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Shemps. A Squawmish village com- 

 munity on the left bank of Squawmisht r., 

 Brit. Col. 



Cemps.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 474, 1900 

 (c=sh). 



Shenango. The name of several Indian 

 settlements, widely separated in situation. 

 One was on the n. bank of the Ohio r., 

 a short distance below the site of the 

 present Economy, Beaver co., Pa., and at 

 one time was an" important trading-post, 

 but after the capture of Ft Duquesne and 

 the erection of Ft Pitt by the English in 

 1758, it gradually lost its importance, and 

 early in the Revolutionary war it was 

 wholly abandoned. It was at this place, 

 called by them Logs Town, that Weiser 

 and Croghan held in 1748 the first treaty 

 with the western Indians, which appar- 

 ently led to Celoron's expedition to the 

 Ohio in the following year. This French 

 expedition awakened Virginia to the 

 great importance of retaining possession 

 of the Ohio country; her activity in this 

 direction in turn resulted in the French 

 and Indian war six years later. In 1749 

 Celoron, with his expedition to the Ohio, 

 found about 50 lodges there, while Bonne- 

 camps estimated 80, occupied by "Iro- 

 quois, Shawnee, and Loups; also Iroquois 

 from the Sault St Louis and Lake of the 

 Two Mountains, with some Nippissin- 

 gues, Abenakis, and Ottawas." Bonne- 

 camps says that " we called it Chiningu^, 

 from its vicinity to a river of that name." 

 At the time of this expedition it had been 

 established for only 5 or 6 years, and was 

 occupied almost wholly by Iroquois. 

 General Wayne with his "Legion of the 

 United States " encamped on its site from 

 Nov. 1792 to Apr. 20, 1793, from which 

 fact it became known as Legionville. 



Probably following the Nuremberg 

 map of 1756, Mitchell's map of 1755, and 

 D'Anville's map of about 1775, the name 

 was applied to the site of Warren, Pa., 

 a place on which C61oron found a village 

 called Kananouangon (Conewango) with 

 12 or 13 cabins (N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., x, 

 249, 1858). Parkman makes the state- 

 ment that at different times in the Ohio 

 valley there have been 3 distinct villages 

 called Shenango: one situated at the junc- 

 tion of the Conewango and the Allegheny, 

 then the first one described above, and 

 the third, some distance up the Big Beaver, 

 near the Kuskuski of Hutchins' map of 

 1764, on which it is written Shaningo, 

 being about 60 m. from Ft Pitt (Jes. 

 Rel., Thwaites ed., lxix, note 40, 1900). 

 Shenango is also a form of Chenango 

 (q. v.), the name of a former Iroquois 

 town in Broome co., N. Y., situated on 

 Chenango r., 4 m. above its junction with 

 the Susquehanna, and which was evacu- 

 ated and partly burned by the Indians in 

 the winter of 1778-79. It contained about 



20 cabins. Halsey (Old N. Y. Frontier, 

 276, map, 1901 ) locates two villages where 

 only one has hitherto been recognized as 

 Shenango, the one on the Chenango r, 

 about 4 m. above, and the other just be- 

 low its junction with the Susquehanna. 

 The one he writesOtseningo, and theother 

 Ochenang on the map and Chenang in 

 the text. See Logstown. (.i. n. b. h. ) 

 Chenang. — Halsey, Old New York Frontier, 276, 

 1901. Chenango.— Jes. Rel., Thwaites ed., index, 

 item Logstown, 1900. Cheningo.— McKendry in 

 Jour. Mil. Exped. Maj. Gen. Sullivan (1779), 202, 

 1887 (Chenango, N. Y., site). Cheningue.— Mitch- 

 ell, map (1755), cited in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hi.st., 

 X, 249, 1858 (Warren site). Chinango,— Beattv in 

 Jour. Mil. Exped. Maj. Gen. Sullivan (1779), 24, 

 1887 (Chenango, N. Y., site). Chingue.— Jes. Rel., 

 Thwaites ed., index, item Logstown, 1900. 

 Kananouangon. — Bonnecamps (1749) in Jes. Rel., 

 ibid., LXIX, 165, 1900 (Conewango=VVarren site). 

 Legionville. — Ibid., index, item Log.stown. Oche- 

 nang.— Halsey, Old New York Frontier, map, 

 1901. Shaningo.— Bouquet, Exped. (1764), 149, 

 and map, 1868 (Beaver cr. site). Shenango. — Jes. 

 Rel., Thwaites ed., Index, item Logstown. Ze- 

 ninge.— Loskiel, Hist. Miss. United Brethren, pt. 

 in, 8, 1794 (Chenengo, N. Y.,.site). For other 

 synonyms, see Chenango and Logstown. 



Shennosquankin. One of the 3 bands 

 of Similkameen Okinagan in British Co- 

 lumbia, numbering in all 1 79 in 1909. 

 Shennoquankin.— Can. Iiid. Aff., pt. ll, 166, 1901. 

 Shennoskuankin. — Ibid., 419, 1898. Shen-nos-quan- 

 kin.— Ibid., 191, 1883. 



Sheo. An unidentified division of the 

 Oglala Sioux, mentioned by Lewis and 

 Clark (Discov., 34, 1806). 



Shequallisere. See Saghwareesa. 



Sheshalek ('white whale passage'). A 

 Kowagmiut Eskimo summer village on 

 the N. shore of Kotzebue sd., near the 

 mouth of Noatak r., where Kowagmiut, 

 Selawigmiut, Malemiut, and Nunatogmiut 

 meet Kaviagmiut, Kinugumiut, and 

 other traders from the coast and islands 

 to exchange furs for oil and walrus hides, 

 and for rifles, cartridges, drilling, alcohol, 

 and tobacco obtained from the Chukchi 

 of Siberia, who have traded ivory and 

 whalebone for them with whalemen. 

 Pop. 100 in 1880. 



Sesualik,— Beechey, Narr., chart, 1831. Sheshale- 

 gamute.— Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 4, 1884. 

 Sheshoalik.— 11th Census, Alaska, 137, 1893. She- 

 shore-lik.— Hooper, Cruise of Corwin, 44, 1881. 



Sheshebe ( ' duck ' ) . A gens of the Chip- 

 pewa. 



Muk-ud-a-shib.— Warren (18-52) in Minn. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll.,v, 45, 1885 ('black duck'). She-shebe'.— Mor- 

 gan, Anc. Soc, 166, 1S77. Sheshebug.— Tanner, 

 Narr., 315, 1830. Shiship.— Gatschet, Ojibwa MS., 

 B. A. E., 1882. 



Shesheqviin {Lenape Sheshehvan, cognate 

 with Nipissingand Montagna.ia shishlkwan, 

 Prairie Cree sMkwan, Chippewa jtshig- 

 7van, Menominee sisikwan, Southern Re- 

 nape tshetshlnktvan, etc., a gourd rattle 

 used by Indians in their ceremonies. 

 With the locative suffix, Sheshehmrunk, 

 'at the gourd rattle.' The name prob- 

 ably had reference to some practices of 

 the pagan Indians who lived at the place 

 so named. — Gerard). A former Iroquois 



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