392 



Riddle — ro a Noa k 



[b. a. e. 



some renegades who had formed a plot 

 against a ruling chief and fled to escape 

 punishment. The account is given by 

 Pory in Smith (1629), Va., ii, 64, repr. 

 1819. Cf. Righkahauk. 



Riddle, Toby. See Winema. 



Riechesni (Russian: 'brook village'). 

 A former Aleut village on Little bay, 

 Akun, Krenitzin ids., Alaska; pop. 37 in 

 1830. 



Raicheshnoe. — Veniaminof, Zapiski, ii, 202, 1840. 

 Raychevsnoi. — Veniaminof cited by Elliott, Cond. 

 Afif. Alaska, 235, 1875. 



Righkahauk. A village in 1608, possi- 

 bly of the Chickahominy tribe, on the w. 

 bank of Chickahominy r., in New Kent 

 CO., Va. — Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 

 1819. Cf. Rickahake. 



Rincon (Span: 'corner,' in the S. W. 

 usually referring to a corner, angle, or re- 

 cess in a valley). A Luiseno village w. 

 of San Luis Rey, San Diego co., Cal., in 

 1883; not to be confounded withRinconin 

 Riverside co. The name is now given 

 to a tract of 2,552.81 aci-es of patented 

 and allotted land, with 119 inhabitants, 

 under the Pala agency. See Ind. Aff. 

 Rep. for 1902, 175; for 1903, 147, 1904; 

 Jackson and Kinney, Rep. Mission Ind., 

 29, 1883; Kelsey, Spec. Rep. Cal. Inds., 

 33, 1906. 



Ring stones. See Perforated stones. 



Riqne ('place of panthers.' — Hewitt). 

 An important palisaded town of the an- 

 cient Erie, situated probably near the 

 present site of Erie, Erie co., Pa. In 

 1658 it was said to have been sacked by 

 1,200 Iroquois, although defended by be- 

 tween 2,000 and 3,000 combatants. 

 Erie.— Jes. Rel. 1641, 71, 1858. Erige.— Macauley, 

 N.Y., 1,119, 1829. Erike.— Ibid. Rigue.— Je.s.Rel. 

 1656, 32, 1858. Rique. — Shea, note in Charlevoix, 

 New France, ii, 266, 1866 (Onondaga name). 



Rirak. A Yuit Eskimo village in Plover 

 bay, N. E. Siberia; pop. 24 in 4 houses 

 about 1895; 9 in 2 houses in 1901. The 

 people are of the Aiwan division and are 

 very poor. 



I'sen.— Bogoras, Chnkchee, 29, 1904 (Chukchi 

 designation.) Ri'rak.— Ibid. (Eskimo name). 

 Tirik.— Nelson iii 18th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1899. 



Rising Moose. See Taniaha. 



Ritanoe. A village, probably of the 

 Pow"hatan confederacy, in Virginia or 

 North Carolina about 1612, near some 

 copper mines. — Strachey {ca. 1612), Va., 

 26, 1849. 



Ritenbenk. A missionary station and 

 Danish trading po.st in n. Greenland, just 

 across the bight from Disko id. 

 Ritenbenk. — Meddelelserom Gronland.xxv, map, 

 1902. Rittenbenk. — Crantz, Hist. Greenland, I, pi. 

 I, 15, 1767. 



Rito (Span.: 'rite,' 'ceremony'). A 

 former pueblo of the Laguna Indians 

 on the s. bank of San Jos6 r., Valen- 

 cia CO., N. Mex. It was deserted prior 

 to 1848, because those who lived higher 

 up on the Arroyo de Rito cut off all 

 the water of the stream in seasons when 



they wanted to irrigate their lands, thus 

 depriving the people of Rito of it (Abert 

 in Emory Recon., 474, 1848). It is now 

 a small Mexican village, but there are a 

 few old Laguna houses there. 



Ritual. See Ceremony, Religion.. 



River Desert. A band of Algonkin oc- 

 cupying the Maniwaki res., comprising 

 about 44,537 acres, on Desert r., at its 

 confluence with Gatineau r., Quebec. 

 The members of this band, numbering 

 409 in 1909, gain their livelihood by 

 "shantying," driving, hunting, and lum- 

 bering, and engage to a limited extent in 

 agriculture. The women make mocca- 

 sins, mittens, baskets, etc., while the men 

 manufacture snowshoes and ax-handles. 

 The older men drink to excess and are 

 rather dependent on the whites for em- 

 ployment. 



River Indians. Used by Hubbard in 

 1680 (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d s., v, 33, 

 1815) as a collective term for the Indians 

 formerly living on Connecticut r. above 

 the coast tribes. 



River Rouge. An Algonkin settlement 

 in Ottawa co., Quebec, containing 31 Indi- 

 ans in 1884.— Can. Ind. Aff. 1884, 184, 

 1885. 



River that Flies. A former band of the 

 Miniconjou Sioux. — Culbertson in Smith- 

 son. Rep. 1850, 142, 1851. 



Roanoak {Roa7iok, 'northern people'). 

 The first people with whom Amadas and 

 Barlowe came into contact after landing, 

 in July, 1584, on the island of Wococon 

 {intkukan 'curve' or 'bend,' from its 

 shape as shown on White's map), in what 

 is now North Carolina. The language of 

 the inhabitants being unintelligible, it was 

 but natural for them to mistake the word 

 Wingandacoa for the name of the country, 

 and the name Roanoak for tliat of the is- 

 land which these Indians inhabited. On 

 visiting this island (about 12 m. long) a few 

 days after their arrival, Barlowe and his 

 companions found at its northern end (a 

 location -whence possibly the name of 

 the people) "a village of nine houses 

 built of Cedar, and fortified round about 

 with sharpe trees to keepe out their 

 enemies, and the entrance into it made 

 like a turne pike very artificially." This 

 was the residence of Wingina, the wer- 

 owance of the Roanoak, and of Grangan- 

 ameo, his brother. White marks this 

 village "Roanoac," in accordance with 

 the custom of the early settlers, but not 

 of the natives, of designating Indian vil- 

 lages by the names of their inhabitants. 



The name Roanoak, having been made 

 known in England by Barlowe, in his 

 report to Sir Walter Raleigh, became 

 fixed, in the form Roanoke, in geo- 

 graphical nomenclature as the name, 

 jirimarily, of an island; later it was ap- 

 plied to a river of Virginia and North 



