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the Apaches surprised the pueblo of 

 Senecu, killed its missionary, Fray Alonzo 

 Gil de Avila, and slauglitered so many of 

 the inliabitantsof all age« and both sexes 

 that the survivors fled in dismay to So- 

 corro, and the pueblo remained forever 

 deserted." Not to be confounded with 

 the Senecu (see Smecu del Sur) below El 

 Paso, in Chihuahua, which was settled 

 al)out 1680 by fugitive Piro and Tigua 

 from New Mexico, some of them being 

 from the older Senecu. See also Piros; 

 Pueblos. ( F. W. H. ) 



Ceneeu.— Davis, Span. Conq. N. Mex., 310, 1S69. 

 Renecuey. — New Mex. Doe. quoted bv Bancroft, 

 Ariz, and N. Mex., 171, 1889 (icientieal?). San- 

 Antonio de Senecu. ^Benavides, Memorial, 19, 1630. 

 Sant Antonio de Senecu.— Blaeu, Atlas, xn, 61, 1667. 

 S.AntoinedeSenecu.—Del'Isle, Map Am. Sept. ,1700. 

 S. Antonio.— D'Anville. Map N. A., Bolton's ed., 

 1752. S. Antonio de Senaca. — Crepy, Map Amt^r. 

 Sept., 1783 (?). S. Antonio de Sencen, — Brion de la 

 Tour, Map I'Amer., 1779. S. Antonio de Seneci. — 

 JefTerys, Am. Atlas, map ."i, 1776. S. Antonio de 

 Senecu.— De I'lsle, Carte Mexique et Floride, 1703. 

 Senacu. — Davis, El Gringo, rj3. 1857. Sene. — Doc. 

 of 17th cent, quoted by Bandelier in Arch. Inst. 

 Papers, iv, 251, 1892. Seneca.— Columbus Mem. 

 Vol., 156, 1893 (misprint I. Senecu.— Benavides, 

 Memorial, 14, 1630. St. Antonio. — Shea.Cath. Miss., 

 80, 18.55. St Antony,— Kitchin, Map N. A., 1787. 

 Zen-ecu. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 

 247, 1892 (Seneen, or). Zennecu. — Soils Miranda 

 (1676) quoted by Bandelier, ibid., iii, 131, 1^90. 



Senecu del Sur (Span.: 'Senecu of the 

 South'). A pueblo on the s. e. bank 

 of the Rio Grande, a few miles below 

 El Paso, in Chihuahua, Mexico, inhab- 

 ited by the last remnant of the Piro 

 and Tigua who escaped from Senecu. N. 

 Mex., during an Apache outbreak in 1675, 

 or who were taken there from Isleta, 

 Socorro, and Alamillo by Gov. Otermin 

 on his retreat from Santa Fe during the 

 Pueblo revolt of 1680. The mission of 

 San Antonio was established there in 

 1682. The natives have practically lost 

 their language and are almost completely 

 "Mexicanized." (f. w. h.) 



Cinecu. — Escudero, Not. Nuevo-M6x., 14. 1849. 

 lenecu. — Siguenza (1691-93) quoted by Buseh- 

 mann, Neu-Mexieo, 264, 18.58. Jenecu. — Busch- 

 mann, ibid., 249. San Antonio of Sinolu, — Cru- 

 zate (1685) as quoted by Davis, Span. Cunq. N. 

 Mex., 337, 1869 ("supposed to be the same"). 

 Sa.n Antonio Seneca.— Ward in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1867, 

 213, 1S6S. Saneca.— Morse, Hist. Am., map, 1798. 

 Seneco. — Calhoun ( 1849) in Cal. Mess. and Corresp., 

 215, 1850. Senecii,— Rivera, Diario, leg. 684, 1736. 

 Sinecu.— Bartlett.Pers.Narr., I. 149,18.54. Sinicu. — 

 Gatsehet in Mag. Am. Hist., 2.59, Apr. 1882 (Sine- 

 c\l, or). 



Senedo. According to Peyton (Hist. 

