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WAHKIAKUM WAHPEKUTE 



[b. a. e. 



1859.— Dodge in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1869, 374, 

 1860. 



Wahkiakum. A Chinookan tribe for- 

 merly living on the n. bank of Columbia 

 r. near its mouth. Their territory ad- 

 joined that of the Chinook and extended 

 upstream toward Oak point. According 

 to Stuart (1821) they were an offshoot of 

 the Chinook who had separated from the 

 main body about two generations before 

 under chief Wahkiacum and were after- 

 ward known by his name. In 1805 

 Lewis and Clark estimated their number 

 at 200. They have been lost sight of as 

 a tribe since about 1850, when Gibbs re- 

 ferred to their chief as almost the last 

 survivor of the tribe. Their principal 

 village seems to have been near Pillar 

 rock, a short distance above Grays bay. 

 According to Boas they had two villages 

 near Pillar rock — Tlalegak, a little below 

 the rock, and Chakwayalham farther 

 down the river. (l. f. ) 



Ouakicoms. — Stuart in Nouv. Annales d. Voy., x, 

 111, 1821. Ouakikours.— Ibid., 23. Waakiacums. — 

 Dunn, Hist. Oreg., 114, 1844. Waakicum.— Drake, 

 Bk. Inds.,xii, 1841. Wach-ki-a-cum.— Orig. Jour. 

 Lewis and Clark, iv, 46, 1905. Waokiacums. — 

 Ibid., 155. Wac-ki-a-cums.— Ibid., 183. Wackki- 

 acums.— Ibid., 206. Wack-ki-a-cums.— Ibid., 31. 

 ■Wahkaykum.— Franchere, Narr., 105, 1854. Wah- 

 kenkumes.— Robertson, Oreg., 129, 1846. "Wahkia- 

 cum.— Lewis and Clark Exped., ii, 69, 1814. Wah- 

 kiahkums.— Lyman, Hist. Oreg., I, 62, 1903. Wah- 

 kia-kum.— Stevens in Ind. Aff. Rep., 239, 1854. Wah- 

 kiakume.— Lewis and Clark Exped., i, map, 1814. 

 Wahkiakums.— Ibid., II, 89, 1817. Wahkyecums.— 

 Hale in U. S. Expl. Exped., vi, 669, 1846. Wah- 

 kyekum.— Ibid., 216. Wahkyskum.— Medill in H. 

 R. Ex. Doe. 76, 30th Cong., 1st sess., 7, 1848. Wai- 

 kaikum.— Wilkes, U. S. Expl. Exped., v, 120, 1845. 

 Wa-kai-a-kum.— Gibbs, Chinook Vocab., iv, 1863. 

 "Wakaikam.— Hale in U. S. Expl. Exped., vi, 215, 

 569, 1846. Wakaikum. — Gairdner quoting Fram- 

 boise ( 1835) in Jour. Geog. Soc. Lond., xi, 255, 1841. 

 Wakiakums. — Keane in Stanford, Compend., 542, 

 1878. Wakicums.— Ross, Adventures, 87, 1847. 

 Waqaiqam. — Boas, Kathlamet Texts, 6, 1901. 

 Warciacoins. — Orig. Jour. Lewis and Clark, in, 

 300, 1905. War. ci a cum.— Ibid., 252. "War-ci-a- 

 cum.— Ibid., 208. Warkiacom.— Ibid., IV, 200, 1905. 

 Warkiacum.— Lewis and Clark Exped., 700, 1893. 

 Waukiacum. — Orig. Jour. Lewis and Clark, iv, 25, 

 1905. Wau-ki-a-cums. — Ibid., 35. WauMecums. — 

 Ibid., 156. Waukikam.— Ex. Doc. 39, 32d Cong., 

 1st sess., 6, 1852. Wau-ki-kum.— Ibid., 2. 



Wahkila (probably from Mi wok wakalu, 

 ' river ' ) . Mentioned as the name of a 

 so-called band, probably Moquelumnan, 

 formerly frequenting Stanislaus and 

 Tuolumne rs., central Cal. They were 

 on the reserve between Stanislaus and 

 Tuolumne rs. in 1851. 



