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DEADOSE 



A tribe which seems to have been living at the end of the seven- 

 teenth century between the Trinity and Navasota Rivers, Tex. Little 

 is known about them but the name and a statement that they had 

 separated from the Bidai Indians. They were placed at San Ilde- 

 fonso Mission in 1748-49, probably on San Gabriel River, and 9 

 miles northeast of the present Rockdale, Milam County, which they 

 shared with the Akokisa, Bidai, and Patiri. With the others, they 

 abandoned this mission in 1751, joined the Nabedache in a raid against 

 the Apache, and then settled for a time near San Xavier Mission. 

 They may have been swept away in the epidemic that raged among 

 the Indians of Texas in 1777-78. 



DOUSTIONI 



The Doustioni appear also under the names Souchitiony, Dul- 

 chinois, and Oulchionis — a small tribe usually living near the Natch- 

 itoches in northwestern Louisiana. Joutel mentions them in 1687 

 as allies of the Kadohadacho. They were visited by Bienville and 

 St. Denis in 1700. In 1702, on account of the failure of the crops, 

 St. Denis removed the Natchitoches tribe from Red River and 

 settled them beside the Acolapissa on Lake Pontchartrain. The 

 Doustioni, however, remained in the country and reverted for the 

 time being to a hunting life. In 1714, when St. Denis brought 

 the Natchitoches back and began an establishment among them, the 

 Doustioni accepted his invitation to settle close by. In 1719 La 

 Harpe speaks of them as living on an island in Red River not far 

 away. We hear nothing more about them, and they probably lost 

 their identity in the Natchitoches tribe. 



Doitstioni population. — In 1701 Bienville says they occupied 15 

 cabins and Beaurain that they had 50 warriors. Penicaut estimates 

 the number of their warriors at 200 in 1714 (erroneously given as 

 1712 in his narrative). In 1719 La Harpe believed that the entire 

 tribe did not embrace more than 200 persons, and Beaurain, treating 

 of the same period, cuts this to 150. 



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A tribe first mentioned by Governor Yardley in 1654 under the 

 name Haynoke and called "a great nation" by whom the northward 

 advance of the Spaniards had been valiantly resisted. Speck has 

 recently suggested that they may have been identical with the Weanoc 

 or Wyanoke Indians, a Powhatan band living in 1608 in the present 

 Charles City County, Va., on the north bank of James River, and 

 from which they moved south during the latter part of the century 



