BULL. 30] 



WAPPATOO WAPPO 



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of the W. and N. W. : from the Cree 

 wdpatow or the Chippewa wdpato or 

 wdbado, 'white fungus.' This word, 

 spelled also wapato, has passed into the 

 Chinook jargon of the Columbia r. re- 

 gion, in which wappatoo means 'potato,' 

 but its origin is very uncertain. The 

 Chippewa name u-dpato has been applied 

 to some plant called rhubarb. As a 

 place name it occurs in Wapatoo, an 

 island off the coast of Washington, and 

 in Wapato, a village in Washington co., 

 Oreg. (a. f. c. w-. r. g. ) 



Wappatoo. The tribes on and around 

 Sauvies id. at the mouth of Willamette 

 r., Oreg. Under this name Lewis and 

 Clark (Exped., ii, 472-473, 1814) in- 

 cluded Nechacokee (Nechacoke), Shoto, 

 Multnomah, Clannahqueh(Clahnaquah), 

 Nemalquinner, Cathlacommatups (Cath- 

 lacomatup), Cathlanaquiahs, Clackstar 

 (Tlatskanai), Claninnatas, Cathlacu- 

 mups, Clannarminnamuns (Kathlamini- 

 mim), Quathiahpohtle (Cathlapotle), 

 Cathlamahs (Cathlamet). The name 

 (Wapato Lake) is now officially used to 

 designate a small remnant of 4 Indians 

 on Grande Ronde res., Oreg., probably 

 the survivors of those mentioned by 

 Lewis and Clark. (l. f. ) 



Wappinger ( ' easterners,' from the same 

 root as Abnaki, q. v. ). A confederacy 

 of Algonquian tribes, formerly occupy- 

 ing the E. bank of Hudson r. from 

 Poughkeepsie to Manhattan id. and the 

 country extending e. beyond Connec- 

 ticut r., Conn. They were closely re- 

 lated to the Mahican on the n. and 

 the Delawares on the s. According 

 to Ruttenber their totem was the wolf. 

 They were divided into 9 tribes: 

 Wappinger proper, Manhattan, Wecqua- 

 esgeek, Sintsink, Kitchawank, Tanki- 

 teke, Nochpeem, Siwanoy, and Mattabe- 

 sec. Some of these were again divided 

 into subtribes. The eastern bands never 

 came into collision with the Connecticut 

 settlers. Gradually selling their lands as 

 they dwindled away before the whites, 

 they finally joined the Indians at Scati- 

 cook and Stockbridge; a few of them 

 also emigrated to Canada. The western 

 bands became involved in war with the 

 Dutch in 1640, which lasted fiVe years, 

 and is said to have cost the lives of 1,600 

 Indians, of whom the Wappinger proper 

 were the principal sufferers. Notwith- 

 standing this, they kept up their regular 

 succession of chiefs and continued to 

 occupy a tract along the shore in West- 

 chester CO., N. Y., until 1756, when most 

 of those then remaining, together with 

 some Mahican from the same region, 

 joined the Nanticoke, then living under 

 Iroquois protection at Chenango, near 

 the present Binghamton, N. Y., and, with 

 them, were finally merged into the Dela- 



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wares. Their last public appearance was 

 at the Easton conference in 1758. Some 

 of them also joined the Moravian and 

 Stockbridge Indians, while a few were 

 still in Dutchess co. in 1774. 



They had the following villages: Alip- 

 conk, Canopus, Cupheag, Keskistkonk, 

 Kestaubuinck, Kitchawank, Mattabesec, 

 Menunkatuc, Nappeckamak, Naugatuck, 

 Nipinichsen, Nochpeem, Ossingsing, Pas- 

 quasheck, Paugusset, Pauquaunuch, Pom- 

 peraug, Poningo, Poodatook, Poquannoc, 

 Pyquaug, Quinnipiac, Reehtauck. Roa- 

 tan, Sackhoes, Sapohanikan, Senasqua, 

 Tunxis, Turkey Hill, Uncowa, Wecquaes- 

 geek, Wongunk, Woronock. (j. m.) 



