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on the whole continent inhabited by 

 Tutelees, a degenerate remnant of thieves 

 and drunkards (De Schweinitz, Life of 

 Zeisberger, 149, 1870). It was to this 

 village that the Tutelo moved from 

 Shamokin. 



Skohwak (Skoxwd'h, 'skinny [peo- 

 ple]'.— Hill-Tout). A village of the 

 Ntlakyai>amuk, on the w. side of Fraser 

 r.,aboutl5m. above Yale, Brit. Col. Pop. 

 1 1 in 1897, the last time the name appears. 



Skoxwa'k. — Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., n, 

 169, 1900. Skuhuak.— Can. Ind. Aff. 1892, 312, 

 1S93. Skuoua'k'k.— Hill-Tinit in Rep. Ethnol. 

 Surv. Can., 5, 1899. Skuwha.— Can. Ind. Aff. 



1886, 230, 1887. Skuwka.— Ibid., 277, 1891. 



Skoiyase ('place of whortleberries.' — 

 Morgan. ) A former Seneca village at the 

 site of Waterloo, Seneca co., N. Y. It 

 was destroyed by a detachment of Gen. 

 Sullivan's army, under Col. John Harper, 

 Sept. 8, 1779. At that time it contained 

 about 18 houses, and was surrounded by 

 orchards of peach and apple trees. On 

 Sept. 3, 1879, the centennial of this event 

 was celebrated, at which time a monu- 

 taent was erected in the village park at 

 Waterloo. (g. p. d. ) 



Long Falls. — Fellows (1779) in Conover, Kan. and 

 Geneva MS., B. A. E. Sauyou.— Grant (1779) in 

 Jour. Mil. E.Kped. Gen. Sullivan, 142, 1887. Sa'- 

 yase, — Morgan, League Iroq., 394, 1851 (Seneca 

 and Onondaga name). Scauwaga. — Jenkins 

 (1779) in Jour. Mil. K.x;ped. Gen. Sullivan, 174, 



1887. Scawyace. — Ibid., 142. Scharoyos. — Pa. 

 Mag. Hist., 18, 1904. Schoyerre. — Grant, op. cit., 



III. Secawyace.— N. Y. Ind. Problem, 224, 1889. 

 Shaiyus. — Norris (1779) in Jour. Mil. Exped. Gen. 

 Sullivan, 235, 1887 (or Large Falls). Skaigee.— 

 Dearborn (1779) quoted by Conover, Kan. and 

 Geneva MS., B. A. E. Ska'-yase. — Morgan, 

 League Iroq., 394, 1851 (Tuscarora and Mohawk 

 name). Skayes.— N. Y. Ind. Problem, 216, 220, 

 1889. Skoi-yase, — Morgan, League Iroq., 470, 

 1851 (Cayuga name). Sko-ne'-ase. — Ibid., 394 

 (Oneida name). 



Skoka. A name among herbalists for 

 the skunk-cabbage (Sn'inplocarpus fcdi- 

 dus), "skoka of the Indians" (Rafin- 

 esque, 1830). The name is probably 

 short for Lenape (Delaware) s' Mkawunsh, 

 'skunk-weed'. (w. r. g.) 



Skoke. A New England name for the 

 pokeberry {Phi/tokicca decandra). Prob- 

 ably derived from Massachuset m'skok; 

 'that which is red' (Trumbull), or 

 m'skwak. (w. R. g.) 



Skokomish ('river people'). A body 

 of Salish who, according to Eells, form 

 one of three subdivisions of the Twana 

 (q. v.). They lived at the mouth of 

 Skokomish r,, which flows into the 

 upper end of Hoods canal, Wash., where 

 a reservation of the same name has been 

 set aside for them. They oflicially num- 

 bered 203 in 1909, but this figure includes 

 the two other subdivisions of the Twana. 

 Hokamish. — Lane quoted bv Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, i, 521, 1853. Kokomish.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 302, 1877. Scocomish— Wilkes, U. S. Expl. Exped., 



IV, 410, 1845. Ska-ka-bish.— Eells in Smithson. 

 Inst. Rep., pt. I. 605, iss; (Twana name). Ska-ka- 

 mish. — Ibid. (Clallam name). Skakobish. — Eells, 

 letter, B. A. E. (Nisqualli name). Skaquah- 

 mish.— Stevens in H. R. Ex. Doc. 37, 34th Cong., 



3d sess., 46, 1857. Skaquamish.— Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, June 12, 1863. Skasquamish. — Ind. Atf. 

