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OPELTO OPON A Y S 



[b. a. e. 



retained by the parish seat of St Landry. 

 Oi their later history Uttle information can 

 be gathered, but it would seem from the 

 frequency with which thisname is coupled 

 witli that of the Attacapa that they were 

 closely related to that people. This is also 

 the opinion of those Chitimacha and Atta- 

 capa who remember having heard the 

 tribe spoken of, anil is partially confirmed 

 by Sibley, who states that they understood 

 Attacapa although having a language of 

 their own. It is most probable that their 

 proper language, referred to by Sibley, 

 was nothing more than an Attacapa dia- 

 lect, though it is now impossible to tell 

 how closely the two resembled each other. 

 In 1777 Attacapa and Opelousa are re- 

 ferred to at the mouth of the Sabine r. 

 (Bolton in Tex. Hist. Assn. Quar., ix, 117- 

 18, 1905 ) , but the latter are usually located 

 in the s. part of St Landry parish, Sibley 

 stating that in 180(5 their village was 

 "about 15 m. from the Apiielousachurch." 

 At that time they numl)ered about 40 

 men, but they have since disappeared 

 completely, owing to the invasion of the 

 whites and the Muskhogean Indians from 

 E. of the Mississippi. (.i. R. s. ) 



Apalousa.— SchookTuft, Ind. Tribes, 111,529,1853. 

 Apalusa.— Ker, Travels, 301, 1816. Apeloussas.— 

 Baudry des Lozi^res, Voy. Louisianes, 241, 1802. 

 Apelusas.— Perrin du Lac, Voyage, 379, 1805. Ap- 

 palousas.— Sibley, Hist. Sketches, 83, 1806. Appe- 

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

 116, 1836. Asperousa.— Brion de la Tour, Map, 

 1784. Black Water.— ,)elVery.s, French Dom., 1, 165, 

 1761. Loupelousas.— French, Hist. Coll. La., ii, 70, 

 1850. loupitousas.— Baudry des Lozieres, Voy. 

 Louisianes, 243, 1802. Obeloussa.— I'hilippeaux, 

 Map of Engl. Col., 1781. Ogue loussas.— Jeft'erys, 

 French Dom.. l, 165, 1761. Opalusas.— Rafhiesque 

 in Marshall, Kv., l, introd.. 24, 1824. Opelousas. — 

 Sibley (1805) in Am. St. Pap., Ind. AtT.. I, 724, 1832. 

 Opeluassas.— .A.nn. de la Propagation de la Foi, I, 

 49, 1853. Oppelousas.— Brackenridge, Views of 

 La., 82, 1814. Oque-Loussas.— Du Pratz, Loui.siana, 

 317, 1774. 



■ Opelto ( O'-pel-to, ' the forks ' ) . A former 

 Nishinam village in the valley of Bear r., 

 which is the next stream N. of Sacramento, 

 Cal. — Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., iii, 

 31(>, 1877. 



Operdniving ('spring place'). A Nu- 

 ginniut Eskhiio spring village in Countess 

 of Warwicksd., near Frobisherbay, Baffin 

 land. 



Oopungnewing — Hall quoted by Nourse, Am. 

 Explor., 191, 1884. Operdniving.— Boas in 6th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 422, 1888. Oppernowick.— Rcss, Vov., 164, 

 1819. 



Opia. A Chumashan village between 

 Goletaand PtConcepcion, Cal., in 1542. — 

 Cat)rillo, Narr. (1542) in Smith, Colec. 

 Doc. Fla., 183, 1857. 



Opichiken. A Salish band or village 

 under the Fraser sui)erintendency, Brit. 

 Col.— Can. Ind. Aff., 79, 1878. 



Opiktulik. A Kaviagmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on the N. shore of Norton sd., Alas- 

 ka; 110]). 12 in 1880. 



Okpiktalik. — PctrofT in 10th Census, Alaska, map, 

 1884. Okpiktolik.— Ibid.. 11. Opiktulik.— Baker, 

 Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1902. Oukviktoulia. — Zagos- 



kin in Nouv. Ann. Voy., 5th s., xxi, map, 18-50. 

 tJpiktalik.— 11th Census, Alaska, 162, 1893. 



