English: Lum-Ki-Kum, Miami

Title: Bulletin Identifier: bulletin3011907smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: 852 MEXAM MIAMI Ib. a. e. milian, Trav., 335, 1843. Mitutahankish.—Mat- thews, Ethnog. and Phijol. Hidatsa, 14, 1877. Mitutahankuc.—Dor.sey in Am. Natur., 829, Oct. 1882. Mexam. See 3friksah. Meyascosic. A village of the Powhatan confederacy, in 1608, on the n. side of James r., in Charles City co., Va.—Smith (1629), Va., I, map, repr. 1819. Meyemma. Mentioned by Gibbs (Schoolcraft, Ind._ Tribes, in, 139, 1853) as a Hnpa village in Hupa valley, Cal., in 1851. Not identified. The name is per- haps of Yurok origin. Meyo. The Lizard clan of the pueblo of Laguna, N. Mex. Although Laguna was not founded until 1699, the origin of the clan is unknown to the natives. It forms a phratry with the Skurshka (Water-snake), Sqowi (Kattlesnake),and Hatsi (Earth) clans, which came from Sia, Oraibi (probably), and Jemez, re- spectively, (f. w. H. ) Meyo-hano"!!,—Hodge in Am. Anthrop., IX, 351, 1896 (/k(ho!='people'). Mezquital (Span: 'inesquitegrove'). A former pueblo of the Tepehuane on the upper waters of Eio de San Pedro, s. Durango, Mexico, and the seat of a Span- ish mission. It is now a Mexican town. S. Francisco del Mezquital.—Orozco v Berra, Geog., 318, 1.S64. Mgezewa (for Me/gezi, 'bald eagle'). A gens of the Potawatomi, q. v. Megezi.—Wm. Jones, inf n, 1906. M'-ge-ze'-wa.— Morgan, Anc. Soc., 167, 1877. Miacomit. A village formerly on Nan- tucket id., off the s coast of Massachu- setts.—Writer of 1807 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2ds., Ill, 26,1846. Miahwahpitsiks ( Mi-ah-vKih'-pit-s1ks<, 'seldom lonesome'). A division of the Piegan tribe of the Siksika. Mi-ah-wah'-pit-siks. —Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales, 209, 1892. Seldom Lonesome.—Ibid., 225. Miakechakesa. One of the two divi- sions of the Sisseton Sioux. Their habitat in 1S24 was the region of Blue Earth and Cottonwood rs., Minn., ex- tending westward to the Coteau des Prairies. Unlike the Kahra, they had no fixed villages, no mud or bark cabins. They hunted on Blue Earth r. in winter, and during the summer 2:)ursued the buf- falo as far as Missouri r. Thev numbered about 1,000. Lower Sissetons.—Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., in, 250, 1880. Mi-ah-kee-iack-sah.—Lewis and Clark, Dis- cov., 34, 1806. Mia Kechakesa.—Long, Exped. St Peter'.s R., I, 378, 1824. South Sussetons.—Ind. Aff. Rep., 495, 1839. Miami (?Chippewa: Omuumeg, 'people who live on the peninsula'). An Algon- quian tribe, usually designated by early English writers as Twightwees {tirni'li twu'ih, the cry of a crane.—Hewitt), from their own name, the earliest recorded notice of which is from information fur- nished in 1658 by Gabriel Druillettes (Jes. Rel. 1658, 21, 18.58), who called them the Oumamik, then living 60 leagues from St Michel, the first village of the Pota- watomi mentioned by him; it was there- fore at or about the mouth of Green bay, W^is. Tailhan (Perrot, Memoire) says that they withdrew into the Missis- sippi valley, 60 leagues from the bay, and were established there from 1657 to 1676, although Bacqueville de la Pothe- rie asserts that, w ith the Mascoutens, the Kickapoo, and part of the Illinois, they came to settle at that place about 1667. The first time the French came into actual contact with the Miami was when Perrot visited them about 1668. His second visit was in 1670, when they were living at the headwaters of Fox r.. Wis. In 1671 a part at least of the tribe were living with the JNIascoutens in a palisaded

Text Appearing After Image: LUM-KI-KUM—MIAMI village in this locality (Jes. Rel. 1671, 45, 1858). Soon after this the Miami parted from the JMascoutens and formed new set- tlements at the s. end of L. Michigan and on Kalamazoo r., Mich. The settlements at the s. end of the lake were at Chicago and on St Joseph r., where missions were established late in the 17th century, although the former is mentioned as a Wea village at the time of Marquette's visit, and Wea were found there in 1701 by De Courtemarche. It is likely that these Wea were the Miami men- tioned by Alloiiez and others as being united with the Mascoutens in Wisconsin. The chief village of the Miami on St Joseph r. was, according to Zeiiobius (Le Clercq, ii, 133), about 15 leagues inland, in lat. 41°. Theextent of territory occupied by this tribe a few years later compels the conclusion that the Miami

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