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

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1907-1910
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    MUSKINGUM MUSWASin Antici. Soc., II, 100, 306,1836. =Chata-Muskoki.— Hale in Am. Antiq., 108, Apr. 1883. >Choctah. Latham, Kat. Hist. Man, 337, 18o0 (iiicliules Choctahs, Muscogulges, Muskohgo.s)j Latham in Trans, i’hilol. Soc. Loncl., 103, 1856; Latham, Opuscnla,366,1860. >Chocta-Muskhog.—Gallatin in Trans Am. Elhnol. Soc., ii, pt. 1, xcix, 7/, 1848. >Chocta-w Muskhogee.—Gallatin in 4 rans. Am. Antiq. Soc., ii, 110, 1836. >Coshattas.— Latiiam, Nat. Hist. Man, 349, 1850 (not classi- fied). >Flat-heads.—Prichard, Phys. Hist. Man- kind, V, 403, 1847. >Humas.—Latham, Nat. Hist. Man, 341, 18.50 (E. of Mississippi above New Orleans). =Maskoki.—Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i. 60,1884. >Mobilian,—Bancroft, Hist. V. S., 24J, 1840. >Musoogee.—KeaneinStanford, Compend., app., 460, 1878. >Muskhogee.—Gallatin in Trans. .\m. Antiq. Soc., ii, 94, 1,S36. Muskhogies.—Berg- hans (1845), Physik. Atlas, map 17,1848. >Tschah- tas.—Ibid.; ibid., 18.52. ^ Muskingum (‘moose eye or ftice. —- Hewitt). A Delaware (?) village inarked on old maps a.s on the w. hank of Mus- kingum r., Ohio. Muskingom. —La Tour, map, 1779. Muskingum.— Giissefeld, mai), 1784. Muskingun.—Alcedo, Die. Geog., in, 274, 1788. Muskinkum.—Esnauts and Rapilly, map, 1777. Muskwawasepeotan (‘the town oi the old redwood creek’)- A rotawatomi village formerlvnearCedarville, Alleneo., N. E. Ind., on land sold in 1828, and com- monly known as Metea’s Village from the name of its chief. (-L m.) Metea’s Village.—Mis.sissincwa treaty (1826) in U S Ind. Treat , 670,1873. Muskwawasepeotan.— Long cited bv McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 11,61,1849. Muskwoikakenut (3Ius-kii'Oi-ku-ke-uut, ‘ He shoots hears with arrows’). A Cree hand, so called after its chief, living in 18o6 in the vicinity of Ft de Prairie, Northwest Ter., Canada.—Hayden, Kth- nog. and Philol. Mo. Vah, 2.37, 1862. Muskwoikauepawit (Mns-kwoi-kdu-e-pd- ■wit, ‘ Standing hear’). A Cree hand, so called after its chief, living in IS-od about Ftde Prairie, Northwest Ter., Canada.— Hayden, Ethnog. and Philol. IMo. Vah, 287, 1862. , Musme {Mds-7ne'). A tormer village of the Chastacosta on Rogue r., Oreg.— Dorsey in .Tour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 2.34, 1890. Muspa. A Calusa village on the s. w. coast of Florida ahout 1.570 (Fontaneda), prohahly about the mouth of Caloosa- liatchee' r. The ijeople of Muspa were among the last of the Calusa to retain their name and territory. C. Romano is marked on old English maps as Punta de Musiiaandthecoaststripextendingthence northward to the entrance of (’aloosaha- tcliee r. is marked on some Spanish maps as La Muspa (13. Smith). The Muspa Indians, according to Rrinton (hlor. Penin., 114, 18.59), occupied the shore and islands of Boca Crande, the main entrance of Charlotte harbor, until toward the clost> of the 18th century, when they were driven to the keys by the Semiiiole; hut according to Douglas (Am. Antii]., vii, 281, 188.5) they were still in the vicinity of Pine id., in Char- lotte harbor, as late as 18.3.9. There is even reason to believe that they took part in some of the raiding iu the Semi- nole war as late as 1840. (J- , Muspa.-Fontimeda (ca. L57.0), Memoir, Smitli tnins., 19, 18.54. , Musquarro. A former Alontagnais len- dezvous and mission station on the N. shore of the Gulf of St Lawrence, ojiposite Anticosti id. The Imlians deserted it in recent years for Romaine. Mashquaro.—McLeim, Hudson Maskouaro.—Hind, Lab. Pcinn., ii, 180,1863. Mas- quarro.—Ibid., 26. Musquahanos.—C an. n''*-;)• 1880, 313, 1881 (applied to tln^ band there, niia- • A. ITilwl I.nll II. 133, Musquash. A name for the muskiat (Fiber zibethkwd), used in (’anada and N. and w. ))arts of the Fnited States. In early writings on Virginia the lorms muHxascus and mus(jv.uf<sus (Capt. .lohn Smith, 1616), ( Hakluyt, 160i>_), and others, occur. Cognate words in other Algonquian dialects are the Ahnaki wud-wemi, and the ('hijiiicwa mlnkn-asi, signifying ‘it is red,’ which was theretore the original signitication of the^ irginian name whereof Smith’s word is a coriui*- tion, and referred to the reddish color of theanimal. See 4/oo.s7.’C’o.st///. ^ (.\.e.c.) Musqueam. A Cowichan tribe occti]>y- ing the N. ]>art of the h rtiser delta, Biit. Col.; pop. 98 in 1906. IMale is their vil- 1 a'e. Miskwiam.—Tolmie and Dawson, t ocabs., Brit, Col., 119b, 1884. Misqueam.—Can. Ind. An. for 1880, 316,1881. Musqueam.—Ibid., 1901, pt. It. 1;^. Musqueeam.—Ibid., 1877, I.l. Musqueom.—Ibid., 1902, 72. GmK' pkoyim.—Boas in 61th Kep. Brit. A. A. S., 454, 1894. amuski'Em.—Hill-Tout in Ethnol. Surv. Can., .54,1902. Mussauco. A former village, ])rohahly near Hartford, Conn. Its chief, Arrha- mamet, was compiered by Uncas, the IMohegan chief, about 16-54.—Trumbull, Conn., I, 129, 1818. Mussundummo (‘water snttke.’ — lan- ner, Narr., .314, 18:30). Given as one of the totems among the Ottawa and Chippewa. It may be an Ottawa totem, as it is not mentioned by ^Morgan or Warren. Mustak. A fortner village of the Kaliti- daruk division of the Costanoan family, connected with San Carlos mission. Cal. Mustac.—Taylor in Cal. Farmer. Apr. 20, LMiO. Mustoo. A name given by Dawson to a stipposed town on Hipjia id., < )ueen Char- lotte ids., Brit. Col., but in reality the word is a corruption of Nastd, the Haida name for Hippa id., on which there ivere several t<uvns. See At<nuu>, datga-huniT^, Siiht-rlinr. (•>• u- 8.) Muswasipi (cognate with ('hiiijicwa Mnrmi-Kibl, ‘moose river.’—W. ,T.). Tin* name of one of the divisions of the Upcshi])ow, an .Mgomiuian tribe of Lab- rador, living in 1770 on Moose r., Ruperts Land, Brit. Am.—Richardson, Arctic Exped., II, 38, 1851.