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YANATOE YANKTON 



[B. A. E. 



and states they are different from any he has 

 found in California). =Noces. — Gatschet in Mag. 

 Am. Hist., 160, Mar., 1877 (or Nozes; merely men- 

 tioned under Meidoo family). =Yanan. — Powell 

 in 7th Rep. B. A. E., 135, 1891. 



Yanatoe. A former Choctaw village 

 (Romans, Fla., 311, 1775), probably in 

 s. w. Kemper CO., Miss. 



Yancomo. Mentioned as a pueblo of 

 the province of Atripuy (q. v. ), in the re- 

 gion of the lower Rio Grande, N. Mex., 

 in 1598.— Onate (1598) in Doc. Ined., 

 XVI, 115, 1871. 



Yanegua {Yone^gini, 'Big-bear'). A 

 Cherokee chief who appears to have been 

 of considerable local prominence in his 

 time, but whose name, even with the 

 oldest of the band, is now but a memory. 

 He was among the signers of the treaties 

 of 1798 and 1805, and by the treaty of 

 1819 there was confirmed to him a tract 

 of 640 acres as one of those living within 

 the ceded territory who Avere "believed 

 to be persons of industry and capable of 

 managing their property with discre- 

 tion," and who had made considerable 

 improvements on the tracts reserved. 

 This reservation, still known as the Big- 

 bear farm, was on the w. bank of the 

 Oconaluftee, a few miles above its mouth, 

 and appears to have been the same after- 

 ward occupied bv Yonaguska (q. v.). — 

 Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 547, 1900. 



Yaneka. The most southerly "old 

 town" of the Chickasaw, first settled 

 after the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Chak- 

 chiuma separated on the e. side of the 

 Mississippi. — Adair, Am. Inds., 66, 1775. 



Yaneka. One of 5 hamlets composing 

 the former Choctaw town of Imonga- 

 lasha, in Neshoba co., Miss. — Halbert in 

 Pub. Miss. Hist. See, vi, 432, 1902. 



Yaneks ( ' at the little butte ' ) . Former 

 settlements of Klamath, Modoc, and Sho- 

 shoni along Middle Rprague r.. Lake co., 

 Oreg. The name is now applied to the 

 seat of a subagency on Klamath res. — 

 Gatschet-in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., ii, ])t. i, 

 xxxi; pt. II, 100, 1890. 



Yainakshi. — Gatschet, op. cit. Yamakskni. — Ibid., 

 100 (referring to the people). 



Yangna. A Gabrielefio rancheria for- 

 merly on the site of Los Angeles, Cal. 

 lyakha. — A. L. Kroeber, inf'n, 1905 (Luisefio 

 name; so called from a plant growing abundantly 

 there). Wenot. — Kroeber in Univ. Cal. Pub.. 

 Am. Eth. and Arch., viii, 39, 1908 ('stream' : so 

 called by native informant "because of a large 

 river there"). Yanga. — Ried (1S52) quoted by 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 8, 1860. Yang-ha.— 

 Taylor,ibid., May 11, 1860. Yang-na.— Ried quoted 

 by Hoffman in Bull. Es.sex Inst., xvii, 2, 1885. 



Yangti (YAntV). The Buzzard clan of 

 the Yuchi.— Speck, Yuchilnds., 70, 1909. 



Yangtsaa. The Coyote clan of Jemez 

 pueblo, N. Mex. A corresponding clan 

 existed also at the former related pueblo 

 of Pecos. 



Ya'-f-.— Hodge in Am. Anthr., ix, 350, 1896 (Pecos 

 name; + = ash = 'people'). Yantsaa. — Ibid. 

 (Jemez form). 



Yankapin. See Wampapin. 



Yankton {ihanke 'end,' Wwan 'village : 

 'end village'). One of the 7 primary 

 divisions of the Dakota, constituting, with 

 the closely related Yanktonai, the middle 

 grouyj. J. O. Dorsey arranged the Da- 

 kota-Assiniboin in 4 dialectic groups: 

 San tee, Yankton, Teton, and Assiniboin, 

 the Yankton dialect being spoken also by 

 the Yanktonai, for the 2 tribes were the 

 outgrowth of one original stem. Although 

 thename Yankton was known earlierthan 

 Yanktonai, it does not follow that the 

 Yankton were the elder tribe. Long ( Ex- 

 ped. St. Peter's R., i, 378, 1824) speaks of 

 the Yankton as descendants of the Yank- 

 tonai. The Assiniboin, who were an off- 

 shoot from the Yanktonai, are mentioned 

 in the Jesuit Relation for 1640 as a tribe; 



EAGLE-TRACK —YANKTON 



hence the Yanktonai must have been in 

 existence as a tribe before that time. 

 This fact serves as an aid in tracing back 

 the Yankton both historically and geo- 

 graphically. However, the name Yank- 

 ton and some of its synonyms appear 

 early to have been used to include the 2 

 tribes, the distinction probably not then 

 being known. The first mention of them 

 is on Hennepin's map (1683), on which 

 they are placed directly n. of Mille Lac, 

 Minn., in the region of Leech lake or 

 Red lake. This position would accord 

 geographically with the withdrawal of 

 the Assiniboin to the Cree. In the account 

 of Hennepin's expedition attributed to 

 Tonti (1697), they are mentioned in con- 

 nection with the San tee, Teton, and Sioux, 



