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the Seminole, Tiis-ta-ntig-ge, and his brother, H6s-pa-ta-ki, also a medi- 
cine man. These two are called the Tis-ta-niig-ul-ki, or “ great heroes” 
of thetribe. At this settlement, annually, a council, composed of minor 
chiefs from the various settlements, meets and passes upon the affairs of 
the tribe. 
TRIBAL OFFICERS. 
What the official organization of the tribe is I do not know. My re- 
spondent could not tell me. I learned, in addition to what I have just 
written, only that there are several Indians with official titles, living at 
each of the settlements, except at the one on Cat Fish Lake. These 
were classified as follows: 

Chief and 




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NAME OF TRIBE. 
I made several efforts to discover the tribal name by which these In- 
dians now designate themselves. The name Seminole they reject. In 
their own language it means “a wanderer,” and, when used as a term 
of reproach, ‘‘a coward.” Ko-nip-ha-teo said, “‘ Me no Sem-ai-no-le ; 
Seminole cow, Seminole deer, Seminole rabbit; me no Seminole. In- 
dians gone Arkansas Seminole.” He meant that timidity and flight 
from danger are “Seminole” qualities, and that the Indians who had 
goue west at the bidding of the Government were the true renegades. 
This same Indian informed me that the people south of the Caloosa- 
hatchie River, at Miami and the Big Cypress Swamp eall themselves 
“ Kan-yuk-sa Is-ti-tea-ti,” i. e., “* Kan-yuk-sa red men.” Kéin-yuk-sa is 
their word for what we know as Florida. It is composed of I-kan-a, 
‘¢eround,” and I-yuk-sa, “ point” or ‘‘tip,” i. e., point of ground, or pen- 
insula. At the northern camps the name appropriate to the people 
there, they say, is “‘ Tallahassee Indians.” 
