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WILLSTOWN WINAMAC 



fB. A. E. 



there was said to be a single survivor 

 who understood the lanp;uage. 

 GiLa'xwila'pax.— Boas letter, 1904 ( = ' people of the 

 Willopah'). Gita'xwilapax. — Ibid. 6wilapsh — 

 Gatschet, Kalapuya MS., B. A. E., 280 {Xwi- 

 Id'pax and the ending -pc, 'people'; = "people 

 of the Willopah" : Salish name). Quila'pc. — Boas 

 in 10th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 67, 1895. Wheel- 

 appa.— Pres. Mess., Ex. Doe. 39, 32d Cong., 1st 

 sess., 2, 1852. Wheelappers.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 1.58, 

 1850. Whil'-a-pah.— Swan, N. W. Coast, 211, 1857. 

 Whirlpool.— Domenech, Deserts N. Am., I, 445, 1880. 

 Willapah.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 447, 1854. Willenoh.— 

 Robertson, Oreg., 129, 1846. Willopah.— Ind. Aff. 

 Rep., 448, 1854. 



Willstown (named from the half-breed 

 chief known to the whites as Red-headed 

 Will). A former important Cherokee 

 settlement on Wills cr., below Ft Payne, 

 in De Kalb co., Ala. (j. m. ) 



Wili'yi.— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 546, 1900 

 ( = 'Will's place': .sometimes so called). 'Wills- 

 town. — Doc. of 1799 quoted by Royce in 6th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 144, 1887. 



Will's Town. A former settlement of 

 the Shawnee at the site of Cumberland, 

 Md. After this region was deserted by 

 the Shawnee, an Indian named Will 

 lived a short distance from the site of 

 the old Shawnee town at the mouth of 

 Caiuctucuc cr. At the time of the com- 

 ing of the first white settlers he was living 

 in a cabin on the mountain side. The 

 creek, mountain, and town were after- 

 ward named for him. Will's cr. is noted 

 on the maps of Lewis Evans (1755) and 

 Scull (1759, 1770) , and on the map in 

 Gist's Journal (1753). (g. p. d. ) 



Will's Town. A Delaware village on the 

 E. bank of Muskingum r., at the mouth 

 of Wills cr., in Muskingum co., Ohio. 

 It was destroyed by the Americans in 

 1782. 



Will's Town. — Hutchins in Smith, Bouquet Ex- 

 ped., map, 1766. Wils T.— La Tour map, 1784. 



Wilson, Jack. See Ghost dance, Wovoka. 



Wiltkun (QaivVltk^i). A Klikitat town 

 in s. Washington. (f. b. ) 



Wiltkwilluk. A former Chinookan 

 village on the s. bank of Columbia r., 

 Oreg., just below Rainier and nearly op- 

 posite the mouth of Cowlitz r. — Gibbs, 

 MS. no. 248, B. A. E. 



Wiltmeet. The Dutch name of a Wa- 

 ranawonkong village on Esopus cr., 

 probably near Kingston, Ulster co., N. Y. 

 It was destroyed by the Dutch in 1660. — 

 Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 95, 128, 

 1872. 



Wimbee. A village or band of the coast 

 tribes of South Carolina included under 

 the collective term Cusabo (q. v.). The 

 only mention of the name in history 

 seems to be in 1683, when the "chief of 

 Wimbee " sold lands between Combahee 

 and Broad rs. See Mills, Hist. S. C, 106, 

 1826, and document quoted by Rivers, 

 Hist. S.C, 38, 1856. (j. m.) 



Wimego. A Potawatomi village, named 

 from the chief, situated in 1832 on the n. 

 bank of Indian cr., in the N. part of Cass 

 CO., Ind. 



Wi-me-co's village.— Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 

 pi. exxvi, 1899. Wi-me-go's village,— Ibid., pi. 

 cxxvii. 



Wimian ( Wi'mian). A ruined village 

 pertaining to the Zuili, situated 11 m. n. 

 of Zuni pueblo, N. Mex. — ten Kate, 

 Reizen in N. A., 291, 1885. 



