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POET ESSINGTON POTAM 



IB. A. E. 



the Confederacy and at the close of the 

 war was a first lieutenant of Company 

 A, Second Creek regiment. In an engage- 

 ment with the Creeks who had taken 

 sides with the North, Porter received a 

 wound which subjected him to a slight 

 lameness throughout the remainder of his 

 life. Soon after peace was restored he 

 took an active part in shaping the affairs 

 of the Creek Nation; first be<;oming one 

 of the clerks of the National council, he 

 was soon promoted to a seat in that body, 

 which he retained for twelve or sixteen 

 years, and for one term was president of 

 the upper house. He also served one or two 

 terms as superintendent of schools of the 

 Nation, and has sometimes been credited 

 with the fatherhood of the school system 

 of the Creek Nation of that time. On 

 twenty or more occasions he was a dele- 

 gate of the Nation to Washington, where 

 he was intrusted with important interests, 

 being a member of the particular delega- 

 tion that concluded the last agreement 

 between the Creeks and the United States 

 in 1902. At the most critical period in 

 the history of his tribe Porter was elected 

 to the chieftaincy, and after serving a term 

 of four years to their satisfaction, was 

 again elected to the office and was serving 

 the term due to terminate Dec. 5, 1907, 

 when death came. Porter was ever true 

 to his people, and amid the perplexing 

 conditions attending the surrender of 

 their tribal government and the assump- 

 tion of that of the whites he led them 

 perhaps more successfully than any other 

 Creek leader could have done. He was 

 the seventh and last Creek chief elected 

 by the people after the adoption in 1867 

 of the national constitution. He left a 

 son William, two daughters, Mrs Maimie 

 Farnesworth and Miss Lenora, and also a 

 sister, Mrs Nancy Yargee, residing at Red 

 Fork, Okla. 



Port Essington, A modern town, oc- 

 cupied by Tsimshian and whites, at the 

 mouth of Skeena r., Brit. Col. It is im- 

 portant as a port and as a center of the 

 canning industry. Pop. in 1908, with 

 Kitzumgaylum and Kitzelas, 191. 



Port Simpson. A modern town, former- 

 ly called Fort Simpson, on the n. av. coast 

 of British Columbia between Metlakatla 

 and the mouth of Nass r., built up around 

 a Hudson's Bay Co.'s stockade. In 1908 

 it contained 703 Tsimshian Indians. 



Portuguese. See Croatan Indians. 



Poruptanck. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy in 1608, situated on the n. 

 bank of York r. in Gloucester co., Va. — 

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



Poseuingge. A ruined Tewa pueblo at 

 the Eito Colorado, about 10 m. w. of the 

 hot springs near Abiquiu, N. Mex. It 

 was the home of Poseueve, a shaman or 

 successful wizard, who, according to na- 



tive tradition, was subsequently deified, 

 and "around whose figure the story of 

 Montezuma has latterly been woven." 

 The aboriginal name of the village was 

 Po-se or P'ho-se, Poseuingge referring to 

 the ruins. Cf. Pojiuuingge, and consult 

 Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iii, 61, 

 310, 1890; IV, 37 et seq., 1892. 



Another ruined pueblo bearing the 

 same name, and called also Posege, is 

 situated at Ojo Caliente, about 14 m. 

 above its mouth and about the same dis- 

 tance N. E. of Abiquiu. The ruins are on 

 a hill about 140 ft aljove the stream; 

 they are of adobe and stone, and the re- 

 mains of 13 circular kivas are still to be 

 seen. See Hewett in Bull. 32, B. A. E., 

 38-39, 1906. 

 P'ho-se.— Bandelier, op. cit., iv, 42. Po-se.— Ibid. 



Poshiwu. The Magpie clan of the Hopi. 



Poci-wu winwu. — Fewkes in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 5S4, 

 1900. Po-si'-o.— Stephen in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 39, 

 1891. Posiwuu. — Voth, Hopi Proper Names, 101, 

 1905. Po'-si-wuwiin-wu. — Fewkesiu Am.Anthrcp., 

 VII, 405, 1894. 



Poskesa. A Mono tribe that lived be- 

 tween San Joaquin and Kings rs., Cal. 

 Not mentioned since the first period of 

 American occupancy, when they were 

 said to have been one of four tribes un- 

 der the chief Towoquiet. They ceded 

 their lands to the U. S. by treaty of Apr. 

 29, 1851, and were placed on a reserve 

 between Chowchilla and Kaweah rs. 



Boshgisha. — A. L. Kroeber, inf'n, 1906 (Yokuts 

 name). Pas-ke-sa. — Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 

 782, 1899. Pas-ke-sas.— Barbour in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 

 32d Cong., spec, sess., 252, 1853. Po-ke-as.— Johns- 

 ton in Sen. Ex. Doe. 61, 32d Cong., 1st sess., 22, 

 1852. Pos-ke-as.— Ibid., 23. Pos-ke-sas.— McKee 

 in Ind. AS. Rep., 223, 1851. 



Poso Blanco (Span.: 'white well or 

 water-hole') . A Papago village in s. Ari- 

 zona, s. of Gila r. ; pop. about 300 in 

 1863.— Poston in Ind. Aff. Eep. 1863, 385, 

 1864. 



Pesos (Span.: 'water holes'). A for- 

 mer Yuma rancheria near the s. bank of 

 Gila r., above its mouth, in the present 

 Arizona; visited bv Anza and Font in 

 1776. 



Posos. — Font, map (1777), in Bancroft, Ariz, and 

 N. Mex., 393, 1889. Pozos de Enmedio. — Anza and 

 Font cited by Bancroft, ibid. Zacatal Duro. — Ibid. 



Peso Verde (Span. : 'green well or water 

 hole ' ) . A Papago village s. of the Arizona- 

 Sonora boundary, opposite Oro Blanco, 

 Ariz.; pop. about 350 in 1863 (Poston in 

 Ind. Aff. Rep. 1863, 385, 1864) , when it was 

 regarded as in the United States. 

 Chutukivahia.— J. W. Fewkcs, inf'n, 1907 (-'green 

 spring': native name). 



Possum. A popular form of opossum 

 (q.V.). 



Posta. See La Pasta. 



Potam. A Yaqui settlerdent on the N. 

 bank of lower Rio Yaqui, s. w. Sonora, 

 Mexico. 



Potam. — Velasco (1850) quoted bv Bancroft, Nat. 

 Races, 1, 608, 1882. Potan.— Alcedb, Die. Geog., iv, 

 288, 1788. Santisima Trinidad de Potam. — Orozco y 

 Berra, Geog., 355, 1864. 



