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WELUNUNGST WENKOHEONON 



[B. A. B. 



guage in any native American language, 

 excepting for a few words of recent 

 introduction which have had no effect 

 whatever on the general structure or 

 vocabulary. 



Consult Catlin, N. Am. Inds., for Man- 

 dan theory; Bowen, Am. Discovered by 

 the Welsh, 1876; Burder, Welsh Inds., 

 1797; Durrett in Filson Club Pub., no. 

 23, 1908; Lewis in Trans. Oneida Hist. 

 Soc, 1894; Mooney, Growth of a Myth, 

 in Am. Anthr., Oct. 1891, and numerous 

 authorities noted in Winsor, Narr. Crit. 

 Hist. Am., I, notes 109-111, 1889. 



The early stories of a tribe of "White 

 Indians" (q. v.), or "White, Bearded 

 Indians," somewhere in the unknow^n 

 interior, refer sometimes to this mythic 

 Welsh tribe, but more often appear to arise 

 from misinterpreted Indian accounts of 

 other distant European colonies or visita- 

 tions, or of some tribe of complexion 

 lighter than usual. See Lost Ten Tribes 

 of Israel, Popular Fallacies. (j. m.) 



Madawgwys.— Bowen, Am. Discov. by the Welsh, 

 93, 1876 (also Madogian and Madogiaint; so called 

 by various authors). Uadocian Inds. — Ibid., 63 

 (term used with reference to the Indians of 

 Prince Madoc). Madogians.— Janson, Stranger in 

 Am., 270, 1807. Madogiant.— Bowen, op. cit., 93. 

 Hnacedeus. — Ker quoted by Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 

 I, 38, 1848. Welch.— Drake, ibid., xii. Welsh 

 Bearded Indians. — Bowen, op. cit., 129. Welsh 

 Indianv.— Croghan (1769) in Rupp, West. Pa., 146, 

 1846 (misprint). 



Welumingsi (We-hm-ung-si, 'little 

 turtle'). A subclan of the Delawares. — 

 Morgan, Ane. Soc, 172, 1877. 



Welwashkeni ( Wehoashxe'ni, ' place of 

 the large spring ' ) . A former Modoc set- 

 tlement on the s. e. side of Tule lake, 

 at Miller's farm, n. e. Cal. — Gatschet in 

 Cont. N. A. Ethnol., n, pt. i, xxxii, 1890. 



"Wenameac. See Winamac. 



"WenatcM (Yakima: windtshi, 'river is- 

 suing from a canyon,' referring to We- 

 natchee r. ) . A Salish division, probably a 

 band of the Pisquows, formerly on We- 

 natchee r. , a tributary of the Columbia 

 in Washington. In 1850 there were said 

 to have been 50 on Yakima res., but 66 

 were enumerated in the Eeport on Indian 

 Affairs for 1910 as under the Colville 

 agency. It is uncertain whether these 

 bodies belonged to one original band, 

 lower Chehalis.— Common name. Wanoolchie. — 

 Ford in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1857, 341, 1858. Waratcha.— 

 Ind. Aff. Rep., 219, 1861. Waratka.— Ibid., 1864, 

 499, 1865. Waratkass.— Ibid. 1863, 512, 1864. We- 

 natcha.— Lansdale, ibid., 1859, 412, 1860. We- 

 natchi.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 704, 1901. Wenatshapam.— 

 U. S. Stat, at Large, xii, 951. Wenatshapan.— Ind. 

 Aff. Rep. 1856, 266, 1857. Wenatshepum.— Ibid., 

 110, 1874. Wina'tshipum.— Moonev in 14th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 736, 1896 (given as a synonym of Pis- 

 quows). Wynoochee.— Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., 

 1, 428, 1856. Wy-noot-che.— Ross in Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 18, 1870. 



Wendigo. See Windigo. 



Wendjimadub ('whence he sits'; that 

 is, supposing he was sitting in one spot, he 

 moves from it and sits in another). A 

 Chippewa chief and orator, with a strain 



of French blood, born at La Pointe, Wis.j 

 about 1838. He married a Mississippi 

 Chippewa, and since 1868 has lived at 

 White Earth, where he is at the head of 

 a band of about 40. Wendjimadub is 

 noted for his independence. When, 

 about 1878, a half-breed trader induced 

 all the other chiefs to join him in oppos- 

 ing a worthy Indian agent, Lewis Stowe, 

 in order that an agent might be appoint- 

 ed who would further his schemes, Wend- 

 jimadub was the only one who had the 

 courage to stand up openly in the council 

 before prominent Americans, and take 

 the agent's part, declaring his innocence 

 and showing why the warfare was waged 

 against him. Although uneducated, 

 Wendjimadub is by far the best speaker 

 among the Chippewa. He served in a 

 Minnesota regiment throughout the Civil 

 War. He farms to some extent, but is in 

 sufficiently affluent circumstances to live 

 without working. He has been converted 

 to Christianity. (j. a. g. ) 



Wenimesset {wenomissit, 'at the grape- 

 vine.' — Gerard). A Nipmuc village in 

 1676, at the present New Braintree, Wor- 

 cester CO., Mass. 



Wenimesset.— Rowlandson quoted by Drake, 

 Trag. Wild., 25, 1841. Wenimisset.— Kinnicutt, 

 Ind. Names Worcester Co., 56, 1905. Winnimis- 

 sett,— Ibid. 



Wenona. A small snake ( Charina bottse) 

 found in California and Mexico. From 

 winoua (q. v.) in the Santee Sioux lan- 

 guage, signifying 'first-born child' [if a 

 daughter]. The word is also a place 

 name. (a. p. c.) 



Wenrohronon {Awenr6'ron'no'n'\ prob- 

 ably from a combination of the noun 

 aive>yrd', the Huron form of the com- 

 mon Iroquoian vocable denoting 'scum,' 

 'moss,' 'lather,' with the verb stem 

 -o', 'to float,' 'to be immersed or con- 

 tained in liquid or in the earth,' 'to be 

 in solution,' 'to be contained in,' with 

 the tribal appellative suffix -ronnon'. 

 Av:en''ro' (ouenro in the Jesuit Rela- 

 tions), the base of the term, signifies, as 

 a geographic name, ' where scum floats 

 on the water'; hence Aioenrohronon 

 means ' the people or tribe of the place 

 of floating scum.' The suggested mean- 

 ing of the name would seem to indicate 

 that the Wenrohronon may have lived 

 in the vicinity of the famous oil spring of 

 the town of Cuba, Allegany co., N. Y., 

 described as a filthy, stagnant pool, about 

 20 ft in diameter, without an outlet. A 

 yellowish-brown oil collects on its sur- 

 face, and this was the source of the 

 famous " Seneca oil," formerly a popular 

 local remedy for various ailments. The 

 spring was so highly regarded by_ the 

 Seneca that they always reserved it in 

 their land-sale treaties). One of the 

 tribes which, according to the Jesuit 

 Relation for 1639, had been associated 

 with the Neutral Nation and which had 



