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YPUC YSCANIS 



[b. a. e. 



tied about 4 m. n. of Lecompte, Rapides 

 parish, La., but the settlement was prob- 

 ably abandoned before 1850; others went 

 to the Chickasaw Nation, Ind. Ter., where 

 they gained a liveliliood as trappers; 

 others settled between Red r. and Bayou 

 Natchitoches, La., while a few passed into 

 Texas. Consult Adair, Am. Inds., 1775; 

 Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, 79, 1884; 

 Halbert (1) in Pub. Ala. Hist. Soc, Misc. 

 Coll., I, 380, 1901; (2) in Pub. Miss. Hist. 

 Soc, III, 370, 1900; vi, 403-410, 1902. 

 Ayuwani. — Gatschet. Caddo and Yatassi MS., B 



A. E., 66 (Caddo uame). Aywani.— Ibid, (air 

 other Caddo name). Ewany. — Romans, Florida, 

 map, 1775. Haiowanni.— Halbert in Pub. Miss. 

 Hist. Soc, 432, 1902. Hewanee.— Rovce In 18th 

 Rep. B. A. E., Mi.ss. map, 1900. Hewanny —Hal- 

 bert, op. cit. Hewhannee. — Am. State Papers, 

 Ind. Aff., I, 689, 1832. Heyowani.— Mooney in 

 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1093, 1896. Hiowanni.— Ham- 

 ilton in Pub. Miss. Hist. Soc, vi, 405, 1902 (quot- 

 ing various writers). Hiyoomannee. — Am. State 

 Papers, op. cit., 749. Hiyoowannee. — Ibid. la- 

 wani.— Latham, Varieties of Man, 350, 1850. lo- 

 wanes.— Ind. AtY. Rep. 1849, 33, 1850. Iwanies.— 

 Bollaert in Jour. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., ii, 265, 1850. 

 Tawanis. — Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc Lond., 

 103, 1856. Yauana.— Bartram, Voy., i, map, 1799. 

 Yoani. — Romans, Florida, 86, 312, 1775. Yonanny. — 

 Biog. and Hist. Mem. of N. W. La., 526, 1890. 

 Youana.— Alcedo, Die. Geog., v, 107, 1789. You- 

 ane.— Jefferys, French Dom. Am., map, 135, 1761. 

 Youane. — d'Anville's map in Hamilton, Col. Mo- 

 bile, 158, 1897. Youna.— Lattre, map U. S., 1784. 

 Yowana. — Adair, Am. Inds., map, 1775. Yowani. — 

 Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., it, 206,1888. Yo- 

 wanne,— Adair, op. cit., 297. 



Ypuc. A Chumashan village formerly 

 in Ventura co. , Cal. 

 Hi'-piik. — Henshavv, Buenaventura MS. vocab., 



B. A. E., 1884. Ypuc— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 July 24, 1863. 



Ysbupue. A tribe named in 1708 in a 

 list of those which had been met or heard 

 of N. of San Juan Bautista mission, on the 

 lower Rio Grande (Fr. Isidro Felix de 

 Espinosa, " Relacion Compendiosa" of 

 the Rio Grande missions, MS. in archives 

 of College of Santa Cruz de Queretaro, 

 Mexico). (h. e. b. ) 



Yscanis. A tribe of the Wichita con- 

 federacy ; they were entirely distinct 

 from the Asinais (Hasinai), though the 

 names of the two tribes have been con- 

 fused. It is possible that the Ysconis, or 

 Isconis, reported to Domingo de Mendoza 

 in 1684 among the tribes awaiting him 

 somewhere in central or e. Texas, were 

 the Yscanis (Mendoza, Viage, 1683-84, 

 MS.). In 1719 LaHarpe visited them 

 (the "Ascanis") on Canadian r., where 

 they were living a settled life with the 

 Wichita, Taovayas (Tawehash), and 

 Tawakoni. LaHarpe also reported an- 

 other village of the Ascanis 60 leagues 

 farther to the n. w. (Margry, Dec, vi, 

 293, 1886) . Little more is heard of these 

 tribes till the middle of the 18th century, 

 by which time they had all moved south- 

 ward into N. Texas, under j)ressure from 

 their bitter enemies, the Comanche and 

 the Osage. According to an official re- 

 port made in 1762, the Yscanis had been 



among the numerous tribes which, about 

 1746, asked the missionaries at San An- 

 tonio for missions in central Texas. If 

 this be true, they were possibly the 

 Hiscas, or Haiscas, mentioned in docu- 

 ments relating to the San Xavier mis- 

 sions (Royal cedulas of Apr. 6, 1748, and 

 Mar. 21, 1752, MSS. in Archivo Gen. de 

 Mexico). In 1760 Fr. Calahorra y Saenz, 

 of Nacogdoches, went among the Yscanis 

 and Tawakoni to establisli peace, and 

 soon afterward made an unsuccessful at- 

 tempt to found a mission for them. These 

 two tribes were at tliat time living close 

 together on a stream in n. Texas, appar- 

 ently farther t*. than the place where 

 Mezieres found them a decade later (con- 

 temporary docs, in Bexar Archives). 

 The Yscanis took part in the peace con- 

 ference held by Mezieres in 1770 at the 

 Kadohadacho village, and two years later 

 they sent representatives to Bexar to 

 ratify the convention before the governor 

 of Texas. When, in 1772, Mezieres vis- 

 ited the tribe, they were living near the 

 E. bank of the Trinity, somewhere below 

 the present Palestine, 7 leagues k. of one 

 of the Tawakoni villages, antl an equal 

 distance w. of the Kichai. The village 

 consisted of 60 warriors and their fami- 

 lies. They lived in a scattered agricul- 

 tural settlement, raised maize, beans, 

 melons, and calabashes, were closely 

 allied with the other Wichita tribes, whose 

 language they spoke, and were said by 

 Mezieres to be cannibals. There are in- 

 dications that after th is the Yscanis united 

 with the Tawakoni, with whom they had 

 always been most closely associated, to 

 reappear, perhaps, in the 19th century, 

 as the Waco. In his reports of his ex- 

 peditions made in 1778 and 1779 to the 

 Wichita tribes JMezieres does not men- 

 tion tlie Yscanis, but he fully describes 

 the two Tawakoni villages, then both on 

 the Brazos. Morti, about 1782, on what 

 authority is not known, states that the 

 "Tuacana nation, to which are united 

 some 90 families of the Ixcani, occupies 

 two towns on the banks of the river 

 Brazos de Dios" (Mem. Hist. Tex., bk. 

 II, MS.). This not improbable, for al- 

 thougli the Yscanis are sometimes men- 

 tioned by name as late as 1 794, at least, 

 it is always in connection with the other 

 Wichita tril)es, and with no indication 

 as to their location. After 1794, so far as 

 has been learned, the name is not used. 

 But a quarter of a century later, when 

 the Tawakoni villages are again men- 

 tioned in the records (now English in- 

 stead of Spanish), one of them appears as 

 that of the Waco, a 'name formerly un- 

 known in Texas, and not accounted for 

 by migration. The Waco may have been 

 the Yscanis under a new name. For 

 other information, see Tawakoni, 7hwe- 

 IiasJi, Waco, WicMta. (h. e. b. ) 



