dialect. tee.-Jewitt, Narr., 104,1849. Anasitch. I

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holls (1682), ibid., xiii, 161,1881. Piscatua.-Doc.
of 1743 quoted by Brinton, Leitape Leg., 25, 1885.
Pisscattaways.-Brockholls, op. cit.
Conoytown. A Conoy village formerly
on Susquehanna r. in Pennsylvania, between
Conejohlolo (Bainbridge) and Shamokin
(Sunbury). In 1744 the Conoy
abandoned it after but a short stay there
and removed to the last-named place. -
Brinton, Lenape Leg., 29, 1885.
Conshac ('cane', 'reed', 'reed-brake').
A name applied in three principal ways:
(1) to the inhabitants of certain Choctaw
towns (see Conch/a, Conchachitou,
Conchatikpi, Gonshaeconspa, Coosha); (2)
to the Koasati, q. v.; (3) to a people living
somewhere on Coosa r., not far from the
Alibamu. Most of the later statements
regarding these people seem to have been
derived from Iberville (Margry, DWc.,
iv, 594-95, 602,1880), who, in 1702, speaks
of two distinct bands under this name
the one living with the Alibatmu, the other
some distance E. N.E. of them. The former
were probably the Koasati, although it is
possible that they were the people of Old
Kusa, which was close by. The Conshac
living higher up, 20 to 30 leagues beyond,
Iberville states to have been called "Apalachicolys
" by the Spaniards and to have
moved into the district they then occupied
from Apalachicola r. in order to trade with
the English. Such a migration does not
seem to have been noted by anyone else,
however, and it is highly probable that
these Conshac were the people of Kusa, the
UpperCreek"capital." Thisisrendered
more likely by the analogous case of the
ChoctawCoosha, calledCoosa by Romans
the name of which has been corrupted
from the same word, and from the further
consideration that Conshac and
Kusa rarely occur on the same map.
That the Conshac were an important tribe
is attested by all early narratives and by
the fact that Alabanma r. was often called
after them. If not identical with the people
of Kusa specifically, the entire Muskogee
tribe mav be intended. (J. R. S. )
gonchaes.-Du Pratz, Hist. de la Louisiane, it,
208, 1758. Conchaes.-Boudinot, Star in the West,
126,1816. Conchakus.-MeKenneyand Hall, 2nd.
Tribes, III, 79, 1854. Conchaques.-Pfnicaut
1708) in French, Hist. Coll, La., I, 101, 1869.
sonchas.-French,ibid,,sii,235,1851. Conchatez.-
Do lIsle, map (ca. 1710) in Winsor, Hist. Ar , It,
294, 1886. Conches.-Keane in Stanford, Coinpend.,
510,1878. Conshachs.-Carroll, Hist. Coll.
S. C., I, 190,1836 (Coosas are also mentioned, but
this is probably a duplication made in quoting
earlier authorities). Conshakis.-Bossu (1759),
Travels La , I, 229, 1771.
Conshaconsapa (corruption of Kushakosapa,
'reed-brake field'). A former
Choctaw town E. of Imongalasha, Neshoba
co., Miss.; exact location not known.-
Halbert in Miss. Hist. Soc. Publ., vI,
431, 1902.
Contahnah( 'a pine in thewater.'-Hewitt).
A Tuscarora village near the mouth
of Neuse r., N. C., in 1701.
Cau-ta-noh.-Cusic (1825) quoted by Schooleraft,
Ind. Tribes, v, 636, 1855. Contahnah.-Laason
(1709), N. C.,383, 1860. Kau-ta-noh,-Cnshc, op. cit.
Kautanohakau.-Cusic, Six Niitions, 24, 1828
Contarea. One of the principal Huron
villages in Ontario ill the ]7tti centur;
situated near the present Lannigan's lake,
Tiny township. See Kontoreahrooo).t
Carmaron.-Champlain (1615),ClEvres, Iv, 27, 1870.
Contareia'- Jes. Rel. for 1656, 10, 1858. Contarrea.-Jes.
Eel. for 1636, 94, 1858. Kontarea.-Jes.
Rel. for 1642, 74, 1858.
Contla. A branch of the Opata inhabiting
the pueblo of Santa Cruz, Sonora,
Mexico (Orozco y Berra, Geog., 344, 1864).
The name is probably that applied by
the natives to their town.
Cooking. See Wbod.
Cook's Ferry. A body of Ntlakvapamuk,
probably belonging to the Nicola
band, under the Fraser superintendency,
Brit. Col.; pop. 282 in 1882, 204 in 1904.-
Can. Ind. Aff. Reps.
Coon. See Raccoon.
Coongale6s. Given by Sauvole (French,
Hist. Coll. La., Ist s., nii, 238, 1851) as a
village on Wabash (i. e. Ohio) r., above
a Chickasaw village that was 140 leagues
from the Mississippi in 1701. As it is
represented as on the route to Carolina,
Tennessee r. mav have been intended.
Perhaps a Cherokee town.
Tahoga e.-Coxe in French, Hist. Coll. Lii., Ii, 2:1),
1850.
