Michigamea is not Dhegiha (Re: Quappa)

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting mmccaffe at indiana.edu:

> Quoting Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>:
> 
> > In 1673, below the Ohio on the Mississippi the the Jolliet & Marquette
> > Expedition encountered a village of gun armed people whom they are later
> > informed are enemies of the Akamsea - perhaps Chickasaw, or at least
> > particpating in the later Chickasaw trade with the English.
> 
> Marquette does not name these people in his narration of the voyage but does
> 
> appear to name them on his map: Mosopelea.


Mosopelea is the textbook spelling for this ethnonym. In truth, Marquette's 
map reads <MONS8PELEA>. Sorry for the confusion.

Michael