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Algonkin women of Okaneverdo. — Cuoq, 

 Lexique Algonquine, 416, 1886. 



WafiFord, James D. {Tsuskw&n{m^n(i- 

 wa^ta, 'Worn-out blanket'). A Western 

 Cherokee mixed-blood, speaking and 

 writing both languages, born in the old 

 Cherokee Nation near the site of the 

 present Clarkesville, Ga., in 1806, and 

 dying when about 90 years of age at his 

 home in the e. part of the Cherokee Na- 

 tion, adjoining the Seneca res. , in the pres- 

 ent Oklahoma. The name figures promi- 

 nently in the early history of North Caro- 

 lina and Georgia. His grandfather, Colo- 

 nel Wafford, was an officer in the Amer- 

 ican Revolutionary army, and shortly 

 after the treaty of Hopewell, in 1785, es- 

 tablished a colony known as "Wafford set- 

 tlement," in upper Georgia, on territory 

 which was afterward found to be within 

 the Indian boundary and was acquired 

 by special treaty purchase in 1804. His 

 name is appended, as witness for the State 

 of Georgia, to the treaty of Holston, in 

 1794. On his mother's side Wafford was 

 of mixed Cherokee, Natchez, and white 

 blood,shebeingacousinofSequoya(q.v.). 

 He was also remotely connected with 

 Cornelius Dougherty, the first trader 

 established among the Cherokee. In the 

 course of his long life he filled many posi- 

 tions of trust and honor among his people. 

 In his youth he attended the mission 

 school at Valleytown under Rev. Evan 

 Jones, and just before the adoption of 

 the Cherokee alphabet he finished the 

 translation into phonetic Cherokee spell- 

 ing of a Sunday-school speller. In 1824 

 he was the census enumerator for that 

 district of the Cherokee Nation em- 

 bracing upper Hiwassee r., in North Caro- 

 lina, with Nottely and Toccoa in the ad- 

 joining portion of Georgia. His fund of 

 Cherokee geographic information thus ac- 

 quired was found to be invaluable. He 

 was one of the two commanders of the 

 largest detachment of emigrants at the 

 time of the removal, and his name appears 

 as a councilor for the Western Cherokee in 

 the Cherokee Almanac for 1846. When 

 employed for the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology by Mr Mooney, atTahlequah, 

 in 1891, nis mind was still clear and his 

 memory keen. Being of practical bent, he 

 wasconcerned chiefly with tribal history, 

 geography, linguistics, and every-day life 

 and customs, on all of which subjects his 

 knowledge was exact and detailed, but 

 there were few myths for which he was 

 not able to furnish confirmatory testi- 

 mony. Despite his education he was a 

 firm believer in the Nunnenii., or fairies, 

 and several of the best legends connected 

 with them were obtained from him. His 

 death took from the Cherokee one of the 

 last connecting links between the present 

 and the past. (j. m.) 



Waganakisi ( ' bent tree,' from a tree on 

 a neighboring hill). A former Ottawa 

 village on the site of Harbor Springs, 

 Emmet co., Mich. It was one of the old- 

 est and most important Ottawa settle- 

 ments in Michigan, having been estab- 

 lished about 1743, after the expulsion of 

 the Mascoutens from the district. In 1825 

 the Catholic mission of St Vincent de Paul 

 was established there. 



Abercrosh. — Harrison (1814) quoted by Drake, 

 Tecumseh, 162, 1852. Abre Croche.— Dunham 

 (1807) in Am. State Papers, Ind. AfF., I, 798, 1832. 

 Arbre croche.— Beauharnois (1741) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., IX, 1072, 1855. Forked tree.— Tanner, 

 Narr., 515, 1830 (given as a totem among "Ottaw- 

 waws and Ojibbeways"). L'Arbrech-roche.— De- 

 troit treaty (1855) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 614, 1873. 

 L'Arbre Croche.— Kendall, Trav., ii, 287, 1809 

 (French trans, of Indian name ) . L'Arbre Cruche. — 

 Brown, W. Gaz., 165, 1817. Middletown, — Shea, 

 Cath. Miss., 390, 1855. Middle Village.— Detroit 

 treaty (1855) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 614, 1873. Waga- 

 nakisi.— Baraga, Eng.-Otch. Diet., 154, 1878 (Chip- 

 pewa form). War-gun-uk-ke-zee. — Tanner, Narr., 

 40, note, 1830. Waw-gun-nuk-kiz-ze.— Ibid., 256. 

 Waw-gun-uk-ke-zie. — Ibid., 380. Wawkwunkizze. — 

 Ibid., 315. 



Waginkhak ( Waginxak. ) A former vil- 

 lage of the Tlakluit, ^ m. below the Dalles 

 of Columbia r.. Wash. (e. s.) 



Gauamuitk. — Edward Sapir, inf'n, 1908 (sig. 'mud 

 place'). 



Waglezaoin ( ' water-snake earring ' ) . A 

 Miniconjou Sioux band. 

 Wagleza-oi".- Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 220, 

 1897. Wa-ha-le'-zo-wen. — Hayden, Ethnog. and 

 Philol. Mo. Val., 376,1862 (trans, 'striped snake 

 earring band'). 



Waglukhe ('followers'). An Oglala 

 Sioux division, including two bands com- 

 posed largely of mixed-bloods. 

 In-breeders. — Robinson, letter to Dorsey, 1879. 

 Loafers. — Ibid. Wagluge.— Ibid. Wag-lufie. — Dor- 

 sey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 220, 1897. Waglukhe.— 

 McGee, ibid., 161. Wagluqe. —Dorsey, ibid., 220. 



Waglukhe. A band of the Brule Teton 

 Sioux. 



WagluBe. — Dorsey (after Cleveland) in 15th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 219, 1897. Wagluqe.— Ibid. 



■Wagmezayuha ('has corn'). A band 

 of the Brule Teton Sioux. — Dorsey (after 

 Cleveland) in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 219, 

 1897. 



Waha. The Cloud clan of Jemez pueblo, 

 N. Mex. A corresponding clan existed 

 also at the related pueblo of Pecos. 



Wa'hah.— Hodge in Am. Anthr., ix, 349, 1896 

 (Pecos form). Wahatsa-ash. — Ibid. (Jemez form; 

 teaa«/i=' people ') . Wa-kah. — Hewett, ibid., n. s., 

 VI, 431, 1904 (Pecos form). 



Wahaka ( Wa-ha^-ka ) . A former A wani 

 village at the base of the rock known as 

 "Three Brothers," in Yosemite valley, 

 Mariposa co., Cal.; also the name of the 

 rock itself. — Powers in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., Ill, 365, 1877. 



Wahe. A Chinookan village formerly 

 at the head of the Cascades of Columbia 

 r., Oreg. 

 Wah-he.— Lee and Frost, Oregon, 176, 1844. 



Wahi's Band. A Paviotso band under 

 Wahi (Fox), formerly at the big bend of 

 Carson r., w. Nev.; said to number 130 in 