Cooniac. A village of the Skilloot tribe
of the Chinookan family at Oak point
(from which the village was named), on
the s. side of Columbia r., below the
mouth of the Cowlitz, in Columbia co.,
Oreg. After 1830 the Cooniac people
seem to have been the only surviving
remnant of the Skilloot. (L. F.)
Cooniaes.-Gibbs, Chiilook Vocab., iv, 1863. Kahnyak.
-Ibid. Ketlakaniaks. - Framboise (1835)
quoted by Gairditer in Jour. Geog. Soc. Lond., xi,
255, 1841. Koniok.-Lane (1849) in Sen. Ex. Doe.
52, 31st Cong., Ist scss, 174, 1850. Konnaack.-
Pres. Mess., Ex. Doe. 39, 32d Cong., 1st scss., 2,
1852. Kukha-yak.-Gibbe, Chinook Vocaib., iv,
1863. Ne-co-ni-ac.-Lee and Frost, Oregon, 194,
1844. Ne Coniaeks.-Ilbid , 194. QaIniak.-Boiis,
fielt 'totes (rame for Otk toint). Whill Wetz.-
Ross, Adventores, 104,1849.
Coonti. A cycadaceous plant (7Zamia
integrifolia), or the breadstuff obtained
from it by the Seninole of Florida;
spelled also Akoontie, coontia, etc. Kunti
is the name of the "flour" in the Seminole
dialect. (A. F. C.)
Cooptee. A Nootka winter village near
the head of Nootka sd., w. coast of Vancouver
id.
Coopte.-Can. Ind. Aff. Rep. 1902, app., 83. Cooptee.-Jewitt,
Narr., 104,1849.
Coos. Thle term usually employed to
denote the villages or tribes of the Kusan
familyformerlyonCoosbay, Oreg. Lewis
and Clark estimated their population at
1,500 in 1805. The name is often used
as synonymous with the family name.
Properly speaking there are 2 villages
included under the term, Melukitz and
Anasitch. (L. F.)

342 COOSA-COOWEESCOOWEE [B. i. E.
'Cookkoooose.-Lewis and Clark, Exped., II, 118,
1814. Cookkoo-oosee.-Drake, Bk ISds., xi, 1848.
'Cookoose.-Bancroft, Nat. Races, I, 307, 1874.
Voos.-Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iII, 231,1890.
Coosas-Ind. Af. Rep., 62,1872. Coos Bay.-Dorsey
in Joir. Am. Folk-lore, iIi,231,1890. Co-ose.-
Parrish in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1854, 495, 1855. Coose
Bay.-Palmer in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1856, 218, 1857.
Cooses.-Taylor in Sen. Ex. Doe. 4, 40th Cong.,
spec. sess., 5, 1867. Coose Taylors.-Dole in Ind.
Aff. Rep., 220,1861. Cowes.-Dorsey in Jour. Am.
Folk-lore, iII, 231,1890. Ha'ting.-Everette, Tntuttne
MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1883 (Tututunne
name). Ha'lftnng.-Dorsey, Chasta Costa MS.
vocab., B. A. E., 1884 (Chastacosta name).
Kaons.-Framboise (1835) quoted by Gairdner
in Jour. Geog. Soc. Lond., xi, 256, 1841. Xlis.-
Hale, Ethnog. and Pliilol., 221,1846. Ko'-i-yak'.-
Bissell, Umpkwva MS. vocab., B. A. E. (Umpqua
name). Ko-k'oc'.-Dorsey, Alsea MS. vocab.,
B. A. E., 1884 (Alsea name). Kook-koo-oose.-
Drake, Bk Inds., viii, 1848. Xouse.-Armstrong,
Oregon, 116,1857. Kowes.-Drew (1855) in H. R.
Ex. Doe. 93, 34th Cong., 1st sess., 94, 1856. Kowes
Bay.-Ind. Aff. Rep. 1857, 359, 1858. K'qlo-qwec
1ftnn6.-Dorsey, Chasta Costa MS vocab., B. A. E.,
1884 Chastacosta name). Kus.-Dorsey in Jour.
Am. Folk-lore, iII, 231, 1890. Xusa.-Ind. Aff.
Rep., 253, 1877. Sis-me' 1finn.-Dorsey, Chetio
MS. vocab, B A. E, 1884 (Chetco name). Xwokwoos.-Hale,
Ethlnog. and Philol., 221, 1846.
ElO-cln'-t'i ;rnn6.-Dorsey, Coquille MS. vocaLb..
B. A. E., 1884 (Coquille (Athapascan) name).
Sai-yu'-cle-me' flnng.-Dorsey, Tutu MS. vocab.,
B. A. E., 1884 (Tututunne name). Tei';,nnS.-
Dorsey, Naltfitne 1 OnnO' MS. vocab., B. A. E.,
1884 (Naltunne name).
Coosa. A small tribe, now extinct,
which lived about the month of Edisto
or Combahee r., South Carolina. Its
name is preserved in Coosaw and Coosawhatcliee
rs. According to Rivers (Hist.
