588 



SKEAWATSUT SKTCHISTAN" 



[b. a. e. 



Skeawatsut [SWawamt). A Squaw- 

 mish village community at Pt Atkinson, 

 E. side of Howe sd., Brit. Col. — Hill-Tout 

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



Skecheramouse. A former division of 

 the Salish living on the Colville trail. 

 Wash. Stevens calls them a band of 

 Spokan. 



Ske-chei-a-mouse. — Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 

 414,1855. Ske-cher-a-mouse. — Stevens inlnd. Aff. 

 Rep.,4'29,lS54. 



Skedans (corrupted from Gidansta, 

 'from his daughter,' the name of its 

 chief). An important Haida town of the 

 Kagials-kegawai family, formerly on a 

 point of land which extends into Hecate 

 str. from the e. end of Louise id., Queen 

 Charlotte ids., Brit. Col. The town was 

 known to its inhabitants as Kona or 

 Huadji-lanas. They were always on the 

 best of terms with those of the Tsimshian 

 town of Kitkatla, whence they imported 

 many new customs and stories into the 

 Haida country. John Work, 1836-41, 

 assigned 'to this town 30 houses and 738 

 inhabitants. The old people remember 

 27 houses; in 1878 Dawson noted about 16 

 houses. It has been abandoned for sev- 

 eral years, though a number of house- 

 poles are still standing. (j. r. s. ) 

 Kiddan. — Keaiifin Stanford, Compend., app.,473, 

 1878. Koona. — Swan in Smithson. Cont., xxi, 5, 

 1876. K'u'na.— Boas, 12th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 

 24,1898. Kwun Haade.— Harrison in Proc. Roy. 

 See. Can., sec. ii, Vib, 1895. ftlo'na.— Swanton, 

 Cont. Haida, 278, 1905. Skedans.— Dawson, Q. 

 Charlotte Ids., 1G9b, 1S80. Skeeidans.— Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, v, 489, 1855. Skidans.— Boas, op. cit. 

 (misprint from Dawson). Skidanst. — Harrison, 

 op. cit. Skiddan.— Poole, Q. Charlotte Ids., 309, 

 1872. Xu'Adji Inaga'-i. — Swanton, op. cit., 120. 



Skeinah (contr. of Unskiniyl). A Cher- 

 okee settlement on Toccoa r., in the pres- 

 ent Fannin co. , n. Ga. , about the period of 

 the removal of the tribe in 1839. From a 

 confusion of the name with the Cherokee 

 askina, an evil spirit or malevolent ghost, 

 it has sometimes been rendered "Devil 

 Town." 



Skekaitin {SkEka'ittn, 'place of coming 

 up above, or reaching the top'). A vil- 

 lage of the Upper Fraser band of Ntlak- 

 yapamuk, on the w. side of Fraser r., 

 43_m. above Lytton, Brit. Col. 

 Skaikai'Eten. — Hill-Tout in Rep. Ethnol. Surv. 

 Can., 4, 1899. SkEka'itin,— Teit in Mem. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., n, 172, 1900. 



Skelautuk {/SqEla^niuQ, 'painted house,' 

 on account of a painted post in a house 

 there). A former village or camp of the 

 Pilalt, a Cowichan tribe on lower Chilli- 

 w-ack r., Brit. Col.— Hill-Tout in Ethnol. 

 Surv. Can., 48, 1902. 



Skeleton. See Anatomy. 



Skelsh ( SqHc, 'standing up, ' referring to 

 "Siwash rock"). A Squawmish village 

 community on Burrard inlet, Brit. Col. — 

 Hill-Tout in Eep. Brit. A. A. S., 475, 1900. 



Skelten {SqE'ltEn). A village of the 

 Ewawoos tribe of the Cowichan on lower 

 Fraser r., Brit. Col., 2 m. above Hope. — 

 Boas in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 454, 1894. 



Skena (^Sqe^na). A Haida town promi- 

 nent in the family stories, situated just s. 

 of Sand Spitpt., Moresby id., Brit. Col. 

 According to tradition it was composed of 

 5 rows of houses, each occupied by a single 

 family of the Raven clan. These 5 are 

 said to have been the Tadji-lanas, Kuna- 

 lanas, Yaku-lanas, Koetas, and Stlenga- 

 lanas. The Daiyuahl-lanas claimed that 

 their own chief was chief of the town. — 

 Swanton. Cont. Haida, 279, 1905. 



Skenandoa {Skennon'don^ 'deer.' — 

 Hewitt). A noted Oneida chief who 

 died at Oneida Castle, Tryon co., N. Y., 

 Mar. 11, 1816, reputed to be 100 years of 

 age; in all probability, however, he was 

 not so old, otherwise he would have 

 been nearly 70 years of age before ap- 

 pearing in history. He is described as a 

 tall, robust man of intelligent appearance. 

 During the first part of his life he was 

 addicted to drink. In 1775, while at 

 Albany attending to business in behalf 

 of his tribe, he became drunk and the 

 next morning found himself in the street, 

 everything of value, including the sign 

 of his chieftainship, having been taken 

 from him. Feeling the disgrace, he re- 

 solved never again to become intoxicated, 

 a resolution which he strictly maintained 

 during his remaining years. He seems 

 to have been reformed and brought into 

 the church chiefly through the influence 

 of Rev. Samuel Kirkland, missionary to 

 the Oneida, to whom Skenandoa was so 

 greatly attached that he asked to be 

 buried by the side of the latter in the 

 cemetery at Clinton, N. Y. He was the 

 friend of the colonists previous to the 

 Revolution, and during the war staunchly 

 espoused the cause of the people of the 

 United Slates. He watched and aided in 

 repelling Canadian invasions, and on one 

 occasion preserved from massacre the 

 people of the settlements at German 

 Flats, Herkimer co., N. Y. It was 

 chiefly through his influence that the 

 Oneida declaration of neutrality in the 

 Revolutionary war was issued in May 

 1775, bearing the names of Skenandoa 

 (Johnko' Skeanendon) and eleven other 

 principal men of the tribe (Stone, Life of 

 Brant, i, 63, 1838). His name in various 

 forms is signed, always by his mark, to 

 deeds of cession, treaties, agreements, etc., 

 with the state of New York between 

 1790 and 1811, and to the treaty with the 

 United States, Dec. 2, 1794. He became 

 blind and is credited with saying that he 

 was "an old hemlock, dead at the top." 

 Lewis H. Morgan, the ethnologist, some- 

 times wrote under the pen-name Skenan- 

 doah. (c. T. w. M. B.) 



Skhakhwaiyutslu (Sqa'-qwai yu'-tslu). 

 An Alsea village on the s. side of Alsea r., 

 Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 

 230, 1890. 



Skichistan. A Shuswap village on 



