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WASHASHEWANUN WASUPA 



[b. a. e. 



from Wind r. in lat. 43° 30' on the n. , 

 in Wyoming, and from South pass to 

 the headwaters of the North Platte on 

 the E. , and to Bear r. near the mouth of 

 Smith fork, in Idaho, on the w. On the 

 s. they extended as far as Brown's Hole, 

 on Green r., Wyo. They are known 

 officially as Shoshoni in distinction from 

 the Bannock, Sheepeaters, etc., and were 

 placed upon the Shoshoni res. in w. Wyo- 

 ming by treaty of 1868. They numbered 

 870 in 1885, while the Shoshoni under 

 the Shoshoni agency numbered 816 in 

 1909. 



Eastern Snakes. — Lander in Sen. Ex. Doc. 42, 36th 

 Cong., 1st sess., 121, 1860. Green River Snakes. — 

 Stuart, Montana, 80, 1865. Po-hah. — Lewis and 

 Clark, Exped., i, map, 1814. Po'hoi. — Gatschet, 

 Comanclie MS., B. A. E. (Comanche name of 

 Eastern Shoshoni of Wyoming). Pokahs.— Morse, 

 Rep. to Sec. War, map, 1822. Washai'ki.— Gat- 

 schet in Geog. Surv. W. 100th Mer., vii, 409, 1879. 

 Wash'-a-keeks band. — Stuart, Montana, 81, 1865. 

 Washano.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 199, 1855. 

 Washikeek. — Lander in Sen. Ex. Doc. 42, 36th 

 Cong., 1st sess., 121, 1860. Waushakee's band.— 

 Doty in Ind. Aff . Rep. 1864, 175, 1865. 



Washashewanun, The first gens on the 

 right, or Hangka, side of the Osage circle. 

 Elder Osage.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 234, 

 1897. Waaa'oe Wanu"'. — Dorsey, ibid. 



Washatnagunashka. A Montagnais vil- 

 lage on a bay on the n. shore of the gulf 

 of St Lawrence, Quebec. — Stearns, Labra- 

 dor, 271, 1884. 



Washetan {Wacetan^ 'reptile people'). 

 A division of the Inshtasanda gens of the 

 Omaha. — Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 

 228, 1897. 



Washichuncliiiiclia ( ' sons of white 

 men ' ). A modern band or division of 

 the Yankton Sioux. 



Half-blood band.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 

 217, 1897. Wacitcu"-tci°tca.— Ibid. Wasicug- 

 cii)ca. — Ibid. 



Was-hinedi ( Wqs.'hVnedt, 'lousy creek 

 people'). A Tlingit division at Kake, 

 Alaska, belonging to the Wolf phratry. 

 Tradition says a man from Lousy cr was 

 so infested with vermin that he died, in 

 consequence of which they applied the 

 name to his people. (j. e. s.) 



Washo (iromwashiu, 'person,' in their 

 own language. — K roeber ) . A small tribe, 

 forming a distinct linguistic family, the 

 Washoan, which, when first known to 

 Americans, occupied Truckee r., Nev., as 

 far down as the Meadows, though their 

 right to the latter was disputed by the 

 Mono. The Washo also held Carson r. 

 down to the first large canyon below Car- 

 son City, the borders of L. Tahoe, and Si- 

 erra and other valleys as far as the first 

 range s. of Honey lake, Cal., the moun- 

 tains being resorted to only in summer. 

 There are some evidences that they once 

 were established in the valleys farther 

 to the E. than where found by the whites, 

 whence they had been driven by the 

 Paiute, between whom and themselves 



existed a state of chronic ill feeling, break- 

 ing out occasionally into open hostility. 

 About 1860-62 the Paiute conquered the 

 Washo in a contest over the site of Carson 

 and forbade them thenceforth to own 

 horses (Mooney). Of late years they have 

 been confined to the country from Reno, 

 on the railroad, to a short distance s. of 

 Carson City, and have adopted a parasitic 

 mode of life, being almost entirely depend- 

 ent upon t'he towns and ranches. Recent 

 study of their language indicates no lin- 

 guistic relationship with any other peo- 

 ple. In physique and general appearance 

 they correspond more closely with the 

 California Indians than with the tribes to 

 their eastward. In 1859 the Washo num- 

 bered about 900, but are now reduced to 

 about a third of that number. On the 

 language of the Washo, consult Kroeber 

 in Univ. Cal. Pub., Am. Arch, and Eth., 

 IV, no. 5, 1907. (h. w. h. ) 



Tsaisuma. — A. L. Kroeber, inf'n, 1904 (name given 

 by the northeastern Maidu). Wah-shoes. — Simp- 

 son, Rep. of Expl. Across Utah in 18.59, 460, 1876. 

 Washaws.— Holeman in Ind. Aff. Rep., 444, 1853. 

 Wa-sho.— Dodge in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1859, 374, 1860. 

 Washoe. — Kroeber in Univ. Cal. Pub., Am. Arch, 

 and Eth., iv, 252, 1907. Wasiu.— Mooney, inf'n, 

 1900 (Paiute name). Was-saws. — Hurt in Ind. Afl. 

 Rep. 1856, 228, 1857. 



Washoan Family. The linguistic family 

 represented by the Washo tribe (q. v. ). 

 =Washo, — Gatschet in Mag. Am. Hist., 255, Apr. 

 1882. <Shoshone.—Keane in Stanford, Compend., 

 Cent, and So. Am., 477, 1878 (contains Washoes). 

 <Snake. — Keane, ibid. (same as Shoshone, above). 

 =Washoan.— Powell in 7th Rep. B. A. E., 131, 1891. 



Washpa. The Dance-kilt clan of Sia 

 and Cochiti pueblos. New Mexico. In the 

 former the clan is extinct. 

 Euashpa hanutsh.— Bandelier, Delight Makers, 

 2.56, 1890. Wash'pa.— Stevenson in 11th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 19, 1894 (given as name of Cactus clan). 

 Washpa-hano.— Hodge in Am. Anthr., ix, 350, 

 1896 (Sia name; havo = 'people'). Washpa- 

 hanuch. — Ibid. (Cochiti form). 



Washpashnka ( Wash-pa^ -shu-ka) . A 

 pueblo of the Acoma tribe, which, accord- 

 ing to tradition, was inhabited in pre- 

 historic times during their migration from 

 the mythic Shipapu in the indefinite 

 north. It is said to have been the second 

 pueblo traditionally occupied by this 

 people. — Hodge in Century Mag., lvi, 15, 

 May 1898. 



Wasmacns. A village on the w. bank 

 of Patuxent r., in St Marys co., Md., in 

 1608.— Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 

 1819. 



Wasnaniks {Was-na^-7iiks). A former 

 village of the Tlakluit below The Dalles 

 of Columbia r., AVash. (e. s.) 



Wastsanek ( WiVstsanEk). A sept of the 

 Toquart, a Nootka tribe. — Boas in 6th 

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



Wasupa. A former Seminole town 2 

 m. E. of Sunmlgahatchee, 18 m. from 

 St Marks, probably in Wakulla or Jeffer- 

 son CO., Fla.— H. R. Ex. Doc. 74 (1823), 

 19 Cong., Ist sess., 27, 1826. 



