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which hung several kinds of fruit, which 

 he was told to eat, when he was at once 

 restored by their magical efficacy. 

 Thereupon the messengers revealed to 

 him by means of a great number of pre- 

 cepts the will of the Artificer of Life, on 

 a variety of subjects; he was further told 

 to promulgate these teachings among the 

 tribes of the Iroquois, and was led by the 

 messengers into the white man's hell, in 

 order to permit him to witness the pun- 

 ishments that are in store for the lawless 

 and the drunkard, the better to enable 

 him to warn his people of the need of 

 reform. The watchers at his bedside 

 thought he was dead, but after a long 

 trance he suddenly arose, and from that 

 time rapidly recovered health. He vis- 

 ited the several Iroquois villages from 

 year to year, preaching his new doc- 

 trines with pow'er and eloquence. It is 

 reported that many so-called pagans gave 

 up their dissolute habits, becoming sober 

 and moral men and women, among whom 

 "discord and contention gave place to 

 harmony and order, and vagrancy and 

 sloth to ambition and indut^try." It was 

 this reformed religion of Handsome 

 Lake, or the so-called paganism of the 

 modern Iroquois, that has so steadfastly 

 resisted the advance of Christianity and 

 education among the Iroquois tribes. At 

 the present time the seat of this faith is 

 in Canada, on the Urand River res., 

 where it has about 1,200 adherents; but 

 there are small bodies who still profess 

 to follow the precepts of Handsome Lake 

 dwelling on the Cattaraugus and the 

 Allegany res., and on the Onondaga 

 res. in New York. Each autumn these 

 "pagans" assemble to hear the doctrines 

 of Skaniadariio preached to them. In 

 1802, Skaniadariio with a number of as- 

 sociates visited Washington to explain to 

 President Jefferson the nature of their 

 doctrine in order to receive recognition 

 of it by the Government for the purpose 

 of counteracting the inroads of Christian- 

 ity. The President, through the Secre- 

 tary of War, commended the new doc- 

 trines in a letter, which was mistaken by 

 the Seneca for a license permitting Ska- 

 niadariio to preach his new faith to the 

 Indians. (j. n. b. h.) 



Skannayutenate (probably from Skane- 

 nyutc', 'rock again protrudes.' — Hewitt). 

 A Cayuga village, destroyed by Gen. 

 Sullivan in 1779. It was on the w. side 

 of Cayuga lake, n. e. of the present 

 village of Canoga, Seneca co., N. Y., and 

 nearly opposite the Cayuga towns on the 

 E. The lake is narrow there, and the Ca- 

 yuga occupied both shores, (w. m. b.) 



Skanowethltunne ( Ska-no^ -wSgl tHi/ni) . 

 Given as a Takelma band or village on 

 the s. side of Rogue r., Oreg. — Dorsey in 

 Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 235, 1890. 



Skanuka {Sxa-nu-xa) . A name applied 

 by Dawson (Queen Charlotte Ids., 134, 

 1880) to one of the four clans into which 

 he erroneously supposed the Haida to be 

 divided. It may be otherwise spelled 

 Sg'anag'wa, and is the native term for 

 "supernatural power." Dawson trans- 

 lates it "killer-whale," but the more 

 usual name for the killer-whale is sg'ana, 

 though this animal was indeed so named 

 because it was held to be supernatural. 

 Dawson's mistake arose from the fact that 

 the Tsimshian of the mainland opposite 

 are divided into four clans, and among the 

 Haida the killer-whale is a very impor- 

 tant crest belonging to one of the two 

 clans. (j. R. s. ) 



Skaos {Sq.'a^os, probably 'salmonberry 

 bushes'). A Haida town of the Sagua- 

 lanas family at the entrance to Naden 

 harbor, Graham id., Brit. Col. — Swanton, 

 Cont. Haida, 281, 1905. 



Skappa ('sandy land'). A Ntlak5'a- 

 pamuk village on the e. bank of Eraser r., 

 near Boston Bar, Brit. Col. Pop.l7inl909. 

 Skapa.— Hill-Tuut in Rep. Ethiiol. Surv. Can., 4, 

 1899. Skappah.— Can. Ind. AtV., 309, 1879. Ske- 

 pah.— Ibid., 78, 1878. Skopah.— Brit. Col. map, 

 Ind. Aff., Victoria, 1872. Skuppa.— Can. Ind. Afl. 

 Rep. 1904, sec. n, 71, 1905. Skuppah.— Ibid., map, 

 1891. 



Skasahah. A band of Cowichan on 

 Vancouver id., numbering 20 in 1882, 

 the last time their name appears. 



Ska-sah-ah.— Can. Ind. All'., 258, 1882. 



Skatalis. An Ahtena village near the 

 mouth of Copper r., Alaska; probably 

 the original Alaganik. 



Sakhalis.— Allen, Rep. on Alaska, 38, 1887. Ska- 

 talis.— Ibid., 120. 



Skatehook {from. peskatekuk, 'at the river 

 fork.' — Gerard). A Westenhuck village 

 on Housatonic r. near the present Shef- 

 field, Berkshire co., Mass. In 1736 the 

 inhabitants removed to Stockbridge, a 

 few miles up the river. 



Skatehook.— Barber, Hist. Coll. Mass., 94, 1841. 

 Statehook.— Hoyt, Antiq. Res., 209, 1824. 



Skauishan. A Squawmish village com- 

 munity on the right bank of Squawmisht 

 r.,w. Brit. Col. 



Skaocin.— Boas, MS., B. A. E., 1887. 'Skaui'can.— 

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



Skaukel. A Chilliwack village in s. 

 British Columbia, with 30 inhabitants in 

 1909. 



Skauke'l.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Ethnol. Surv. Can., 

 4, 1902. Skokale.— Can. Ind. Aft"., 316, 1880. Sko- 

 lale.— Brit. Col. map, Ind. Afif., Victoria, 1872. 

 Skulkayn.— Can. Ind. Aff., pt. 2, 45, 1909. Skul- 

 kayTi.— Ibid., pt. II, 160, 1901. 



Skauton. A village near Sandwich, 

 Barnstable co., Mass., in 1685. It seems 

 to have been on Buzzards bay, and was 

 probably subject to either the Wampa- 

 noag or the Nauset. — Hinckley (1685) in 

 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., v, 133, 1861. 



Skeakunts {Sk'e^aknnts). A Squawmish 

 village communitv on Burrard inlet, Brit. 

 Col.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 

 474, 1900. 