 Rep. 1862, 359, 1863. Skiquamish.— Stevens, op. cit. 

 Skokamish.— Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 431, 1855. 

 Sko-kobc.— McCaw, Puyallup MS. vocab., B. A. E., 

 1885 (Puvalhip name). Skokomish. — Lane in Ind. 

 Aff. Rep., 162. 18.50. Sko-ko-nish.— U. S. Ind. Trea- 

 ties, 800, 1873. S'Komish.— Watkins in Sen. Ex. 

 Doc. 20, 45th Cong., 2d sess., 3, 1878. Sko-sko- 

 mish.— Starling in Ind. Aff. Rep., 170, 1852. 



Skolai (from Nikolai, the chief's name). 

 An Ahtena village on Nizina r., Alaska, 

 near the mouth of Chitistone r., lat. 61° 

 2V, Ion. 143° 17^ 



Nicolai's village.— Allen, Rep., 128, 1887. Nikolai.— 

 Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 299, 1901. 



Skonchin, Skontchish. See Schonchin. 



Skonon (Sku'nun). A former Chuma- 

 shan village near Santa Barbara, Cal., 

 in the locality now called Arroyo del 

 Burro. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. 

 vocab., B. A. E., 1884. 



Skooke ('snake'). A gens of the Ab- 

 naki. 



Skog.— J. D. Prince, inf n, 1905 (modern St Fran- 

 cis Abnaki form). Skooke. — Morgan, Anc. See, 

 174, 1877. 



Skookum Chuck ('strong water'). The 

 local name for a body of Salish of Fraser 

 River agencv, Brit. Col. ; pop. 102 in 1909. 

 Skookum Chuck.— Can. Ind. Aff., pt. 2, 160, 1901. 

 Skukem Chuck.— Ibid., 187, 18S4. 



Skopamish, A body of Salish formerly 

 living on upper Green r.. Wash., a tribu- 

 tary of White r., but now on Muckleshoot 

 res. Pop. 222 in 1863; at present un- 

 known. 



Green River Indians. — Gosnell in Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 338, 1857. Neccope.— Simmons, ibid., 395, 1859. 

 Nescope. — Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, June 12, 1863. 

 Niskap.— Gosnell in Ind. Aff. Rep., 244, 1858. 

 Nooscope.— Ibid., 338, 18.57. Sko-pabsh.— Mallet, 

 ibid., 198, 1877. Skopahmish.— Gibbs in Com. N. A. 

 Ethnol., I, 179, 1877. Skope-ahmish.— U. S. Ind. 

 Treat., 378, 1873. Skope-a-mish.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 17. 1870. White River Indians. — Gosnell in Ind. 

 Aff. Rep., 244, 1858 (evidently intended for Green 

 r.; see Gosnell, op. cit., 338, 18.57). 



Skoton. One of the names applied to 

 the Athapascans formerly dwelling on or 

 near Rogue r. , Oreg. They were included 

 by Parker (Jour., 257, 1840) among the 

 Umpqua. The treaty of Nov. 18, 1854 

 (Sen. Ex. Doc. 48, 34th Cong., 3d sess., 

 10, 1854) was made by the Chasta, 

 Scoton, and Umpqua, all of w. Oregon. 

 The Skoton were divided into the Cow- 

 nantico, Sacheriton, and Naalye. In 1875 

 (Ind. Aff. Rep., 177, 1875) they num- 

 bered 36 on Grande Ronde res. and 166 

 on Siletz res. See Chasta-Skoton. 

 Sconta. — Parker, Jour., 257, 1840. Scotons. — Ind. 

 Aff. Rep., 219, 1856. 



Skowl. Given by Petroff (10th Cen- 

 sus, Alaska, 32, 1884) as the name of a 

 town near Kasaan, Alaska. The word is 

 undoubtedly a corruption of Sga^oal, the 

 name of a chief of Kasaan. If any place 

 was so named, it was probably a small 

 summer town or camp. (j. r. s. ) 



Skowtous. A division of the Ntlakya- 

 pamuk in the neighborhood of Nicola 

 lake, Brit. Col.— Mayne, Brit. Col., 113, 

 1862. 



