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WATLALA WATOPAPINAH 



[b. a. b. 



figuratively to his unnatural hair, hands 

 and feet, eyes, throat, hearing, sexual 

 parts, and mind, but now erroneously 

 taken literally. After the Mohawk, 

 Oneida, and Cayuga had united in a 

 tentative league, they were enabled to 

 gain his assent to the adhesion of the 

 Onondaga to the proposed confederation. 

 By his defiance, however, he obtained 

 for the Onondaga certain concessions, 

 among them being that the league coun- 

 cil-fire should be kept at their chief 

 town; that they should have 14 chiefs, 

 while no other tribe should have more 

 than 10; that the federal council 'should 

 be summoned only by Watliatotarho; 

 that no act of the council would be valid 

 unless sanctioned by the Onondaga 

 speaker as being in accordance with the 

 rules and principles of the league; that 

 Wathatotarho, being the leading chief of 

 the Onondaga tribe, should have four 

 peers assigned to him as special aids; and 

 that the Onondaga, represented by their 

 chiefs, should have confirmatory, arbitra- 

 tive, and advisory functions in the de- 

 liberations of the league council. His 

 great antagonists were Dekanawida and 

 Hiawatha, who by wise statecraft finally 

 overcame his opposition, (j. n. b. h. ) 



Watlala. A division of the Chinookan 

 family formerly living at the cascades of 

 Columbia r. and, at least in later times, on 

 Dog(nowHood) r. about half way between 

 the cascades and The Dalles, in Wasco 

 CO., Oreg. Early writers mention several 

 tribes at or near the cascades, but as the 

 population of that region was very 

 changeable from the fact of its being a 

 much frequented fishing resort, and as 

 many of the so-called tribes were merely 

 villages, often of small size, it is now im- 

 possible to identify them with certainty. 

 After the epidemic of 1829, the Watlala 

 seem to have been the only remaining 

 tribe, the remnants of the others having 

 probably united under that name, though 

 they were commonly called Cascade In- 

 dians by the whites. In 1854 they were 

 reported to number 80. In 1855 they 

 joined in the Wasco treaty under the name 

 of the "Ki-gal-twal-la band of the Was- 

 coes" and the "Dog River band of the 

 Wascoes, ' ' and were removed to the Warm 

 Springs res. in Oregon, where a few still 

 survive. 



The term Watlala is also used by some 

 writers, following Hale, to include all 

 the Upper Chinook. The names given 

 by different writers to thetril)es living at 

 or near the cascades, which may have 

 been the Watlala or later have been in- 

 cluded under them, are Cathlakaheckit, 

 Cathlathlala, Cathlayackty, Clahclellah, 

 Katlagakya, Yehuh. (l. f.) 



Al-e-is. — Gtiss, Journal, 197, ISll. Carcader. — ^De 

 Smec, Letters, 232, 1843. Cascade Indians. — Nico- 

 let, Oregon, 143, 1846. Dog River.— Taylor in Cal. 



Farmer, June 12, 1863. GiLa'zicatck. — Boas, Chi- 

 nook Texts, 276, 1894 (Chinook name). Ki-gal- 

 twalla.— U. S. Stat, at Large, xii, 963, 1863. Ki-gal- 

 twal-la.— Wasco treaty, 1855, in U. S. Ind. Treat., 

 622. 1873. Kwikwu'lit.— Mooney in 14th Rep. B. 

 A. E., 741, 1896. Wahclellah.— Lewis and Clark 

 Exped., II, 231, 1814. Wah-ial-la.- Dayton treaty, 

 1855, in U. S. Ind. Treat., 18, 1873. Wah-ral-lah.— 

 Lyman in Oreg. Hist. Soc. Quar., i, 323, 1900. Wat- 

 lala.— Hale in U. S. Expl. Exped., vi, 214, 1846. 

 Watlalla.— Medill in H. R. Ex. Doc. 76, 30th Cong., 

 1st sess., 7, 1848. 



