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Indian Tribes
1880 Q-R-S
Q Quabaogs, (Nipmuks,) at a
place of the same name, now Brookfield, Mass.
Quapaw, 700 in 1820, on Arkansas r., opp. Little Rock ; reduced by
sm. pox in 1720.
Quathlahpohtles, on S. W. side Columbia, above mouth Tahwahnahiook
River.
Quatoghie, (Wyandots,) once S. side L. Michigan;
sold their lands to Eng. in 1707.
Quesadas, See Coosadas.
Quieetsos, on the Pacific; 250 in 1820; N. Columbia r. next N. of
the Quiniilts.
Quiniilts, on coast of the Pacific, N, of Columbia
r.; 250 in 1820; next the Pailshs.
Quinnechart, coast Pacific next N. Calasthocles N.
Columbia r.; 2,000 in 1820.
Quinnipissa, are those called Bayagoulas by the
Chevalier Tonti.
Quddies, See Passamaquoddie. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iii.
181.
R
Rapids, See
Pawistucienemuks.
Redground, (Seminoles,) 100 in 1820, on Chattahoochie r., 12 m.
above Florida line.
Redknife, so called from their copper knives; roam in the region of
Slave Lake.
Red-Stick, (Seminoles,) the Baton Rouge of the French.
Red-Wing, (Sioux,) on Lake Pepin, under a chief of their name; 100
in 1820.
Racaree (Paunees ) before 1805, 10 large Vill. on
Missouri r.; reduced by small pox.
River, (Mohegans,) S. of the Iroquois, down the N.
side of Hudson r.
Round-Heads, (Hurons,) E, side Lake Superior; 2,500 in 1764.
Ryawas, on the Padouca fork of the Missouri; 900 in 1820.
S
Sachdagughs,
(Powhattans,) perhaps the true name of the Powhatans.
Sankhikans, the Delawares knew the Mohawks by that name.
Santees, a small tribe in N. Carolina in 1701, on a river
perpetuating their name.
Saponies, (Wanamies,) Sapona River, Carolina, in 1700; joined
Tuscaroras, 1720.
Satanas, a name, it is said, given the Shawanees by the Iroquois.
Sauk or Sac, united with Fox before 1805; then on Mississ.,
above Illinois.
Sauteurs or Fall Indians, of the French, about the falls of
St. Mary.
Savannahs, so called from the river, or the river from them;
perhaps Yamasees.
Scattakooks, upper part of Troy, N. Y. ; went from
New England about 1672.
Seminoles, have been established in Florida a
hundred years.
Senecas, one of the Five Nations; "ranged many thousand miles" in
1700.
Sepones, in Virginia in 1775, but a remnant. See Sapones.
Serranna, (Savannahs ?) in Georgia; nearly destroyed by the Westoes
about 1670.
Sewees, a small tribe in N. Carolina, mentioned by
Lawson in 1710.
Shallalah, 1,200 in 1816, on the Pacific, S. Columbia r. next the
Cookkoo-oosee.
Shallattoos, on Columbia River, above the Skaddals;
100 in 1820.
Shanwappone, 400 in 1820, on the heads of Cataract and Taptul
Rivers.
Shawane, once over Ohio; 1672, subdued by Iroquois; 1,383 near St.
Louis in 1820.
Sheastukle, 900 in 1820, on the Pacific, S.
Columbia r., next beyond the Youitz.
Shinikooks, a tribe of Long Island, about what is
now South Hampton.
Shoshonee, 30,000 in 1820, on plains N. Missouri; at war with the
Blackfeet.
Shoto, (Wappatoo,) 460 in 1820, on Columbia River, opposite mouth
of Wallaumut.
Sicaunies, 1,000 in 1820, among the spurs of the
Rocky Mountains W.of the Rapids.
Sioux, discovered by French, 1660; 33,000 in 1820,
St. Peter's, Mississ., and Misso.
Sisatones, upper portions of Red r., of L. Winnipec
and St. Peter's, in 1820.
Sitimacha, See Chitimicha.
Sitka, on King George III. Islands, on the coast of the Pacific
about lat. 57° N.
Six Nations, (Iroquois,) Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga,
Shawane.
Skaddals, on Cataract River, 25 m. N. of the Big Narrows ; 200 in
1820.
Skeetsomish, 2,600 in 1820, on a ricer of their
name flowing into the Lastaw.
Skilloot, on Columbia River, from Sturgeon Island upward; 2,500 in
1820.
Skennemoke, or Tuckapas, on Vermilion River,
La., 6 leagues W. of N Iberia.
Smokshop, on Columbia r., at the mouth of the Labiche; 800 in 1820,
in 24 clans.
Snake, See Aliatans, or Shoshonees.
Sokokie, on Saco River, Maine, until 1725, when they withdrew to
Canada.
Sokulk, on the Columbia, above mouth of Lewis's River; 2,400 in
1820.
Souriquois, (Mikmaks,) once so called by the early French.
Souties, (Ottowas,) a band probably mistaken for a tribe by the
French.
Soyennom, (Chopummish,) on N. side E. fork of Lewis's River; 400 in
1820, W. R.
Spokain, on sources Lewis's River, over a large
tract of country, W. Rock Mts.
Squannaroo, on Cataract r., below the Skaddals; 120
in 1820; W. Rock Mts.
Staetans, on heads Chien r., with the Kanenavish;
400 in 1805; resemble Kiawas.
Stockbridge, New, (Mohegans and Iroquois,) collected in N. Y, 1786;
400 in 1820.
Stockbridge, Mass. (Mohegans ) settled there in
1734; went to Oneida in 1786.
St. John's, (Abenakies,) about 300 still remain on that river.
Susquehannok, on W. shore of Md. in 1607 ; that river perpetuates
their name.
Sussees, near sources of a branch of the
Saskashawan W. Rocky Mountains.
Symerons, a numerous race, on the E. side of the
Isthmus of Darien.
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
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