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NAHYSSAN 



A Siouan tribe which appears first in history on the map of John 

 Smith in the form Monahassanugh at a point believed by Bushnell 

 to lie "on the left bank of the James, about 1% miles up the stream 

 from Wingina, in Nelson County." Edward Blande and his compan- 

 ions, who crossed from Virginia into eastern North Carolina in 1650, 

 found "the old fields of Manks Nessoneicks" southwest of the present 

 site of Petersburg, from which it would seem that part of them lived 

 farther south at one period. In 1654-56 they and the Manahoac, who 

 had probably been driven south by the Susquehanna Indians, settled 

 near the falls of James Kiver, alarming the whites to such an extent 

 that a force of colonists was sent against them, along with some Pow- 

 hatan Indians under their chief Totopotamoi. The allies were badly 

 defeated, but there seems to have been no effort on the part of the 

 Siouans to enter the tidewater country and, indeed, they appear to 

 have moved farther west. In 1670 Lederer found two towns of 

 "Nahyssan" on Staunton River, but one of these was the town of the 

 Saponi and the Nahyssan proper must have occupied the western 

 town, which he calls "Pintahae." In 1671 Batts and Fallam visited 

 them also and call them "Hanathaskies" or "Hanahaskies." About 

 1675 they and the Saponi moved to an island below the junction of 

 the Staunton and Dan Rivers. Their subsequent history is included 

 in that of the Saponi (q. v.). The name was remembered by Tutelo 

 Indians in New York State in the last century in the form " Yesa°" as 

 a native term for their own people. 



NANATSOHO 



An obscure tribe or subtribe of the Caddo Indians. In 1687 

 they are said to have had a village on Red River in Louisiana 

 and to have been allied with the Kadohadatcho, Natchitoches, and 

 Nasoni. In 1812 a settlement consisting of 12 families was said to 

 exist near their former village, but it is unlikely that it consisted of 

 Indians of this tribe. They evidently united with the tribes just 

 mentioned and followed their fortunes. 



Nanatsoho population, — Unknown. 



NAPOCHI OR NAbOCHI 



A tribe living on the Black Warrior River, Ala., in 1560, and at 

 war with the Coosa Indians of Coosa River. A detachment of 

 Spaniards sent to the Coosa country that year by Tristan de Luna 

 accompanied the Coosa in a successful expedition against them, but 

 we do not hear of the tribe again under that name, though memory 

 of it is preserved in certain Creek war titles. When Iberville visited 



