Volume 1

LIST OF THE INDIANS.
53
Having sent off the canoes, I endeavored to get the
Indians away also ; but the fellows were in no hurry to
decamp, as generally is the case with Indians when they
suspect that you do not wish to proceed without them
I was apprehensive lest some of them might return to the
Forks. It was ten o'clock before I got them all off. Their
brigade consisted of 45 canoes.
as follows 67
Names of the Indians were
NATIVE NAME.
I.
2. Tabashaw (chief).
3-
4-
5. Madgetonce.
6. Ocanashkit.
7. Sesai.
8.
9.
10.
II. Pegouisse.
12.
13.
14- Aceguemanche.
15.
16. Kaygecaon.
17-
FRENCH NAME.
I. Vieux Folle Avoine.
2.
3. Le Pendu.
4. LaBerdash (Sucre's
son).
5.
6.
7.
8. Vieux Collier.
9- Petite Coquille.
10. Poule d'Eau.
ir.
12. Bras Forts (or Gros),
13. Perdrix Blanche.
14. Petit Chef.
15. Robe Noire.
16.
17- Petite Grue.
ENGLISH NAME.
I. Old Wild Rice.
2.
3. Hanged.
4. Berdash,
5-
6.
7-
8. Old Necklace.
9. Little Shell.
10. Water Hen.
II.
12. Strong (or Thick)
Arms.
13- White Partridge.
14. Little Chief.
15. Black Robe.
16.
17. Little Crane.
The list as it stands in copy is curiously trilingual ; some names Ojibway
some French, some English, and others still a compound of French and Engl
hsh.
I print the Indian names precisely as they stand, but translate the French
and English into their equivalents, reciprocally, and correct the French forms
I will also hereafter hold Henry to the forms of the names which appear here'
however variously they recur in the copy. The following remarks throw som;
httle further light on the list: No. i stands in copy as Old Fallewine.
No. 2 murdered h.s relative Missistaygouine, Feb. 15th. 1803 ; killed by Sioux
late m 1807 No. 4. A berdash is any young man who affects the ways of a
woman and suffers himself to be used as such (see Catlin's pi. 296, 4th ed
1844, n. p. 214). It is curious to find the name in the list with the feminine
article. Tanner, p. 105, speaks of this very person " : Some time in the course
of this winter, there came to our lodge one of the sons of the celebrated Ojibbeway
chief, called Wesh-ko-bug [or Wiscoup], (the
sweet [or Le Sucre]), who
hved at Leech Lake. This man was one of those who make theJi^elves