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

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1907-1910
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    MSEPASK—MUGWUMP fB. A. E. connection with the Dutch of New York. He was in close relations with Ninigret in his movements. (^’-T.) Msepase {MhhtpeslU, ‘big lynx.’— W. J.). A gens of the Shawnee, q. v. Meshipeshi.—Win. Jone.s, iiil’n, 1906. M'-se'-pa- Morgan, Anc. Son., 168,1877. Panther.—Ibid. Muanbissek. Mentioned in a letter sent by the Abnaki to the governor of New England in 1721 as oneuf the divisions of their tribe. Not identilied. Muayu. The Yaudanchi name of a village site on Tale r., Cal.; also known as Chesheshim. It is not the name of a tribe, as stated by Powers. Chesheshim.—A. L. Kroeber, inf’ii, 1903. Mai- ai'-u.—Powers in Cont. N. A. Kthnol., iii, 370, 1877. Muayu.—.V. L. Kroeber, inf’n, 1906. Muchalat. A Nootka tribe on Mucha- lat arm of Nootka sd., w. coast of Van- couver id.; pop. 62 in PJ06. Their prin- cipal village is Cdieshish. Match-clats.—Mayne, Prit. Col., 231,1862. Match- itl-aht.—Can. Ind. AH'. 1884,186,1885. Michalits.— Armstrong, Oregon, 136, 1857. Mich-la-its.—Jew- itt, Narr., 36, 1849. Mo'tclath.—Boas in 6tli Hep. N. W. Tribes Can., 31, 1890. Muchalaht.—Brit. Col. map, 1872. Muchlaht.—Sproat, Sav. Life, 308, 1868. Muckawis. A name of the whippoor- will. Wordsworth has the “ melancholy muckawis'’ in his poem The Excursion. Carver (Travels, 468, 1778) writes, “the whipperwill, or, as it is termed by the Indians, the mackawiss.” This onoma- topoeic word is probably of Algonquian origin. It occurs as muckkowhecsce in Stiles’ Pequot vocabulary of 1762 (Trum- bull, Natick Diet., Bull. 25, B. A. E., 1903). (a. f. c.) Muertos (^pan.: El Pueblo de los Muer- tos, ‘the village of the dead’). A group of prehistoric ruined pueblos 9 m. s. e. of Tempe, in the Salt River valley, Ariz.— Cushing in Compte-rendu Internat. Cong. Am., VII, 162, 1892. Los Muertans.—Cnsbing, ibid., 168 (referring to the former inhabitants). Mugg. An Arosaguntacook chief in the latter half of the 17th century, con- spicuous in the war beginning in 1675, into which he was drawn by the ill-treat- ment he received from the English. With about 100 warriors he made an assault, Oct. 12, 1676, on Black Point, now Scar- boro, Me., when' the settlers had gathered for protection. While theothcer in charge of the garrison was parltyving wit h -Mugg, the whitesmanagi'd to escajie, only a few of the oflicers’ servants falling into the hands of the Indians wdien the foit was captured; these were kindly treated. Mugg became embittered toward the Eng- lish when on (lomingin behalf of his own and other Indians to treat for peace he was seized and taken a jirisoner to Boston, although soon released, lie was killeil at Black Point, i\lay, 16, 1677, the j>lace he captured the [ireceding year. (c. t. ) Mugu. A former poinilous Chumashan village, stated by Indians to have been on the seacoast near Pt Mugu, Ventura CO., Cal., and placed by Taylor on Guad- alasca ranch, near the jioint. Mugu.—Cabrillo, Narr. (1512) in Smith, Colec. Doc. Fla., 181, 1857; Taylor in Cal. Farmer, .Inly 24, 1863. Mu-wu.—Hen'shaw, Buenaventura MS. vocab., B. A. K., 1884. Mugulasha. A former tribe, related to the Choctaw, living on the w. bank of the iMississippi, 64 leagues from the sea, in a village with the Bayogoula, whose language they spoke. They are said vari- ously to have been the tribe called Quini- pi.ssa by La Salle and Tonti, and encoun- tered by them some distance lower down the river, or to have received the rem- nants of that tribe reduced by disease. At all events their chief was chief over the (.)uinij)is.<a when La Salle and Tonti encountered them. In January or Eeb- rnary, 1700, the Bayogoula attacked the Mugulasha and killeil nearly all of them. The mime has a generic signilicution, ‘ op[)osite jieople ’—Imukiasha in Choc- taw—and was applied to other tribes, as Muklas.«a among the Creeks and West Imongolasha on Chicka^awhay r., and it is sometimes ditiicult to distinguish the various bodies one from another. Among the C’hoctaw it usually refers to jieople of theopjio.site phratry from that to which the speaker belongs. See Imongulasha, Mukiassa. (a. s. cl .i. b. s.) Moglushah town.—H. K. Doc. 15, 27th(;ung., 2<1 .se.ss., 5, 1841. Mogolushas.—1ml. AIT. Kep., 877, 1847. Mogoulachas.—Sail vole (1699) in Margry, Doc., IV, 4.53, 455, 1880. Mongontatchas. — McKcn- ucy ami Hall, Iiul. Tribes, in, 81.1858. Mongou- lacha.—La Harpe (1723) in French. Hist. Coll. La., ni, 17, 1851. Mongoulatches.—Drake. Bk. liids., i.x, 1848. Mougolaches.—Coxe, Carolami, 7, 1741. Mougoulachas.—Iberville (1699) in Margrv, Dec., IV, 113, 119, 124, l&SO. Mugwump. Norton (Political Ameri- canisms, 74, 1890) delines this word as “an Independent Republican; one who sets himself up to be lietter than his fel- lows; a Pharisee.’’ Since then the term has come to mean an Independent, who, feeling he can no longer sujijiort the policy of his party, leavc'S it tc'inporarily or joins the opjiosite party as a jmitest. The term was applied to the Independent Ke- publicans who bolted the nomination of Blaine in 1884, and it at once gained ))0])U- lar favor. Thet'arlier history of the term is doubtful, though it seems to have been for some time previous in local use in jiarts of New England to designate a jier- son who makes grc'at jiretensions but who.se character, ability, or resources are not eipial to them. The word is derived from the Massachuset dialect of .\lgon- qiiian, being, as Trumbull pointed out, the word mukguomp, by which Eliot in his translation of the Uible (Gen., xxxvi, 40-43; ]\Iatt. vi, 21, etc.) renders such terms as duke, lord, chief, cajitain, leader, great man. The compoiu'nts of the word are vuKjki ‘grc*at’,‘man.’ In newspajK'r and iiolitical writings iinig-