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SUTAIO SWEATING AND SWEAT-HOUSES 



[B. A. E. 



Susaguey.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 17, 1863. 

 Susuquey.— Cabrillo, Narr. (1642), in Smith, Colec. 

 Doc. Fla., 181, 1857. 



Sutaio (singular, SWtai; the several at- 

 tempted Cheyenne etymologies are of 

 doubtful value, as the word is probably 

 not of Cheyenne origin). An Algon- 

 quian tribe, residing in the 18th century, 

 according to tradition, about James r., 

 S. Dak., who were at war with the Chey- 

 enne, their eastern neighbors, to whom 

 they were closely related linguistically. 

 The two tribes finally formed an alliance 

 and crossed the Missouri together to the 

 w., the Sutaio leading the advance. The 

 Sutaio rapidly declined, but kept their 

 separate identity until about the year 

 1850, when they were absorbed by the 

 Cheyenne. They exist now only as a di- 

 vision of that tribe. They are probably 

 identical with the Staitan (q. v.) of Lewis 

 and Clark, i^ee Cheyenne. (j. m.) 



Half-Cheyenne band.— Dorsev in Field Columb. 

 Mus. Pub. no. 99, 19, 1905. Sotaeo.— Fetter in 

 Mem. Am. Anthr. Asso., i, pt. 6, 476, 1907 (sing., 

 Sofa). Suh'tai.—Grinnell, Social Org. Cheyennes, 

 136, 1905. Su'tai.— ten Kate, Synonomie, 9, 1884. 

 Sutaio.— Mooney, Cheyenne Inds., 369, 1907. Su'- 

 tasi'na.— Mooney, Ghost Dance, 1025,1896 ('chil- 

 dren, i. e., race, of the Sjtaio': another form). 

 Suta'ya.— Ibid. Sutayo.— DRrsevin Field Columb. 

 Mus. Pub. no. 103, 62, 1905. Su'ti.— Grinnell in 

 Am. Anthr., 163, 1892. 



Sutali [Si'iiall, 'sik'). A former Cher- 

 okee settlement, named from a chief, on 

 Etowah r., probably in s. w. Cherokee 

 CO., Ga. 



Sixes Old Town,— Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E.,map, 

 1887. 



Sutkel {'St'k-qe^l). A Squawmish vil- 

 lage community on Burrard inlet, Brit. 

 Col.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 475, 

 1900. 



Sutkum. A Kaniagmiut Eskimo village 

 on Sutwik id., off the s. coast of Alaska 

 penin., Alaska; pop. 25 in 1880. 

 Sutkhoon.— Petroftin 10th Census, Alaska, 28, 1884. 



Suwanee. A former Seminole town on 

 the w. bank of Suwannee r., Lafayette co., 

 Fla. It was deserted as early as 1763 

 and was afterward rebuilt, but was de- 

 stroyed in the Seminole war of 1818. 

 There is a village called Old Town on 

 its site. (a. s. g.) 



Old Suwany Town,— Bell in Morse, Rep. to Sec. 

 War, 306, 1822. Souhane. — Peni^re quoted by 

 Morse, ibid., 149, 311. Suahnee.— Drake, Ind. 

 Chron., 200, 1836. Suanee Old Town.— Ibid., 217. 

 Suwanee Old Town.— Butler (1836) in Sen. Doc. 

 278, 26th Cong., 1st sess., 14, 1840. 



Suwanee (Suwa'ni, said to be a Creek 

 word). A former Cherokee settlement 

 on Chattahoochee r. , about the present 

 Suwanee, Gwinnett co., Ga. — Mooney in 

 19th Rep. B. A. E., 532, 1900. 



Suwanee lily. A popular name in South 

 Carolina and Florida for Zephyranthes 

 atamasco. 



Suwuki Ohimal {SdwiVki C/himal, 'red 

 ants'). A phratral group of the Pima, 

 comprising tlie Akol, Maam, and Vaaf 

 gentile organizations. — Russell, Pima MS., 

 B. A. E., 313, 1903. 



Red people.— Russell in 26th Rep. B. A. E., 197, 

 1908. Suwu'ki O'himal.— Ibid. Vulture people.— 

 Ibid. 



Suya. A settlement, apparently of the 

 Opata, in the valley of Sonora r., Sonora, 

 Mexico, visited by Coronado in 1540, on 

 his way to Cibola. An outpost was estab- 

 lished there on the removal of the Span- 

 ish force from Corazones. The town 

 having become weakened by desertions 

 while Coronado was in the northern 

 country, as well as by the death of Mel- 

 chior JDiaz, its commander, the natives 

 attacked it, killed some of the Spanish 

 and Indian occupants, and burned the 

 settlement to the ground. See Winship 

 in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 399 et seq., 1896. 

 Svartehuk. An Eskimo settlement on 

 Salmon r., lat. 74°, w. Greenland. — Kane, 

 Arctic Explor., ii, 124, 1856. 



Swahyawanah. A Cayuga town near 

 Kendaia, at the n. e. corner of the pres- 

 ent Romulus, Seneca co., N. Y. It was 

 destroyed bv Sullivan's armv in 1779. — 

 Cook, Jour. Sullivan Exped.," 77, 1887. 



Swaiwi (SiraVin). A Squawmish vil- 

 lage community on Burrard inlet, Brit. 

 Col.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 475, 

 1900. 



Swalash. Said to be a band of Salish 

 (perhaps one of the Lummi subdivisions) 

 on Orcas id. of the San Juan group, n. w. 

 Wash. ; now on Lummi res. 

 Swalarh.— Boulet letter, B. A. E., Mar. 22, 1886. 

 Swa-lash.— Mallet in Ind. Aff. Rep., 198, 1877. 



Swampy Ground Assiniboin. A division 

 of the Assiniboin (Coues, Henry Thomp- 

 son Jour., II, 523, 1897). Henry (1808) 

 says that they "inhabit the strong wood 

 w. of Fort Augustus, along Panbian 

 [Pembina] r., never frequent the plains, 

 and are excellent beaver hunters. For- 

 merly they were very numerous, but fre- 

 quent murders among themselves, and 

 the ravages of the smallpox have reduced 

 their number to about 30 tents. They 

 are fully as much addicted to spirituous 

 liquor as the Saulteurs." 

 Swastika. See Cross. 

 Swatana, Swataney. See Shikellamy. 

 Sweating and Sweat-houses. Few prac- 

 tices were so nearly universal among the 

 Indians as the sweat-bath, probably 

 known to every tribe n. of Mexico, al- 

 though along the N. W. coast s. of the 

 Eskimo territory it seems to have been 

 superseded by bathing in the sea. The 

 sweat-lodge is to this day common in 

 most Indian villages and camps. 



The type of the ordinary sweat-house 

 seems to have been everywhere the same. 

 Willow rods or other pliant stems were 

 stuck into the ground and bent and fas- 

 tened with withes into a hemispherical or 

 oblong framework, which generally was 

 large enough to accommodate several per- 

 sons. A hole was dug conveniently near 

 the door into which stones, usually heated 



