Ruttenber 

 (op. cit., 81), two large mounds, pointed 

 out as the sepulchers of Ann-Hoock and 

 Nimham. The name of Daniel Nimham, 

 as well as those of Aaron, John, and 

 Isaac Nimham, appear in the rolls of New 

 York men enlisted in the service of the 

 Revolution. As Indians are included in 

 the list, Daniel Nimham is doubtless the 

 subject of this sketch. (c. t. ) 



Nimitapal. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage on Santa Cruz id. (the San Lucas of 

 Cabrillo), CaL, in 1542. Possibly the 

 same as Nimatlala. 



Nimetapal.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 17, 1863. 

 Nimitapal.— Cabrillo (1542) in Smith, Colec. Doc. 

 Fla., isl, 1,S57. 



Nimkish (^NE^mges). A Kwakiutl tribe 

 on and about the river of the same name 

 in N. E. Vancouver id. According to Rev. 

 A. J. Hall they derived their name from 

 that of a mythical halibut, called Num- 

 hya-li-gi-yii, which caused a tide-rip off 

 the point of the bay. The gentes, according 

 to Boas, are Gyigyilkani, Nenelkyenok, 

 Sisintlae, Tlatlelamin, and Tsetsetloala- 

 kemae. Pop. 151 in 1901, 134 in 1906. 

 sNE'mges. — Boa.s in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 V, pt. l'. 133, 1902. NE'mk-ic— Boasin 6th Rep.N.W- 

 Tribes Can.,.S4, 1890. NEmqic— Boas in Rep. Nat- 

 Mus. 1895, 331, 1897. Nemqisch.— Boas in Peter- 

 manns Mitt., pt. 5, 130, 18S7. Nim-keesh. — Can. Ind- 

 Alf.l8S4,190,1885. Nimkis.— Tavlorin Cal. Farmer, 

 July 19. 1862. Nim-kish.— Kane, Wand, in N.A., 

 app"., 1859. Nimpkish.— Mayne, Brit. Col., 179, 

 1862. Num-kes. — Hall quoted by Dawson in Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. Can., sec. ii, 72, 1887. 



Nimoyoyo. A Chumashan village on 

 San Miguel id. (the Isla de Juan Rod- 

 riguez of Cabrillo), Cal., in 1542. 

 Nimilolo.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 17, 1863. 

 NimoUollo.— Cabrillo (1542) in Smith, Colec. Doc. 

 Fla., 186, 1857. 



Nimsewi ('big river'). A- division of 

 Maidu living on upper Butte cr., near the 

 edge of the timber in Butte co., Cal. 

 Nemshan.— Bancnift Nat. Races, i, 4.50, 1882. Nem- 

 shaw.— Hale, Ethnog. and Philol., 631, 1.H46. Nem- 

 shoos. — Bancroft, op. cit. Nemshous. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, June 8, 1860. Nim Sewi.— Curtin, 

 MS. yocab., B. A. E., 1885. Nim'-shu. — Powers in 

 Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 283, 1877 (from nnn-se-u, 

 'big river'). Nim-sirs.— Johnston (1850) in Sen. 

 Ex. Doc. 4, 32d (^ong., spec, sess., 45, 18.53. Nim- 

 skews.— Beale in Sen. Ex. Doc. 57, 32d Cong., 2d 

 sess., 15, 18.53. Nim-sus. — Johnston in Ind. Aff. 

 Rep., 124, 1.S50. 



Ninchopan ('bear') . A Tonkawa clan, 

 now nearly extinct. 



Nintchopan.— Gatschet, Tonkawe MS. vocab., B. 

 A. E., 1884. Nintropan.— Ibid. 



Ningweegon. See Negwagon. 



Ninibatan {Niniba-t'a", 'keepers of the 

 pipe'). A subgens of the Mandhinka- 

 gaghe gens of the Omaha. — Dorsey in 15th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 228, 1897. 



Ninibatan A subgens of the Tapa gens 

 of the Omaha. 



Ninibatan. A subgens of the Inshta- 

 sanda gens of the Omaha, consolidated 

 prior to 1880 with another subgens known 

 as the Real Inshtasanda. 



Ninigret. A sachem of the Niantic in 

 the region about Westerly, R. I., and a 

 cousin of Miantonomo. Besides the name 

 Ninigret, Nenekunat, etc., he bore earlier 

 that of Janemo or Ayanemo, by which 

 he first became known to the English 

 (Drake, Inds. of N. Am., 131, 1880). He 

 visited Boston in 1637. After the death 

 of Miantonomo he began war against the 

 Mohegan, but the English interfered, 

 and a treaty was signed at Boston in 1647. 

 Contemporary chroniclers have left a de- 

 tailed account of the appearance of Nini- 

 gret before the commissioners and his 

 conduct on that occasion, which was much 

 to his credit. Later (1652) Ninigret vis- 

 ited the Dutch at Manhattan, arousing 

 the suspicions of the English, which 

 were groundless. The next year he made 

 war upon the Long Island Indians. He 

 abstained from personal activity during 

 King Philip's war, but had trouble in 

 keeping terms with the English. He 

 secured to himself and heirs the tribal 

 land near Charlestown ; and after the cap- 

 ture of Nanuntenoo (Canonchet), the last 

 chief of the Narraganset, that tribe was 

 consolidated with the Niantic under Nini- 

 gret. The latter and Miantonomo were 

 lifelong rivals of Uncas. Notwithstand- 

 ing his pacific tendencies, Ninigret was 

 drawn into conflict with the Montauk of 

 E. Long Island in 1659. Aptly called by 

 Mather "an old crafty sachem," beseems 

 to have preserved his pride, of which he 

 possessed an inordinate amount, and hi.s 

 property as well, without being obliged 

 to fight for either. Ninigret died full of 

 years some time before the close of the 

 century. He consistently opposed Chris- 

 tianity, and told Mayhew, the mission- 

 ary, to "go and make the English good 

 first." (a. P.O.) 



Ninilchik. A Knaiakhotana village of 

 18 houses on the e. coast of Cook inlet, 

 s. of the mouth of Kasilof r., Alaska; 

 inhabited in 1890 by 45 natives and 36 

 Russian Creole descendants of the convict 

 colony of 1793. 



Kunina. — Wosnesenski's map {ca. 1840) cited by 

 Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 463, 1906. Ninilchik.— 

 Petroff in Tenth Census, Alaska, 27, 1884. 



Ninivois. A Fox chief in command of 

 the warriors of his tribe at the siege of 

 Detroit 1)y Pontiac, in 1763. Ninivois 

 and Take, leader of the Hurons, appear 

 to have been the niost active aids of Pon- 

 tiac at the commencement and during the 

 earlv part of the siege (Mich. Pion. Coll., 

 VIII," 266-339, 1886), and next to Pontiac 

 were the leaders in the councils of the 

 besiegers and the first to begin the invest- 