Opilhlako {OpW-Hdko, 'big swamp'). 

 A former Upper Creek town on a stream 

 of the same name which flows into Pakan- 

 Tallahassee cr., n. e. Ala., 20 m. from 

 Coosa r. 



Opilika.— H. R. Doe. 452, 26th Cong., 2d sess., 93, 

 1838. Opilike.— Ibid., 49. Opil'-'lako.- Gat-schcl, 

 Creek Migr. Leg., i, 141, 1884. O-pil-thluc-co.— 

 Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 50, 1848. 



Opinghaki {O-piiig-lut'-ki, 'white -face 

 land,' i. e. 'opossum land'). A subclau 

 of the Uelawares. 



Opinghaki. — W. R. Gerard, inf'n, 1907 (correct 

 form). O-ping'-ho'-ki. — Morgan, Ane. Soe., 172, 

 1877. 



Opiscopank. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy in 1608, on the s. bank of the 

 Rappahannock in Middlesex co., Va. — 

 Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 1819. 



Opistopia. A Chumashan village be- 

 tween Goleta and PtConcepcion, Cal., in 

 1542. 



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

 Opistopia.— Cabrillo, Narr. (1542) in Smith, Colec. 

 Doc. Fla., 183, 1857. 



Opitchesaht. A Nootka tribe on Al- 

 berni canal, Somass r., and neighboring 

 lakes,Vancouver id., Brit. Col. Anciently 

 this tribe is said to have spoken Nanaimo 

 (q. V. ). The sej)ts, according to Boas, are 

 Mohotlath, Tlikutath, and Tsomosath. 

 Their priiici}ial vilhiire is Ahahswinnis. 

 Pop. 62 in 1902, 48 in 1906. 

 Hopetcisa'th.— Boas, 6th Hep. N. W. Tribes Can., 

 31, 1890. Opechisaht.— Sproat, Savage Life, 308, 

 1868. Opecluset.— Mayne, Brit. Col., 2.51, 1862. 

 Ope-eis-aht. — Brit. Col. map.. Ind. AS.. Victoria, 

 1872. Opet-ches-aht.— Can. Ind. Aff., 308, 1879. 

 Opitches-aht. — Ibid., 187, 1884. tJpatsesatuch. — 

 Grant in Jour. Roy. Geog. ,Soc.. 293, 1857. 



Opitsat. The permanent village of the 

 Clayoquot ((]. v.), on the s. w. shore of 

 Meares id., w. coast of Vancouver id., 

 Brit. Col.; pop. 245 in 1902, 261 in 1906. 

 Opetsitar. — Gray and lugraham (1791) quoted in 

 H. R. Doc. 43, 26th Cong., 1st .sess.. 3, 1840. 

 Opisat.— Can. Ind. Aff., 263, 1902. Opisitar.— Ken- 

 drick deed (1791), ibid., 10. 



Opodepe. A former pueblo of the Eu- 

 deve and seat of a Spanish mission 

 founded in 1649; situated on the e. l)ank 

 of Rio San Miguel, Sonora, Mexico; pop. 

 320 in 1678, 134 in 1730. Of a iiopulation 

 of 679 in 1900, 26 were Opata and 56 

 Yaqui. 



Asuncion de Opodepe. — Zapata (1678) in Doc. Hist. 

 Mex., 4th s.. Ill, 351, 18.57. Opodepe. — Kino, map 

 (1702) in Stiicklein, Neue Welt-Bott, 74, 1726. 

 Opoteppe.— Oeh, Journey to the Missions (1756), 

 I, 71, 1809. , 



Opok {(Vpok). A former Maidu settle- 

 ment on the N. fork of Cosumnes r., near 

 Nashville, Eldorado co., Cal. ( k. h. d. ) 



Opolopong. A former town with a mixed 

 population under Oneida jurisdiction, sit- 

 uated, according to the Evans map of 

 1756, in Luzerne co.. Pa., on the e ))ranch 

 of the Susquehanna, about 30 m. above 

 Shaniokin, at the forks, and about 10 m. 

 below Wyoming. (.i. n. b. h.) 



Oponays. A former Sennnole village 

 " back of Tampa bav." probably in Hills- 



