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STANDING PEACH TEEE STASAOS-KEGAWAI 



[b. a. e. 



standing Peach Tree. A former Chero- 

 kee settlement on Chattahoochee r., at 

 the mouth of Peach tree cr., n. w. of At- 

 lanta, Ga. — Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 

 map, 1887. 



Standing Stone. A famous Indian 

 landmark on the right bank of a creek 

 of the same name, on the Kittanning 

 trail, at the site of the present Hunting- 

 don, Huntingdon co., Pa. The "stand- 

 ing stone" is described by John Harris 

 (1754) as being 14 ft high and 6 in. 

 square, and covered with Indian picto- 

 graphs. It was highly venerated by the 

 Indians, and is supposed to have been 

 erected by one of the tribes of the Iro- 

 quois. After the treaty of 1754 the stone 

 was carried away by the Indians. A 

 similar one was erected on the same spot, 

 which soon became covered with the 

 names and initials of the Indian traders 

 who passed by. 



Conrad Weiser, in his mission to the 

 Ohio Indians at Logstown in 1748, passed 

 near the place, \yhich he mentions in his 

 Journal as "the Standing Stone" (Col. 

 Rec, Pa., v, 348, 1851). There is no 

 evidence that this place was ever the 

 site of an Indian settlement. Many In- 

 dian objects have been found in the 

 vicinity of the "standing stone," which 

 may have been a meeting place of the 

 Indians after returning from their raids 

 and hunts. A settlers' fort was begun at 

 the locality in 1762, but was abandoned 

 soon after the commencement of the In- 

 dian hostilities, when all the settlers in 

 that region fled Carlisle. At the be- 

 ginning of the Revolution this fort was 

 rebuilt. In 1778 it was a meeting place 

 for the Tories of Sinking valley, on their 

 way to Kittanning, who, according to 

 various letters from the frontier, " drove 

 away the inhabitants of Standing Stone 

 town" (Frontier Forts of Pa., i, 584, 

 1895). Theonly "Indian massacre" near 

 Standing Stone was on June 19, 1777, at 

 the Big Spring, some miles w. of the fort, 

 when a band of hostile Indians killed a 

 boy named Donnelly. The inhabitants 

 during this period were in a constant 

 state of alarm, and frequently fled to the 

 various posts for protection from the 

 Indians. 



Rev. Dr William Smith, provost of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, laid out a 

 town on the site of Standing Stone in 

 1767, to which he gave the name of 

 Huntingdon, in honor of Selina, Countess 

 of Huntingdon (England), who had 

 made a gift to the university. The old 

 name, however, clung to the place for 

 years afterward. Nearly all the traders 

 and military officers of the 18th century 

 use the old name. It is marked "Stand- 

 ing Stone" on Lewis Evans' maps of 

 1755 and 1770; "Standing Stone, Hunt- 



ington," on the Pownall map of 1776. 

 For other references see Egle, Hist. Pa., 

 779, 1883; Walton's Conrad Weiser, 186, 

 1900. (g. p. d. ) 



Stand Watie (native name De'gatd'gd, 

 conveying the meaning that two persons 

 are standing together so closely united in 

 sympathy as to form but one human 

 body) . A noted Cherokee Indian, son 

 of tJweti and brother of Elias Boudi- 

 not (q. v.), and after his death a leader 

 of the party which had signed the re- 

 moval treaty of New Echota. On the 

 outbreak of the Civil War he and his party 

 were the first to ally themselves with the 

 South, and he was given command of one 

 of two Cherokee regiments which joined 

 the Confederate forces and participated 

 in the battle of Pea Ridge and in other 

 actions. Later he led his regiment back 

 to Indian Ter., and in conjunction with 

 Confederate sympathizers from other 

 tribes laid waste the fields and destroyed 

 the property of the Indians who espoused 

 the Federal cause. In revenge for the 

 death of his brother he burned the house 

 of John Ross, the head chief. He is fur- 

 ther noted as one of the principal author- 

 ities for the legends and other material 

 collected by Schoolcraft among the Cher- 

 okee. See Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 

 1900. 



StarBand. An unidentified band of the 

 Mdewakanton Sioux. — Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 282, 1854. 



Staria Selenie (Russian: 'old settle- 

 ment'). A Chnagmiut Eskimo village 

 on the lower Yukon, Alaska. Pop. 55 in 

 1880. 



Staraie Selenie.— Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 

 12, 1884. Staria Selenie.— Petroflf, Rep. on Alaska, 

 57, 1880. 



Starik (Russian: 'old'). A Chnagmiut 

 Eskimo village on the s. bank of Yukon r., 

 Alaska, above the head of the delta. Pop. 

 90 in 1880. 



Sarikvihpak. — Post route map, 1903. Starik. — Ba- 

 ker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1902. Starikvikhpak.— Pe- 

 troff in 10th Census, Alaska, 12, 1884 (Old Kwik- 

 pak). Stari-kwikhpak.— Petroff, Rep. on Alaska, 

 57, 1880. Starry Kwikhpak,— Dall, Alaska, 229, 

 1870. 



Starnatan. A village on the St Law- 

 rence, just below the site of Quebec, in 

 1535.— Cartier (1535), Bref. Recit., 32, 

 1863. 



Stasaos-kegawai {Stasa^os qe^gawa-i, 

 'those born on the Stasaos coast"). A 

 Haida family of the Raven clan who were 

 in the habit of camping on the n. side of 

 the w. entrance of Skidegate channel, and 

 were so called from the name of the shore 

 there (Stasaos). They were probably a 

 subdivision of the Hlgahetgu-lanas. A 

 minor division of the Stasaos-kegawai was 

 calledGunghet-kegawai. — Swan ton, Cont. 

 Haida, 270, 1905. 



Stasauske'owai.— Boas, 12th Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can., sec. ii, 24, 1898. 



