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WAPEMINSKINK WAPPATOO 



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slough with his people, and later settled 

 near the present Wapello, Louisa cc, 

 Iowa, in which state a county was after- 

 ward named in his honor. Wapello was 

 next in rank to Keokuk, whom he accom- 

 panied with others to the E. in 1837, in 

 charge of their agent. Gen. Joseph M. 

 Street. While in Boston, and in reply to 

 an address by Gov. Everett, Wapello 

 made a speech expressing sentiments fav- 

 orable to the whites, which was received 

 with great applause. He died while on 

 a hunting trip near the present Ottumwa, 

 Iowa, Mar. 15, 1842. In accordance with 

 his request he was buried near Gen. 

 Street, to whom he had been deeply at- 

 tached. A monument has been erected 

 to his memory at Agency City, Iowa. 

 Wapello was one of the signers of the 

 following treaties between the United 

 States and the Sauk and Foxes: Ft Arm- 

 strong, Sept. 3, 1822; Prairie du Chien, 

 July 15, 1830; Ft Armstrong, Sept. 21, 

 1832; Dubuque co., Iowa, Sept. 28, 1836; 

 Washington, Oct. 21, 1837. See Fulton, 

 Red Men of Iowa, 1882; Stevens, Black 

 Hawk War, 1903; McKenney and Hall, 

 Ind. Tribes, 1854. (f. s. n.) 



Wapeminskink ( Wah -pi- mlns^- kink, 

 'chestnut-tree place'). A former Dela- 

 ware town on the w. fork of White r., at 

 the site of Anderson, Madison co., Ind. 

 From being the residence of Anderson 

 {Kok-t6^-w}ia-nnnd, 'making a cracking 

 noise'), the principal chief, about 1800- 

 1818, it was commonly known as An- 

 derson's Town. The land was sold in 

 1818. (j. p. D.) 



Anderson's Town.— Hough, map, in Indiana Geol. 

 Rep. 1882, 1883. Kik-the-swe-mud.— Hough, ibid. 

 ( = Koktowhanund, the chief). Wah-pi-mins'- 

 kink.— Dunn, True Ind. Stories, 253, 1909. Wape- 

 minskink.— Brinton, Lenape Leg., 124, 1885 (incor- 

 rectly identified with Wapicomelkoke). 



Wapicomekoke ( Wah-pi-ko-me-kunk, 

 'White-river town', from Wah-pi-ko-me'- 

 kah, 'white waters,' the Miami and old 

 Delaware name of White r., Ind.). A 

 former town of the Munsee branch of the 

 Delawares, on the site of the present 

 Muncie, Delaware co., Ind. It was^ the 

 easternmost town of the Delawares in 

 Indiana, and the first reached by the 

 trails from the e., n., and s. It was 

 formed by removal from an older town a 

 short distance up the river, commonly 

 known as Outainink (Utenink, 'at the 

 place of the town'), or Old Town. It 

 has been confounded with a neighboring 

 Delaware village, Wapeminskink, better 

 known as Anderson's Town. The land 

 was sold in 1818. (,i. p. d.) 



Munsey Town.— Treaty of 1818 in U. S. Ind. Treat., 

 493, 1873. Wah-pi-ko-me-kunk.— J. P. Dunn, inf'n, 

 1907. Wapicomekoke. — Ibid. Woapikamikunk. — 

 Brinton, Lenape Leg., 124, 1885. 



Wapisiwisibiwininiwak ( ' Swan creek 

 men,' from wapisi, 'swan'; sibi, 'river'; 

 ininiwak, 'men'). A band of Chippewa 



that formerly resided on Swan cr., near 

 L. St Clair, Mich. They sold the greater 

 part of their lands in 1836 and part of 

 them removed to Kansas, where they 

 were joined by the rest in 1864. Their 

 descendants now form part of the mixed 

 band of "Munsee and Chippewa" in 

 Kansas, numbering together about 90 in- 

 dividuals, (j. M. ) 

 Swan-Creek band. — Wa.shington treaty (1836) in 

 U. S. Ind. Treat., 227, 1873. Wabisibiwininiwag.— 

 Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1905 (correct name). Wapisiwi- 

 sibi-wininiwak. — Gatschet, Ojibwa MS., B. A. E., 

 1882 



Wapiti {wapiti, 'white rump'). The 

 Shawnee name of Cervus canadensis, the 

 American elk, called also gray moose, the 

 mos or mus of the Lenape, the manrus of 

 the Kenebec, the u-a^boz of the Penob- 

 scot, the mishewe of the Chippewa, the 

 shewea of the Miami, the makyase of the 

 Pequot, etc. ; a deer about the size of the 

 horse and so strikingly similar in appear- 

 ance to the stag of Europe that it was 

 supposed by the early settlers to be the 

 same species and was called by the same 

 name. Its horns, which are round and 

 not flat, like those of the moose and cari- 

 bou, are 5 to 6 ft long and much branched, 

 and its color in summer is light chestnut- 

 red with white rump, in winter grayish, 

 and to the latter fact the Penobscot name 

 (meaning 'white moose') alludes. The 

 animal was formerly extensively distrib- 

 uted throughout the present limits of the 

 United States, but is now confined mostly 

 to the N. and n. w. portions. In Minne- 

 sota it is found in large herds, and, on the 

 upper Missouri, Yellowstone, and other 

 streams, in still larger ones. Of the vast 

 numbers in these regions, some idea may 

 be formed from the piles of shed horns 

 which the Indians were in the habit of 

 heaping up in the prairies. One of these, 

 in Elkhorn prairie, was, before its de- 

 struction in 1850, about 15 ft high, and 

 was for many years a conspicuous land- 

 mark. Others, still larger, are found on 

 the upper Yellowstone. (w. r. g.) 



Wapon. The extinct White Shell-bead 

 clan of Sia pueblo, New Mexico. 

 Wa'pon.— Stevenson in 11th Rep. B. A. E., 19, 

 1894. Wapon-hano.= Hodge In Am. Anthr., ix, 

 352, 1896 (AoHO=' people'). 



Wapoo. A small tribe of the Cusabo 

 group, formerly living on W^apoo cr. and 

 the immediately adjacent coast of South 

 Carolina. They have long been extinct. 

 Bartram (Trav., 54, 1792) mentions them 

 among the tribes in the vicinity of 

 Charleston, which he says "cramped the 

 English plantations." Nothing further 

 has been recorded in regard to them. 

 The tribe is designated on De I'lsle's map 

 (Winsor, Hist. Am., ii, 1886), about the 

 year 1700, under the name Ouapamo, as 

 situated on Wingau r., S. C. 



Wappatoo. A bulbous root {Sagittaria 

 variabilis) used for food by the Indians 



