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WAMSUTTA WAPACTJT 



[B. A. E. 



Wamsutta. Cotton cloth manufactured 

 at the Wamsutta mills at New Bedford, 

 Mass., named after a Massachuset sachem, 

 the eldest son of Massasoit. The name 

 is apparently a contraction of Womosutta, 

 'Loving-heart'. (w. r. g.) 



Wanaghe {Wanaxe, 'ghost'). A divi- 

 sion of the Kansa. — Dorsey in 15th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 231, 1897. 



Wanamakewajenenik ('people eating 

 meat out of skin bags' — that is, 'pemmi- 

 can-eaters ' ) . A Chippewa band formerly 

 living near Lake of the Woods, on the n. 

 border of Minnesota. 



Tecomimoni.— Chauvignerie (1736) quoted by 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 556, 1853. Wana- 

 make-wajenenik. — Long, Exped. St. Peter's R., II, 

 153, 1824. Wanama'kewajink.— Wni. Jones, inf'n, 

 1905. 



Wananisli. See Ouananiche. 



Wanashquompskqut, See Squam. 



Wanatah. A Potawatomi village for- 

 merly in La Porte co., Ind., a short dis- 

 tance E. of the jiresent Wanatah. — Hough, 

 map in Indiana Geol. Rep. 1882, 1883. 



Waneta ( ' TheCharger' ). A Yanktonai 

 Sioux of the Pabaksa or Cutheail band, 

 son of Shappa or Red Thunder; born on 

 Elm r., in the present Brown co., S. Dak., 

 about 1795. He enlisted with his father 

 in the English servicein the War of 1812, 

 and fought valiantly at Ft Meigs and San- 

 dusky, winning his name by his bravery 

 in charging the Americans in the open, 

 and being seriously wounded in the battle 

 at the latter place. After the war he was 

 given a captain's commission by the Brit- 

 ish, and visited P^ngland. He continued 

 to sympathize with the British until 1820, 

 when he attempted to destroy Ft Snelling 

 by stealth, but being thwarted in his en- 

 terprise by Col. SnelUng, he afterward 

 heartily supported American interests. 

 Waneta was a dominant chief of the Sioux 

 and exceedingly active in his operations. 

 He signed the treaty of trade and inter- 

 course at Ft Pierre, July 5, 1825, and on 

 Aug. 17 of the same year signed the 

 treaty of Prairie du Chien which fixed 

 the boundaries of the Sioux territory. 

 He died in 1848 at the moutli of the War- 

 reconne, the present Beaver cr., Emmons 

 CO., N. Dak. His name is variously 

 spelled, as Wahnaataa, Wanotan, and 

 Wawnahton. (n. e. ) 



Wanigaa. A receptacle in which small 

 supplies or a reserve stock of goods are 

 kept; also a large chest in which the 

 lumbermen of Maine and Minnesota keep 

 their spare clothing, pipes, tobacco, etc. 

 Called also vongaji-hos., and spelled wan- 

 gun and wangan. (2) A boat used on 

 the rivers of Maine for the transportation 

 of the entire personnel of a logging camp, 

 along with the tools of the camp and pro- 

 visions for the trip. See Wammikan. 

 (3) A place in a lumber camp where 

 accounts are kept and the men paid. 



"Running the icangan" is the act of tak- 

 ing a loaded boat down a river, from sta- 

 tion to station, particularly in swiftly 

 flowing water. The word is from Abnaki 

 waniigan, 'trap'; literally, that into which 

 any object strays, wanders, or gets lost; a 

 receptacle for catching and holding stray 

 objects ; from ivan, ' to wander' , ' go astray' , 

 'get lost', -igan, often used in Abnaki in 

 the sense of ' trap ' . Similarly, a locker in 

 a hunting phaeton is called a 'trap', and 

 this eventually gave its name to the 

 vehicle itself. (w. r. g.) 



Wanineath ( WaninEa'th). A sept of the 

 Seshart, a Nootka tribe. — Boas in 6th Rep. 

 N. W. Tribes Can., 32, 1890. 



"Waninkikikarachada ('they call them- 

 selves after a bird ' ) . A Winnebago gens. 

 Thunder.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 157, 1877. Wa-kon'- 

 cha-ra. — Ibid. Wa-nink' i-ki'-ka-ra'-tca-da.— Dorsey 

 in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 240, 1897. 



Wankapin. See Wampapin. 



"Wanlish. A division of the true Kwa- 

 kiutl, probably named mistakenly from 

 its chief. — Lord, Nat. in Brit. Col., i, 165, 

 1866. 



■Wannalancet. A son of Passaconaway, 

 who succeeded his father as sachem of 

 Penacook on the Merrimac. He was a 

 life-long friend of the English and signed 

 the treaty of Dover. In 1659 Wannalancet 

 was imprisoned for debt. (a. f. c.) 



Wannawegha ('broken arrow'). A 

 former band of the Miniconjou Sioux, 

 possibly identical with the Wanneewack- 

 ataonelar band of Lewis and Clark. 

 Wannawega.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 220, 

 1897. Wa^-nawexa. — Ibid. Wan-nee-wack-a-ta-o- 

 ne-lar. — Lewis and Clark Discov., 34, 1806. 



Wannigan. See Wanigan. 



Wanotan. See Waneta. 



Wanupiapayum. A division of the Sho- 

 shonean Kawia (Cahuilla) formerly liv- 

 ing about Banning and San Timoteo, Cal. 

 Akavat. — Kroeber in Univ. Cal. Pub., vni, 35, 

 1908 (Serrano name of their country). Wanupi- 

 apayum. — Ibid. 



Waokuitem ( Wao^kuitEm). A clan of the 

 Wikeno, a Kwakiutl tribe. — Boas in Rep. 

 Nat. Mus. 1895, 328, 1897. 



Waoranec. A tribe of the Esopus which 

 resided on the w. bank of the Hudson, 

 near Esopus cr., in Ulster co., N. Y. 

 Murderer's kill Indians.— Dongan deed (1685) in 

 Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 93, 1872. Waoran- 

 ecks.— De Laet (1633) quoted by Ruttenber, ibid., 

 72. Waoraneky.— De Laet, Nov. Orb., 72, 1633. 

 Warenecker.— Wassenaar (1632) quoted by Rut- 

 tenber, op. cit., 71. Warenocker. — Ibid., 93. 

 Waroanekins.— De Laet (1633) quoted in Jones, 

 Ind. Bull., 6, 1867. Warranoke. — Addam (1653) 

 quoted bv Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. ii, 79, 1848. Wor- 

 anecks.— Map of 1614 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., I, 

 1856. 



Wapacnt. A dictionary name for the 

 great white owl, or snowy owl {Nyctea 

 scandiaca) : probably from one of the north- 

 ern dialects of Algoriquian, Wood Cree or 

 Labrador, in which wapacuthu would cor- 

 respond to the Cree wdpaskisiw and the 



