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SHABWASING SHAHAKA 



[b. a. e. 



Morris, 111., Oct. 23, 1903. Shabonee's 

 name is appended to the treaties of Prairie 

 du Chien, Wis., Aug. 19, 1825, and July 

 29, 1829; Camp Tippecanoe, Ind., Oct. 

 20, 1832; and Chicago, Sept. 26, 1833. He 

 was married three times, the last two 

 wives living with him at the same time. 

 He was succeeded as chief by his grand- 

 son. Smoke. See Matson, Memories of 

 Shaubena, 1880. 



Shabwasing. A Chippewa band in 1851, 

 probably in lower Michigan. — Smith in 

 Ind. Aff. Rep., 53, 1851. 



Shackaconia. A tribe of the Mannahoac 

 confederacy, formerly living on the s. 

 bank of the Rappahannock, in Spotsyl- 

 vania CO., Va. Their principal village 

 bore the same name. 



Shackaconias.— Stnu'hey (1612), Va., 104, 1849. 

 Shackakonies.— JelYerson, Notes, 129, 1802. Shaka- 

 honea.— Simons in Smith (1629), Vii., I, 186, 1819. 



Shackamaxon (of doubtful meaning). A 

 Delaware village on tlie site of Kensing- 

 ton, now a part of Philadelphia, Pa. At 

 this place Penn made his treaty with the 

 Indians in 1682. 



Schachamesink. — Heckewelder Narr., Connelley 

 ed., 651, 1907 (given as Delaware form: German 

 spelling). Shackamaxon.— Proud, Penn., I, 148, 

 1797. Shackaxons.— Bondinot, Star in the West, 

 128, 1816. Shakamaxon— Proud, op. cit. Shak- 

 hamexunk.— Deed of 1676 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 XII, 550, 1877 (identical?). Shakhamuxunck.— Doc. 

 of 1679, ibid., 620. Shorbanaxon, — Rupp, West. 

 Penn., 27, 1846 (misprint). 



Shadjwane {Shadjirant'). The Rabbit 

 clan of the Yuchi (q. v.). — Speck, Yuchi 

 Inds., 70, 1909. 



Shaganappi. Thongs of rawhide used 

 for rope or cord. SItaganappi, or ' ' North- 

 west iron," was an important factor in the 

 economic development of the N. W., 

 where it was a godsend to the mixed- 

 bloods and white settlers. Out of it was 

 made the harness of the famous Red river 

 carts and of the dog sleds of the country to 

 the northward. It was one of the most 

 important gifts from the Indian to the 

 white man. A variety of spellings of this 

 word exists, as shaganappi, shaggineppi, 

 and shaggunappy. It is derived from 

 pisaganuhhj, pisJtagandpi, in the Cree dia- 

 lects of Algonquian, the corresponding 

 Chippewa word being bishagandb, signi- 

 fying 'a thong of rawhide.' Gerard 

 gives the Wood Cree word as plsltagandbii' 

 from pishagcm 'hide' (lit. 'what is 

 flayed'), dbii 'cord', 'string', 'rope.' 

 It has been said that "shaganappi and 

 Scotchmen made the Northwest." A 

 corresponding term is babiche (q. v.), 

 though it is not of such importance as 

 the other. (a. f. c.) 



Shagoyewatha. See Red Jacket. 



Shagsowanoghroona (Iroquois name). 

 A tribe or band, probably Algonquian, 

 living in Canada in 1759.— Canajoharie 

 conf. (1759) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist, vii, 

 393, 1856. 



Shaliaka [She'-he-ke, 'Coyote'). A 

 Mandan chief, more commonly known 

 as Le Gros Blanc, or Big White; born 

 about 1765. He was principal chief of 

 Metutahanke, the "Lower Village" of 

 the Mandan, on the Missouri below 

 the mouth of Knife r., and rendered 

 friendly service to Lewis and Clark 

 while at Ft ]\Iandan in the winter 

 of 1804-5, in recognition of which 

 he was given a metial. Brackenridge 

 described him as a fat man, of mild and 

 gentle disposition, not much distinguished 

 as a warrior, "and extremely talkative, a 

 fault nuich despised amongst the In- 

 dians"; and, again, as "a tine looking 

 Indian, and very intelligent — his com- 

 plexion fair, very little different from 

 that of a white man much exposed to the 



sun." When the expedition returned to 

 the Missouri from the Pacific, Lewis and 

 Clark persuaded Shahaka to accompany 

 them to St Louis with a view of making 

 a visit to President Jefferson, and Jeffer- 

 son later invited Lewis to visit Monticello 

 with Shahaka for the purpose of showing 

 the latter his collection of Indian objects 

 from the N. W. Shahaka remained in 

 the E. for a year, and while there, evi- 

 dently in Philadelphia, St Memin made 

 a portrait of him with the aid of a physi- 

 onotrace, the original of which (see illus- 

 tration) now belongs to the American 

 Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. 

 Shahaka left St Louis for his home in 

 May 1807, the party consisting of himself 

 and his squaw-man interpreter, Ren^ 

 Jessaume, with their wives and one child 



