WACONTASK WADJAHONAK 



iB. A. E. 



Yet, if the later Waco had kept this 

 name throughout the 18th century, it is 

 strange that it should not appear in some 

 of the many Spanish reports and descrip- 

 tions of them under the name Tawakoni, 

 after 1770. It has been thought that the 

 Quainco of De 1' Isle's map are the same 

 as the Waco. 



That the Waco village of the 19th cen- 

 tury was identical with one or the other 

 of the two neighboring Tawakoni vil- 

 lages on the Brazos, known in the later 

 18th century respectively as the village 

 of El Quiscat and that of the Flechazos, 

 is clear, though it is not easy to determine 

 which one, since both were in the imme- 

 diate neighborhood of Waco. As the 

 ethnology, customs, and early history of 

 these two villages are quite fully given 



LONG SOLDIER — A WACO 



under Tawakoni, they need not be de- 

 scribed here. 



About 1824, according to Stephen F. 

 Austin, the main Waco village consisted 

 of 33 grass houses, occupying about 40 

 acres, and inhabited by about 100 men. 

 Half a mile below was another village of 

 15 houses, built close together. The 

 Waco were then cultivating about 200 

 acres of corn, enclosed with brush fences 

 ("Description of Waco Villages," n. d., 

 in Austin Papers, Class D). At the site 

 of the Waco village a native earthwork, 

 like that of their kindred, the Taovayas 

 (Tawehash), and known to have been 

 used for military purposes as late as 1829, 

 is said to have been until very recently 

 still visible at the city of Waco (Kenney 

 in Wooten, Comp. His. Tex., i, 745, 



1898). For the relations of the tribe 

 with the Anglo-American Texans, see 

 Kenney, op. cit. 



The Waco were included in the treaties 

 made between the United States and the 

 Wichita in 1835 and 1846, and also in 

 1872, when their reservation in the 

 present Oklahoma was established. In 

 1902 they received allotments of land 

 and became citizens. (h. e. b. ) 



Gentlemen Indians. — Bollaertin Jour. Ethnol. Soc. 

 Lond., II, 275, 1850 (sometimes so called). Hone- 

 chas.— La Harpe (1719) in Margry, D6c., vr, 289, 

 1886.^ Houechas.— Beaumin (1719), ibid. Huan- 

 chane. — La Harpe, ibid., 277. Huanches. — La Harpe 

 in French, Hist. ColL La., iii, 72, 1851. Huane.— 

 La Harpe in Margry, Dec, vi, 277, 1886. Hueco. — 

 Tex. State Arch., Sept. 20, 1826. Ouainoo.— La 

 Tour,mapof N.Am., 1782. Quaineo. — Del'Isle.map 

 (ra.l700), in Winsor, Hist. Am., ii, 294, 1884. Tal'- 

 le-wit-sus.— Whipple, Pac. R. R. Rep., iii, 68,1856 

 (given as their own name). Wacco. — Maillard, 

 Hist. Texas, 232, 1842. Wacha.— Brown, West.Gaz., 

 152, 1817. Wachos.— Gallatin in Trans. Am. Antiq. 

 Soc, II, 117, 1836. Waco.— Drake, Bk. Inds., xii, 

 1848. Wacoah. — Hildreth, Dragoon Campaigns, 

 166, 1836. Wacoes.— Bonnell, Texas, 140, 1840. 

 Waecoe.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, I, 518, 1851. 

 Waeko.— !Mollhausen,Tagebuch,73, 18-58. Wakb.— 

 M'Coy, Ann. Reg., no. 4, 27, 1838. Wakoe.— Fal- 

 coner in Jour. Rov. Geog. Soc, xiii, 209, 1843. 

 Wakos.— Hazen (1868) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 18, 40th 

 Cong.,3dsess., 13,1869. Wecco's.— Bollaertin Jour. 

 Ethnol. Soc. Lond., ii, 265, 1850. Wecos.— Dom- 

 enech, Deserts N. A., ii, 25, 1860. Weeco.— Bol- 

 laert, op. cit., 275. Weko. — Gatschet. Tonkawe 

 MS., B. A. E., 1884 (Tonkawa name). We'ku.— 

 Gatschet, Caddo and Yatassi MS., B. A. E. We- 

 kush.— Gatschet, Wichita MS., B. A. E., 1884 

 (Wichita name). Whacoe. — Burnet (1847) in 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes. I, 239, 1851. Wieo.— Hil- 

 dreth, Dragoon Campaigns, 177, 1836. Wi'ko. — 

 Gatschet, Caddo and Yatassi MS., B. A. E. 

 Wi'-ku. — Dorsey, Kwapa MS, vocab., B. A. E., 

 1891 (Quapaw name). 



Waconiask. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy in 1608, on the n. bank of Rap- 

 pahannock r. in King George co., Va. — 

 Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 1819. 



Wacuntug. A village of Praying Indians 

 in the Nipmuc country in 1674, situated 

 on the w. side of Blackstone r., near the 

 present Uxbridge, Worcester co., Mass. 

 It seems at one time to have been subject 

 to the Narraganset. 



Wacantuck.— Barber, Hist. Coll., 612, 1839. Wa- 

 cumtung.— Hoyt, Antiq. Res., 95, 1824. Waeun- 

 tug.— Gookin(1674) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Ists., 

 I, 194, 1806. Wayunckeke.— Williams (1660) in R. 

 I. Col. Rec, I, 39, 1856. 



Waddapawjestin (probably from watpa 

 chistina, ' smal 1 stream ' ) . A Dakota band, 

 probably a part of the Wahpeton. 



Waddapadschestiner. — Balbi, Atlas Ethnog., 55, 

 1826. Waddapaw-jestin.— Carver, Trav., 80, 1778. 



Wadington Harbor Indians. A body of 

 Salish of Fraser River agency, Brit. Col., 

 numbering 37 in 1895, the last time the 

 name appears. 



Waddington Harbour.— Can. Ind. Afl., 277, 1894. 

 Wadington Harbor.— Ibid., 189, 1883. 



Wadjahonak ('thosewhoseekaliving'). 

 The name given by the Algonkin of Oka 

 (q. v.) to the Iroquois women of the 

 same settlement on account of their cus- 

 tom of peddling their manufactures to the 

 neighboring whites, a thing which the 



