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NOOTKA NOQUET 



[b. a. e. 



Nootka. A name originally applied to 

 the Mooachaht (q. v.) of Nootka sd., w. 

 coast of V^ancouver id., and to their 

 principal town, Yuquot (q. v.), but 

 subsequently extended to all the tribes 

 speaking a similar language. These ex- 

 tend from C. Cook on the n. to beyond 

 Port San Juan, and include the ]Makah of 

 C. Flattery, Wash. Sometimes the term 

 has l)een so used as to exclude the last- 

 named tribe. The Nootka form one 

 branch of the great Wakashan family and 

 their relationship to the second or Kwa- 

 kiutl branch is apparent only on close ex- 

 amination. In 1906 there were 435 Makah 

 and 2,159 Vancouver id. Nootka; total, 

 2,594. They are decreasing slowly but 

 steadily, the reduction in population of 

 the Nootka of Vancouver id. alone having 

 exceeded 250 l)et\veen 1901 and 1006. 



NOOTKA WOMAN. lAM. Mus. NAT. HIST 



The Nootka tril)es are: Ahousaht, Chaic- 

 clesaht, Clayoquot, Cooptee, Ehatisaht, 

 Ekoolthaht, Hnchaath (extinct), Hes- 

 C]uiat, Kelsemaht, Klahosaht (probably 

 extinct), Kwoneatshatka (?), Kyuquot, 

 Makah, Manosaht, Mooachalit, ]\Iuchalat, 

 Nitinat, Nuchatlitz, Oiaht, Opitchesaht, 

 Pacheenaht, Seshart, Toquart, Uchuckle- 

 sit, and Ucluelet. (.i. R. s ) 



Aht.— Sproat, Savage Life, 312, 1S6S. Nootka.— 

 Hale in U. S. Expl. Exi>ed., vi, 220, 569, 1846. 

 Nootka-Columbian.— Scoulur hi Jour. Rov. Geog. 

 See, XI, 221, 1841. Noutka.— Duflot de Mofra.s, 

 Expl., 11, 344, 1844. Nuquefio.— Galiano, Rela- 

 ci6n. 30, 1802. Nutka.— Ibid. O'mene.— Boas in 

 5th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 9, 1889 (Comox 

 name). Ouakichs.— Duflot de Mofras, op. cit., 

 33.5, 345. Southern.— Scouler, op. cit., 224. Tc'- 

 Eca'atq. — Boas, op. cit., 9 (Skokomish name). 

 Wakash — Gallatin in Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc, ii, 

 15,306. 1836. 



Nopeming ( for No'pimtngtashtntnlwug, 

 ' people of the bush.' — W. j. ). A north- 



ern branch of the Chippewa, living in 

 Ontario, N. e. of L. Superior and w. of L. 

 Nipissing, and sometimes ranging e. as far 

 as Ottawa r. From their frequently 

 resorting to Sault Ste Marie they have 

 often been confounded with the band at 

 that place, and tliey have been likewise 

 confused with the Tetes de Boule, q. v. 



Men of the woods. — Maclean, Hudson Bay, I, 74, 

 1849 (t-o called by other tribes). Muskegoag. — 

 Tanner, Karr., 315, 1830 (applied by the Ot- 

 tawa to them as well as to the Maskegon). Noa- 

 peeming'. — SchookTaft, Miss. Val., 299, 1825. Nope- 

 men d'Achirini. — Lalmntan, Kew Voy., I, 231, 1703. 

 Nopemetus Anineeg. — Tanner, Narr., 315, 1830 

 (Ottawa name). Nopemings. — Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, V, 145, 1855. Nopemin of Achirini. — Rich- 

 ardson, Arct. Exped., ii, 39, 1851. Nopemit Azhin- 

 neneeg. — Tanner, Narr., 315, 1830 (Ottawa name). 

 Nopimingdaje inini. — Cuoq, Lex. Algonquine, 129, 

 1886 (' men (i^f tlic interior of the lands': Nipissing 

 name). No'pimingtashineniwag. '— Win. Jones, 

 inf'n, 1906 (correct name). Nubenaigooching. — 

 Can. Ind. AlV., 16, 1875. Opemens d'Acheliny. — Du 

 'Lhnt (1684) in Margry, Dec, vi, 51, 1886. 

 O'pimittish Ininiwac. — Henry, Trav., 60, 1809. 

 Wood Indians. — Ibid. 



Noponne ( N(/-pon-ne, ' face ' , ' front ' ) . 

 The name of the midmost mesa, directly 

 s. of Zuni pueblo, N. Mex., so named be- 

 cause the face or front (no^-pon) of Kolo- 

 wissi, the mythical serpent of the sea, ap- 

 peared above the waters of the flood at 

 that point, when the youth and maiden 

 were sacrificed from the top of Thunder 

 mtn. The southern of the 7 shrines of 

 Ahaiyuta and Matsailema, the twin war 

 gods of the Zuili, is situated there, but no 

 ruin of any kind. (f. h. c.) 



No-pone. — Fcwkes in Jour. Am. Eth. and Arch., i, 

 100, 1891. 



Noptac. A former village connected 

 with San Carlos mission. Cat., and said to 

 have been Esselen. — Tavlor in Cal. Far- 

 mer, Apr. 20, 1860. 



Nopthrinthres.. A tribe mentioned by 

 Arroyo de laCuesta ( MS., B. A. E.) as set- 

 tled at the mission of San Juan Bautista, 

 San Benito co., Cal., during the mission 

 period. A vocabulary given by him 

 shows it to have been Yokuts (Mari- 

 j)osan). 



Nopochinches.— Garcia MS. quoted by Bancroft, 

 Hist. Cal., II, 339, 1886. 



Noquet {No'ke, 'bear foot'; another 

 name for the Bear gens (see Noka) of the 

 Chippewa. — W. J. ). An Algonquiantri.be 

 located by the earliest French writers 

 about Noquet bay, at the mouth of Green 

 bay, extending n. across the peninsula to 

 L. "Superior. In 1659 they were attached 

 to the nnssion of St Michel, together with 

 the Menominee, Winnebago, and others. 

 In 1761 Jefferys, probably on the author- 

 ity of some recent French writer, says 

 they were on the islands at the mouth of 

 Green bay, formerly occupied by the 

 Potawatonii. They were never promi- 

 nent as a tribe, and were probably absorb- 

 ed by the Chippewa or the Menominee. 



Nikic!— Coxe, Carolana, 48, 1741. Nikie.— Ibid., 

 map. Nocke.— Du Lhut (1684) in Margry, Dt^c, 

 VI, 41, 1886. Noguets.— Perrot, M^m., 295, 1864. 

 Nokes.— Lahontan(1703), New Voy., i, map, 1703. 

 Nokets.— Frontenac (1682) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 



