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of the country. — Smith, Bouquet Exped., 

 10, 1766. 



Seven Islands. A Montagnais trading 

 and mission station on the n. shore of the 

 gulf of iSt Lawrence, near the mouth of 

 Moisie r., Quebec. In 1884 the inhabit- 

 ants numbered 269; in 1909, 360. 

 Sept Isles.— Bomber in Can. Ind. Aff. ISSJ, pt. 

 I, 37, 18S5. Seven Islands.— Ibid., 185. 



Seven Nations of Canada. The 7 tribes 

 signified are the Skighquan (Nipissing), 

 Estjage (Sanlteurs), A.'^sisagh (Missi- 

 sauga), Karhadage, Adgenauwe, Karri- 

 haet, and Adirondax (Algonkins). The 

 4th, 5th, and 6th are unidentified. These 

 are tiie peoples mentioned in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., IV, 899, 1854. In the Mass. Hist 

 Soc. Coll., 3d s., V, 78, 1836, the Caughna- 

 waga are not included in the 7 tribes 

 there mentioned. 



Seven Castles. — Knox (1792) in Am. St. Papers, 

 Ind. Aft'., I, 235, 1832. Seven Nations of Canada. — 

 Manmee council (1793), ibid. Seven nations of 

 Indians inhabiting lower Canada. — Kep. in Wil- 

 liams, Vermont. ll, 291, 1.SU9. Seven nations of 

 Lower Canada Indians. — CauKlinawaga address 

 (1798), ibid., 233-234. -Seven Tribes" on the River 

 St. Lawrence, — Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 3d s., v, 78, 

 1836. 



Sevilleta (Span.: 'Little Seville,' so 

 called on account of its resemblance in 

 situation to the Spanish city). A former 

 pueblo of the Piro on the e. l)ank of the 

 Rio Grande, about 20 m. above Socorro, 

 N. Mex.; visited by Onate in 1598 and 

 named by him Nueva Sevilla. It was 

 subsequently depopulated and destroyed 

 by other tribes, proltably Apache, with 

 whom the inhabitants were at war, but it 

 was resettled between 1626 and 1630, 

 when it became the seat of the Franciscan 

 mission of San Luis Obispo, having a 

 num))er of other Piro pueblos as visitas. 

 At this time it was mentioned as the most 

 northerly of the Piro villages. In 1693 

 Vetancnrt reported it to contain only 3 

 families, the remainder having fied with 

 the Spaniards to El Paso at the outbreak 

 of the Pueblo revolt in 1680. On the 

 return of Gov. Otermin in 1681 he found 

 the pueblo abandoned and almost in 

 ruins; it was never resettled by Indians. 

 Not to be confounded with Ceholleta in 

 any of its various forms. Consult Bande- 

 lier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 239, 1892. 

 See also Piros, Fueblof:. ( f. w. h. ) 



Kew Sevilla. — Bandelier, op. cit., 238 ftransl. of 

 Oiiate's N eva Sevilla). Nueva Sevilla.— Oiiate 

 (1.598) in Doc. Ined., xvi, 252, 1871. San Lodovic.— 

 Columbus Memorial Vol., 1.5li, 1893. San-Luis de 

 Seuilleta. — Beiiavides, Memorial, 19, 1(530. Sebo- 

 llita.— Davis, Span. Conq. N. Mex., 313, 18f>9. 

 Semillete.— Humboldt, New Spain, ii, 309. 1811. 

 Seuilleta,— Benavides, op. cit., 14. Sevilleta. — 

 Vetancurt (1696) in Teatro Mex., ni, 310, 1871; 

 Rivera, Diario, leg. 756, 1736. Sevillete,— Shea, 

 Cath. Miss., 82, 1850. Sevilletta.— Sanson, L'Am6- 

 riq e, map, 27, 16.57. Sibillela. — I'ike, Kxplor. 

 Travel.s, map, 1811. Sibilleta,— Pike, Exped., 

 app., pt. in, 7, 1810. Sivilleta,— Benavides, op. 

 cit., 16. S. Luis Obispo Sevilleta. — Benavides 

 (1630) cited by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 163. 

 1889. 



Sewaathlchutun {Se^-wa-acl-tci'i'-t{in). A 

 Takelma band or village on the s. side of 

 Rogue r., Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, x, 235, 1890. 



Sewackenaem. An P^sopus chief at the 

 council of 1658; called Semeckamenee 

 and Sewackemamo at the peace treaty of 

 1660, and Seweckenamo in 1664 and 1667. 

 Sewackenamie as sachem renewed a deed 

 in 1674, and signed a renewal in 1681. 

 He also acknowledged his mark in 1669, 

 and was one of the 5 Esopus sachems at 

 the treaty of that year. Sewakonama also 

 signed an agreement with Gov. Nicolls in 

 1665. See N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiii, 

 93,150,400,533,1851. (w. m. b.) 



Sewan. A name among the Dutch set- 

 tlers of New Netherland (whose traders 

 obtained it from Rhode Island) for the 

 Indian shell money called by the English 

 settlers of Massachusetts wampum and 

 peag (q. v.). The name sewan is first 

 mentioned in a letter written by De Rasi- 

 eres in 1627. Spelled zeawant by Mon- 

 tanus (1671), and seawan and seaica7it. by 

 other writers. The w^ord is from Narra- 

 ganset siwdn, 'scattered,' from .<i/'»r», 'he 

 scatters.' The shell money that bore 

 this name among the Indians was un- 

 strung and passed from hand to hand, 

 by count, in a loose state, one dark purple 

 bead being worth two white ones. The 

 Dutch applied the name indiscriminately 

 to the beads in a loose or scattered and 

 strung state. See Roanoke, (w. r. g. ) 



Sewapoo. A tribe or band that lived 

 about Delaware bay ; probably a Delaware 

 band in s. New Jersey. — De Laet (1633) 

 in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d s., i, 315, 

 1841. 



Sewathen. A Cowichan tribe formerly 

 living on the coast of British Columbia s. 

 of the mouth of Fraser r. They are now 

 on a reservation near Pt Roberts, called 

 Chewassan from the name of the tribe. 

 Pop. 50 in 1909. 



Isowasson,— Can. Ind. Aff., 74, 1878. SEwa'pEn.— 

 Hill-Tout in Ethnol. Surv. Can., 54, 1902. 

 Stauafen.- Boas, MS., B. A. E., 1887. Stcuwa'cEl.— 

 Boas in Rep. 64th Meeting B. A. A. S., 4.54, 1894 

 (given as a town). Tche-wassan.— Can. Ind. Aff., 

 277, 1894. Tsawwassen,— Ibid., pt. ll, 75, 1904. 

 Tsonassan.— Ibid., pt. I, 189, 1883. Tsowassan,— 

 Ibid., 316, 1S80. 



Seweckenamo. See Sewackenaem. 



Sewee. A small tribe, supposedly Siou- 

 an, formerly living in e. South Carolina. 

 According to Rivers (Hist. So. Car., 36, 

 1856) they occupied the lower part of 

 Santee r. and the coast westward to the 

 divide of Ashley r., about the present 

 Monks Corner, Berkeley co., where they 

 adjoined the Etiwaw. Nothing is known 

 of the language, but judging by their alli- 

 ances and their final incorporation with 

 the Catawba they are assumed to have 

 been Siouan. Lawson, who met them in 

 1701, when they were living at tlie mouth 

 of Santee r. , states that they had been a 



