<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10>I was forwarded your discussion about Tutelo in the Ohio Valley area. My
<BR>apologies if I'm going over old ground here; I tuned in late and may have
<BR>missed the good stuff.
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<BR>In the 1674 letter of Abraham Wood describing the Needham-Arthur expedition
<BR>over the Alleghenies, there's the following indication that Tutelo-Saponi
<BR>was spoken along the Kanawha: "Now ye king must goe to give ye monetons a
<BR>visit which were his frends, mony signifying water and ton great in theire
<BR>language." I once thought these Monetons may have been a displaced
<BR>remnant--however, I'm not aware of any evidence that the Iroquois were
<BR>attacking the Tutelo prior to the displacement of the Susquehannock around
<BR>1674-5. They were however, raiding on the Ohio years earlier. If anything,
<BR>tribes would have been fleeing from the Ohio Valley, not into it from the
<BR>Piedmont which seems to have been relatively untouched at this date.
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<BR>This may have been covered by Huberto Dixon, but there's a tradition
<BR>reported around 1845 in the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser as follows: "The
<BR>Indians hereabouts believe that a small remnant of the Eries still exist
<BR>beyond the Mississippi. The small tribe known as the Quapaws in that region,
<BR>are also believed to be remains of the Kaukwaus, the allies of the Eries."
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<BR>Though this may well be a late folk etymology, it looks plausible. (Lahontan
<BR>says because Iroquoian lacked labials French "Ponchartrain" was pronounced
<BR>"Conchartrain"). Interestingly the Quapaw apparently used longhouse
<BR>dwellings (Bonnie McEwan "Indians of the Greater Southeast", p.
<BR>185.)--something I'd like to do a bit homework on.
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<BR>Dixon's paper on Siouan in the Ohio Valley was mentioned--would someone
<BR>kindly provide the reference for that?
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<BR>-Claudio Salvucci
<BR>Evolution Publishing</FONT></HTML>