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WHITE EAGLE BAND WHITE HAIR 



[B. A. E. 



speak. Now, moreover, do thou know 

 that that by which thy father's clans- 

 men, mankind, dwelling on the earth, 

 make answer to thy dream-word, goes 

 hence to thee [casts victim on the pyre]. 

 Thou dost plainly see the number of per- 

 sons who are assembled at the place where 

 those who attend to thy affairs kindled 

 a fire for thee. ' ' 



The entire invocation would require 

 about 7,400 English words to translate it. 

 At the end of every subsequent para- 

 graph the priest throws a portion of the 

 sacrificial tobacco into the fire, until all 

 is offered. This ends the sacrifice. On 

 the four or five days following, the Rites 

 of the Four Ceremonies are performed in 

 their entirety. These are the rites dis- 

 tinctive of tiie New Year or Midwinter 

 Ceremony of the Iroquois, (j. n. b. h.) 



White Eagle Band. A former Sioux 

 band, named from its chief. — H. R. Ex. 

 Doc. 96, 42d Cong., 3d sess., 15, 1873. 



White Earth. One of the Natchez vil- 

 lages of early writers. It was either on 

 the site of the subsequent concession of 

 White Earth on St Catherines cr.. Miss., 

 or else was identical with White Apple. 

 Terre Blanche. — Dumontin French, Hist. Coll. La., 

 V, 70, 1853 (in a footnote given as the same as the 

 Great White Apple village). Washt Eahapa. — 

 Gatschet, MS., B. A. E. ('town white': Natchez 

 name). White Clay.— Gayarre, La., i, 156, 1851. 



White-eyes (Koqiiefhagechton). Aformer 

 chief of the Delawares in Ohio. He was 

 first councilor and in 1776succeeded to the 

 chieftaincy on the death of Netawatwees 

 pending the minority of the heredi- 

 tary chief. He encouraged the Mora- 

 vian missionaries in their efforts to 

 civilize and educate the Indians. In the 

 Revolutionary war, as in the previous 

 conflict between the colonists and the 

 native tribes, he strove to keep the Dela- 

 wares neutral. When the Iroquois coun- 

 cil commanded the Delawares to take up 

 arms for the British, he replied that 

 he was no woman and would do as he 

 pleased. When Captain Pipe almost per- 

 suaded his people to take the warpath in 

 the spring of 1778, he told the warriors 

 that he would march at their head if they 

 were determined to go, and would seek to 

 be the first to fall and thus avoid witness- 

 ing the utter destruction of the tribe. 

 Compelled to declare himself, he openly 

 espoused the American cause and joined 

 Mcintosh's expedition against the British 

 Indians of Sandusky, but died of small- 

 pox at Pittsburg in Nov. 1778, before the 

 force set out. His name is also recorded 

 Koguethagechton, Koquethagechton, and 

 Kuckquetackton. (f. h.) 



White-eyes Village. A Delaware village, 

 named from the chief, that formerly ex- 

 isted at the site of Duncan's Falls, 9 m. 

 below Zanesville, in Muskingum co . , Ohio. 

 Old Indian village.— Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 



pi. clvi, 1899. Old Town.— Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, 

 II, 146, 1896. Old Town village.— Ibid. White- 

 eyes.— Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. v, 28, 1848. 



White Hair. An influential Osage chief 

 at the beginning of the 19th century, 

 known also as Teshuhimga, Cahagatonga, 

 and Pahuska or Pawhuska, and by the 

 French as Cheveux Blancs. He was 

 head-man of the Great Osage, whose vil- 

 lage, known also as White Hair's Vil- 

 lage, was situated in 1806 on the e. side 

 of Little Osage r. , in the n. part of the 

 present Vernon co. , Mo. (near which 

 Lieut. Z. M. Pike established w'hat he 

 called Camp Independence in 1806), and 

 in 1825 and 1837 on the w. bank of Neo- 

 sho r. in the present Neosho co., Kan., 

 on land ceded to the United States by 

 treaty of Sept. 29, 1865. The nominal 

 chief of the village, according to Pike, 

 was Cashesegra ( Koshisigre, Big Foot, or 

 Big Track), but Clermont or Clermore 

 (Ta^wa'^gahe, Builder of Towns) was the 

 greatest warrior and most influential man, 

 and "more firmly attached to the Amer- 

 ican interests than any other chief of the 

 nation." He was lawful chief of the 

 Grand Osage, but his hereditary right 

 was usurped by White Hair while Cler- 

 mont was an infant. Pike asserts that 

 both White Hair and Cashesegra were 

 chiefs of the trader Pierre Chouteau's 

 creating, and neither had the power or 

 disposition to restrain their young men 

 from the perpetration of an improper act, 

 lest they should render themselves un- 

 popular. This was evidentduring Pike's 

 stay in their country, when White Hair's 

 people left to war against the whites on 

 the Arkansas, the chief being powerless 

 to restrain them. He treated Pike with 

 hospitality, and sent his son, "a discon- 

 tented young fellow, filled with self- 

 pride," as an embassy with Pike's party, 

 but he soon became tired and returned. 

 Both White Hair and his son were pre- 

 sented by Pike with "grand medals." 

 White Hair seems to be identical with 

 Papuisea (Pahusca?), who was the first 

 Indian signer of the treaty with the Osage 

 at Ft Clark, Nov. 10, 1808. He signed 

 also the treaties of Sept. 22, 1815; Sept. 

 25, 1818; Aug. 31, 1822; June 2, 1825; and 

 Aug. 10, 1825. He died, probably soon 

 after the date last mentioned, at his vil- 

 lage in Vernon co.. Mo., and was buried, 

 in a stone tomb, on the summit of Blue 

 Mound. The grave was afterward van- 

 dalized by treasure-seekers, and prior to 

 1850 the chief parts of the skeleton were 

 taken therefrom by Judge Charles H. 

 Allen ("Horse Allen"). About 1871 

 some Osage went from Kansas to Blue 

 Mound and rebuilt the cairn formerly 

 covering White Hair's remains, but the 

 whites would permit neither the stones 

 nor the few bones of the old chief to re- 

 main. The name Pawhuska survives in 