Wah-ki-la.— Wessells (1853) in H. R. Ex. Doc. 76, 

 34th Cong., 3d sess., 30, 1857. We-chil-la.— John- 

 ston in Sen. Ex. Doc. 61, 32d Cong., 1st sess., 20, 

 1852. 



Wahlakalgi. One of the extinct Creek 

 gentes, which, to judge from the term 

 wa'hlita, 'to distribute', probably had 

 reference to 'varfare. 



Wa-hlak-kul'kee.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 161, 1877. 

 Wa'hlakalgi.— Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., I, 156, 

 1884. 



Wahnaataa. See Waneta. 

 Wahnacsoutah. A former band and vil- 

 lage of the Wahpeton Sioux, numbering 



332, on Minnesota r., about 50 m. from 

 the mouth. — Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 III, 612, 1853. 



Wahoma. A former Luisefio village in 

 San Diego co., s. Cal.— Hayes (1850) 

 quoted by Bancroft, Nat. Races, i, 460, 

 1886. 



Wahoo. A Georgia and South Carolina 

 name for Ulmus alata, the cork or winged 

 elm, but for many years applied to 

 the species of elm indiscriminately. The 

 bark of the cork elm, which is pliable, 

 has been used for making ropes and cord, 

 hence the name Lynn wahoo, where 

 "Lynn" is miswritten for lin or lind 

 (Tilia). (2) Tilia heterophylla, from the 

 resemblance of its wood to that of the 

 cork elm. A variant of the name is ivha- 

 hoo. The name is from uhawhu, in the 

 Creek language. (w. e. g.) 



Wahoo. A name for Euonymus pur- 

 pureus, the spindle-bush, burning bush, or 

 Indian arrow wood; spelled also whahoo, 

 waahoo, and wahoon. The word is from 

 Dakota wanhu, 'arrowwood' (fide the 

 late Rev. J. 0. Dorsey). (w. r. g.) 



Wahowah. See Hopehood. 



Wahowpum (from hdhdu, a species of 

 willow; p^m, 'people': 'willow people'). 

 A small Shahaptian tribe, speaking the 

 Tenino language, formerly living on the 

 N. side of Columbia r., near the mouth 

 of Olive cr., in Klickitat co., Wash. 

 They are mentioned by Lewis and Clark, 

 who evidently used the term to include 

 a large number of Klickitat bands. 

 Hahau'pum.— Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 739, 

 1896 ('willow people': native name). Wah-how- 

 pum.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, V, 706, 1855. Wahow- 

 pum. — Lewis and Clark Exped., ii, 472, 1814. 

 Wahupums. — Wilkes, Hist. Oregon, 44, 1845. 



Wahpekute {wakhpe, leaf; kute, to shoot: 

 ' shooters in the leaves ' ). One of the 7 

 primary divisions of the Dakota. Al- 

 though the name Santee was originally 

 applied only to the Mdewakanton, it was 

 early extended to the Wahpekute, so 

 closely were the two tribes connected, 

 and eventually by the Teton also to the 

 two other tribes of the eastern Dakota. 

 Historic and linguistic evidence proves 

 the close affinity of the tribes of this 

 group. The Wahpekute were doubtless 

 living in the vicinity of the Mdewa- 

 kanton of Mille Lac, Minn., when first vis- 

 ited by the French (1678-1680), and were 

 still so closely combined with them as to 

 be included under the one term. In 1766 

 Carver met the Wahpekute somewhere 

 on Minnesota r. They were in 1804, ac- 

 cording to Lewis and Clark, on both sides 

 of that stream below Redwood r., and 

 numbered about 150 men. Pike (1806) 

 spoke of them as the smallest band of 

 the Sioux, residing generally between 

 Mississippi and Missouri rs., and hunt- 

 ing commonly at the head of Des 

 Moines r. He characterizes them as 



