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UNALTGMIUT UNCAS 



tB. A. E. 



TJnaligmiut. A tribe of Alaskan Eski- 

 mo inhabiting the e. shore of Norton sd. 

 back to the coast range. They are the 

 northernmost of the fishing tribes of 

 Eskimo, and their racial characteristics 

 have been modified by intermarriage 

 with the stronger western Eskimo, whose 

 raids from the n. decimated the population 

 on Norton sd. until there were only 150 

 Unaligmiut left by Dall's reckoning in 

 1875; at the census of 1890, only 110. He 

 distinguished the following sul)tribes: 

 Kegiktowregmiut, Pastoligmiut, Pikmik- 

 taligmiut, and Unalakligemut. Their vil- 

 lages are: Anemuk, Iguik, Kiktaguk, Pik- 

 miktalik, Tachik, Topanika, Unalaklik. 

 Aziagmut. — Worman cited by Diill in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol.,1,17, 1877 (seeA:i(igliuit}. Oonaligmute. — 

 Petroft" in 10th Census, Alaska, 1126, l.s84. Tachig- 

 Vnyut.— Turner, Unalit MS. voeab., B. A. E., 1877 

 (sig. 'bay people'). Tatschig:mut. — Wrangell 

 quoted bvDall, op. cit. Tatschigmiiten. — Wrangell 

 in Ethnog. Nach., 122, l.s:;9. TJnaleet.— Dall, op. 

 eit. (so called bv other natives). Unaligmut. — 

 Nelson in 18th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1899. Unalig- 

 mutes.— Dall in Proc. Am. A. A.-S., xvill, 266, 1869. 



Unami. One of the princijial divisions 

 of the Dela wares (q. v. ), formerly occupy- 

 ing the Pennsylvania side of Delaware r., 

 from the junction of the Lehigh south- 

 ward aliouttothe Delaware line. Accord- 

 ing to Brinton, many of the New Jersey 

 Delawares were Unami who had crossed 

 the Delaware to escape the inroads of the 

 Conestoga, and Kuttenber classes with this 

 division the Navasink, Karitan, Hacken- 

 sack, Aquackanonk, Tajapan, and Haver- 

 straw, of northern New Jersey. The 

 Unami held precedence over the other 

 Delawares. Their totem was the turtle 

 [pakoango). According to Morgan, they 

 were one of the three gentes of the Dela- 

 wares, while Brinton says the turtle was 

 merely thesymbol of ageographicdivision. 

 The linami have sometimes been called 

 the Turtle tribe of the Delawares. (j. m.) 

 Pakoango. — Brinton, Lenape Leg., 39, 188.5 ('the 

 crawler,' a term descriptiveof the turtle). Poke- 

 koo-un'-go.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 172, 1877 (trans, 

 'turtle'). TJnami.— Post (1758) quoted bv Riipp, 

 West Penn.,app., 121, 1846. Unamines.— Doe. (1759) 

 quoted by Rupp, Northampton Co., .50, 1845. Una- 

 mini. — Brinton, Lenape Leg., 214, 1885. TJra-wis. — 

 Niles (ca. 1761) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., 

 V, 541, 1861 (misprint). Wanami. — Barton, New 

 Views, xxvii, 1798. Wenaumeew. — Aupaumut 

 (1791) quoted by Brinton, Lenape Leg., 20, 1885 

 (Mahican name). Wnamiu. — Brinton, ibid., 36. 

 Wonami. — Tobias (1884) quoted by Brinton, ibid., 

 89. Wunaumeeh. — Barton, New Views, app., 10, 

 1798. 



TJnanauhan. A Tuscarora village in n. e. 

 North Carolina in 1701. — Lawson (1709), 

 Hist. Car., 383, 1860. 



Unangashik. An Aglemiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage at Heiden bay, Alaska penin., Alaska; 

 pop. 37 in 1880, 190 in 1890. 

 Oonangashik. — Petroff, Map of Alaska, 1880. 

 Oonongashik.— Petroff, Rep. on Alaska, 45, 1880. 



Unatak. A Kowagmiut Eskimo village 

 on Kobuk r., Alaska. 

 Un-nah-tak.— Healy, Cruise of Corwin,27, 1887. 



Una Vida. An important ancient ruin 

 in Chaco canyon, n. w. N. Mex., about 4 



m. above Pueblo Benito. It is situated 

 on uneven ground on the n. side of the 

 arroyo at the base of the canyon wall. 

 The main building is L-shaped, the ex- 

 tremities of the wings being connected by 

 a semicircular wall. The wings are 274 

 and 253 ft in length. The remains of a 

 partly subterranean circular kiva, 60 ft 

 in diameter, are situated within the court; 

 another is in the inclo.sure at the angle of 

 the two wings; 3 more are built within 

 the walls of one wing, and another large 

 kiva is outside of the e. wall. The ma- 

 terial of which the pueblo was built is 

 grayish yellow sandstone in rather large 

 Mocks; the style of masonry is plain, no 

 attempt at ornamentation being found as 

 in other buildings of the group. This 

 building is in a very ruinous condition. 

 Two hundred ft n. w. of the main build- 

 ing, on a point of the bluff about 50 ft 

 above, is another ruin, the principal fea- 

 ture of which is a kiva, 54 ft in diameter, 

 surrounded by 15 to 20 rooms. The ruin is 

 called Saydegil ('house on the side of the 

 rocks') by the Navaho. See Simpson, 

 Exped. to Navajo Country, 78, 1850; 

 Jackson in 10th Rep. Hayden Surv., 1878; 

 Hardacre in Scribner's Mo., 278, Dec. 

 1878. (e. l. h.) 



TJncas (corruption of Wonkus, 'fox,' lit. 

 'the circler.' — Gerard). A Mohegan 

 chief, son of Owenoco, who in 1626 mar- 

 ried a daughter of Sassacus, chief of the 

 Pequot, and became one of their leaders 

 (De Forest, Inds. of Conn., 86, 1852). 

 He was known also as Poquim or 

 Poquoiam. A rebellion against Sassacus 

 led to his defeat and banishment, 

 whereupon he fled to the Narraganset, 

 but soon made his peace and returned. 

 This conduct was repeated several 

 times. He warred against the Pequot, 

 Narraganset, and other tribes. After 

 taking prisoner Miantonomo he executed 

 him at command of the English. He 

 sided with the English in King Philip's 

 war in 1675. His death occurred in 1 682 or 

 1683. The family line became extinct 

 early in the 19th century. De Forest (op. 

 cit., 86) says: "Hisnaturewasselfish, jeal- 

 ous, and tyrannical; his ambition was 

 grasping and unrelieved by a single trait of 

 magnanimity." Stratagem and trickery 

 were native to his mind. His personal 

 habits were bad and he was addicted to 

 more than one vice of the whites. He 

 protested against the introduction of 

 Christianity among his people. A mon- 

 ument to his memory was erected by 

 the citizens of Norwich, Conn., in July. 

 1847, the cornerstone of which was laid 

 by President Jackson in 1833. Another 

 memorial, consisting of a bronze statue 

 surmounting a large bowlder, was erected 

 by Mrs Edward Clark, afterward the 

 wife of Bishop H. C. Potter, on the site 



