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SHETAK CAPTIVES SHIELDS 



[B. A. E. 



town with a mixed population, dominantly 

 Seneca, but including also Delawares or 

 Munsee, situated in 1772 about 6 m. below 

 Tioga Point, Bradford co.. Pa. It was 

 the home of the notorious Queen Esther, 

 the "fiend of Wyoming," who about this 

 time removed northward 6 m., forming a 

 new settlement that later became known 

 as Queen Esther's Town, and w^iich was 

 destroyed by Col. Hartley in 1778, where- 

 upon the Queen fled, probably to Che- 

 mung, Chemung CO., N. Y. Sheshequin 

 was situated on the e. side of Susque- 

 hanna r., on the site of the present 

 Ulster, Bradford co. , Pa. , and was divided 

 into two parts by Cash cr., the northern 

 part being heathen, the southern Mora- 

 vian Christian Indians; it was the former 

 who removed 6 m. higher, while the lat- 

 ter went to Friedensstadt. See Queen 

 Esther's Town. ( J. n. b. h. ) 



Old Sheshequin.— Craft in Proc. and Coll. Wyo. 

 Hist, and Geol. Soc, ix, 200, 1906. Scheohschiqua- 

 nuk.— Brinton, Lenape Leg., 79, 1885. Shesche- 

 quon.— Hecliewelder in Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, 

 n. s., IV, 386, 1834. Sheshecununk. — Craft in I'roc. 

 and Coll. Wvo. Hist, and Geol. Soc, ix, 202^, 

 1906. Sheshequin.— Day, Penn., 139, 1843. Tschech- 

 schequannink.— Loskiei, Hist. Miss. Unit. Breth., 

 pt. 3, 77, 1794. Tschechschequaniing.— Roth (1772) 

 quoted by Brinton, Lenape Leg., 79, 1885. Tsche- 

 chsequannink,— Rupp, W. Penn., app., 359, 1846. 



Shetak Captives. A party consisting of 

 two women, Mrs John Wright and Mrs 

 William J. Duly, with two children each, 

 two daughters of Thomas Ireland, and 

 Lillie Everett, captured by White Lodge 

 at Lake Shetak, Murray co., Minn., on 

 Aug. 20, 1862, and carried away to the 

 Missouri r., where, after great hardship, 

 they were rescued by the "Fool Soldier 

 Band," consisting of 11 young Teton 

 Sioux, opposite the mouth of Grand r., 

 in Walworth co., S. Dak., Nov. 20 of the 

 same year. (d. r. ) 



Shevenak. A Kuskwogmiut Eskimo 

 village on the left bank of Kuskokwimr., 

 Alaska. Pop. 58 in 1880; 62 in 1890. 

 Shevenagamute. — Nelson quoted by Baker, Geog. 

 Diet. Alaska, 1901. Shovenagamute.— Petroff, Rep. 

 on Alaska, 53, 1884. 



Shgwaliksh {Cgwalikc, Tlakluit name). 

 A former village of either the Tlakluit 

 or the Klikitat, about 3 m. below The 

 Dalles of Columbia r.. Wash. (e. s.) 



Shiankya. The Mountain Lion clan of 

 the former pueblo of Pecos, N. Mex. 

 Shi-an-hti.— Hewett in Am. Anthr., n. s., vi, 431, 

 1904. Shiank'ya+.— Hodge, ibid., ix, 351, 1896. 



Shickalamy, Shick Calamy, Shickelimy. 



See Shikellamy. 



Shickshack. A Winnebago chief, prom- 

 inent in the history of the Sangamon 

 country in Illinois, whose name is said to 

 signify 'rising sun.' He is first heard 

 of in 1819, having come down from the 

 N. to the Sangamon country to avoid the 

 constant hostility between his people and 

 the Chippewa; here he made many 



friends among the white settlers. In 

 1820 he was chief of a band of about 

 40 families with a village on the s. side 

 of Sangamon r., 25 m. above its mouth, 

 and about 12 m. w. of New Salem, 111. 

 A high, dome-shaped hill near the Indian 

 village was called "Shickshack's Knob," 

 and is still known by that name. In 

 1827, on hearing of the trouble between 

 the Indians and the whites, which culmi- 

 nated in the Black Hawk war, Shick- 

 shack and his people departed for the 

 northern part of the state. He was seen 

 at Dixon's Ferry in 1832, where he had 

 come, he explained, to meet some of his 

 old friends among the soldiers, and it is 

 said that he was among the friendly 

 Winnebago who captured Black Hawk 

 and placed him in the custody of United 

 States troops. At the close of the war 

 the Winnebago concluded a treaty with 

 the United States and removed w. of the 

 Mississippi, finally settling in Kansas, 

 and it is supposed that Shickshack and 

 his immediate followers accompanied 

 them. In appearance Shickshack was 

 erect, muscular and active, of medium 

 height and weight; his expression, harsh 

 and unpleasant, did not accord with his 

 jovial and sympathetic disposition. He 

 had two wives, one a Winnebago and 

 one a Kickapoo, and four children. Mrs 

 Mary Catherwood has made him a prom- 

 inent character in her novel, "Spanish 

 Peggy," in which she represents him as 

 the intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln. 

 See Snyder in Jour. 111. State Hist. Soc, 

 II, no. 3, 1909. 



Shiegho. A Pomo tribe or village near 

 Hopland, Mendocino co., Cal.; associated 

 with the Shokhowa. 



Seacos.— Bancroft, Nat. Races, i, 449, 1882. Shie- 

 gho. — A. L. Kroeber, iuf'n, 1904. Si-a-ko. — Powers 

 in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 172, 1877. 



Shields. The shield was a regular part 

 of the defensive equipment of the Indian 

 warrior of the open country of the plains 

 and the arid S. W., as well as farther 

 s. in Mexico, but was found only occa- 

 sionally among the Eastern tribes, not 

 being adapted to use in a region of tim- 

 ber and thick undergrowth. Shields of 

 bark or netted willow or cane are men- 

 tioned among the Iroquois, the Virginia 

 tribes, and the Carolina tribes as far back 

 as De Soto's expedition, 1539. The cui- 

 rass and other forms of body armor took 

 the place of the shield among the eastern 

 and northern tribes generally on the 

 Arctic coast and in the Canadian N. W., 

 and along the Pacific coast southward 

 into California, and were found also 

 among the Pueblos, and more anciently 

 among the Navaho. (See Armor. ) 



The shield of the equestrian warrior of 

 the plains was round, varying from 12 

 to 26 in. in diameter, and averaging about 



