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SKAIALO SKANIADAEIIO 



[b. a. e. 



abode (Hill-Tout in Jour. Anthr. Inst., 

 23, 1904). For general habitat see Seecltelt. 

 Skaialo {Sqaid'td). A Chilliwack vil- 

 lage in s. British Columbia, with 16 inhab- 

 itants in 1909. 



Isquahala.— Can. Ind. Aff., 78, 1878. SQaia'lo.— 

 Hill-Tout in Ethnol. Surv.Can., 4,1902. Squehala.— 

 Can. Ind. Afif., 309, 1879. Squiahla.— Ibid., pt. ll, 

 160, 1901. Squihala.— Ibid., 74, 1878. 



Skaiametl. A Kvvantlen village at New 

 Westminster, on Fraser r. , Brit. Col. Pop. 

 45 in 1909, including Kikait. 



New Westminster.— Can. Ind. Aff., pt. II, 72, 1902. 

 SQai'amEtl.— Hill-Tout in Ethnol. Surv. Can., 54, 

 1902. Tce'tstlEs.-BoasinRep. B. A. A.S.,454,1894. 



Skaiets (Sqai'Etx). A Kwantlen village 

 on Stave r., an affluent of lower Fraser r., 

 Brit. Col.— Hill-Tout in Ethnol. Surv. 

 Can., 54, 1902. 



Skaischiltnish. A Salish division liv- 

 ing, according to Gibbs, at the old Chim- 

 akum mission on Spokane r.. Wash. 

 Pop. of "Lower Spokan," 301 in 1908. 



Chekasschee.— Bancroft, Nat. Races, i, 315, 1874. 

 Che-kiss-chee. — Winans in Ind. Atf. Rep., 23, 1870. 

 Lower Spokan. — Ind. Aff. Rep., 702, 1901 Lower 

 Spokanes. — Winans, op. cit. Skai-schil-t'nish. — 

 Gibb.9 in Pac. R. R. Rep., i, 414, 1855. 



Skaito. A camp on the w. coast of the 

 Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. Col., occupied 

 by Haida at the time of the gold excite- 

 ment at Gold Harbor in 1852-60. It is 

 sometimes spoken of erroneously as a town 

 and confused with Kaisun and Chaahl. 

 Kai-shun. — Dawson, Q. Charlotte Ids., 168b, map., 

 1878 (misapplied). Sqai'-tao. — Swanton, Cont. 

 Haida, 280, 1905. Tlg-a'it.— Boas, 12th Rep. N. W. 

 Tribes, Can., 24, 1898 (misapplied). 



Skakaiek (SQaqaVEk). A Squawmish 

 village community on the right bank of 

 Squawmisht r., Brit. Col. — Hill-Tout in 

 Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 474, 1900. 



Skakha-as {Sk' a^-qu<ts) . A Kuitsh village 

 on lower Umpqua r., Oreg. — Dorsey in 

 Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iir, 231, 1890. 



Skaleksum. The Lummi name of one 

 of their temporary fishing villages on the 

 w. side of Lummi id., Whatcom co.. 

 Wash. 



Skaleksun,— Gibbs, MS. no. 248, B. A. E. Sky-lak- 

 sen.— Fitzhugh in H. R. Ex. Doc. 37, 34th Cong., 

 3d sess., 75, 1857. 



Skamoynumaclis {Ska-moif-num-achs) . 

 Given by Ross (Advent., 289, 1849) as 

 one of the Okinagan tribes, but the name 

 is not met with elsewhere. 



Skanahwahti ('beyond the stream.' — 

 Hewitt). An Onondaga, known gener- 

 ally to the whites as John Buck, the fire- 

 keeper of his tribe in Canada; died about 

 1893 at Brantford, Ontario. He gave 

 Horatio Hale valuable aid in preparing 

 the Iroquois Book of Rites (1883), and 

 was much esteemed. He was official 

 keeper and interpreter of the tribal wam- 

 pum. See Skandaivati. (w. m. B.) 



Skanapa. A former Choctaw town 

 noted by d'Anville. It was on the e. 

 side of the head of a tributary of the 

 Sukenatcha, probably Running Tiger cr., 

 Kemper CO., Miss. — HalbertinPub.Miss. 

 Hist. Soc, VI, 432, 1902. 



Skanapa. — d'Anville's map in Hamilton, Colonial 

 Mobile, 1.58, 1897. Skenappa. — Halbert, op. cit. 

 Skunnepaw. — West Florida Map, ca. 1775. 



Skandawati ('beyond the stream'). 

 An Onondaga chief, of the Turtle clan, 

 who led an embassy to the Hurons in 

 Oct. 1647. He returned 15 Huron pris- 

 oners and bore 7 great belts. Early in 

 the following year the Hurons sent a new 

 embassy, and Skandawati and another 

 remained as hostages. The Mohawk de- 

 stroyed the party, and Skandawati was 

 so mortified that he killed himself. The 

 other had a like sense of honor, but was 

 less rash. His name appears also as 

 Scandaouati (Jes. Rel. 1648, 56, 1858) 

 and Scandawati ( Hale, Iroq. IBook Rites, 

 160, 1 883 ) . Cf . Skanahivahti. ( w. m. b. ) 



Skaniadariio (Seneca: Skaniadai' io\ 'it 

 is a very fine lake,' commonly rendered 

 "Handsome Lake"). A former federal 

 chief of the Seneca; born at the village 

 of Ganawagus, near Avon, in the Gene- 

 see valley, N. Y., about 1735; died at 

 Onondaga, near Syracuse, in 1815. By 

 birth he belonged to the Turtle clan, and 

 was a half-brotlier of Cornplanter (q. v.) 

 on his father's side. Although thus close- 

 ly related to Cornplanter, he did not, 

 like his illustrious half-brother, acquire 

 marked distinction during the American 

 Revolution, which was one of the most 

 trying periods in the history of the 

 Seneca and their confederates. On the 

 contrary, the greater part of his life 

 was spent in dissipation and idleness; 

 but late in life, realizing that the worst 

 curse of his race was the evil of drunken- 

 ness and the traffic in liquor, he sought 

 to establish a better system of morals 

 among his people, who were then pass- 

 ing through a transition period between 

 their ancient mode of life and modern 

 civilization. His precepts and teachings, 

 based largely on the ancient custom and 

 faith, but recast to adjust them to the 

 new conditions, contemplated the regula- 

 tion of family life by pointing out the 

 respect and duties that should sub-ist 

 between husband and wife and between 

 parents and children, and the need of 

 chastity and continence, and by the in- 

 culcation of habits of industry and thrift. 

 About 1796, while living at Connewango 

 on Allegheny r., at Warren, Pa., Skani- 

 adariio was prostrated, it is said, by epi- 

 lepsy and partial paralysis. For four 

 years he lay suffering, and having lost all 

 hope of recovery, resigned himself to 

 death. According to his own story, one 

 afternoon he heard voices calling him 

 out. He arose in spirit and went out- 

 side, where, at a short distance from the 

 house among some shrubbery, he saw 

 four spirits in human shape, who assured 

 him that they were merely messengers to 

 him from the Artificer of Life. Of these, 

 three bore shrubs in their hands, on 