 Augu.sta Co., 6, 1882), a tribe formerly 

 on the N. fork of Shenandoah r., Va., 

 and exterminated by the Southern In- 

 dians in 1732. The statement is of doubt- 

 ful authenticity. (.1. M. ) 



Senega. The "Seneca snakeroot" (Po- 

 bjf/(ila senega), from which the Indians, 

 and after them the whites, prepared a 

 remedy for snake bites, etc. ; from Seneca, 

 the name of one of the Five Is'^ations of the 

 Iroquois. The siniga of Cherokee is prob- 

 ably the same word. (a. f. c. ) 



Senestun ( Se-nSs^-t{in) . A band or vil lage 

 of the Chastacosta on Rogue r., Greg. — 

 Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 234, 

 1890. 



Senijextee. A Salish tribe formerly re- 

 siding on both sides of Columbia r. from 

 Kettle falls to the Canadian boundary; 

 they also occupied the valley of Kettle r., 

 Kootenay r. from its mouth to the first 

 falls, and the region of the Arrow lakes, 

 Brit. Col. In 1909 those in the United 

 States numbered 342, on the Colville res.. 

 Wash. 



Lake Indians. — Parker, .lournal, 293, 1840. Sav- 

 ages of the Lake.— Do Sinet, Letters, 37, 1843. 

 Sen-i-jex-tee.— Winans in Ind. Aff. Rep., 22, 1870. 

 Sinatcheggs.— Ross. Fur Hunters, ii, 172, 190, 1855. 

 Sinuitskistux, — Wilson in ,Iour. Ethnol.Soc.Lond., 

 292, 1866. S-na-a-chikst. — I)aw.son in Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. Can. 1891, sec. n, 6, 1892. 



Senikave. A Kaviagmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on the mainland opposite Sledge id., 

 Alaska.— 11th Census, Alaska, 162, 1893. 



Senisos ( Span. , probably referringeither 

 to ceniza, 'ashes,' or to cenizo, the white 

 goose-foot, a plant). A former tribe in 

 N. E. Mexico, probably Coahuiltecan, 

 which was drawn from Nuevo Leon and 

 in 1698 gathered into mission San Antonio 

 Galindo Moctezuma, x. of Monclova. 

 Cenizos, — Revillagigedo, Carta, MS., quoted by 

 Bancroft, Nat. Races. I, 611, 1886. 



Senktl (SenxL). A Bellacoola village 

 near the mouth of Bellacoola r., Brit. Col., 

 "about 1 m. above Nuxa'lk"!." 

 SEnqtl. -Boas in 7th Rep. X. W. Tribes Can., 3, 

 1891. SEnxL.— Boas in Mem. Am. Mus: Nat. Hist., 

 II, 49, 1900. Snihtlimih.— Tolmie and Dawson, 

 Vocabs. Brit. Col., 122b, 1884 (perhaps refers to 

 Snu't'ele, another town; ?«iA=' people of). 



Sennenes. A Costanoan division or vil- 

 lage in California. — Engelhardt, Francis- 

 cans in Cal., 331, 1897. 



Senobe. See Sannnp. 



Sentethltun ( Sm-teql-tim) . A former vil- 

 lage of the Tututni on the s. side of Rogue 

 r., Greg. Schumacher (Bull. Geol. Surv., 

 31, 1877) placed it at the mouth of Rogue 

 r., making its inhabitants a part of the 

 Tshemetunne. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk- 

 lore, III, 236, 1890. 



Sepascoot. A former band called Mun- 

 see, but probably a part of the Wappinger, 

 on the E. bank of Hudson r. , at Rliinebeck, 

 Westchester co., N. Y — Schoolcraft in 

 Proc. N. Y. Hist. Soc, ii, 103, 1844. 



Sepawi. A pueblo formerly occupied 

 by the Tewa in the valley of El Rito cr., 

 on the heights above the Ojo Caliente of 

 Joseph, and 5 in. from the ]\Iexican set- 

 tlement of El Rito, N. N. Mex. Bandelier 

 (Arch. Inst. Papers, iii, 61, 1890; iv, 51 

 et seq. , 1 892 ) regards its ruin as the largest 

 in New Mexico. 



Se-pa-ua.— Bandelier, op. cit., iv, 17, 1892. Se- 

 pa-ue.— Ibid., 51. Sepawi.— Hewett in Bull. 32, 

 B. A. E., 40, 1906. 



Sepawn. See Supawn. 



Seping. The Painted Eagle clan of the 

 Tewa pueblo of San Juan, N. Mex. 

 Sepi"-td6a.— Hodge in Am. Anthr., ix, 350, 1896 

 (<cWa= 'people'). 



