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test against the removal his talents found 

 play and recognition. As president of 

 the national committee from 1819 till 

 1826 he was instrumental in the intro- 

 duction of school and mechanical train- 

 ing, and led in the development of the 

 civilized autonomous government em- 

 bodied in the republican constitution 

 adopted in 1827. He was associate chief 

 with William Hicks in that year, and 

 president of the Cherokee constitutional 

 convention. From 1828 till the removal 

 to Indian Ter. in 1839 he was principal 

 chief of the Cherokee Nation, and headed 

 the various national delegations that vis- 

 ited Washington to defend the right of 

 the Cherokee to their national territory. 

 After the arrival in Indian Ter., he was 

 chosen chief of the united Cherokee 

 Nation, and held that office until his 

 death, although during the dissensions 

 caused by the Civil War the Federal au- 

 thorities temporarily deposed him. See 

 Moonev, Myths of the Cherokee, 19th 

 Rep. B'. A. E., 122, 150, 224, 225, 1900. 



Roucheag. See Rokeag. 



Rouconk. A Neusiok village in 1701, 

 probablv on lower Neuse r., in Craven 

 CO., N. 'C— Lawson (1709), Hist. Car., 

 384, 1860. 



Roundhead {Stiahia). A Wyandot 

 (Huron) chief who espoused the British 

 cause in the War of 1812, being connected 

 chiefly with Col. Proctor's command. 

 Nothing is known of his early history, 

 and though spoken of as a tine-looking 

 man and a celel)rated Indian chief, his 

 historj' as recorded refers only to the time 

 of the war mentioned. He was with 

 Maj. Muir, of Proctor's command, on the 

 Miami near Ft Miami, Ohio, Sept. 27-28, 

 1812, and urged in vain the English com- 

 mander to hold his position and fight the 

 American forces. In Oct. following he 

 accompanied Maj. Muir to River Raisin, 

 where Proctor was gathering his forces, 

 and later in the same year he met his 

 death. Gen. Proctor, in a letter dated 

 Oct. 23, 1813, states that "the Indian 

 cause and ours experienced a serious loss 

 in the death of Round Head." A village 

 in the s. w. corner of Hardin co., Ohio, 

 his early home, bore his name, which 

 survives in that of the present town of 

 Roundhead built on its site. Roundhead 

 had a brother known as John Battise, a 

 man ' ' of great size and personal strength, ' ' 

 who was killed at Ft Meigs while fight- 

 ing for the British. (c. T. ) 



Roymount. A Delaware village with 14 

 warriors, existing about 1648, near C. 

 Mav, N. J.— Evelin (ca. 1648) quoted by 

 Proud, Penn., i, 114, 1797. 



Rsanuk ( R.'<d^n{i,k, 'beginning' ) . A Pima 

 village about 1 m. e. of Sacaton station, 

 on the Maricopa and Phoenix R. R., s. 

 Arizona. — Russell in 26th Rep. B. A. E. 

 23, 1908. 



Rsotuk {Rsoti'ik', 'water standing'). A 

 Pima village n. w. of Casa Blanca, s. Ari- 

 zona. — Russell in 26th Rep. B. A. E., 

 23, 1908. 



Ruche ( ' pigeon ' ) . An Iowa gens. 

 Lu'-ohih.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 156, 1877. Pigeon.-- 

 Ibid. Ru'-tce.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 239, 

 1897. 



Rukhcha ('pigeon'). An Oto gens. 

 Lute'-ja. — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 156, 1877. Ru'-qtca. — 

 Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 240, 1897. 



Rumsen. A division of the Costanoan 

 family, formerly about Monterey, CaL, 

 inhabiting Monterey, Sur, and Carmel r. 

 The term has been made to include also, 

 as a subdivision, the so-called Kalendaruk 

 of the lower Salinas and Pajaro rs. As 

 early as 1602 Vizcayno wintered among 

 the Rumsen at Monterey, though he does 

 not mention them by name. The first 

 mission founded in California, after that 

 of San Diego, was established as Carmelo 

 in Rumsen territory in 1770. Six or eight 

 Rumsen, mostly old women, survived 

 about Monterey and Carmel in 1903. The 

 following villages of the Rumsen are men- 

 tioned: Achasta, Echilat, Guayusta, Ka- 

 konkaruk, Karmentaruka, Sargentaruka, 

 Tukutnut, Wachanaruka. (a. l. k. ) 

 Achastas. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860. 

 Achastli. — Latham in Proc. Philol. Soc. Lond., vi, 

 79, 1852-53. Achastlians. — Chamisso in Kotzebue, 

 Voy., Ill, 49, 1821. Achastliens.— Lamanon iu 

 Perouse, Voy., n, 291, 1797. Achastlier. — Adelung, 

 Mithridates, iii, 204, 1816. Achastlies.— Mayer, 

 Mexico, II, 39, 18,53. Achistas. — Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860. Rumsenes. — Mayer, op. cit. 

 Rumsien.— Humboldt, Essai Pol., 1,321, 1811. Run- 

 cienes. — Hittell, Hist. Cal., I, 797, 1898. Runsenes. — 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860. Runsienes. — 

 Galiano, Relacion, 164, 1802. Ruslen. — Latham in 

 Proc. Philol. Soc. Lend., vi, 79, 1854. 



Rum's Village. A former village of the 

 Potawatomi, about 4 m. s. of South Bend, 

 St Joseph CO., Ind. It was included in 

 the lands ceded to the U. S. by treaty of 

 Chicago, Aug. 29, 1821. 



Running Water. A former Cherokee 

 town on the s. e. bank of Tennessee r., 

 below Chattanooga, near the n. w. Georgia 

 line, and 4 m. above Nickajack. It was 

 settled in 1782 by Cherokee who espoused 

 the British cause in the Revolutionary 

 war, and was known as one of theChick- 

 amauga towns. It was destroyed in the 

 fall of 1794. See Royce in 5th Rep. 

 B. A. E., map, 1887; Moonev in 19th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 54, 78, 1900. 



Runonvea. An Iroquois village for- 

 merly situated near Big Flats, Chemung 

 CO., N. Y., and burned Aug. 31, 1779, by 

 the troops under Gen. Sullivan. — Cook, 

 Jour. Sullivan's Exped., 381, 1887. 



Runtee. A circular piece of flat shell 

 drilled edgeways and probably strung 

 and originally used as an ornament. The 

 name runtee was first mentioned, a cen- 

 tury after the settlement of Virginia, by 

 Beverley, who says of the objects so 

 called : ' ' Runtees are made of the Conch- 

 Shell as the Peak is, only the Shape is 

 flat and round like a Cheese, and drill'd 