S. C., 94, 1874) they lived N. E. of Cornbahee
r., which separated them from the
Combahee tribe. They appear to be
identical with the Couexi of the lluguenot
colonists (1562) and with the Covao of
Juan de la Vandera's narrative of 1569.
They were hostile to the English in 1671;
in 1675 the " great and lesser Casor "
sold to the colonists a tract lying on
Kiawah, Stono, and Edisto rs.; there is
also record of a sale by the chief of " Kissah"
in 1684. They are mentioned as
Kussoes in the South Carolina trade regulations
of 1707, and last appear in 1743,
under the name Coosah, as one of the
tribes incorporated with the Catawba but
still preserving their own language. It
is possible that, like their neighbors the
Yaniasi, they were of Muskhogean stock.
If not, they may have been Uchean rather
than cognate with Catawba. (J. M.)
Casor.-Deed of 1675 in Mills, S. C., app. 1, 1826.
Cogao-Vandera (1567) quoted by French, Hist.
Coil. La., 1i,290,1875. Coosah.-Adair, Am. Inds.,
225, 1775. Coosaw.-Rivers, Hist. S. C., 38, 1856.
Cosah,-Mills,Stat. S.C., 107, 1826. Couexi.-Doc.
cited by Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the East, 84,
1894. Cozao-Vandera, op. cit. Kissah.-Mills,
op. cit., 107, app. 1. Kussoe.-Doc. of 1671 quoted
by Rivers, Hist. S. C., 372, 1856.
Coosa. Given as a Cherokee town in a
document of 1799 (Royce in 5th Rep.
B. A. E., 144, 1887). Unidentified, but
perhaps on upper Coosa r., Ala. See
Kaum.
Coosada. A former small mixed settlement
of Creeks and Cherokee, established
about 1784 on the left bank of Tennessee
r. at what is now Larkin's Landing, Jackson
co., Ala. From this village to the
site of the present Guntersville there was
an Indian trail.-Street in Ala. Hist. Soc.
Publ., I, 417, 1901; Royce in 18th Rep.
B. A. E., pl. cviii, 1899.
Coosadi Hychoy. A former Koasati settlement
on Tombigbee r., in Choctaw and
Marengo cos., Ala., about ]at. 3 2 ° 35'.
Coosadi Hychoy.-West Fla. map, ca. 1775. Occhoy.-Romans,
Florida, 327,1775.
Coosahatchi. An Upper Creek town on
Tallapoosa r., Ala., with 36 families in
1832.
Coosahatches.-Swani (1791) in Schooleraft, Ind.
Tribes, v, 262, 1855. Cubahatchee.-Hopoethle
Yoholo (1836) in H. R. Ex. Doe. 80, 27th Cong., 3d
sess., 36, 1843. Cube hatcha.-Schooleraft, Ind.
Tribes, Iv, 578, 1854.
Coosak-hattak-falaya (Choctaw: 'long
white cane'). Noted on Robin's map
as an Indian town in 1807. Romans
(Fla., 305, 1775) mentions it apparently
as a settlement w. of lower Tombigbee
r.,Ala.,in Muskhogean territory.
Coosak hattak.-Robin, Voy., I, map, 1807.
Coosha (k-ushak-, or kosha, 'reed,' or
reed-brake'). A former important
Choctaw town on the N. side of a w.
branch of Lost Horse cr., an affluent of
Ponta cr., in Lauderdale co., Miss. (Halbert
in Miss. Hist. Soc. Publ., Vi, 416,
1902). Romans has transposed the location
of this town and Panthe, q. v.
Coosa.-Romans, Florida, map, 1775 (misapplied).
Coosahs. -Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., 1, 108,1884.
Cusha.-Ibid. Konshaws.-Byington, Choctaw
MS. Diet., B. A. E., ca 1834.
Coosuo (from koash 'pine,' ak 'at:' ' atthe
pine'). A small band, probably of the
Pennacook, formerly living about the
junction of the Upper and Lower Ammonoosuc
with the Connecticut, in Coos
and Grafton cos., N. H. Their village,
called Coos or Coosue, seems to have
been near the mouth of the Lower Ammonoosuc.
They were driven off by the
English in 1704 and joined the St Francis
Indians, where they still kept up the
name about 1809. (J. 'iM.)
Coh&ssiac.-Kendall, Travels, In, 191, 1809 (name
still used for themselves by those at St Francis).
Coos.-Macauley, N. Y., II, 162,1829. Coosucks.-
Schooleraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 222, 1855. Cowasacks.-Kidder
ill Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., VI, 236,
1859. Cowassuck.-Penhallow(1726) quotedbyLy
man in N. H. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1, 36, 1824.
Coot. A Costanoan village situated in
1819 within 10 m. of Santa Cruz mission,
Cal.-Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 5,
1860.
Cooweescoowee ( Gu'wisguwli', an onomatope
for a large bird said to have been
seen fornlerly at frequent intervals in
the old Cherokee country, accompanying
the migratory wild geese, and described
as resembling a large snipe, with yellow
legs and unwebbed feet). A district of
r