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SAGAMOKE 8AGHWAREESA 



[b. a. b. 



word occurs also as sagamity, as in Lewis 

 and Clark (Trav., in, 2, 1817). (a. f. c. ) 



Sagamore. A corniption of sW^cfma'"-, 

 the Abiiaki name for the chief or ruler 

 of a tribe, the dignity of which was elec- 

 tive, the choice usually falling on an in- 

 dividual who was at the head of a promi- 

 nent clan. Other spellings are sagomoh 

 (Rosier, 1603), sogomo, sagomo, sagamo, 

 and sagcuiiour. (2) A term applied by 

 early writers to the lesser sachems among 

 the Massaehuset Indians. Josselyn uses 

 the word sagamorsldp (of which he ap- 

 parently was the author) as a synonym 

 for sachemship. See CJiiefs, Government, 

 Sachem. (w. R. G.) 



Sagangusili {S^xigd'nustli). A family 

 belonging tp the Raven clan of the Haida. 

 They lived at one time in Naden harbor, 

 Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. Col., and are 

 said to have been related to the Skidao- 

 kaq._— Swan ton, Cont. Haida, 271, 1905. 

 Sahagungusili. — Harrison in Proc. Roy. Soc. Can., 

 125, 1895. Sgaga'ngsilai.— Boas, Twelfth Rep. N. 

 W. Tribes Can., 23, 1898. 



Sagarissa. See Sakarissa. 



Sagaunaah ('Englishman'). A mixed- 

 blood Potawatomi chief, better known 

 as Billy Caldwell, born in Canada about 

 1780. His father, according to report, 

 was an Irish otHcer in the British service, 

 and his mother a Potawatomi. Sagau- 

 nash was educated in Roman Catholic 

 schools, learned to write English and 

 French with facility, and was master of 

 several Indian dialects. From 1807 to 

 the battle of the Thames in Oct. 1813, 

 he was in the British interest and was 

 intimately associated with Tecumseh, 

 whose secretary he is said to have been. 

 After the battle referred to he transferred 

 his allegiance to the United States, estab- 

 lishing his residence at Chicago in 1820. 

 In 1826 he held the office of justice of the 

 peace, and during the Winnebago excite- 

 ment of 1827 was, with Shabonee, of great 

 service to the Americans. His wife was 

 a daughter of Neescotnemeg. Sagaunash 

 died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sept. 28, 

 1841, aged about 60 years. (c- t. ) 



Sagavok. A Netchilirmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on Boothia penin., s. of Felix harbor. 



Sagavoq— Boas in 6tli Rep. B. A. E., map, 1888. 

 Shag-a-voke.— R0.SS, Second Voy., 324, 1835. 



Sagawamick. (Chippewa: Shdgawd- 

 mika, 'there is a long shallow place in the 

 lake'; probably a contraction of Shdga- 

 wdniikang, 'at the long shallow place in 

 the lake.' — Gerard). The principal vil- 

 lage of the Misisagaikaniwininiwak, or 

 Mille Lac band of Chippewa, numbering 

 about 300 persons, situated on the s. shore 

 of Mille Lac, Minn., and during the month 

 of May 1900, consisting of about 30 mat- 

 covered wigwams. The village occupies 

 the site of an ancient settlement of the 

 Mdewakanton (q. v.), who occupied the 

 country until they were driven southward 



by the Chippewa, probably about the 

 middle of the 18th century. Near the 

 village is a group of more than 60 burial 

 mounds, which, together with fragfnents 

 of pottery and iniplements of stone and 

 copper found upon the surface, was con- 

 sidered by the Chippewa to have been of 

 Mdewakanton origin. The Chippewa at 

 the present time utilize these mounds as 

 burial places for their own dead, and on 

 the top and sides of one were 13 ancient 

 graves. Deeply worn trails lead from 

 Sagawamick toward the e., s., and w., 

 and the indications are that the site haa 

 long been occupied. (d. i. b. ) 



Sa-ga-wah-mick.— Bushnell in Science, 408, Sept. 

 23, 1904. 



Sagdlet. A Danish station and Eskimo 

 village on an island off the s. w. coast of 

 Greenland, lat. 60° 15^— Meddelelser cm 

 Gronland, xvi, map, 1896. 



Sagdlirmiut. An exceedingly primi- 

 tive Eskimo tribe, having had little inter- 

 course with neighboring people, formerly 

 inhabiting Southampton id. and the 

 islands of Fox basin (Boas in 6th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 444, 451, 1888). In 1900 they 

 were estimated to number about 300, but 

 owing to the establishment of a whaling 

 station on their island soon afterward 

 and the introduction of outside natives 

 with modern guns and superior appli- 

 ances, by which the food supply of the 

 islanders was quickly destroyed, the Sag- 

 dlirmiut became extinct by the spring 

 of 1903 (Boas in Am. Anthr., vi, 746, 

 1904). 

 Sead-ler-me-oo.— Parry, Second Voy., 250, 464, 1824. 



Sagem. See Sachem. 



Sagenomnas. A tribe of California, ap- 

 parently of the central portion, and prob- 

 ably about San Joaquin r. It belonged 

 either to the Yokuts (Mariposan) or to 

 the Moquelunuian family. 

 Sage-nom-nas.— Johnston in Sen. Ex. Doc. 61, 32d 

 Cong., 1st sess., 20, 1852. Sage-nom-nis.— Rver in 

 Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 32d Cong., spec, sess., 199, 1853. 



Sagewenenewak (contr. and abbrev. of 

 Chippewa SdginavMnlnlwdk, 'people of 

 the river-mouth.' — Gerard. See Sagi- 

 nam). A Chippewa division living at 

 the mouth of Red r., Manitoba. 

 Sa,gh Wenenewak.— Long, Exped. St Peter.s R., 

 II, 153, 1824. Sagitawawininiwag, — Wm. Jones, 

 iiif'n, 1906 (correct name). 



Saghwareesa. A Tuscarora chief. Con- 

 rad Weiser placed him in his list of influ- 

 ential men in 1752, styling him "the 

 wisest and best Daniel," and calling him 

 Achsaquareesory. He was at Ganatisgoa 

 in the same year, and in 1753 appeared 

 in Pennsylvania. In 1755 he was styled 

 Segwarusa, chief of the Tuscarora; in 

 the following year as Sequareesa — the 

 most frequent form. He had a confer- 

 ence with Sir William Johnson at Oneida 

 lake in 1761, was at Onondaga in the 

 same year, and signed the Ft Stanwix 

 treaty in 1768. Zeisberger called him 



