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Illinois. — Continued. 

 Kicktages. — Albany conference (1726) in ibid., 



V. 791. 1855. 

 Kighetawkigh Roanu. — Dobbs, Hvidson Bay, 28, 



1744. (Iroquois name.) 

 Kightages. — Livingston (1720) in N. Y. Doc. 



Ci.l. Hist., V, 567, 1855. 

 Lazars. — Croghan (1759) in Kauffnian, West. 



Pa., 146, 1 85 1. 

 Lezar. — Ibid, in Jefferson. Notes, 14s, 1825. 



(Seems to be the Illinois.) 

 Liniouek. — Jesuit Relations, .39, 1656. 

 Linneways. — Brice, Ft. Wayne, 121, 186S. 

 Linways. — Croethan, op. cit. 

 Minneways. — Brice, Ft. Wayne, i2t, 1868. 

 Ondataouaouat. — Potier in Charlevoix, New 



France, 11. 270, 1866. (First applied by the 



Wyandot to the Ottawa (q. v. for forms), 



but afterward to the Illinois.) 

 Willinis. — Proud, Pa., 11, 296, 179S. 

 Witishaxtanu. — Gatschet, Wyandot MS. (B. A. 



E.), iSSi. (Froni Ushaxtano, Illinois river; 



Wyandot name for the Peoria, Kaskaskia, 



Wea, and Piankashaw.) 



Milwaukee. — "The fine land" (from 

 iiiilo or inino, "good," a.nd aki, "land" 

 — Baraga). Kelton (Annals Ft. Mac- 

 kinac, 1884) gives the form as Minc- 

 ■wagi, meaning "there is a good point," 

 or "there is a point where huckle- 

 berries grow." About the year 1699 

 a village, known under some form 

 of this naine, and perhaps belonging 

 to the Potawatomi, existed near the 

 present Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 



(J.M.) 



Melleki. — Old map (1699?), followed in niap in 



Laiiham, lud's of Wis., 1870. 

 Melwarck. — St Cosme (1699) in ibid., 5. 

 Melwarik. — Lapham, ibid., 20. (Probably from 



St Cosme, 1699.) 



Nashua. A tribe formerly living on 

 upper Nashita river, in Worcester 

 county, Massachusetts, and said 

 by some writers to have been con- 

 nected with the Massachusett tribe, 

 but classed by Potter with the 

 Pennacook. They had a village, 

 also called Nashua, near the present 

 Leominster, but their principal vil- 

 lage seems to have been Weshacum, a 

 few miles farther south. They were 

 the original owners of the Naushawag 

 or Nashua tract, extending for sev- 

 eral miles in every direction around 

 Lancaster. On the outbreak of King 

 Philip's war in 1675 they joined the 

 hostile Indians, and at his death the 

 Nashita, numbering several hundred, 

 attempted to escape in two bodies to 

 the east and west. Both parties were 

 pursued and a large number killed 

 and captured, the prisoners being 

 afterward sold into slavery. A few of 

 those who escaped eastward joined 

 the Pennacook, while about 200 of 

 the others crossed the Hudson and 

 fled to the Mahican or the Munsee, 

 and ceased to exist as a separate 



tribe. A few still remained near their 

 old homes in 1701. (j-M.) 



Nashaway. — Eliot (1651) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 



Coll., ,sd ser., iv, 123, 1834. 

 Nashawog. — Eliot (1648) in ibid., 81, 1834. 

 Nashoway. — Report (ca. 1657) in N. H. Hist. 



Sue. Coll., in, 96, 1832. 

 Nashua. — Writer of 1810 in Mass. Hist. Soc. 



Coll., 2d ser., I, i8t, 1814. 

 Nashuays. — Drake, Book of Ind's, ix, 1848. 

 Nashuway. — Hinckley (1676) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 



Coll., 4th ser., V, I, i86i. 

 Nashuyas. — Domenech, Deserts, i, 442, i860. 

 Nassawach. — Courtland (i688) in N. Y. Doc. 



Col. Hist., III. 562, 1853. 

 Nasshaway. — Pvnchon (1677) in ibid., xiil, 511, 



[8S1. 

 Nassoway. — Writer of 1676 in Drake, Ind. 



Chron., 130, 1836. 

 Naushawag. — Paine (about 1792) in Mass. Hist. 



S >c. Ci)ll., ist ser., i, 115, 1806. (Applied to 



the territory.) 

 Weshakim. — Gookin (1674) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 



Coll., ist ser., I, 193, 1806. 



Niagara. — Being of Iroquoian origin, 

 one of the earliest forms of this 

 place-name is that in the Jesuit 

 Relation for 1641, in which it is writ- 

 ten Ongitiaahra, evidently a misprint 

 for Ongniaahra, and it is there made 

 the name of a Neutral town and of 

 the river which to-day bears this 

 designation, a\th.oughO)igniarahronoii 

 of the Jesuit Relation for the year 

 1640 appears to be a misprint for 

 Oiig}iiarahro}ion, signifying "People 

 of Oiigiiiarali." The Iroquois and 

 their congeners applied it to the place 

 whereon the village of Youngstown, 

 Niagara county, New York, now 

 stands. On the Tabula Novas Fran- 

 cia?, or Map of New France, in His- 

 toriiB Canadensis, sev Novas-Franciaj 

 (bk. 10, Paris, 1664, but made in 1660 

 by Franciscus Creixxius, S. J.), the 

 Falls of Niagara are called "Ongiara 

 catarractes." Much ingenuity has 

 been exercised in atteinpts to analyze 

 this name. The most probable deriva- 

 tion, however, is from the Iroquoian 

 sentence- word, which in Onondaga 

 and Seneca becomes O'liiiia'gd' , and 

 in Tuscarora il'Iinia'ka'r, and which 

 signifies "bisected bottom-land." Its 

 first use was perhaps by the Neutral 

 or Huron tribes. (j.n.b.h.) 



Ohio. — -The Abbe de Gallinee in 1669 

 employed this Iroquoian river name 

 in its present orthography (Mar- 

 gry, Decouvertes, pt. i, 114). Ten 

 years later La Salle, in speaking of the 

 stream, says (op. cit., pt. 11, 79—80) , "a 

 river which I have found." and then, a 

 little farther, he adds, "which I have 

 called Baiidrane. The Iroquois call it 

 Ohio, and the Outaouas [Ottawas] 

 Olighin-cipou." But in the Acte de 

 Prise de Possession (op. cit., pt. 11, 

 184), dated March 13, 1682, he writes. 



