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SECAWGO SECOTAN 



[b. a. e. 



trict between Oj'ster Bay and Patchogue. 

 Their principal village was near Islip. 

 They were nearly extinct when the island 

 was finst settled by whites. 

 Seacotauk. — Dot', of 1677 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 XIV, 728, 18S3. Seaketaulke.— Doc. of 1677, ibid., 

 733. Secatague. — Wood quoted by Macauley, 

 N. Y., II, '253, 1829. Secataug,— Ibid. Secatogue.— 

 Thompson, Long Id., 68, 1839. Secatoket. — Ibid.,i, 

 442, 1843. Secatong. — Treaty of 1656 quoted by Kut- 

 tenber, Tribes Hudson R., 125, 1872. Secoutagh.— 

 Doc. of 1657 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ii, 5, 1858. Se- 

 quatake. — Thompson, Long Id., 1,448,1843. Sequa- 

 togue. — Deed of 1696 quoted by Thompson, ibid., 

 446. Sequetauke.— Doc. of 1676 in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hi.st., XIV, 711, 1883. Si-ca-tugs.— Macauley, N. 

 Y., II, 164, 1829. Sicketauyhacky.— Doc. of 1645 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., Xiv, 60, 1S83. Sicketa- 

 ■wach. — Doc. of 1650, ibid., 369. Sicketawagh.— 

 Ibid. Sicketeuwhacky. — ^Decd of 1639, ibid., 15. 

 Sicketewackey. — Vim der Donck (1656) quoted by 

 Ruttenber, Ind. Geog. Names, 82, 190G. Siketeu- 

 hacky.— Doc. of 1644 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist.,xiv, 

 56, 1883. 



Secawgo. A tribe or band which in 1807 

 attended a conference at Greenville, Ohio; 

 perliaps the Potawatomi living near Chi- 

 cago, 111. 



Lecawgoes. — Blue Jacket (1807) quoted by Brice, 

 Ft Wayne, 173, 1868 (misprint). Secawgoes. — 

 Blue JacJiet (1807) quoted by Drake, Tecumseh, 

 94, 1852. 



Seccasaw. A Massachuset village in 

 161-1 on the coast of Massachusetts, in the 

 N. part of Plymouth co. 



Secassaw.— Smi'th (1629), Va., ii, 183, repr. 1819. 

 Seccasaw.— Smith (1616) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 3d.s., VI, 108, 1837. 



Seccherpoga (probably intended for Lut- 

 chapoga). Mentioned by Webb (H. R. 

 Doc. 80, 27th Cong., 3d sess., 47, 1813) as 

 a band of Indians living in Florida; they 

 doubtless formed part of the Seminole 

 tribe. 



Secharlecha {Sidshdlidsha, 'under a 

 blackjack \_Quercus Cateshxi] tree.' — Gat- 

 schet) . A former Lower Creek settlement 

 where a council of the Lower Creeks was 

 held in Nov. 1832; not otherwise known. 

 Secharlecha.— Scale in H. R. Doc. 452, 25th Cong., 

 2d sess., 50, 1838. See-char-Iitch-ar.— Schoolcraft, 

 Ind.Tribes, IV, 579, 1854. 



Sechi. A Kawia village in Cahuilla 

 valley, s. Cal. Agua Caliente, one name 

 for this place, has been extended to des- 

 ignate a reservation, Agua Caliente No. 2, 

 which comprises 3,844 acres of patented 

 desert land, on which there were 31 In- 

 dians in 1903 under the San Jacinto 

 agency, and 43 in 1909 under the Malki 

 school superintendency. 

 Agua Caliente. — Barrows, Ethno-Bot. Coahuilla, 

 33, 1900. Palm Springs.— Ind. Aff. Rep. 1902, 175, 

 1903. Se-chi. — Barrows, op. cit. Techahet. — Schu- 

 macher in PeabodyMus. Rep., XII, 521, 1880 (prob- 

 ably tlie correct identification, the author being 

 evidently wrong in placing the people he refers 

 to, in LosAngelesco., where there are no Kawia). 



Sechukhtan {Se-tcuq' -Km) . A former 

 village of the Chastacosta on Rogue r., 

 Oreg. — Dorsev in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 

 234, 1890. 



Secmoco (Sek-mo-ko^). A tribe repre- 

 sented at San Antonio de Valero mission, 

 Texas, between 1730 and 1741. The par- 

 ents of an adult gentile woman baptized 



there in 1730 were a Secmoco and a Pa- 

 panac (Valero Bautismos, 1730, 1737, 1741, 

 MS.), a. Sinlcu. (h. E. B. ) 



Sencase. — Valero Bautismos, op. cit., 1737 (iden- 

 tical?) Sepunco.— Ibid., 1730. 



Secobec. A village of the Powhatan con- 

 federacy in 1608, on the s. bank of the 

 Rappahannock, in Caroline co., Va. 

 Secobeck.— Smith (1629), Va., I, map, repr. 1819. 



Seconcliqut. A village on Marthas Vine- 

 yard, off the coast of Massachusetts, in 

 1698.— Doc. of 1698 in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., Ists., X, 131-132, 1809. 



Secotan (apparently a substantive mean- 

 ing 'burned place,' from a verb signifying 

 'it burns'; cf. Secatoug. — Gerard). An 

 Algonquian tribe occupying in 1584 the 

 peninsula between Albemarle sd. and 

 to wer Pamlico r., with the adjacentislands, 

 the territory now embraced in Washing- 

 ton, Tyrrell, Dare, Beaufort, and Hyde 

 COS., N. C. In later times the same terri- 

 tory was occupied by the Machapunga, 

 Pamlico, and Hatteras, who may have 

 been the descendants of the Secotan. 

 From the statements of White, who ac- 

 companied the early Raleigh expedi- 

 tions, these Indians were of medium 

 stature; they dressed in loose mantles of 

 deerskin, and wore summer aprons of 

 the same a))out the loins, in front only on 

 the men, but before and l)ehind on the 

 women. The men cut their hair clos^ 

 on the sides of the head, leaving a crest 

 from the forehead back to the neck; 

 that of the women, being comparatively 

 short, thin, and soft, was clipped in front. 

 The arms, legs, and cheeks of the women 

 and parts of the body of the men were 

 tattooed to a limited extent. The Seco- 

 tan believed in the immortality of the 

 soul and in numerous deities called 

 "Mantoac [i.e. manHoak, pi. of manito, 

 the first mention of the word in English], 

 but of different sortes and degrees; one 

 onely chiefe and great God, which hath 

 bene from all eternitie." Their towns 

 are described as small, and near the sea- 

 coast but few; some containing 10 or 12 

 houses, some 20, the greatest seen hav- 

 ing but 30. Some of these were in- 

 closed "with barks of trees made fast 

 to stakes, or els with poles onely fixed 

 upright and close one liy another. ' ' Their 

 houses were oblong and consisted of a 

 framework of poles set in the ground 

 and lashed with cross-pieces; the roof 

 was rounded, (covered with bark or rush 

 mats. The Secotan people were compara- 

 tively well advanced in agriculture, cul- 

 tivating not only maize, of which they 

 had three varieties, but two leguminous 

 plants which the English called peas and 

 beans, and melons, pumpkins, gourds, 

 etc. They drew a large part of their 

 subsistence from the waters, being expert 

 fishermen, spearing fish, and also cap- 

 turing them in "a kind of wear made of 

 reedes, which in that country are very 



