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WINNEBEGOSHISHIWIT^INEWAK WINNISIMMET 



[B. A. B. 



of them from thirty to fifty feet in length, 

 besides many temporary huts in the sur- 

 rounding prairie. The settlement was 

 situated on what is now known as the 

 Langlois reserve, adjoining the city of 

 Lafayette. It was often called Village 

 du Puant, because the French called the 

 Winnebago P».ans, i.e. 'fetid.' (j.p.d.) 



Winnebegosliisliiwininewak ( ' people on 

 VVinnibigashish lake' ) . A division of the 

 Chippewa formerly living on L. "VVinnibi- 

 gashish, Minn. 



lake Winnebagoshish band.— Washington treaty 

 (1864) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 259, 1873. Winibigocici- 

 wininiwag.— \Vm. Jones, inf'n, 1905. Winnebe- 

 goshishi-'-wininewak.—Gatschet, Chippewa MS., B. 

 A. E., 1882 (own name). Winnebigoshish.— Rep. 

 Ind. Aff., 39, 1857. 



"Winnecowet. A tribe or band, con- 

 nected with the Pennacook confederacy, 

 formerly living in Rockingham co., 

 N. H. — Potter quoted by Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, v, 223, 1855. 



Winnefelly. An unidentified Calapooya 

 band that participated in the Dayton 

 treaty of 1855.— U. S. Ind. Treat., 18, 

 1873. 



Winnemeg. See Winamac. 

 Winnemxicca, Sarah. A woman of the 

 Paviotso of w. Nevada, commonly called a 

 Paiute, born in 1844 in the vicinity of 

 Humboldt lake, and known after mar- 

 riage as Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. 

 Her father, Winnemucca, was chief of the 

 band that lived about Humboldt and 

 Pyramid lakes, sometimes spoken of as 

 Winnemucca's band (q. v.). Her grand- 

 father, who was also a chief, accompanied 

 Gen. Fremont into California and was 

 named by this officer ' ' Captain Truckee, ' ' 

 by which designation he was afterward 

 known to the whites until his death, about 

 1859. In 1860 Sarah and her sister were 

 taken to San Jose, Cal. , and placed in the 

 Sisters' school, where they were allowed 

 to remain but a few weeks; in the same 

 year the band which included her people 

 was confined to lands about Pyramid 

 lake, which, in 1864, were formed into a 

 reservation. In the following year the 

 family lived at Dayton, Nev., and it was 

 at this time, or shortly afterward, that 

 Sarah's mother and sister Mary died. 

 About 1868 Sarah began to act as inter- 

 preter for Agent Bateman to the Sho- 

 shoni, and later V)ecame interpreter and 

 scout for Gen. 0. O. Howard's forces dur- 

 ing the Paiute and Bannock war of 1877, 

 when no Indian man could be prevailed 

 on to risk the attendant danger, and was 

 instrumental in bringing her father and 

 his immediate band out of the hostile Ban- 

 nock camp in Oregon. On Jan. 26, 1880, 

 she was appointed interpreter at Malheur 

 agency, Oreg., and in 1881 conducted a 

 school for Indian children at Vancouver 

 barracks. Wash. In the winter of 1879- 

 80 she accompanied her father to Wash- 



ington for the purpose of obtaining per- 

 mission for the return of their people 

 from the Yakima to the Malheur res., 

 which was granted by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, but the plans for carrying 

 it into effect were thwarted by the Yaki- 

 ma agent. In 1881-82 she again visited 

 the East, delivering public lectures in 

 Boston and other cities with the object of 

 making known the story and the trials of 

 her people and of arousing sympathy in 

 their behalf, her complaints being directed 

 principally against the Indian agents. 

 To aid in this effort she wrote a book 

 under the title "Life Among the Piutes, 

 Their AVrongs and Claims," published in 

 1883. In the meantime, late in 1881 or 

 early in 1882, she married a Lieutenant 

 Hopkins. Although Sarah's attacks on 

 the Indian agents with whom she had to 

 deal brought forth countercharges against 

 her character, these were met and refuted 

 by Gen. Howard and other military offi- 

 cers whom she had aided in the field. 



With aid received during one of her 

 visits to Boston lands were purchased for 

 her near the present Lovelock, Nev., and 

 an Indian school was established, which 

 she conducted for 3 years. Here her hus- 

 band died of tuberculosis and was buried 

 in Lone Moun tain cemetery. Sarah there- 

 upon abandoned the school and went to 

 visit her sister in Monida, Mont., where 

 she dfed Oct. 16, 1891 (inf'n from Miss 

 Jeanne Elizabeth Wier, Reno, Nev., 

 1905). She was degenerate in her later 

 years. 



■Winnemucca' s Band. A Paviotso band, 

 under chief Winnemucca ( ' The Giver ' ), 

 formerly dwelling on Smoke cr., near 

 Honey lake, n. e. Cal., and eastward to 

 Pyramid, Winnemucca, and Humboldt 

 lakes, Nev. ; said to number 155 in 1859. 

 In 1877 they were under Malheur agency, 

 Oreg., numbering 150. See Kuyuidika. 



Wanamuka's band.— Burton, City of Saints, 576, 

 1861. Winnemucca's Band.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 172, 

 1877. Wun-a-muc-a's band.— Dodge, ibid., 1859, 

 374, 1860. 



Winnepesauki. A tribe or band of the 

 Pennacook confederacy formerly living 

 around Winnepesaukee lake, N. H. 

 Winnepesaukies.— Potter quoted by Schoolcraft, 

 Ind Tribes, V, 222, 1855. Winnepisseockeege.— 

 Treaty (1690) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., I, 

 113, 1825. 



Winnepeskowuk. A division of the 

 Upeshipow living in 1770 on East Main 

 r., Canada.— Hutch ins (1770) quoted by 

 Richardson, Arctic Exped., ii, 38, 1851. 



Winnisimmet. A Massachuset village 

 on the site of Chelsea, near Boston, Mass. 

 The chief, Wonohaquaham, with nearly 

 all his people, died of smallpox in 1633. 

 Winesemet.— Moll, map in Humphreys, Acct., 

 1730. Winisemit.— Pincheon (1633) in Mass. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., 2d s., VIII, 231, 1819. Winisimett.— Brad- 

 ford (m. 1650), ibid., 4th s., in, 241, 1856. Wini- 

 simmit.— Williams (1637), ibid., VI, 218, 1863. 

 Winnesemet— Prince (1631). ibid., 2d s., Vii, 29, 



