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UPKHAN URACAS 



[b. a. e. 



were doubtless a cognate if not the same 

 tribe. 



■Ppe-shi-pow. — Hutchins (1770) quoted by Rich- 

 ardson, Arct. Exped., ii, 38, 1851. 



IJpklian ( ' elk ' ) . A gens of the Hanka 

 division of the Osage, 

 ■g'pqa"— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 234, 1897. 



Upop ( U-p6p ) . A Chumashan village 

 formerly near Pt Concepcion, Cal. — Hen- 

 shaw, Buenaventura MS. vocab., B. A. E., 

 1884. 



Upper Chinook. A general term for the 

 Chinookan tribes of Columbia r., above 

 (e. of) the Lower Chinook. As com- 

 monly used it refers to the tribes between 

 the mouth of Willamette r. and The 

 Dalles, Oreg. 



Guithlia'-Mshatchk.— Gatschet, MS.,B. A. E., 1877. 

 ('Indiansabove the falls': Lower Chinook name). 

 Eauts-Tchinouks. — Mofras, Espl. dans I'Oregon, 

 II, 335, 1844. Tchaxlatxksh.— Gatsehet, op. cit. 

 (Clackama name) . Upper Chinook. — Hale in U. S. 

 Expl. Exped., VI, 214, 1846. _ 



Upper Cowlitz. A division of the Cow- 

 litz on the upper waters of Cowlitz r., 

 Wash. 



Upper Creeks. A term applied to that 

 division of the Creeks formerly living 

 about Coosa and Tallapoosa rs., n. e. Ala., 

 and for a short distance below their 

 junction. Lincoln in 1798 (Am. State 

 Papers, Ind. Aff.,i, 79, 1832) stated that 

 there were about 45 Upper Creek towns. 

 See Creeks. 



Hasko'ki Hatchapala.— Gatsehet, Creek Migr. Leg., 

 I, 237, 1884 (Creek name). Overhill Creeks.— Lee 

 quoted by Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. iv, 68, 1848. The 

 Nation. — Bartram,Trav., 208,1791. Upper Creeks.— 

 Ibid., 378. 



Upper Fraser Band. One of 4 subdivi- 

 sions of the Upper Ntlakyapamuk of the 

 interior of British Columbia. 

 SLaxa'yux. — Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., ii, 

 170, 1900. Upper Fraser band.— Ibid. 



Upper Kntenai. The larger of the 2 

 divisions of the Kutenai, speaking a dif- 

 ferent dialect and more amenable to civ- 

 ilizing influences than the Lower Ku- 

 tenai. They live in the region inclosed 

 between Selkirk and the Rocky mts., on 

 the lakes at the head of Columbia r., 

 and on Upper Kootenai r. and L. Pend 

 d' Oreille, Brit. Col. Their subdivisions 

 are Akiskenukenik, Akamnik, Akaneku- 

 nik_, and Akiyenik. 



Ki'tona'Qa. — Chamberlain in 8th Rep. N.W. Tribes 

 Can., 6, 1892. Upper Kootanais. — Mayne, Brit. Col., 

 298, 1862. Upper Kootanie. — Tolmie and Dawson, 

 Comp. Vocabs., 124b, 1884. Upper Kootenay. — 

 Boas in 5th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 10, 1889. 

 Upper Kootenuha. — Tolmie and Daw.son, op. cit. 



Upper Mdewakanton. The northern 

 bands of the Mdewakanton Sioux in 

 Minnesota. 



Upper Me-de-wakan-t'-wan. — Ramsey in Ind. Aff. 

 Rep. 1849, 81, 1850. 



Upper St. Croix Lake Band. A band of 

 the Munominikasheenhug. 



Upper Sioux. The Sisseton and Wahpe- 

 ton Sioux, on upper Minnesota r., as dis- 

 tinguished from the Lower Sioux (Mde- 

 wakanton and Wahpekute). — Ind. Aff. 

 Eep., 1859, 101, 1860. 



Upper Takelma. A Takelman tribe that 

 dwelt eastward of the Takelma proper, 

 occupying the poorer land of the upper 

 Rogue, eastward from about Table Rock 

 toward the Cascades and in the neigh- 

 borhood of the present town of Jackson- 

 ville, Oreg. These eastern Takelma seem 

 to have been on the whole less advanced 

 than their down-river kinsmen. They 

 are said to have been shorter in stature 

 than these, to have used log rafts instead 

 of canoes, and, because of greater eco- 

 nomic distress, to have used for food 

 crows, ants' eggs, and the like, much to 

 the disgust of the Takelma proper, who, 

 however, do not seem to have been par- 

 ticularly averse to the eating of lice and 

 grasshoppers themselves. The Upper 

 Takelma were much more warlike than 

 their western neighbors, and were accus- 

 tomed to make raids on the latter in 

 order to procure supplies of food and 

 other valuables. The slaves they cap- 

 tured they often sold to the Klamath of 

 the Lakes, directly to the e. The few 

 words obtained of their language show it 

 to have been very nearly the same as 

 that of the Takelma proper, but with 

 distinct phonetic and lexicographic dia- 

 lectic differences. (e. s. ) 



Lat'gaawas, — Sapir in Am. Anthr., ix, 252, 1907 

 ('those living in the uplands': Takelma name). 

 Wulx, — Sapir, ibid, ('enemies': also sometimes 

 so called by the Takelma, although applied spe- 

 cifically to the Shasta). 



Upper Thompson Indians. The Ntlak- 

 yapamuk on Fraser r. and its tributaries 

 above Cisco, Brit. Col. They embody 4 

 minor divisions: the Lytton, Upper 

 Fraser, Spences Bridge, and Nicola 

 bands. 



Nku'kumamux. — Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 II, 168, 1900 (= 'people above'). Upper Thomp- 

 sons. — Ibid. 



Upper Yanktonai. One of the two prin- 

 cipal local divisions of the Yanktonai 

 Sioux, so named because their habitat 

 was farther up Missouri r. than that of 

 the Hunkpatina (U. S. Ind. Treat., ii, 

 905, 1904). They include the Wazikute, 

 Takini, Shikshichena, Kiyuksa, and Pa- 

 baksa. 



North Yanktons. — Prescott in Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, ii, 169, note, 1852. Upper Yanctonais. — Stan- 

 ley in Poole, Among the Sioux, app., '231, 1881. 

 Yank-ton of the north or plains. — Lewis and Clark 

 Discov., table, 34, 1800. Yanktons of the North. — 

 Ibid., '24. Yanktons of the Plains. — Lewis and 

 Clark Exped., i, 61, 1814. 



Upputuppet. Mentioned by Kane 

 (Wand, in N. Am., 274, 1859) as a band 

 numbering 70 or 80 warriors at the mouth 

 of Palouse r. , Wash. The term is not met 

 with elsewhere and probably refers to a 

 division or a settlement of the Paloos. 



Uracas. Mentioned in connection with 

 some mythical as well as existent tribes 

 of the plains in the 17th century. — Vet- 

 ancurt (1693) in Teatro Am., in, 303, 

 1871. 



