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WHITE RACCOON S VILLAGE WIATAKALI 



[b. a. b. 



possible massacre. He is described as 

 tall and athletic, an unusually fleet run- 

 ner, and as having possessed high ideals 

 of truth and honor. According to Indian 

 information he received his name because 

 he was of much lighter complexion than 

 the members of his tribe generally. He 

 died at the age of about 30 years and was 

 buried in a mound on the outskirts of the 

 village of White Pigeon. Here, on Aug. 

 11, 1909, a monument, suitably inscribed, 

 was erected to his memory under the 

 auspices of the Alba Columba Club of 

 women. White Pigeon signed, in behalf 

 of his band, the Greenville treaty of Aug. 

 3, 1795, and the treaty of Brownstown, 

 Mich., Nov. 25, 1808. Two of his great- 

 grandsons and a great-granddaughter 

 (the wife of the great-grandson of Simon 

 Pokagon, q. v. ) reside near Dorr, Mich. 

 Consult Mich. Pion. Coll., x, 1888; [Cora 

 Cameron,] White Pigeon, [1909]. 



White Raccoon's Village. A Miami vil- 

 lage, named from the chief ( Wahpahsay- 

 pon, ' White Raccoon' ), near the present 

 Aboite, Allen co., Ind. The site was 

 made an individual grant by treaty of 

 Oct. 23, 1834. (j. p. D.) 



Raccoons village. — Royce, map, in 1st Rep. B. A. 

 E., 1881. Raccoon village.— Treaty of 1834 in U. S. 

 Ind. Treat., 498, 1873. Wah'-pah-say'-pon.— Dunn, 

 True Indian Stories, 313, 1908 (proper name of 

 White Raccoon). Wapasepah,— Ibid, (narne of 

 the reservation) . White Raccoons village . — Missis- 

 sinewa treaty (182G) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 498, 1873. 



White River Xlte. The official collective 

 name for such of the Ute on Uintah res., 

 Utah (to the number of 514 in 1885), as 

 are not classed under Uinta. It comprises 

 the Yampa, and the Green River and 

 Grand River Ute, as well as perhaps other 

 bands. As officially recognized, theWhite 

 River Ute under the Uinta and Ouray 

 agencv, Utah, numbered 356 in 1904 and 

 298 iri 1910. See Uinta. 



Kaviawach.— A. HrdliCka, inf'n, 1907 (or Ka-wai- 

 ra-chi-u; their own name, having relation to their 

 mountain abode). 



White-shield, Harvey. See Hishkowits; 

 Wopohwats. 



White Swan. A Crow scout, brother of 

 Curly, who served with Reno in the Cus- 

 ter campaign against the Sioux in 1876, 

 which met with such disaster on the Lit- 

 tle Bighorn on July 25. He received a 

 severe wound in the retreat out of the 

 valley, which made him a cripple for the 

 remainder of his life. He died in the fall 

 of 1905 and was buried with military 

 honors in the National cemetery on the 

 Custer battlefield in Montana. For a 

 number of years he received a pension 

 from the Government. 



White Woman's Town. A former Dela- 

 ware village near the junction of the 

 Walhonding and the Killbuck, about 7 

 m. N. w. of the forks of the Muskingum, 

 in the present Coshocton co., Ohio. The 

 settlement was so named because a white 



girl, Mary Harris, who had been cap- 

 tured by the French Indians about the 

 year 1710 and later became the wife of 

 Eagle Feather, made the place her home 

 at least as early as 17.50. The Walhond- 

 ing r. was known as White Woman's 

 river, or White Woman's creek. Another 

 white wife of Eagle Feather was known 

 as The Newcomer, from whom Newcom- 

 erstown (q. v.) received its name. 

 Femmes blanches.— Esnauts and Rapilly map, 1777. 

 White Womans.— LattrtJ map, 1784. 



Whizzing stick. See Bullroarer. 



Whonkentia. A tribe of the Manahoac 

 confederacy, formerly living near the 

 head of Rappahannock r. in Fauquier 

 CO., Va. 



Whonkenteaes.— Smith (1629), Va., I, 134, repr. 

 1819. Whonkentias.— Strachey {ca. 1612), Va., 104, 

 1849. Whonkenties.— Jefferson, Notes, 179, 1801. 



Whulk. A Nimkish village at the 

 mouth of Nimkish r., e. coast of Van- 

 couver id., Brit. Col. — Dawson in Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. Can., sec. ii, 65, 1887. 



WhuUemooch ('dwellers on Puget 

 sound'). A generic term used by the 

 natives to designate the Salish tribes on 

 the N. w. coast of Washington. — Deans in 

 Am. Antiq., viii, 41, 1886. 



Wiam. A Shahaptian tribe, speaking 

 theTenino language, formerly living near 

 the mouth of Deschutes r. , Oreg. Their 

 chief village was Waiam, on the Colum- 

 bia r. at the site of the present Celilo. 

 They were included in the Wasco treaty 

 of 1855 as a "band of Walla Wallas," and 

 were removed to the Warm Springs res., 

 where a remnant of the tribe that num- 

 bered 130 in 1850 still survives, (l. f.) 

 lower De Chutes.— Treaty of 1855 in U. S. Ind. 

 Treat., 622, 1873. Ouaioumpoum. — Hunt in Nouv. 

 Ann. Voy., x, 81, 1821. Waiam.— Mooney in 14th 

 Rep. B. A. E.,741, 1896. Waiam-'lema.— Ibid, (na- 

 tive name). Way-yam-pams. — Ross, Fur Hunters, 

 186, 1855. Wiam.— Lee and Frost, Oreg., 176, 1844. 

 Wyam.— Wasco treaty (1855) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 

 622, 1873. Wy-am-pams.— Ross, Advent., 118, 1849. 

 Wyampaw.— Lane in Sen. Ex. Doc. 52, 31st Cong., 

 Istsess., 174, 1850. 



Wiaquahhechegumeeng ( WaiekwdkUchi- 

 gdming, 'at the end of the great lake,' 

 whence the French au Fond du Lac), A 

 Chippewa village at the head of L. Su- 

 perior, in Douglass CO., Wis. The Fond 

 du Lac Chippewa numbered 934 under 

 the La Pointe school superintendent in 

 1909. 



Fond du Lac— Warren (1852) in Minn. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., V, 130, 1885. Wi-a-quah-he-che-gume-eng.— 

 Warren (1852), ibid., V, 130, 1885. 



Wiatakali ('hanging loft'). A former 

 Choctaw town in the s. part of Neshoba 

 CO., Miss., about a mile s. of the De Kalb 

 and Jackson road. It received its name 

 from a brush arbor, called by the Choctaw 

 tvia-takali, under which they were accus- 

 tomed to meet for their councils and gen- 

 eral amusements. — Halbert in Pub. Ala. 

 Hist. Soc, III, 77, 1899; Gatschet, Creek 

 Migr. Leg., i, 108, 1884. 



