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schet the Kiowa Apache word for negro, 

 lizhena, means 'buffalo-black-haired.' In 

 Klamath wdiha, applied to the negro, 

 signities 'servant,' and the Timucua 

 ateniunacJiu means 'his black slave.' The 

 Klamath have besides adopted from the 

 whites the term nigga, from which is de- 

 rived niggalam sJiaavioksh, the term for 

 monkey, meaning literally 'negro's kins- 

 man.' 



Dutch. — The Iroquoian tribes of New 

 York called a Dutchman aseronni, a term 

 identical with onfieromii, by which the 

 Mohawk of Lake of Two Mountains, Que- 

 bec, designate a Frenchman to-day. Its 

 literal signitication seems to be 'maker 

 of hatchets. ' The Iroquois used the word 

 as an adjective to designate several things, 

 as ooskah asseroni, 'tiax,' in Onondaga, 

 literally, 'Dutchman's thread'; ossaheta 

 axseroni, 'peas,' literally, 'Dutch beans' 

 (Beauchamp in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, xv, 

 96, 98, 1902). The Delawares of New 

 Jersey called the Dutch by a name spelled 

 by the early writers sifannekins. Without 

 the English s this is evidently identical 

 with the Delaware schivonnachquin, 

 'white people,' literally, 'people from 

 the salt sea {schnvn),' a term used to 

 designate Europeans in general. 



Clunaman. — Some of the Indian tribes, 

 through the actual presence among them 

 of the Oriental, others by indirection 

 only, have come to have special names for 

 the Chinaman. The Kutenai, who know 

 him from actual observation, call the 

 Chinaman gooktlam, the chief component 

 of which is aqkoktlam, ' hair,' in reference 

 'to his queue. The Chinook jargon has 

 adopted the English word. The Siksika 

 name is apotsepista. The Kiowa name 

 signifies ' yellow man.' (a. f. c. ) 



Racket. See Ball play, Games. 



Rahasalali ( ' oak wood ' ) . A Tara- 

 humare raneheria near Palanquo, Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico. — Lumholtz, inf'n, 1894. 



Rahaughcoon. See Raccoon. 



Rahun, An important Yaqui settle- 

 ment on the N. bank of the lower Rio 

 Yaqui, s. w. Sonora, Mexico. Escudero 

 estimated its population at 6,000 in 1849, 

 but its present number is not known. 

 Asimcion de Raum. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 355, 

 1864. Racum.— Escudero, Not. Son. y Sin., 100, 

 1849. Rahum.— Velasco (1850) quoted by Ban- 

 croft. Nat. Races, i, G08, 1882. Raiin.— Miihlen- 

 pfordt, ibid. 



Railway. See Rockaway. 



Raiabd ('the slope,' or 'the hillock'). 

 The name of several distinct rancherias 

 of the Tarahumare not far from Noroga- 

 chic. Chihuahua, Mexico. — Lumholtz, 

 inf'n, 1894. 



Rain-in-the-Face. A noted Sioux war- 

 rior and chief, born near the forks of 

 Cheyenne r., N. Dak., about 1835, died 



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at Standing Rock res., in the same state, 

 Se]>t. 14, 1905. He was a full-blood 

 Hunkpapa, one of a family of six broth- 

 ers, one of whom was known as Iron 

 Horse. Shortly before his death, he said : 

 "My father was not a chief; my grand- 

 father was not a chief, but a good hunter 

 and a feast-maker. On my mother's side 

 I had some noted ancestors, but they 

 left me no chieftainship. 1 had to work 

 for my reputation " (Eastman in Outlook, 

 Oct. 27, 1906). He received his common 

 name as the result of a personal encounter, 

 when about 10 years of age, with a Chey- 

 enne boy, whom he worsted; he received 

 several blows in the face, however, caus- 

 ing it to be spattered with blood and 

 streaked where the paint had been washed 

 away. When a young man, he joined a 

 war-party against the Gros Ventres, some 

 of whose horses they stole, but the Sioux 

 party was overtaken and had to fight for 

 their lives. Rain-in-the-Face had his 

 face painted to represent the sun when 

 half covered with darkness — half black 

 and half red. Fighting all day in the 

 rain, his face became partly washed and 

 streaked with red and black, so again he 

 was named Rain-in-the-Face. He had 

 been many times on the warpath, but 

 his first important experience as a war- 

 rior was in the attack on the troops near 

 Ft Phil Kearny, Wyo., in Dec. 1866, in 

 which Capt. Fetterman and his entire 

 command of 80 men were killed. He 

 participated also in a fight, two years 

 later, near Ft Totten, Dak., in which he 

 and his horse were wounded. About 

 three years before the Custer massacre in 

 1876, Rain-in-the-Face was accused of 

 killing a surgeon and a trader of Gen. 

 Stanley's expedition, for which he was 

 arrested by Col. Thomas Custer. Having 

 confessed his guilt, he was imprisoned for 

 a time, but w'as allowed by his guard to 

 escape and joined Sitting Bull's band of 

 hostiles in the spring of 1874, declaring 

 that he would "cut the heart out of Tom 

 Custer and eat it. ' ' Rain-in-the-Face was 

 a leading participant in the Little Bighorn 

 fight, and although it has frequently 

 been stated that he personally killed Gen. 

 Custer, this is now generally doubted, and 

 was denied by him. From wounds re- 

 ceived in this battle he was permanently 

 lamed, yet he followed Sitting Bull into 

 Canada, where he remained until 1880, 

 when most of the fugitives surrendered to 

 Gen. Miles at Ft Keogh, Mont. He had 

 seven wives, few of whom lived long or 

 happily with him; the last wife was found 

 in his tipi with her throat cut. 



Ramah. An Eskimo mission estab- 

 lished on the E. coast of Labrador by the 

 Moravians in 1871. — Thompson, Mora- 

 vian, Miss., 230, 1890. 



