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WOHAWA WOMEN 



[B. A. B. 



of 1711-13, as is learned from incidental 

 references in colonial documents, and it 

 is probable that they were extinguished 

 as a tribe by that war. The remnant 

 may have fled n. with the Tuscarora or 

 have joined theCatawba (Mooney,Siouan 

 Tribes of the East, 65, 1894). Lawson 

 preserved a vocabulary of 150 words of 

 their language, which shows that it was 

 closely related to the Catawba, although 

 the two tribes were separated by nearly 

 200 miles. 



Waccoa.— Morse, Rep. to See. War, 145, 1822. 

 Waocoam. — Ibid. Waccon. — Doc. of 1712 in N. C. 

 Col. Rec., I, 891, 1886. Wacon.— Lawson, map of 

 1709, in Hawks, Hist. M . C, ii, 104, 1859. Woccon.— 

 Lawson (1714), Hist. Car., 378, 1860. Woccono.— 

 Coues and Kingaley, Standard Nat. Hist., pt. 6, 

 156, 1883. Wocons. — Raflnesque in Marsiiall, Ky., 

 1, introd., 23, 1824. Wokkon. — Dralje, Bk. Ind., 

 xii, 1848. Woocon.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 

 401, 1853. Workons. — Domenech, Deserts N. Am., 

 I, 445, 1860. 



Wohawa. See Hopehood. 



Wohkpotsit ( Wohk^po tsit, obsolete name 

 for 'white wolf). A family group of 

 Cheyenne, consisting of mixed Sutaio 

 and Heviqsnipahis. They take their 

 name from a chief. 



Wohk' po tsit, — Grinnell, Social Org. Cheyennes, 

 136, 1905. Woopotsi't.— Mooney in Handbook Am. 

 Inds., I, 256, 1907. Woqpotsit.— Mooney in Mem. 

 Am. Anthr. Asso., i, pt. 6, facing pi. xii, 1907. 

 Young-White-Wolf.— Dorsey in Field Mus. Pub., 

 Anthr. ser., ix, no. 2, 62, 1905. 



Wohuamis ( Wdxud^mis) . A gens of the 

 Koskimo, a Kwakiutl tribe. — Boas in Rep. 

 Nat. Mus. 1895, 329, 1897. 



Wokas. A farinaceous food made by 

 the Klamath from the seeds of the great 

 yellow water-lily {Nymphwa poh/sepala): 

 from wo^-kas, the Lutuamian name for 

 the plant or its seed. — Coville in Rep. Nat. 

 Mus. 1902, 725-729, 1903. 



Woketamosi. A division of the Shaw- 

 nee (Heckewelder quoted by Brinton, 

 Lenape Leg., 30, 1885) ; not the Piqua, but 

 possibly the Mequachake, Chillicothe, or 

 Kiskopogi. 



Wokodot ( Wo-ko^-dot) . A former Maidu 

 village on the site of Nevada City, Ne- 

 vada CO., Cal. — Dixon in Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., XVII, map, 1905. 



Woksihitaniu ( WoksVhitdniu, ' kit-fox 

 men,' sing. WoksVhitdn^). A warrior so- 

 ciety of the Cheyenne (q. v. ) ; sometimes 

 also known as Motsonitiiniu, 'Flint men.' 

 They received their name Kit-fox men 

 on account of a ceremonial club, with 

 pendent skin of a kit-fox, carried by 

 their leaders. (j. m. ) 



Hoof Rattle.— Dorsey in Field Columb. Mus. Pub. 

 99, 15, 1905 (probably identical). Woksi'hitaniu — 

 Mooney in Mem. Am. Anthr. Asso., I, 412, 1907. 



Woksoyndshi. A former Upper Creek 

 town, probably on lower Coosa r., below 

 Wetumpka, in Elmore co., Ala. 

 Wacksoyoohees. — Swan (1791) in Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, v, 262, 1855. Waksoyochees.— Census of 

 1832 cited byGatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., I, 150, 

 1884. Woksoyu'dsohi. — Gatschet, ibid. 



Wolasatux. A Kaiyuhkhotana village 

 on the E. bank of Yukon r., Alaska, on a 



small stream n. of Kaiyuk r. Wolasatux 

 was an Indian who alone escaped mas- 

 sacre at Nulato in 1851 and afterward had 

 his barrabora at this spot. 

 Welasatux.— Dall, Alaska, map, 1870. Wolsatux.— 

 Allen, Rep., map, 1887. 



Wolaai [Wo' last). A Yokuts (Maripo- 

 san) tribe which probably resided in or 

 near the Kaweah delta, Cal. They joined 

 in the treaty of May 30, 1851, and were as- 

 signed to a reservation between Kaweah 

 and King rs. 



No-la-si.— Barbour in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 32d Cong., 

 spec, sess., 225, 1853. Wo'lasi.— Kroeber in Univ. 

 Cal. Pub., Am. Arch, and Eth., ii, no. 5, 1907. 

 Wo-la-si.— Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 782, 1899. 

 Wo-lass-i. — Johnston in Sen. Ex. Doc. 61, 32d 

 Cong., 1st sess., 23, 1852. 



Wolf Lying Down. See Sleeping Wolf. 



"Wolf Kapids. An Ottawa village on 

 Maumee r., Ohio, about the boundary of 

 Wood and Henry cos., on a tract sold in 

 1831.— Treaty of 1831 in U. S. Ind. Treat., 

 591, 1873. 



Wolf Village. A Sauk and Fox village 

 on the Great Nemaha r. , on the Nemaha 

 res., Nebr., in 1861.— Treaty of 1861 in 

 U. S. Ind. Treat., 780, 1873. 



Wolutayuta ( ' eat dried venison from the 

 hind q uarter ' ) . A band of the Sans Arcs 

 division of the Teton Sioux. 

 Those that eat the ham. — Culbertson in Smithson. 

 Rep. 1850, 142, 1851. Woluta-yuta.— Dorsey in 

 15th Rep. B. A. E., 219, 1897. 



Women. One of the most erroneous 

 beliefs relating to the status and condition 

 of the American Indian woman is that 

 she was, both before and after marriage, 

 the abject slave and drudge of the men 

 of her tribe in general. This view, due 

 largely to inaccurate observation and 

 misconception, was correct, perhaps, at 

 times, as to a small percentage of the 

 tribes and peoples whose social organ- 

 ization was of the most elementary 

 kind, politically and ceremonially, and 

 especially of such tribes as were non- 

 agricultural. 



Among the other Indian tribes n. of 

 Mexico the status of woman depended 

 on complex conditions having their 

 origin in climate, habitat, mythology, 

 and concepts arising therefrom, and 

 especially in the economic environment 

 and in the character of the social and 

 political organization. It is one of the 

 fundamental deductions of modern myth- 

 ologic research that the prevailing social, 

 ceremonial, and governmental principles 

 and institutions of a people are closely 

 reflected in the forms, structure, and 

 kind of dominion exercised by the gods 

 of that people. Where numerous god- 

 desses sat on the tribal Olympus, it is 

 safe to say that woman was highly 

 esteemed and exercised some measure of 

 authority. In tribes whose government 

 was based on the clan organization the 

 gods were thought of as related one to 