Wimilchi. A Yokuts (Mariposan) tribe 

 formerly living n. of Kings r., Cal., op- 

 posite the Wechikhit. They were gath- 

 ered on the Fresno res. , and with theTachi 

 (Tadji) numbered 165 in 1861. 

 Ho-mel-ches.— Johnston in Sen. Ex. Doc. 61, 32d 

 Cong., 1st sess., 23, 1852. Mowelches.— Ind. Aff. 

 Rep. , 219, 1861. Ne-mil-ches. —Barbour in Sen. Ex. 

 Doc. 4, 32d Cong., spec, sess., 254, 1853. Was-mil- 

 ches.— Ibid., 253. We-mal-che.— McKee in Sen. Ex. 

 Doc. 4, 3'2d Cong., spec, sess., 75, 1S53; Royce in 

 18th Rep. B. A. E., 782, 1899. We-melches.— Lewis 

 in Ind. Aff. Rep., 1857, 399, 1858. We-mil-che.— 

 Wessells in H. R. Ex. Doc. 76, 34th Cong., 3d sess., 

 31,1857. We-mol-ches.— Ind. Aff. Rep., '223 1851. 



Wiminuche. A division of Ute formerly 

 ranging in s. w. Colorado, chiefly in the 

 valley of the San Juan and its n. tribu- 

 taries. There were 463 under the Navajo 

 Springs school. Col., in 1910. 

 Guibisnuches. — Salazar in Ind. Aff. Rep., 141,1866. 

 Guiguimuches.— Cooley, ibid., 21, 1865. Mame- 

 noche.— Tayl(jr in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 40th Cong., 

 spec, sess., 10, 1867. Nomenuches. — Delgado in 

 Ind. Aff. Rep., 163, 1866. Poruches.— Ibid. Wama- 

 nus.— McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, in, 80, 

 1854 (identical?). Wamenuche. — Norton in Ind. 

 Aff. Rep., 146, 1866. Wannemuches. — Cooley, op. 

 cit. Webinoche.— Tavliir, op. cit. Webinoche 

 Utahs.— Graves in Ind. Aff. Rep., 135, 1866. 

 Webrinoches.- Ibid., 132. Weeminuche. — Treaty of 

 1868 in U. S. Ind. Treaties, 981, 1873. Wemenuche.— 

 Nicolav in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1863, 151, 1864. Weme- 

 nutche Utahs.— Arnv in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1867, 204, 

 1868. Wibisnuche.— Delgado, ibid., 138, 1866. 

 Wiminanches. — Collins, ibid., 125, 1861. Wimme- 

 nuches.— Davis, ibid. 1869, 255, 1870. Woman-o-che 

 Utes. — Marcv, Border Reminis., 335, 1872. Wome- 

 nunche.— Collins in Ind. Aff. Rep., 238, 1862. 



Winamac ( ' catfish, ' from ivee^nud ' mud- 

 dy,' rndk 'a fish.' — J. P. Dunn) . A prin- 

 cipal chief of the Potawatomi in the pe- 

 riod of the War of 1 81 2. He was one of the 

 signers of the noted treaty of Greenville 

 in 1795, and of others in 1803 and 1809. 

 In this last treaty, concluded at Ft 

 Wayne, the Miami, Delawares, and Pota- 

 watomi sold' a large tract of land in 

 central Indiana. This so provoked Te- 

 cumseh that he threatened the life of 

 Winamac, but there appears to have been 

 a speedy reconciliation, as we tind Wina- 

 mac leading the warriors of his tribe at 

 the battle of Tippecanoe two years later. 

 In the War of 1812, he, with most of the 

 Indians of the central region, joined the 

 British side. He claimed to have caused 

 the massacre of the surrendered garrison 

 of Ft Dearborn, Chicago, Aug. 15, 1812, 

 but the actual leader in the affair seems 

 to have been Blackbird (Makahta-pena- 

 she, not to be confounded with Makata- 

 pake, Black Partridge, a friendly Pota- 

 watomi of the same period), another Pot- 

 awatomi chief. Some three months later, 

 Nov. 22, Winamac was killed in an en- 

 counter with the Shawnee chief Captain 

 James Logan (Spemicalawba), who had 



