982 



Y A AIHAKEMAE YAHKSIS 



[b. a. e. 



in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., ii, pt. i, xxix, 

 1890. 



Yaaihakemae ( YaaV x'aqEinae, ' the 

 crabs'). A gens of the Komoyue, a sept 

 of the true Kwakiutl, and a clan of the 

 Tenaktak. 



Yaai'Hak .Bmae.— Boas in 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can., 54, 1890. Yaai'x'aqEmae. — Boas in Rep. U. 

 S. Nat. Mas. 1895, 330. 1897. Yixaqfmae.— Boas in 

 Petermanns Mitteil., pt. 5, 131, 1887. 



Yaasitun ( Ya' -a-d' -tun) . A Takelma 

 band or village on the s. side of Rogue r., 

 Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 III, 235, 1890. 



Yacdossa. A former small tribe repre- 

 sented at San Antonio de Valero mission, 

 Texas. 



Yacherk. A Nu.shagagmiut Eskimo 

 village on Igushik r., Alaska. 

 Yachergamut. — Spurr quoted by Baker, Geog- 

 Diet. Alaska, 1902 {mut=miut, 'people'). Yach- 

 erk. — Baker, ibid. 



Yachikamni. Mentioned by Pinart as 

 the tribe that originally lived on the site 

 of the present city of Stockton, Cal., and 

 hence belonged to the Cholovone tribe of 

 the Mariposan (Yokuts) family. The 

 same is said by Taylor of the Yachimese, 

 the tribes being apparently identical. 



Ochecames.— Bancroft, Hist. Cal., IV, 138, 1886. 

 Ochecamnes. — Hale, Ethnog. and Philol., VI, 630, 

 18-16. Ochekamnes.— Gallatin in Trans. Am. Ethnol. 

 Soc, II, i:i3, isis. Ochocumnes. — Bancroft, Hist. 

 Cal., IV, 138, 1.S8H. Yachachumnes. — Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, June 8, 1860. Yachchumnes. — Ibid., Feb. 

 22. Yachimese.— Ibid., Dec. 7, 1860. Yatchikam- 

 nes.— Pinart, Cholovone MS., B. A. E., 1880. 

 Yatohikumne.— Ibid. 



Yachin ( ' mesquite ' ) . An Apache band 

 or clan at San Carlos agency and Ft 

 Apache, Ariz., in 1881. 



Ya-chin. — Bourke in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 112, 

 1890. 



Yacomanshaghking (apparently a cor- 

 ruption of YcK/aivdnshaking, 'at the place 

 of small huts.' — Gerard). A Delaware 

 tribe or band that dwelt on the e. bank of 

 Delaware r. in New Jersey, on a small 

 stream about the present Camden. — Herr- 

 man, map (1670), in Rep. on Line between 

 Va. and Md., 1873. 



Yacomui. A village, presumably Cos- 

 tanoan, formerly connected with Dolores 

 mission, San Francisco, Cal. 

 Yacomui. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 

 Yacumi.— Ibid. 



Yacum. A warlike Diegueilo band, in 

 alliance with the Cocopa, occupying a val- 

 ley in the mountains between the desert 

 and the Gulf coast, chiefly in Lower 

 California. They were said to number 

 fewer than 200 in 1853. They raised corn, 

 melons, pumpkins, beans, and other 

 crops, by irrigation. 



Guaicamaopa. — Kino (ca. 1699) in Doc. Hist. Max., 

 4th s., I. 349, 1856 (located by Kino at junction 

 of the Gila and the Colorado, but probably the 

 identical tribe; opa is a Pima word signifying 

 'people'). Ha-coom.— Heintzelman(1853)in H. R. 

 Ex. Doc. 76, 34th Cong., 3d sess., 34-53, 1857. 

 Jacum, — Ibid. Yacum. — Ibid. 



