Note 57 — Chapter I
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The tribes known to the Ottawwaws, are by them denominated as follows:
1. Ottawwawwug, Ottawwaws, Close allies in all past times, and their dialects very similar.
2. Ojibbewaig, Ojibbeways,
3. Potiwattimeeg, Potiwattomies,
4. Kekaupoag, Kickapoos.
5. Oshawanoag, Shawneese, or southern people.
6. Wawbunukkeeg, Stockbridge, or white tops.
7. Muskotanje, Muskantins of the early French writers; formerly lived at Wawkwunkizze, whence they were driven by the Ottawwaws, and the latter now consider them as lost. By some they are supposed to have been a band of Potiwattomies; but the Ottawwaws enumerate them as a distinct people.
8. Osaugeeg, Sankewi.
9. Mahnomoneeg, Menomonies, (wild rice people.)
10. Kneestenoag, Crees. They are said to call themselves Nah-hahwuk.
11. Muskegoag, Muskegoes, (swamp people.)
12. Muskegoag, Nopemit Azhinneneeg, or Nopemetus Anineeg, (back woods people,) a second relationship of Muskegoes.
13. Sheshebug, Ducks.
14. Bowwetegoweninnewug, Fall Indians.
15. Tuskwawomeeg, Uskwawgomees; near Montreal.
The above fifteen tribes are thought to speak languages which resemble Ottawwaw.
16. Nautowaig, Naudoways, (rattle snakes.)
17. Mat-che-naw-to-waig, Bad Naudoways.
18. Ioewaig, Ioways.
19. Nabuggindebaig, Flat heads; said to have lived below the Illinois River.
20. Winnebagoag, Winnebagoes, or Puants.
21. Bwoinug, Sioux; Naudowesseeg, Ott., Roasters.
22. Ussinebwoinug, Assinneboins, (stone roasters.)
23. Agutchaninnewug, Minnetahres, (settled people.)
24. Kwowahtewug, Mandans.
25. Ahmeekkwun Eninnewug, Beaver People; among the Fall Indians.
26. Mukkudda Ozitunnug, Black Feet.
27. Ussinnewudj Eninnewug, Rocky Mountain Indians.
28. Pahneug, Pawnees.
29. Wamussonewug.
30. Kokoskeeg.
31. Aguskemaig, Esquimaux, (those who eat their food raw.)
32. Weendegoag, Cannibals. This last is an imaginary race, said to inhabit an island in Hudson’s Bay. They are of gigantic dimension, and extremely given to cannibalism. The Muskegoes, who inhabit the low and cheerless swamps on the borders of Hudson’s Bay, are themselves reproached by other tribes as cannibals, are said to live in constant fear of the Weendegoag.
33. Ojeeg Wyahnug, Fisher Skins.