Abingas.— Schoolcraft in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Proc, 

 101, 1844. Apineus. — McKenney and Hall, Ind. 

 Tribes, ill, 81, 1854 (probably the Wappinger). 

 Wabigna.— Am. Pioneer, ii, 192, 1843 (misprint). 

 Wabinga. — Schermerhorn (1812) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 2d s., II, 6, 1814. Wabingies.— Boudinot, Star 

 in the West, 129, 1816. Wam-pa-nos.— Macauley, 

 N. Y., II, 174, 1829. "Wamponas.— Doe. of 1755 quoted 

 bv Rupp, Northampton Co., 88, 1845. Wapanoos. — 

 Map of 1616 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., I, 1856. 

 Wapingeis. — McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 

 III, 80, 1854. Wapinger.— Doc. of 1766 in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., VII, 868, 1856. Wapingoes.— Lovelace 

 (1668), ibid., xiii, 420, 1881. Wapings.— Boudinot, 

 Star in the West, 129, 1816. Wappanoos. — Van der 

 Donck (1656)quoted bv Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson 

 R., 51, 1872. Wappenger.— Courtland(1688) inN.Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., in, 562, 1853. Wappenos.— De 

 RasiSres (1626) quoted by Ruttenber. Tribes Hud- 

 son R., 51, 1872. Wappinges.— Winlield, Hudson 

 Co., 8, 1874. Wappinx.— Treaty (1645) quoted by 

 Winfield, ibid., 45. 



"Wappinger. The leading tribe of the 

 Wappinger confederacy, occupying the 

 territory about Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess 

 CO., N. Y. 



Highland Indians. — Lovelace (1669) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., XIII, 440, 1881. Indians of the Long 

 Reach. — Doc. of 1690 quoted by Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R., 178, 1872. Wappinck.— Treaty 

 of 1644 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiii, 17, 1881. 

 Wappinex. — Treaty of 1645 quoted by Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R., lis, 1872. Wappingers.— Writer 

 of 1643 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., i, 185, 1866. Wap- 

 pingh.— Doc. of 1663, ibid., xill, 282, 1881. Wap- 

 pingos. — Lovelace (1669), ibid., 427. Wappings. — 

 Doc. of 1650, ibid., xiii, 27, 1881. Wappinoes.— 

 Nimham (1730) quoted by Ruttenber, Tribes 

 Hudson R., 51, 1872. Wappinoo. — Van der Donck 

 (1656) quoted by Ruttenber, ibid., 77. Weque- 

 hachke. — Loskiel (1794) quoted by Ruttenber, 

 ibid., 369 (Loskiel gives it as the Indian name 

 of the Highlands, meaning the hill country'; 

 Ruttenber says it may have been the real name 

 of the Wappinger proper). 



Wappo (from Span, giiapo, ' brave ' ). A 

 small detached portion of the Yukian 

 family of n. California, separated from the 

 Huchnom, the nearest Yuki division, by 

 30 or 40 m. of Pomo territory. They 

 lived chiefly in the mountains separating 

 Sonoma from Lake and Napa cos., be- 

 tween Geysers and Calistoga. A portion 

 of them, called Rincons by Powers, occu- 

 pied Russian River valley in the vicinity 

 of Healdsburg. 



Ashochemies. — Powers in Overland Mo., xiii, 642, 

 1874. Ash-o-chi-mi. — Powersin Cont.N. A. Ethnol., 

 Ill, 196, 1877. Guapos.— Bancroft, Hist. Cal., iv, 

 71, 1886. Satiyomes.— Ibid., ill, 360, 1886. Sati- 

 yomis.— Ibid., iv, 71, 1886. Seteomellos.— Taylor 



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