Yadus ( Yd^dAs). An important sub- 

 division of the Stustas, a great Haida 



family of the Eagle clan. It constituted 

 one of the Kaigani families, and was sub- 

 divided like them (in the Tlingit style) 

 into 5 house-groups: Ildjunai-hadai, Na- 

 algus-hadai, Nakons-hadai, Otkialnaas- 

 hadai, and Otnaas-hadai. — Swanton, 

 Cont. Haida, 276, 1905. 



Yag&ts{Ya^-gats). A Paiute band for- 

 merly at Amargoza, s. e. Cal. — Powell in 

 Ind. Aff. Rep. 1873, 51, 1874. 



Yagenechito (Choctaw: 'large land'). 

 A tribe, probably affiliated with the 

 Chitimacha, located on De 1' Isle's map 

 (1703) on Bayou Lafourche, La. 



Magenesito. — Iberville (1699) in Margry, Dec, iv, 

 172, ISSO. Yagenechito. — Ibid. ,184. Yagnetsito. — 

 De risle, map, 1708. Yaguenechitons. — La Harpe 

 (1706) in French, Hist. Coll. La., in, 35, 1851. 

 Yagueneschito. — Iberville, op. cit., 155. 



Yagnashoogawa (possibly for Yakni- 

 achitkmu, 'good country'). A former 

 Choctaw town, noted by Romans in 1775 

 and perhaps identifiable withatraditional 

 town on Indian branch of Running Tiger 

 cr., Kemper co.. Miss. — Halbert in Pub. 

 Miss. Hist. Soc, vi, 425, 1902. 



Yagua. A Calusa village on the s. w. 

 coast of Florida, about 1570. — Fontaneda 

 Mem. {ca. 1575), Smith trans., 19, 1854. 



Yagun. An ancient Haida town for- 

 merly on the N. coast of Queen Charlotte 

 ids., Brit. Col. 

 Ya'gAn.— Ssvanton, Cont. Haida, 281, 1905. 



Yagunkun-lnagai ( Ya'gun-kun-lnagd'-i, 

 ' Yagun river point-town people ' ) . A 

 branch of the Kuna-lanas, a great Haida 

 family belonging to the Raven clan. The 

 Yagun is the largest stream on the Queen 

 Charlotte ids. (j. R. s.) 



Yagun kunilnagai'.— Boas. 12th Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can., 23, 1898. Ya'gun kun Inaga'-i. — Swanton, 

 Cont. Haida, 271, 190.5. 



Yagunstlan-lnagai {Ya^gun SL.'an 

 Inagd'-l, 'Yagun river rear-town peo- 

 ple ' ). A local subdivision of the Stlenga- 

 lanas, a Haida family belonging to the 

 Raven clan.— Swanton, Cont. Haida, 271, 

 1905. 



Yahach. A former Alsea village on the 

 Pacific coast s. of the mouth of the Alsea 

 r., Oreg. 



Yahatc— Dorsey in Jour. .Vm. Folk-lore, in, 230, 

 1890. Yahats.— Ibid. Ya'-qai-yuk.— Ibid. Yaw- 

 hick.— Ind. AfY. Rep., 107,1856. Yawhuch.— Ibid., 

 80, 1863. Youitts.— Lewis and Clark Exped., ii, 

 118, 1814. Youitz.— Drake, Bk. Inds., xi, 1848. 



Yahal. A Y^aquina village on the N. 

 side of Y^aquina r., Oreg. 

 Ya'-hal.— Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 229, 

 1890. 



Yahalgi ( " wolf people ' ) . A clan of the 



Ya'-ha.-^Morgan, Anc. Soc, 161, 1878. Yahalgi.— 

 Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, 155, 1884 {algi^ 

 'people'). 



Yahandika ( Ydhandika, 'ground-hog 

 eaters' ). Given by Hoffman (Proc. Am. 

 Philos. Soc, x.xiii, 298, 1886) as one of 

 the former divisions of the Shoshoni. 



Yahksis. The principal village of the 



