While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Agawam (Agawom)
(fish-curing [place], Hewitt.
A name of frequent occurrence in south New England and
on the Long Island, and by which was designated at least 3 Indian
villages or tribes in Massachusetts.
The most important was at Ipswich, Essex County,
Massachusetts. The site was sold by the chief in 1638. Its
jurisdiction included the land on Newbury River, and the tribe was a
part of the Pennacook confederacy. It was almost extinct in
1658, but as late as 1726 there were still 3 families living near
Wigwam hill.
The second tribe or band of that name had its chief
town on Long hill, near Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.
Springfield was sold in 1635 and the Indian town was in existence in
1675. This tribe was commonly classed with the Pacomtuc.
The third was about Wareham, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts, the site of which was sold in 1655. It was
probably subject to the Wampanoag, but joined in the plot against the
English in 1621. Handbook of American Indians
Allakaweah
(Al-la-ká'-we-áh, 'Paunch Indians')
The name applied by a tribe which Lewis and Clark (Trav.,
25. Lond., 1897) located on Yellowstone and Bighorn Rivers, Montana,
with 800 warriors and 2,300 souls. This is exactly the country
occupied at the same time by the Crows, and although these latter are
mentioned as distinct, it is probably that they were meant, or perhaps
a Crow band, more particularly as the Crows are known to their
cousins, the Hidatsa, q. v., as the "people who refused the paunch."
The mane seems not to have reference to the Gros Ventres.
Armouchiquois (apparently a French
corruption of Alemousiski, 'land of the little dog,' from allum 'dog'
ousis deminutive, ac or auk 'land', "for there wer many little dogs in the
prairies of this territory." --Maurault). The name given by the
Abnaki to the counrty of the Indians of the New England coast south of
Sacro river, Maine. Williason (hist of Maine, 1, 477, 1832) says they were
the Marechites (Malecite) of St. John's River, but Champlain, who visited
the Armouchiquois country, says that it lies beyond, that is south of
Choüacoet (Sokoki), and that the language differed from that of the
Souriquois (Micmac) and the Etchimin. Laverdière affirms that "the
French called Almouchiquois several peoples or tribes that the English
included under the term Massachusetts."
According to Parkman (Jesuits in North America xxi,
1867) the term included the Algonquian tribes of New England--Mohegan,
Pequot, Massachuset, Marraganset and others "in a chronic state of war
with the tribes of New Brunswick and Mova Scotia."
Attacapan Family A linguistic family
consisting solely of the Attacapa tribe, although there is linguistic
evidence of at least 2 dialects. Under this name were formerly comprised
several bands settled in south Louisiana and northeast Texas.
Although this designation was given them by their Choctaw neighbors on the
east, these bands with one or two exceptions, do not appear in history
under any other general name.
Formerly the Karankawa and several other tribes were
included with the Attacapa, but the bocabularies of Martin Duralde and of
Gatschet show that the Attacapa language is distinct from all others.
Investigations by Gatschet in Calcasieu, Parish, Louisiana in 1885, show
that there were at least two dialects of this family spoken at the
beginning of the 19th century, an eastern dialect, represented in the
vocabulary of Duralde, recorded in 1802, and a western dialect, spoken on
the 3 lakes forming the outlet of Calcasieu River. See Powell in 7th Rep.
B.A.E., 56, 1891.
Aucocisco The name of the territory about
Casco Bay and Presumpscot River, in the area now included in Cumberland
County, Maine.
It was also sometimes applied to those Abnaki Indians
by whom it was occupied. Since the section was settled at an early
date by the whites, the name soon dropped out of use as applied to the
Indians, or rather it was changed to "Casco," but this was a mere local
designation, not a tribal distinction, as the Indians referred to were
Abnaki.
The proper form of the word is given by Willis as Uh-kos-is-co,
'crane' or 'heron,' the first syllable being guttural. These birds
still frequent the bay. It is said by Willis to have been the Indian
name of Falmouth (Portland), Maine.
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