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the Cantauhaona, in his Hst of Texas, or 

 ' ' allies, ' ' living s. w. of his mission on the 

 Neches (Relacion, MS.)- In 1692 it was 

 proposed by Don Gregorio de Salinas, 

 who had crossed Texas four times, that 

 the missionaries among the Nabedache 

 should retire to the Colorado and induce 

 that tribe to settle between the Colorado 

 and the Brazos "with theCantona nation, 

 which, for another name, is called Sima- 

 omo. They are a large nation and are 

 friends of these [Nabedache] . . . They 

 are together most of the year hunting 

 buffalo, for which this is the center" 

 (Salinas, Compendio de puntos, etc., 

 1692, MS.). In 1692 the Cantona were 

 met on the Colorado by Terdn (autos of 

 the Terdn Expedition, MS.). In 1693 

 Joseph Urrutia, later captain at San An- 

 tonio, was left disabled at the Colorado r. 

 when the Spaniards retired. Being found 

 by a body of " Cantujaunds, Toos, and 

 Yemes [Emets]," he was rescued by the 

 great chief Cantujauna, and taken to his 

 rancheria, where he lived 7 years, becom- 

 ing head-chief in their wars with the 

 Apache, against whom, he claimed, he 

 sometimes led 10,000 or 12.000 men (Ur- 

 rutia to the Viceroy, July 4, 1733, MS.). 

 Information recorded in 1709 connects 

 the names Cantona and Simaomo with 

 Yojuane. In April of that year Fr. San 

 Buenaventura y Olivares and Fr. Isidro 

 Felix de Espinosa were visited at the 

 Colorado by a band of Indians composed 

 mainly of "Yojuan," with some "Si- 

 momo" and "Tusolivi." Among them 

 was the old Cantona chief known to the 

 Spaniards since 1691, whom Espinosa now 

 calls ' ' the chief Canttona' ' and ' ' the chief 

 of the Yojuanes, called Canttona" (Diary, 

 1709, MS.). From this it would seem 

 that the tribe formerly known as Cantona 

 had been so called from the name of the 

 principal chief, which was a common 

 practice with the Spaniards. On the 

 other hand, one can not fail to note the 

 resemblance between the last part of the 

 name Cantujaund and the tribal name 

 Yojuan. The missionaries made a visit 

 to the rancheria of these tribes, which 

 was near by, and estimated its popula- 

 tion at 2,500. They were on friendly 

 terms with the Hasinai, to whom they 

 agreed to carry a message ( Espinosa, op. 

 cit. ). In 1716 Espinosa met Cantona 

 Indians in a rancheria near the Brazos, 

 with members of numerous other tribes 

 (Diary, entries for June 10-13). Except 

 for the baptism of one Cantona Indian in 

 1725 at theErvipiame mission, this is the 

 last we hear of the tribe under that name, 

 though their old associates, the Emet, 

 Too, Sanos, Cavas, and others are known 

 much later. The passage in the diary of 

 Espinosa, cited above, and the statement 

 of Urrutia, cause one to wonder if the 



Cantona were not a branch of the Yo- 

 juane more frequently heard of farther n. 

 but who entered the San Xavier missions 

 in this region in 1749. (n. e. b.) 



Cantanual. — Valero Baptisms, 1725, MS. Cantau- 

 haona.— Jesus Maria, Relaei6n, 12, 1691, MS. Can- 

 tona. — Massanet, Diarv.inMem.deNuevaEspafia, 

 XXVII, 98, 1691, MS. 'Cantonaes, Espinosa (1716), 

 op. cit. Cantujuana.— Urrutia (1733), op. cit. Can- 

 tuna. — Ter^n, Descripci6n(1692) in Mem.cleNueva 

 Espana, xxvii, 29, 42, MS. Simaomo.— Salinas, op. 

 cit., 1692. Simomo. — Espinosa (1709), op. cit. 



Simi. A former Chumashan village, 

 said by Indians to have been situated on 

 the Rancho of Simi, Ventura co., Cal. 

 Cf. Somo. 



Ci-mi'-i. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1884. Simi.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, July 

 24, 1863. 



Similkameen. The local name for several 

 bands of Okinagan on a river of the same 

 name, a n. w. tributary of the Okana- 

 gan, Brit. Col. Under the term "Si- 

 milkameen group" are classed 3 or 4 vil- 

 lages in the Canadian Reports of Indian 

 Affairs, namely, Shennosquankin, Kere- 

 meus, Chuckuwayha, and subsequently 

 Ashnola, having an aggregate population 

 of 179 in 1906. These Indians are also 

 divided into Lower and Upper Similka- 

 meen, with 135 and 44 inhabitants re- 

 spectively in 1909. 



Chitwout Indians. —Brit. Col. Map, Ind. Aff., Victo- 

 ria, 1872 (in two villages on Similkameen r.). 

 Sa-milk-a-nuigh. — Ross, Adventures, 290, 1849. 

 Similikameen.— Can. Ind. Aff., 74, 1878. Similka- 

 meen.— Ibid., 364, 1897. Smelkameen.— Ibid., 309, 

 1879. Smile'qamux. — Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., II, 167, 1900 ( = 'peopleof Similkameen'). 

 Smilkameen.— Can. Ind. Afl. 1880, 317, 1881. Smil- 

 kamin.— Gatschet, MS., B. A. E. (Salish name). 

 Smilkemix. — Ibid. 



Simomo {Si-mo^-mo). An important 

 and populous Chumashan village formerly 

 N. of the estero near Pt Mugu, Ventura 

 CO., Cal. Perhaps the same as Somo. — 

 Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1884. 



Sinaesta. A village of the Calusasituated 

 on the s. w. coast of Florida, about 1570. 

 Sinaesta.— Fontaneda as quoted byShipp, De Soto 

 andFla.,5S6, 1881. Sinaesta.— Fontaneda Memoir 

 (ca. 1575), Smith trans., 19, 1854. 



Sinago ('gray squirrel,' from (Chip- 

 pewa) assdnago, correlative of missdnig, 

 'black squirrel,' 'great or large squirrel,' 

 from 7nissi and anigus. — Hewitt). A sub- 

 tribe of the Ottawa, second in importance 

 only to the Kishkakon. They were in 

 1648 on the s. shore of L. Huron. Dur- 

 ing the subsequent wanderings of the 

 tribe they are usually found in the com- 

 pany of the Kishkakon. According to 

 the Walam Olum the Delawares were 

 once at war with them. 



Cynagos.— La Potherie, Hist. Am., ii, 48, 1753. 

 OutaoSesinagos.— Frontenac (1682) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., IX, 176, 18,55. Outaouae Sinagos.— Fron- 

 tenac (1682), ibid., 182. OutaSais-Cinago.— Doc. of 

 1695, ibid., 606. Outaoiiaks Sinagaux.— Jes. Rel. for 

 1670,87,1858. Outaouasinagouk.— Jes.Rel. for 1648, 

 62, 1858. Outawas Sinagos,— Neill in Minn. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., V, 413, 1885. Ouxeinacomigo.— La Ches- 

 naye (1697) in Margry, D6c., vi, 6, 1886 (misprint). 

 Sinago.— CadUlac (1695), ibid., v, 80, 1883. Sina- 