Watok. Mentioned as a Yokuts (Mari- 

 posan) or a Shoshonean tribe in s. central 

 California, probably on or near Kings r. 

 The Wat-tokes are mentioned in 1857 as 

 high up on Kings r., and in 1861 as on 

 Fresno res. 



Wartokes.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 219, 1861. Watooga.— 

 Gatschet in Mag. Am. Hist., 158, 1877. Wat-to- 

 kes.— Lewis in Ind. Aflf. Rep. 1857, 399, 1858. 



Watopachnato. A division of the As- 

 siniboin which in 1804, according to 

 Lewis and Clark, roved the plains be- 

 tween the Missouri and the Saskatche- 

 wan, above the Yellowstone and the 

 heads of Assiniboine r. They numbered 

 1,600, including 450 warriors, in 200 tipis, 

 and resembled their congeners, the Wa- 

 topapinah and the Itscheabine, in their 

 habits and alliances. Hayden estimated 

 them at 100 lodges, averaging 4 persons, 

 in 1862. 



Big Devils. — Orig. Jour. Lewis and Clark, vi, 104, 

 1905 (traders' nickname). Gens de I'age. — Maxi- 

 milian, Travels, 194, 1843. Gens des grand diable. — 

 Orig. Jour., op. cit. Gens du Gauche. — Havden, 

 Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. Val., 387, 1862. Gens du 

 large, — Maximilian, Travels, 194, 1843. Mahto- 

 panato. — Orig. Jour., op. cit., 105. Na-co'-ta Mah- 

 to-pa-nar-to. — Ibid. ,104. Old Gauohe's gens. — Denig 

 quoted by Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 223, 1897. 

 Otopachgnato. — Maximilian, op. cit. (apparently a 

 duplication) . Wah-to'-paK-an-da-to. — Hayden, op. 

 cit. Wah-to-pah-han-da-toh. — Denig quoted by 

 Dorsey, op. cit. Watopachnato. — Maximilian, 

 Travels, 194, 1843. 



Watopapinah ( ' canoe people ' ) . A band 

 of the Assiniboin which, according to 

 Lewis and Clark in 1804, roved on 

 Mouse (Souris) r. and the branches of 

 the Assiniboine n. of the Mandan tribe, 

 in the United States and Canada. At this 

 period they numbered 450 warriors, in 200 

 tipis. In 1806 Henry (Coues, New Light, 

 II, 522, 1897) said they had 160 lodges, 

 while Hayden (Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. 

 Val., 387, 1862) in 1856 said that they 

 ranged from White Earth r. to the sources 

 of the Souris and Pembina rs. and occu- 

 pied 220 lodges, averaging 4 persons. 

 Assiniboin Menatopa. — Lewis and Clark Exped., i, 

 146,1814. Band lar Gru (crain) or canoe.— Orig. 

 Jour. Lewis and Clark, vi, 104, 1905. Canoe and 

 Paddling Assiniboines. — Henry quoted by Coues, 

 New Light, 522, 1897. Canoe Assiniboines.— Ibid. 

 Canoe band.— Culbertson in Smithson. Rep. 1850, 

 143, 1851. Canoe Indians.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 289, 

 1854. Gens de Canot.— Brackenridge, Views of 

 La., 79, 1814 (=Manelopec,ibid., ed. 1817). Gens 

 des Canoe.— Lewis and Clark Discov., 43, 1806. 

 Gens des canots. — Maximilian, Travels, 194, 1843. 

 Les gens des Caruts.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 289, 1854. 

 Manelopec— Brackenridge, op. cit., 1814 (='Gen9 

 de Canots,' ibid., ed. 1815). Ma-ne-to'-pa.— Lewis 

 and Clark Discov., 44, 1806. Ma-ne-to-par.— Orig. 

 Jour. Lewis and Clark, vi, 104, 1905. Menatopa.— 

 Lewis and Clark Exped., 184, 1817. Otaopabine.— 



