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that of a town in Oklahoma, the present 

 Osage agency. 



White Indians. An unidentified or en- 

 tirely mythic people mentioned by various 

 early writers as existing in some part of 

 the unexplored interior of America, and 

 described sometimes simply as "white," 

 but in other cases as having white skins, 

 with beards, and clothed like Europeans. 

 In some cases the accounts seem to be 

 entirely mythic, based on the supposed 

 existence of a tribe of "Welsh Indians," 

 but in other cases they seem to refer to a 

 settlement or temporary visitation of 

 Europeans in the remote distance, or to 

 the existence of an Indian tribe of some- 

 what lighter complexion than their neigh- 

 bors. Thus the white men of whom Coro- 

 nado heard in w. Texas were De 8oto's 

 party advancing from theE. ; andthewhite 

 men n. w. from the St Lawrence, of whom 

 the Jesuits heard from the Indians, were 

 probably whalers coasting along Hudson 

 bay. The Hatteras Indians of Albemarle 

 sd., N. C, were said to show in 1700 

 traces of white admixture and to claim 

 white descent, which if j^resent may have 

 come from absorption of the lost colony 

 of Roanoke in 1587. The so-called Croa- 

 tan Indians base their claim on the same 

 theory. Some of the Plains trilies, notably 

 the Cheyenne and the Crows, are lighter in 

 complexion than those of the woods and 

 mountains; some, as the Mandan, are 

 noted for the frequency of light hair and 

 eyes; and in some, especially the Zuni and 

 the Hopi, albinos are somewhat common. 

 See CrodUin Indians, J'opnlnr fallacies, 

 Welsh Indians. (,i. m. ) 



Barbus.— Imlay, West Ter., 293, 1797 (Froneh: 

 ' bearcU'fl '). Bearded Inds. — Am. Pioneer, I, 257, 

 1842. Blanches. — Ibid. Blancs. — Imlay, op. cit. 

 (French: 'white'). Blancs Barbus.— Trader in 

 Smith, Bouquet Expcd., 69, 1766 (French: 'white 

 bearded '). Blanes. — Boudinot, Star in the West, 

 126, 1816 (misprint for ' Blancs ') . Blank Barbus.— 

 Buchanan, N. Am. Inds., 1.56, 1824. White 

 Bearded Indians. — ,T. J. (1792) in Bowen, Am. Dis- 

 cov. hv tlie Welsh, 87, 1876. White Indians.— 

 Dobbs, Hud-son Bay, 21, 1744. 



White Lodge. A subchief of the Sis- 

 seton Sioux whose home camp was at L. 

 Shaokatan, Lincoln co., Minn., until the 

 outbreak of 1862, when he attacked the 

 settlers at L. Shetak and carried away 

 Mrs Wright and IMrs Duly with their 

 children to the Missouri r., where they 

 were later rescued by the " Fool Soldier 

 band" of Teton Sioux. White Lodge 

 escaped into Canada and died at Swift 

 Current about 1870. (d. r. ) 



White Mountain Apache. Formerly the 

 Sierra Blanca Apache, a part of the Coy- 

 oteros, so called on account of their moun- 

 tain home. The name is now applied to 

 all the Apache under Ft Apache agency, 

 Ariz., consisting of Arivaipa, Tsiltaden or 

 Chilion, Chiricahua, Coyotero, Mim- 

 brefio, and Mogollon. In 1910 they num- 



bered 2,269. Capt. Bourke in 1881-82 ob- 

 tained at Ft Apache and San Carlos agen- 

 cies the following names of bands or clans: 

 Satchin, Destchin, Tseskadin, Tzolgan, 

 Tuakay, Klokadakaydn, Tzintzilchut- 

 zikadn, Tzlanapah, Tudisishn, lyaaye, 

 Kiyahani, Akonye, Kaynaguntl, Indel- 

 chidnti, Peiltzun, Chilchadilkloge, Na- 

 tatladiltin, Tzaedelkay, Kaihatin, Mayn- 

 deshkisli, Tushtun, Tzebinaste, Tutonash- 

 kisd, Yachin, Tziseketzillan, Tizsessen- 

 aye, Tzecheschinne, Natootzuzn, Tut- 

 zone, Chiltneyadnaye, Yagoyekaydn, 

 Tzetseskadn, Inoschuhochen, and Gon- 

 tiel. There are also the foreign clans 

 Tzekinne and Nakaydi, partly Piman. 

 Arizonian Apaches. — Bandelicr in Arch. Inst. Pa- 

 pers, in, 259, 1890. Biniette Shedecka. — White, 

 MS. Hist. Apaches, B. A. E., 1875 (Chiricahua 

 name). Sierra Blanca Apaches. — Ind. Afl. Rep., 



HUE MOUNTAIN APACHE 



141, 1868. Sierra Blancas. — Bourke in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, lll, 119, 1890. Sierra Blanco Apache.— 

 Chapin, Sierra Blanca MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1867. 

 Sierras blancas. — Villa-Seiior, Theatro Am., pt. 2, 

 413, 1748. Surra Blancos.— Ind. AfF. Rep., 506, 1865 

 (misprint). White Mountain Apaches.— Parke, 

 map N. Mex., 1851. 



White people. See Race names. 



White Pigeon ( Wahbememe). A Pota- 

 watomi chief of local prominence in the 

 early years of the 19th century. The 

 little that is known of him is derived 

 chiefly from tradition. It is said that 

 about 181 2, while in the neighborhood of 

 Detroit, he learned of an uprising among 

 the Indians and of a threatened attack on 

 the settlement that now bears his name, 

 in St Josejih co., INIich. Far from home 

 and friends, he hastened to the scene of 

 the impending trouble and by a timely 

 warning saved the white settlers from 



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