Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge.

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1907-1910
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    Middlesex, but chiefly in New Haven co. This chief, in 168S, sold a tract N. of the site of New Haven coniprisiiiff a large portion of that county. As his father was chief of theiMattahesec, his hand probably belonged to that tribe. (.i. m. c. t. ) Mantoweeze.—Diiveiiport (1C6U) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., -llh s., VII, 518, 1865. Monts Pel^s. A tribe, called from the nature of their country the Nation des Monts Peles (‘nation of the bare moun- tains’), living in the N. e. part of (.Quebec province in 1661. Hind (Lab. Penin.,ii, 1866) thinks they may have been a jiart of the Nascapee. Mont-Peles.—Koano in Stanford, Coinpend., 523, 1878. Nation des Monts pelez.—Jes. Kcl. 1661, 29, 1858. Mooachaht (‘deer people’). A tribe on the N. side of Nootka sd., Vancouver id. This is the tribe to which tlu‘term Nootka was aiiplied by tbe <liscoverers of Van- couver id. Pop. 153 in 1606. Tbeir prin- cijial village is Yucuatl. Tbe noted Ma- (piinna (q. v.) was chief of this tribe in 1803. Bo-wat-ohat.—Swan in Smithson. Cont., xvr, 56, 1870. Bowatshat.—Swan, MS., B. A. K. Moa- chet.—Mayno, Brit. Col., 251, 1862. Mo'atcath.— Boa.s in 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 31, 1890. Mooach aht.—Can. Ind. .Vff.. 188, 1883. Mooacht- aht.—Ibid., 3.57,1897. Moo-cha-ahts.—Ibid., .52,1875. Mooachaht,—Sproat, Sav. Life, 308, 1868. Mou- chatha.—Swan, MS., B. A. E. Mowaches.—Arm- strong, Oregon, 136, 1857. Mo-watch-its.—Jewitt, Narr., 36, 1849. Mowatshat.—Swan, MS., B. A. E. Mowitchat.—Swan in Smithson. Cont., xvi, 56, 1870. Nootka.—Schedule of Reserves, Can. Ind. Aff., Suppl. to Ann. Rep., 82, 1902. Moodyville Saw Mills. The local name for a body of Salish of Fraser River atiency, Brit. Col.; pop. 86 in 1889. Moodyville Saw Mills.—Can. Ind. All'. Rep. 1889, 268, 1890. Moonyville Saw Mills.—Can. Ind. Aff. Rep. 1886, 229, 1887. Mooharmowikarnu {Moo-har- mo-in- kar'-nu). A subdivision of the Dela- wares (q. V.).—IMorgan, Anc. Soc., 172, 1877. Mookwungwahoki (Moo - kwung- va- ho'- ki). A subdivision of the Delawares (q. V.).—iMorgan, Anc. 8oc., 172, 1877. Moonack. A Maryland-Virginia name of the ground-hog (Arcloini/Kmoruu'); also, by transference, the name of a mythicani- mal feared by many Southern negroes. The word occurs very early. Clover, in his account of Virginia (Philos. Trans. Roy.Soc., XI,630,1(576), speaksof woiiackK. John Burroughs (Winter Sunshine, 25, 187(5), .ways: “ I n Virginia they call wood- chucks ^ viooiiarkn.’ ” Lewis :ind Clark (Orig. Jour., ii, iv, 1905) use the forms mooiKLc and vioono.r. It is iirobable that thoiiiotia.rm tlu' sciimtilicnameof this ani- mal is a Liniiean latinization of itsaborig- inal appellation. The Virginian moooark, or iiioiiack, is cognate with the Delaware monachgen (Cerman form), the Passa- maquoddy ino)i 'nn(iiiess, tbe .Alicmac nnin- uvikir<Tli,~vie. The word signifies ‘the digger,’ from the Algomiuian radical muna, or monn, ‘to dig’; seen also lit the Chippewa monaike, ‘he scratches up’; in Cree, monnhikew. The Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo language has mon<mit% ‘little digger’, for woodchuck, according to Dr William Joiies. (a. f. c.) Moonhartarne (Moon-har-iar-ne, ‘dig- ging’). A subdivision of the Delawares (q. V.).—Morgan, Anc. Soc., 172, 1877. Moors. See Croalan Indians. Moose. The common name of a species of large deer (Cervus alces) found in IMaine and jiarts of Canada and formerly over mo.st of n. e. North America. An identical term for this animal occurs in many Algonquian dialects: Virginian, moos; Narraganset and Massachuset, moos; Delaware, 7iios; Passamaquoddy, 7nns; Abnaki, monz; Chippewa, mo»s; Cree, moiisira. All these words signify ‘he strips or eats off,’ in reference to the animal’s habit of eating the young bark and twigs of trees. The word came into English from one of the New Englaiid dialects. Derivative words and expras- sionsare: Mousebird (Canadajay);moose call, moose horn, or moo.«e trumjiet (a bark trunqiet u.wed to imitate notes of this animal); moose elm (slijipery elm); moose fly (a large brown fly common in Maine); moo.sewood (apj)lied variously to the .striped ma])le, Acer jtnmsglraiucn); the leatherwood {Dirca jxdn.'tiris), and the hobblebush {]lbnrintm lantanoides); moose yard (the home and browsing- place of the moose in winter), (a. f. c. ) Moosehead Lake Indians. The common name of a band of Penobscot living on IMoosehead lake, IMe.—Vetromile, Abna- kis, 22, 1866. Moosemise. A name current in parts of New England, Vermont in particular, for the false wintergreen [Pgrola omericana). The name seems to have been tran.«ferred from another plant, since in Chippewa and Nipissing mo»somis]i, signifying ‘moose shrub,’ designates the hobble- bush (]ibunniin lantanoides), called in Canadian French hois d’orignal. The word, which is written mooseniize also, is derived from some Algonquian dialect of the Chipjiewa group or a closely related one of the E. (a. f. c. ) Mooshkaooze (‘heron’). A gens of the Chippewa, q. v. Moosh-ka-oo-ze'.—Morpaii, Aiic. Soc., 166, 1877. Moshka'u'sig.—Win. .loncs, inf’n, 1906. Mooskwasuh (‘muskrat’). A gens of the .\bnaki, q. v. Moos kwa-suh'.—Morgan, .Vnc. Soc., 174, 1877. Moskwas.—J. I). I’rincc, inf’n, 1905 (modern St Francis Abnaki form). Mootaeyuhew. A laiiseno village for- merly in the neighborhood of San Luis Rey mission, s. Cal.—Taylor in Cal. Far- mer, May 11, 18(50. Moqtavhaitaniu {Mo(ita'vhitidnin, ‘black men,’ i. e. Ute; sing. Moqta'vhaitidn).