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WARANOKE W ASA BE 



[B. A. E, 



Waranoke. An Algonquian band or vil- 

 lage about the site of Westfield, Hampden 

 CO., Mass. 



Waranoco. — Trumbull, Ind. Names Conn., 91, 

 1881. Waranoke.— Trumbull, Conn., I, 159, 1818. 

 Warronco.— Barber, Hist. Coll., 299, 1839. War- 

 ronocke.— Trumbull, Ind. Names Conn., op. cit. 



Warartika ( War-ar^-ti-ka). APaviotso 

 tribe formerly about Honey lake, n. e. 

 Cal.— Powell, PaviotsoMS.,B. A.E., 1881. 



Warchinktarhe. An unidentified band 

 of the Brul6 Teton Sioux. — Lewis and 

 Clark, Discov., 341, 1806. 



Ward, Nancy. A noted Cherokee half- 

 breed woman, the date and place of 

 whose birth and death are alike un- 

 known. It la said that her father was 

 a British officer named Ward and her 

 mother a sister of Atakullakulla, princi- 

 pal chief of the Nation at the time of the 

 first Cherokee war. She was probably 

 related to Brian Ward, an oldtime trader 

 among the Cherokee. During the Revo- 

 lutionary period she resided at Echota, 

 the national capital, where she held the 

 office of "Beloved Woman," or " Pretty 

 Woman," by virtue of which she was 

 entitled to speak in councils and to de- 

 cide the fate of captives. She distin- 

 guished herself by her constant friendship 

 for the Americans, always using her best 

 effort to bring about peace between them 

 and her own people, and frequently giv- 

 ing timely warning of projected Indian 

 raids, notably on the occasion of the 

 great invasion of the Watauga and Hol- 

 ston settlements in 1776. A Mrs Bean, 

 captured during this incursion, was saved 

 by her interptisition after having been 

 condemned to death and already bound 

 to the stake. In 1780, on occasion of an- 

 other Cherokee outbreak, she assisted a 

 number of traders to escape, and the 

 next year was sent by the chiefs to make 

 peace with Sevier and Campbell, who 

 were advancing against the Cherokee 

 towns. Campbell speaks of her in his 

 report as "the famous Indian woman, 

 Nancy Ward." Although peace was not 

 then granted, her relatives, when brought 

 in later with other prisoners, were treated 

 with the consideration due iu return for 

 her good offices. She is described by 

 Robertson, who visited her about this 

 time, as "queenly and commanding" in 

 appearance and manner, and her house 

 as furnished in accordance with her high 

 dignity. When among the Arkansas 

 Cherokee in 1819, Nuttall was told that 

 she had introduced the first cows into 

 the Nation, and that by her own and her 

 children's influence the condition of the 

 Cherokee had been greatly elevated. 

 He was told also that her advice and 

 counsel bordered on the supreme, and 

 that her interference was allowed to be 

 decisive even in affairs of life and death. 

 Although he speaks in the present tense, 



it is hardly probable that she was then 

 still alive, and he does not claim to have 

 met her. Her descendants are still found 

 in the Nation. Consult Haywood, Nat. 

 and Aborig. Hist. Tenn., 1823; Ramsey, 

 Tenn., 1853; Nuttall, Trav., 130, 1821; 

 Campbell letter, 1781, and Springstone 

 deposition, 1781, in Virginia State Paners, 

 I, 435, 436, 447, 1875; Appleton's Cyclop. 

 Am.Biog.; Mooney in 19th Rep. B.A.E., 

 pt. 1, 1900. (j. M.) 



Warm Spring Apache. So called from 

 their former residence at the Ojo Cali- 

 ente, or Warm Spring, in s. w. N. 

 Mex., near the extreme headwaters of 

 Gila r. They were evidently Chiri- 

 cahua Apache in the main, and were prob- 

 ably the Apaches de Xila (Gilenos) of 

 Benavides in 1630. Victorio and Nana 

 were among their noteworthy leaders in 

 recent times. Some of them are on the 

 Mescalero res., N. Mex. 

 Hot Spring Apaches. — Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 

 563,1889. Oji Caliente.— Bell in Jour. Ethnol. SiC. 

 Lend., 1, 262,1869. Ojo Caliente Apaches. — Common 

 name. Warm Spring Indians. — U. S. Stat, at Large, 

 XVII, 438, 1878. Warm Springs.— Hinton, Hand- 

 book of Arizona, 359, 1878. 



Warm Springs Indians. A term used to 

 denote the different tribes resident on 

 Warm Springs res., Greg., most of whom 

 were placed there under the Wasco 

 treaty of 1855. The chief tribes of the 

 reservation are Wasco, Paiute, Tenino, 

 and Tyigh. The number on the reserva- 

 tion was 780 in 1910, while about80 others 

 are reported to be permanently absent 

 from the reservation. (l. f. ) 



Lokuashtknj.— (iatschet in Cont. N.^A. Ethnol., ii, 

 pt. 11, 195, 1.S90 ( Klamath name). Tummaimampka 

 we-i peyaktchimmem. — Gatschet, Kalapuva MS., 

 B. A. E., 30, 1877 (Atfalati name). Waita'nkni.— 

 Gatschet in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., ll.pt. II, 467, 1890 

 (Klamath name). Wetankni. — Ibid. Yamakni. — 

 Ibid., 195. 



Warrasqueoc (from ivdraskik, 'swamp 

 in a depression' of land.— Gerard). A 

 tribe of the former Powhatan confed- 

 eracy, living on the s. bank of James r. in 

 Isle of Wight CO., Va. Their principal 

 village was situated in 1608 at the mouth 

 of Warrasqueoc cr. 



Wamasqueaks.— Boudinot, Star in West, 129, 1816 

 (misprint). Waraskoyack.— Simons in Smith 

 (1629),Va.,i,180,repr.l819. Waraskweag.— Gerard 

 in Am., Anthr., VI, 319, 1904. Warraskorack.- 

 Smith (1629). Va., i, map, repr. 1819. Warrasko- 

 yack— Strachey (1612), Va., 35, 1849. Warras- 

 queaks.— Jefferson, Notes, 179, 1801. War-ras- 

 squeaks.— Macaulev, N. Y., Il, 168, 1829. Warris- 

 coyake.— Doc. of 1624 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th 

 s., IX, 65, note, 1871. 



Warrennuncock. An unidentified tribe, 

 mentioned in 1672 (Lederer, Discov., 2, 

 1672); probal)ly one of the small tribes 

 of the Carolinas known under another 

 name. 



Wasabe ( Wd-sa''-ba, ' bear' ) . A subgens 

 of the Dhatada gens of the Omaha. 



Wasabaetage— Balbi, Atlas Ethnog., 56, 1826. 

 Wa-sa ba-eta-je — Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., I, 

 326, 1823. Wasabe-hit'ajl.— Dorsey in 3d Rep. 

 B. A. E., 220, 1885 ('touches no skin of a black 

 bear). 



