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WATAKIHULATA WATHATOTARHO 



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Watakihulata ( ' beloved people ' ) . One 

 of the two Choctaw phratries, consisting 

 of the Chufaniksa, Iskulani, Chito, and 

 Shakchukla clans. 



Hattak-i-hol-lihtah.— Reed in Sturm s Statehood 

 Mag., 1, 85, Nov. 1905. Okoelaihoelahta.— ten Kate, 

 Reizt'n in N. A., 403, 1885. Wa-tak-i-Hu-la'-ta.— 

 Morgan, Auc, Soc. 102, 1877. 



Watap. Roots of the pine, spruce, tam- 

 arack, etc., used to sew birch-bark for 

 canoes and other purposes: from iratap, 

 in the Chippewa and closely related Al- 

 gonquian dialects, signifying root of the 

 tamarack. The word has come into Eng- 

 lish throughCanadianFrench. Cuoq ( Lex. 

 Alg., 426, 1886) says the word is known 

 from one end of Canada to the other and 

 deserves adoption by the French Acad- 

 emy, (a. f. c.) 



Watauga ( WatcVgl, of unknown mean- 

 ing). A name occurring as that of two or 

 more towns in the old Cherokee country; 

 one was an important settlement on Wa- 

 tauga cr., a branch of Little Tennessee r., 

 a few miles ])elow Franklin, in Macon co., 

 N. C. ; another was traditionally located 

 at Watauga Old Fields, about the present 

 Elizabethton, on Watauga r. , in Charter co. , 

 Tenn. The name is also written Watoga, 

 Wattoogee, AVhatoga, etc. — Mooney in 

 19th Rep. B. A. E., 546, 1900. 

 Wataga.— Koyt'e in 5th Rep. B. A E.. map, 1887. 

 Watoga. — Doo. of 1799 quoted by Royce, ibid., 144. 

 Watoge.— Doc. of 1755. quoted by Royce, ibid., 142. 

 Whatoga.— Biirtram, Travel-s 371, 1792 (in N. C). 



Watcheeshoo. A Motitagnais village 

 near Manicouagan bay, on the n. shore 

 of the gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec. — 

 Stearns, Labrador, 271, 1884. 

 Watchful Fox. See Keokuk. 

 Wateree ( perhaps from Catawba wateran, 

 *to float on the water.'— Gatschet). One 

 of the early tribes of the Carolinas, proba- 

 bly Siouan. As described by Juan de la 

 Vandera in his account of the expedition 

 of Juan de Pardo in 1567, they then lived 

 at a great distance from the coast, near 

 the Cherokee frontier. In 1670 Lederer, 

 whose statement is doubtful, places them 

 apparently in North Carolina, on the 

 extreme upper Yadkin, far to the n. w. 

 of their later habitat, with the Shoccore 

 and Eno on the n. e. and the Cheraw on 

 the w. In 1700 they lived on Wateree 

 r., below the present Camden, S. C. 

 On a map of 1715 their village is placed 

 on the w. bank of "Wateree r., perhaps in 

 Fairfield co. Moll's map of 1730 locates 

 their village on the e. bank of the 

 river. When Lawson met them, in 1700, 

 they were a much larger body than the 

 Congaree, and spoke an entirely different 

 language, which was unintelligil)le to the 

 latter people. The Yamasee war broke 

 the power of the Wateree, and according 

 to Adair (1743) they became confeder- 

 ates of the Catawba, though still re- 

 taining their own village and language. 

 Vandera says they were ruled by two 



female chiefs, who held dignified court, 

 with a retinue of young men and women. 

 He also describes them as being rather 

 the slaves than the subjects of their 

 chiefs, which agrees with what Lawsnn 

 says of the Santee. Lederer, who speaks 

 from hearsay only, mentions the killing 

 of women of a hostile tribe, by a chief, 

 in order that their spirits might serve his 

 dying son in the other world. Lawson 

 says that their houses were as poor as 

 their industry; that the men were tall 

 and well-built, friendly, but great pil- 

 ferers, and very lazy, even for Indians. 

 See Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the East, 

 80, 1894. 



Chichanee.— Rivers, Hist. So. Car., 36, 1856. Chick- 

 anee.— Lawson (1714), Hist. Car. 59, 1860. Chick- 

 aree.— Howe quoted bv Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 IV, 158, 18.54. Guatari.— Vandera (1569) in Smith, 

 Colec. Doc. Fla., i, 17, 1857. Watarees.— JetYerys, 

 French Dom. Am., pt. 1, 134, map. 1761. Watary"— 

 Lederer, Discov , 16, 1672. Wateree.— La \v son 

 (1714), Hist. Car., 56,1860. Wateree Chickanee.— 

 Ibid., 59. Waterrees.— Ibid., 99. Watterree.— 

 Moll, map Car 1720. 



Water-monsters. See Mythology. 



Wathatotarho ('he obstinately refused 

 to acquiesce'; also Tftadodaho, Tododaho, 

 Atotarho). The 

 official name and 

 title of a chiefship 

 hereditary in the 

 Bear clan of the 

 Onondaga, and 

 heading the roll of 

 federal chiefs. The 

 first known chief- 

 tain to bear the 

 name flourished 

 about the year 

 1570. He was one 

 of the great men 

 of his time and 

 people, who reso- 

 lutely deferred to the last his a.*sent to 

 the adherence of his tribe to the con- 

 federation of peoples then forming, which 

 afterward became famous under the 

 name of the League of the Iroquois, 

 or Five Nations. According to native 

 tradition Wathatotarho possessed great 

 force of character, being haughty, am- 

 bitious, crafty, and remorseless, brook- 

 ing no equal. He was reputed to be a 

 dreaded sorcerer and was even charged 

 with being a cannibal. By taking too 

 literally the figures of speech by which 

 were designated the qualities that made 

 him feared and dreaded by his ojiponents, 

 tradition assigns to him a preterhuman 

 nature, even representing his head as 

 having been clothed, in lieu of hair, with 

 living vipers, his hands and feet as having 

 the shape of huge turtle-claws, and whose 

 other organs were similarly monstrous in 

 form, in keeping with his demoniacal 

 mind. Hence he is said to have had 

 "seven crooks in his body," referring 



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